Green up your art studio part 1

You can never be green enough , the world id gonna be in shambles if we go on ölike we are at the moment.So wasting all those recources and releasing so much co2.But there are some fun and easy things you can do to green up you art studio.And the best bit is that normally bering green means reusing so not spending a load of money.
Here are a few suggestions that you can do to green up your studio:

• Use old books in collaging and art journal pages
• Gesso over failed canvases(by failed i mean the art on them) and reuse
• Use an old cd as a paint palette
• Old brushes that are recked in some way and can no longer be used for painting make perfect glue brushes or you can sharpen trhe end and use it foe marking in wet paint
• look for a http://www.acminet.org/ LOGO ON YOUR ART supplies(neolcolour II has one)
• Paint art onto old objects
• Do art beads using paper mache
• Use the materials again in failed or wips projects
• listen to this podcasthttp://www.craftypod.com/2009/01/21/craftypod-84-crafting-green-whats-it-mean/
• go to paper phantom where there are lots of cheap and there fore better for the enviroment ideashttp://thepaperphantom.wordpress.com/
• alisa burke is always reusing stuff in her fab tutorialshttp://alisaburke.blogspot.com/
• use little fabric scraps to sew into art quiltshttp://makealifeandmore.blogspot.com/2010/01/boring-day-links-1.html
• collect paperscraps to sew togetherhttp://www.ihanna.nu/blog/?p=1042 or use in collages
• Store your paintbrushes and pens in a old jam jar or tin
• keep a junk box, in here put lots of random containers that you want to reuse , so for example an egg box, toilet rolls, intresting lids etc.
• take crafty notes on both sides of your paper
• buy recyled craft paper if possible
• sew your own tote bag to take to the art store, so you dont have to buy a new plastic bag

FOLLOWER UPDATE 2

Thank you scrowl scrowl!!!!
I now have four only one more!

9 Reasons why you should doodle

This is a rose doodle i did on top of a journal page.

"We can mourn because roses have thorns or rejoce because thorn bushes have roses." Abraham Lincoln

9 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DOODLE

1.Its fun

2.It will make waiting for longperiods of time seem to pass a lot quicker

3.It will improve your drawing skills and control over your pen

4.You can do it on any piece of paper-no matter how big

5.You can do it any where(so alwys bring a pen and doodle on a recieppt or napkin if you don't have any paper.

6.It will make you relaxed

7.You dont have to be good at drawing to do good doodles

8.Doodling hepls you take in information-your mind processes things you are thinking about while your hands are in a mindless action

9.It helps you unwind before you go to bed

DOODLING TIPS

• Dont think about it to much, just sit in a comfy position, grab a pen and paper and just start.
• You can dooodle on anything, but it would be nice to have your own little notebook(tht is small enough to fit in your handbag)to carry round with you.
• You can use any kind of pen or pencil to doodle with, but i recommend finding a pen you love and buy a extra one(in my case the fine artists pITT pen) as it may get lost in the process of taking it any where
• if you find it hard to start check out daisy yelllow (see link below) for some fab mandala doodles and also check out sue doodles(http://suedoodles.wordpress.com/)
• Use a waterproof marker the you can upgrade your doodle by colouring it in witha water coulours
• Another way to upgrade it would be to collage around your doodle or to colour it in with another medium
• Doodling in neocolour is diffrent but fun!!!!
  

I have been reading daisy yellow a lot lately(http://daisyyellow.squarespace.com/).On it you will find lots of prompts , quotes and links.So almost every post has high value.So go check it out.

Make art with friends

Today my friends came round. We didnt really know what to do , so we all sat down and started collaging.I grabed my art journal and they got some paper.Then we started cutting images and words from old magazines and used some papers from my patterned paper collection.The last thing we also used is neolcolour II crayons.Above one of my friends did her picture.



My other friend made a weird but cool collage body person and then played round with neocolour.While doing this we chattted and listened to music.Its so much fun doing art with your friends.You can get ideas from each other, learn new techniques of your friends.Have some drinks and biscuits handy and get everyone to bring some music.This could easily be done at a party to.




And last but not least here is mine.First i gave the background colour with crayons and then added images and paper.

So if youre bored just call your friends for a lil crafting/art(working):)

Boring day links 1

I have been planing to try my hand at art quilting for quite some time now and finally i sat down and created one.The heart says Ringo and Rosie in it , which are the names of my cats.






These are my coffee filters i painted.I got the idea from daisy yellow(see my sidebar).It was so fun to do.







Above you can see my canvas calender.





Here are the links:

• http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/tipsandideas/a/drawingmistakes.htm This is a cute little article about the 10 most common beginners drawing mistakes- even if you dont think your a beginner its very useful


• tips on making your drawings more professional- its all done to the pecile skillshttp://drawsketch.about.com/cs/tipsandideas/a/drawingmistakes.htm


• Why would you want to make drawing your pasttime?http://ezinearticles.com/?Pencil-Drawing-As-A-Pastime&id=420588


• http://thepaperphantom.wordpress.com/ a cool new site about art journaling i found
• http://suedoodles.wordpress.com/ a blog all about doodling

So as you can see i like drawing right now.Soon i will post some photos of my drawings and more art journal pages....

Help for haiti

I am sure you all know about the 7.0 eathquake in haiti last week.It was terrilbe for the peolpe their.The local time at which it happend was 4pm so lots of people where out and about.ane then the earthquake struck leaving nothing but destructionj in its path.Lots of houses as well as the presidential palace fell.Now lets just go and see what problems this will cause for the people of haiti.besids the obvious of them no longer having homes and having to live on the road.All their hospitals have been demolished along with the few medial supplies they had in thr first place.Food and water is getting hard to find.the water they do find will be dusty and they will drink it as they are thirsty.But this will cause a lot of digetsion problems as the water is not clean.There is help coming but haiti is so small it is hard for big planes to land and as a result of this the people are stealing what little supplies there are from each other.More than 1000 peolp are thought to be dead and the graveyards are full up.So they must make mas graves with up to 18 people in one.
But now to the good part, we can help!!!Donate any amount of money to any charity helping haiti and you make a diffrence!!!!On this website i foundhttp://www.writeclickscrapbook.com/write_click_scrapbook/2010/01/a-project-we-all-can-do.html a cool poster you can download and hang up everywhere. Download this or make your own and hang it everywhere!!!!!

Creative challenge:

1.Create something to sell to give the money to haiti

2.Give the money you would usally spend on craftsupplies to haiti

3:create a journal page about the situation in haiti

Buying materials to start embroidery

My grandma has came to stay and she is going to teach me how to embroider.So we wênt out together to buy the supplies.Here is what you need to get started.

Embroidery scissors

Embroidery floss(in a few basuc coulours)

Embroidery hoop

Embroidery needles

Something to embroider such as a napkin, handkerchief or tablecloth

Some chall to draw on your own images to embroider

And we also got a cute stencil for some simple shapes to draw on and embroider