Make something with the "wrong" color.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Field Experiment #2
Leslie's Results:
This week my selection from my Field Experiment includes a few select items from my desk and a quick partial portrait. I'm still digging the Uniball Signo pens. I really like that they stay put and dry quickly. The paper in the Field Notes paper can not handle watercolors so I'm sticking to black and white.
One of the things I find most interesting about Dan Price's book How to Make a Journal of Your Life is that he's one of the few art journaling people that actually advocates that you don't give yourself a schedule to write and work in your journal but that you allow the process to occur naturally. his approach is to avoid rules, all rules.This is an important part of this week's journal, I did not work in my journal everyday this week. I simply didn't have time.
He also advocates the use of cameras. I took a bunch of images at Beverly Arts Fest today. I'm going to to look into the best way to transfer them to my Field Notes.
Jane's Results:
I have recently started a new job and it is sucking up all of my time and energy just to get up to speed. One day this week a I did manage to get out to a park and with my little field notes book and pens in hand I managed to squeeze out a quick 20 minute sketch.
This week my selection from my Field Experiment includes a few select items from my desk and a quick partial portrait. I'm still digging the Uniball Signo pens. I really like that they stay put and dry quickly. The paper in the Field Notes paper can not handle watercolors so I'm sticking to black and white.
One of the things I find most interesting about Dan Price's book How to Make a Journal of Your Life is that he's one of the few art journaling people that actually advocates that you don't give yourself a schedule to write and work in your journal but that you allow the process to occur naturally. his approach is to avoid rules, all rules.This is an important part of this week's journal, I did not work in my journal everyday this week. I simply didn't have time.
He also advocates the use of cameras. I took a bunch of images at Beverly Arts Fest today. I'm going to to look into the best way to transfer them to my Field Notes.
Jane's Results:
I have recently started a new job and it is sucking up all of my time and energy just to get up to speed. One day this week a I did manage to get out to a park and with my little field notes book and pens in hand I managed to squeeze out a quick 20 minute sketch.
It really was a stress reliever.
I also sketched a tree next to an ice cream shop in Salem before the week got started. I find a lot of comfort in trees. They seem so peaceful and wise. So rooted.
And here in the middle of a city next to a cement ice cream cone and several planters is this old tree just stretching up toward the sky--oblivious to the chaos down below. All knowing, yet silently watching as life plays out. Oh, if trees could talk...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Field Experiments #1
Jane and I are conducting an experiment. It’s pretty simple, you give two artists identical journals, identical pens and they read the same art journaling book then over the course of the next month they journal. Results to be posted once a week.
The book we chose to read for this particular experiment was Dan “Hobo” Price’s How to Make a Journal of Your Life. The journals we are using are plain Field Notes. For pens we have the following all Uniball, Signo Bit .18, Signo DX .28, Signo DX .38 and a Signo Broad White. If you would like to experiment along with us, the names of each item links to where you can get your own, all pens were purchased via JetPens. I bought the Field Notes directly from Field Notes but they are also available from JetPens. The D.Price books is no longer in print but I found a used copy on Amazon from an independent seller.
Leslie's Experiment Results:
For my first entry I had gone to a local Cafe, Gulu Gulu and had brunch with my partner. I sketched while chatting with her and the bartender. It was wonderfully relaxing to do a little sketching while we waited for our food and I sipped my coffee. I used to be very intimidated by drawing in public, afraid people would judge my ability or not like that I was drawing them or their stuff. I’ve found that mostly, adults ignore me, especially if I have a small sketchbook like the Field Notes. Kids will look over my shoulder, or ask me if I’m an artist. Mostly, people ignore me.
This is a close up of my sketch of the Gulu Gulu logo, a French Bulldog.
The mugs are simple ceramic and hefty. They keep my hot coffee hot.
Jane's Experiment Results:
I got my Field Notes before I got the Uniball, Signo Bit .18, Signo DX .28, Signo DX .38 and a Signo Broad White pens. As you can see, the pens I did use bled through to the other side. I sat in the car in front of the bank when my husband ran in to get money and drew the tree. We were heading to Vermont and the next drawing in my husband reading from the deck of the place we were staying in Vermont.
Here you can see the images from the other side bleeding through the paper.
I really wanted to try contour drawing as suggested in the D. Price book. We went on a brewery tour on one of our days in Vermont and which ended with a stop at the bar to sample the beers. This is where I drew the moose. Funny how both Leslie and I ended up drawing in bars. Bars are actually great places to draw because people are more into their own thing and they tend to stay longer in one place. Again the see through is annoying, but now I have the right pens so I think I'll be happier the next time I post.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Head up! On Jane Tries It
It turns out my computer does not like processing videos that are longer than 5 minutes, so I've sold some of my DayJob stock options to fund a new quad core 8gigs of RAM laptop. I won'rt have it until next week, and it will take me a whole weekend to load everything I need to it and transfer files from the old slow laptop. So, be aware Jane Tries It is about 2 weeks away. Yikes!
Here's a pic to make it better:
or not. -LH
Here's a pic to make it better:
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Blog Button
Did you enjoy Put it on Paper? Do you want a blog button? Thanks to StrayDreams for giving me the idea I got a little blog button from MagCloud that you can put on your blog! Thanks so much for your support! we appreciate it more than you know!
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