Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
August 15, 2019

1920s Sealing Wax Art Jewelry

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Over the weekend we went antiquing and I found this really pretty booklet on sealing wax art. Sealing wax art involves melting sealing ...
January 7, 2014

How to Make a Travel Watercolor Kit out of an Altoids Tin

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Back in August I made a tiny watercolor sketchbook out of a sketchbook I had lying around. I wasn't fond of the size of the boo...
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December 30, 2013

December Sketchbook Challenge

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This was my least favorite Sketchbook Challenge to date. Not because it was a bad challenge or I didn't like what I sketched but becaus...
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November 13, 2013

November Sketchbook Challenge

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For the November Sketchbook Challenge , I decided to do a little night camping watercolor sketch. The theme this month is "Moon and Sta...
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October 30, 2013

October Sketchbook Challenge

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As per my original intentions, I promised I would share things from my sketchbook in order to make me use my sketchbook for drawing more r...
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October 16, 2013

How to Make Faux Leather Book Covers

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In an earlier post, I mentioned how I'm trying to get along artistically using up my stash and not buying anything new if I can help ...
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September 27, 2013

September Sketchbook Challenge: Homes and Hideaways

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The theme of September's Sketchbook Challenge is Homes and Hideaways. I had been meaning to finish a sketch I had started of McPherso...
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September 16, 2013

The Sea Plays by the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective

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The night is late, the hold is hot and stuffy. WWI is raging and your ship, carrying munitions is just approaching the war zone. All of the...
August 31, 2013

Do You Use The Things You Own?

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Unread books and new planner. I'm trying to go minimalist. Every once in a while I just want to get rid of everything. My goal is no...
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August 23, 2013

August Sketchbook Challenge

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Paint Doodle I never thought much about the social nature of sketchbooks until I stopped having sketchbook people to chat with. One by o...
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April 12, 2013

Colonial Quakers and Silhouettes

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In colonial times it was fashionable for wealthy Americans to have paintings or small miniatures made of loved ones. For many this was pro...
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February 26, 2013

The Civil War in American Art: Book Review

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I’m so excited. I get to review Eleanor Jones Harvey’s The Civil War in American Art by Yale University Press.   If you like history ...
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March 17, 2011

Blarney Castle Painting and Irish Potato Candy Recipe

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I've been working on this watercolor of Blarney Castle for a really long time. I finally vowed to finish it before St. Patrick's D...
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August 10, 2010

From the Archives

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I really like art. I haven't done much lately, I guess I haven't been much inspired. Which I guess can be a good thing because whe...
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December 5, 2009

Waniyetu Wowapi: Lakota Winter Count

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 Tonight we had our first snow. For the Lakota Native American tribe in the Northwestern United States, this would mark a new year, and a ...
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