Go Make Something

Your Make It Mondays challenge is to create a piece of artwork inspired by coffee, tea, or your favorite hot beverage. Your goal is just to make something—anything at all. You can draw, paint, collage, journal, whatever. Let this be the week you stop making excuses not to create!
Have fun, and don’t forget to come [...]

This is my latest tool purchase: a Zutter Bind-It-All. It punches holes and binds with their double-O wire bindings. I haven’t played with it much yet, but I did manage to bind a bunch of index cards together to test it out.
Does anyone else have one of these? Do you like it? What have [...]

Make yourself a cup of tea, and settle in for an endless stream of vintage collage goodness, courtesy of the members of the Vintage Collage Art group on Flickr:

Recycle your pretty gift boxes into simple handmade books.

Comments are a wonderful thing. They give a blogger feedback on what they’ve written, and let them know that they’re not alone on the Internet. Writing is a lonely thing when you can’t tell if anyone is reading your words.
As I’m writing this, Go Make Something has over 1,600 approved comments posted by users. Like [...]

Enter a magical world created by Texas artist Stephanie Rubiano, filled with winged figures from a bygone eras:

I visit a lot of blogs in the course of my work week, whether it’s checking pages that have linked to my various sites, reading articles that friends have suggested, looking at the artwork done for the various challenges, or just random surfing.
One of the most annoying things I encounter is blogs that have added [...]

It’s that time of year again…
The annual printable image countdown to Christmas will begin on December 1st. Each day until Christmas, a new printable image will be revealed. Previous countdowns have included collage images, gift packaging, tags and tag pockets, faux postage stamps—well, pretty much anything that falls out of my head onto my graphics [...]

This week, I’ve found quite a few links to Go Make Something in blog posts that contain finished project images from this site. That’s a big no-no.
Under the terms of use, reposting any content from Go Make Something is prohibited. Capturing images, uploading them to your blog and using them as eye candy is also [...]

I’ve been writing on the Internet since 1996. That’s a long time by blogging standards!
Over the course of moving from site to site, and changing from static HTML pages to Greymatter to blogging with WordPress, some things haven’t changed. There are certain basic ideas that used to be called nettiquette that haven’t changed in all [...]

This week’s Make It Mondays challenge is to create a piece of artwork inspired by Autumn. Whatever you want to make is fine—an ATC, a gluebook page, an altered book layout, a card, whatever. Your goal is just to make something. When you’re finished, post a photo of your work on your blog or photostream, [...]

I see more and more visitors have been searching for the keyword Christmas this week. Could it be you’re looking for project ideas for the holiday season? They’re scattered here and there, so I thought I’d make a stab at raking the links together into one convenient post.
First, there’s a whole pile of Christmas stuff [...]

Ithaca, New York artist Sarah Ahearn Bellemare has some amazing, visually complex pieces posted in her Flickr photostream:

More of Sarah’s work can be seen on her blog and in her Etsy shop.

I’ve closed sign-ups for Message in a Bottle, and at this point, I don’t know when, or even if, I’ll reopen them.
I am discouraged by the large number of people who signed up, received a bottle, and have not sent any out in return. For every person who has done this, three people have not [...]

Proof that anything can be a font: download ObamaBats, a collection of Obama-inspired images turned dingbat font, courtesy of designer Jeff Domke.
Found via How About Orange.

It’s the first of the month, and that means it’s time for a new color-themed prompt. This week’s Make It Mondays challenge is to create a piece of artwork inspired by the color purple. Whatever you want to make is fine—an ATC, a gluebook page, an altered book layout, a card, whatever. Your goal is [...]

Which of these do you think would help you improve most as an artist?

Using the Internet.

Spending more time practicing art.

Having a mentor.

Attending art workshops or classes.

Getting a formal art education.

Visiting art galleries and museums.

Reading books.

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How I turned some old CDs into transparent ornaments.

Here’s an ATC I recently sent in for a swap, to wish you all a happy Halloween.
I’ve done two of these swaps on ATCsForAll, where all the participants start with the same photo, incorporating it into our cards. In this case, it was a vintage photo of Beryl, the host’s grandmother, at two years of [...]

Today’s slideshow is from Mexican artist Armando Moncada: Collages de Frida y Otras Musas.
(I feel I should probably mention that although I adore these pieces, most of the photos of and paintings by Frida Kahlo are still under copyright. Under the life plus seventy-five rule, the earliest her works would become available is 2029.)