How to Create Art - things to read, and things to do

• Art journals and diaries
• How to collage in your art/journal
• Notes to Erin about creating an art/journal
• A short animation: Steps in an art/journal collage
• Collage (more)
  • Homage to Dr. John, step-by-step creation of an art collage
  • How to create a batragon, step-by-step instructions including digital image design
• Dada experiments - life as art
  • Litter? Posting flyers about living fully
• Doll & figure making (aka wild art dolls)
  • General
    • How to make easy doll face molds
  • Cloth dolls & figures
    • Which fabrics should I use? Anything you want!
    • Do we preshrink?... Yes, and no.
    • Can I use the cheaper brands of stuffing? No, but read why.
    • Cloth doll links, a few places for inspiration and information.
    • Free Pattern: Margaret Mary Fitzcalory-Smythe
    • Free Pattern: Dangerous Women Reaching for the Stars
• Easy antiquities
  • Adding texture with plaster and gauze, two pages of step-by-step instructions.
  • Layering paint and polyurethane for rich depth, up to three layers is ideal.
  • Early and later embellishments for mystery and dazzle, ideas for even better results.
• Gravestones and other rubbings
  • How to do a rubbing - basic materials and techniques - schoolchildren do this; you can too.
  • Casting from gravestones and other sculpted surfaces with polymer clay and plastic wrap.
  • Elegant rubbings with Renaissance Foil - a neat trick with dazzling results.
  • Using rubbings in your shrines and journals - far more than just gravestones
• Image transfer techniques
• Gin image transfers, to polymer clay
• Misc art projects
• Collaged Vinyl Totebag - workshop handout
• Jewelry
• Word Necklaces - before they made similar beads
• The Bugpin - and how to make one
• Painting - acrylics & oils
• How to paint an apple
• Paintbrushes: Art and Science
• Paintbrushes: Choosing the right sizes
• Paintbrushes: Care and cleaning
• Buying paints: A Palette of Colors for Acrylic Painting
• FAQs: Painting for People Who Can't Paint
• Class handout: Painting for People Who Can't Draw, 12 pages of after-class tips.
• Shrines
  • Art & science: How to make pocket shrines
  • Making matchbook shrines
• Zines
• How to create a zine
• How to layout your homemade zine
• Everything Else
  • Quotations about Art & Criticism

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