By Seth Apter Sometimes a collage just looks like some smaller paper (or other material) glued to a larger surface. But there are many ways in which to alter your collage elements to make the piece a more cohesive and seamless whole. Five tips to integrate collage elements: Splatter: Mix acrylic paint with a small…
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Part 3: Creating a Comic Character
By Karl Dixon Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 First I’d like to apologize for the change in plans that I’d promised in last week’s post; the Photoshop tutorial is a much larger project than I first imagined. Detailing the specifics of coloring a cartoon in Photoshop is more complicated than I’d realized, to address in a single…
Part 2: Creating a Comic Character
By Karl Dixon Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 My first post dealt with my comic character Captain Alzheimer from a rough sketch to fully fleshed-out character. For this post, I’ll be drawing Captain Alzheimer in a variety of poses. I do this purely to see how versatile he can be, how he looks from different angles and performs with different…
Part 1: Creating a Comic Character from Scratch
By Karl Dixon Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 Cartooning is by no means an exact science, but very much hit or miss; I can never tell if I’ve invented another Snoopy, or a Titanic that will sink ingloriously without trace. The only constant in this inconsistent world of mine, is that I keep…
Art of Comics: Drawing a Cartoon Page
By Karl Dixon Karl Dixon has been drawing cartoons professionally for over 15 years. He has worked for Dandy, the world’s longest running comic, and is the co-creator of Dandy’s leading comic character Ollie Fliptrik. Dixon is the author of two cartoon book collections, in addition to the three graphic novels series, Brabbles and…
Painting in Oils: An Artist's Studio Diary
By Jessica Zoob Oils are so amazing to work with and my current paintings, (some I’ve been working on for eight years so far!), are thick and lavish with oils in glorious colors. I am having so much fun being ridiculously extravagant! Lilies have become a motif for my work and are featured in many of…
Recycled Art: Trash to Treasure
By Kathryn M. McCullough, MA I have a passion for transforming trash into treasure– for repurposing potential throw-aways into absolute blow-aways. And what I can find at my local ReStore often can be transformed from something ordinary into the extraordinary – like the table below, on sale for a mere ten dollars: Clearly, the piece was mid-century modern, a style…
The Picture Poem: Blend of Image With Words
By Christopher Wood I have been teaching creative writing for twenty-five years, and for class assignments, have always used images to engage the imaginations of class participants. We each see an image differently; when we look at a photograph, we are looking at something literal, but how we interpret an image depends on many factors:…
Sculpting: The Stone Reality
By Gerry Aldridge When I embark on a new sculpture, its inception is usually an accumulation of ideas, and the start of the process may date back many years. As I become more adept, I am able to incorporate more ideas into my work, many of which were first conceived back in my teens.…
The Art of Zentangling: Mindful Meditation
How Zentangling got its start: One day, Maria told Rick what she’d experienced as she’d been drawing background patterns on a manuscript she was writing. She described her feelings of timelessness, freedom, and well-being, as well as her ability to focus without a thought or worry about anything else. “You’re describing meditation,” Rick said. Rick and…
Print-Making with a Rolling Mill
GUEST FEATURE by Gunilla Redelius of http://galeriaredelius.wordpress.com As a jewelry maker, my rolling mill is one of my major investments, in tools and equipment, and I love it! It allows me to press metal sheets into whatever dimensions I want. You can also create patterns on metal. For example, I can take a pattern on copper then…