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Art Journaling Week

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is celebrating Art Journaling Week at her blog, Balzer Designs. Today's (08/16/10) post shows how she does her daily art journal. After prepping the pages of her large moleskine notebook with gesso, masking tape, designs, stamping, and colorwashes, she fills up the spread with a little bit of journaling and artwork each day. Her pictorial and instructions are here.

Two Blogs Worth Your Time

Leilani Pierson, mixed media fiber artist who frequently appears in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, has posted a 100-day challenge at the CPS forum. The rules are pretty simple: Using any medium of your choice, make a 3"x5" (or thereabouts) piece of art every day for 100 days. The challenge started on July 19th, but you can begin your 100 days at any time. If you skip a day or two, you can do more than one piece a day in order to catch up to the current day, but don't work ahead, as that would be considered cheating. I like this challenge--although I'm still debating whether I will do it--because the small size is not intimidating. You don't have much chance to get artist's block or overthink. You can simply create. You can test new techniques without fearing that you may waste a whole sheet of 9"x 12" water color paper. The rules mention using both sides of your base, but I don't think it is an absolute requirement. If you are planning ...