Newsletter 13 - ArtMind - April 2010
ArtMind
After debating about it for a while, I’ve decided to make my weekly
newsletter, a monthly one. I’ll distribute it every first friday of
the month.
It will contain, less detailed, things I’ve achieved that month, the
occasional link to a blogpost, some news about life in my studio, news
about my collaboration with Anna, links to tutorials …
I hope that this way I can still share stuff without having the
feeling that it’s a chore rather then a pleasure so I felt it was best
to downsize it. I hope you understand.
Anyway, the past week has been amazing really. Got not much done at
all but I stepped out of my comfort zone quite a bit. At first it felt
really hard to let go of all things that I love to work with and pick
up things that I not like doing very much like a pencil for drawing
for example.
I drew a lot. Patterns, textures, shapes… just things that were in my
head. Felt good to see them on paper though considering I dragged
myself to do it.
Then I also made some Egyptian paste recipes. I won’t use it for
anything in particular but it was nice to experiment a bit and I can’t
wait to see the results after firing. I also took some pictures for a
tutorial and will post one as soon as the stuff is fired.
All this ‘out-of-the-comfort-zone’-stepping lead me to a new idea and
I’ve been working on that : making moulds, pressing in clay and
decorate it with clay slib and textures.
It was a long time ago that when I went to bed, I felt like I wanted
to continue working really. So it’s a good thing…
Last sunday, a tutorial of mine was published on Poppytalk handmade.
In case you have missed it, you can find I here:
http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2010/03/artmind-tutorial-spring-felt-birds.html
And if you leave a comment in my blog, you can still win the birdies I
made for making the tutorial! I’ll draw a winner next sunday.
I also got word that the new Uppercase magazine is out. Woohoo! I
can’t wait to receive it as I was asked to participate with some of my
creative space pictures. Check out some of the pages here:
http://www.uppercasegallery.ca/uppercase-journal/2010/3/31/issue-5-is-here.html
I’ll be eating chocolate eggs the next few days, how about you?
Happy weekend to you all!
Love,
Mitsy