Releasing Control to Create by Kathryn Baczeski, see her work in Vol. IV #7 In my performance art, in order for me to create, my process must be in constant flux—I must release control of my work, and I do that by collaborating, though not necessarily always with another person. It could be even with…
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Process & Inspiration
“I Build up and Tear Down” By Lisa Boardwine See her work in WTP Vol. IV #7 My process involves layers upon layers of applying paint. Using various tools for adding texture and interest, I build up and tear down, dissolve through and scrape back, excavating and veiling to recreate a sense of the mysterious through many layers of media. The…
Scrapbooking
An Art Recipe By Finnabair I’m a woman of many interests: a mixed media artist, scrapbooker and art journaler who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills. My projects are mostly media-based: I make paper and canvas layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages. I started scrapbooking, and today I’ve got a scrapbook page named…
What is Encaustic Monotype?
Encaustic Method and the Art of Painterly Prints By Pamela Caughey See her work in WTP Vol. IV #5 and WTP Vol. VI #3 Not too long ago, while pondering what to do with all the excess encaustic wax that was scraped away from my paintings on panel, I came across a wonderful DVD by Paula…
PaletteArt™ | Lisa J Levasseur
Wheels of Change Recycled Acrylic I created PaletteArt™ because I couldn’t bear to throw away dried up old paint. It then became more of a scientific project. Basically I had to figure out how to get paint to do everything it isn’t designed to do. I can use any form of wasted paint, but it…
Evolution of the Ferris Wheel
Applying Photographic Effects By David Hayes See his work in WTP Vol. III #3 An annual event here in Milford, Ohio, Frontier Days follows the Memorial Day holiday as a kick off to summer. There is always a parade on the first day of the festival with three days of festivities over the week-end. We…
Two Painters in One | Rose Masterpol
Between a drawn line and a painterly stroke By Peter Frank [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her work of the past three years, Rose Masterpol has been oscillating between a drawn line, animated by color as well as its own flagellating trail, and a more painterly stroke that provides given expanses with texture as well as hue. The drawn…
Improving Style
Seven Steps for Developing Your Signature Artistic Style By Seth Apter [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know artists that have a signature style. When we see their work, we can immediately identify it as theirs and theirs alone. This is true for the great Masters, many well-known contemporary artists, and a host of people in our mixed media…
Online Marketing
Four Artists Working the Web By Cory Huff founder of The Abundant Artist In 2009 I started The Abundant Artist website (TAA for short) as a way of teaching online marketing to my artist friends who were asking me for help. Since then, I’ve helped dozens of artists go from never having sold anything to…
Printmaking
How I Make a Monotype by Barbara van Buskirk See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 Who can say wherein lies the charm of a monotype— that unique print from a painted plate, which stands in the half shadow between painting and printmaking? … Its spontaneity and freshness, its directness and freedom place it apart…
Fine Arts and the Literary
Fine Arts and Literary Book The Woven Tale Press Selected Works By Editor-in-Chief Sandra Tyler [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he idea for a selected works was generated last year, when we were collaborating with a gallery featuring Woven Tale Press artists. The intent of the book was similar to that of the exhibition: to present the diversity of fine arts and literary…