photo credit: Fen Nyberg Does your teenager have aspirations of becoming a photographer? I am so excited about all the opportunities and resources for teen photographers available, and I have attempted to organize a bunch of them coherently here. What I especially love is that like pretty much everything else in the world, the internet and technology have leveled the playing field for teens who are interested in photography. There are so many price points of digital cameras out there, ... continue reading...
Meditation Tips for People Who Don’t Know Where to Start
photo credit I have discovered the secret to staying sane, centered, and mentally healthy, even in the face of great stress. It's meditation. I am going to give you all the meditation tips I have, so you can try it for yourself and experience the awesome benefits only meditation can provide. Meditating is one of those things that's easy to learn, yet hard to execute, since our hyper-thinky brains get in the way. The good thing about this, is that with regular meditation, we can slow our ... continue reading...
The Superkids Activity Guide Book
Typically I don't cry when I read through kids' activities books, but this one set off the waterworks pretty fiercely. It's a special book; packed full of ideas for all those kids who don't fall into the mainstream either emotionally, mentally, sensorily, or whatever way that might make them seem... ABNORMAL. I happen to posses a highly abnormal child. He's so jacked up on ADHD and maybe some other brain blips that he can barely concentrate in class, he makes it through about 2.5 minutes of ... continue reading...
How to Make Nature Prettier
Being a visual person and such, I like to look at pretty things. In fact, if something isn't pretty, I simply won't look. What is the point, I always say, as I shield my eyes from anything that might offend. I know that everyone is always yammering on about how “perfect” nature is and all that, but truly, there's always room for improvement. I mean, sometimes nature isn't perfect, and since we're served up all of these screen savers and travel ads with flawless trees and majestic mountains, ... continue reading...
Make Chocolate Chip Cookies With The BEST Ingredients
` Since homemade chocolate chip cookies are the greatest creation of the gods, I bake them regularly. And I'm damn good at it. I usually never stray from the Toll House recipe, and when I do, I usually regret it, because that recipe is pure genius. One day a few years ago, I was sitting around pondering cookies for a few hours, while eating cookies and probably shoving chocolate chips up my nostrils. I was thinking about the ingredients that go into making such a lovely creation, and ... continue reading...
4 New Art (Technique) Books for You to Hug
Do you hug art books? Because you should. I haven't (yet) had one hug me back, but that doesn't stop me from enveloping them in my flabby-ass arms and squeezing them hard. Interestingly, I've also learned to appreciate physical books on a whole new level as I try to wean myself off of so much technology, and art books especially are perfect to enjoy in 2 stages: Grab a beverage, small Post-its, blanket, couch, dog. Flip through your book(s) and tag each project or technique you want to ... continue reading...
Watercolor Collage Project For You to Just Freaking Make Right Now
Watercolor can be intimidating when you're not sure how to use it, and you're envisioning creating a muddy mess on wrinkled paper. This approach to watercolor gives you the freedom to quickly splosh it around on a bunch of different pieces of paper, completely enjoying the process, and then focusing on the finished product in the second part of the project. I love this approach because it erases the problem many people have with art-making, the "not knowing where to start" problem. You ... continue reading...
Artist Spotlight: Marina Dunbar
Marina Dunbar's art is dreamlike and lovely. It's inevitable that while looking at it, you will be sucked in to the hazy layers and immediately be transported into a trance. Am I being dramatic? Maybe. But her paintings look like they could easily trancify you, and every time I go back and have another peek I can't tear my eyes away. I picture her in her studio for hours on end, getting lost in making these exquisite watercolor and resin pieces. Marina was kind enough to answer my ... continue reading...
Tons of Cool Coloring Pages for Adults
So much time I spent on my belly as a child, on the cool linoleum of the kitchen floor, probably right under my mom as she cooked dinner. No doubt I had been horsing around as my kids do now, sticking dirty fingers in prepped food, or spastically jumping around the kitchen. Then my mom most likely gave me the option of getting the eff out of the kitchen or coloring. I spent a lot of evenings coloring. Maybe you've noticed the trend of coloring books and coloring pages for adults? With all ... continue reading...
I’m A Low-Down, Dirty, No Good Thief
Some things that have happened today are that I spied this spider eating a fellow insect. I actually took a video of it, fancying myself an amateur National Geographic cinematographer, but I'll spare you the gore. I try to remove this giant spider web from my kitchen window every few days, but the inhabitant is a stubborn motherfucker and rebuilds almost immediately. Usually she is nowhere to be seen, lurking and laughing at me from behind the scenes, but today I captured her in all her wild ... continue reading...
Love This Printmaking Technique: Foam Shapes
I first did a foam sticker printmaking project a while back, and it was the bomb. THE BOMB! So fun and easy. Naturally, I decided to explore this technique a little more, and this time it was the mega-bomb. You guys need to try this if you haven't already. Did I mention it's easy? This time, instead of using pre-cut foam stickers, I cut my own shapes. Mainly because I wanted my prints to look a little more loose and uneven. I also tried using a foam piece that I had carved lines into with a ... continue reading...
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