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Was fooling around with collage in the last day or so, as I am trying to make a banner for a personal/professional-type site (which is nowhere near complete, I feel compelled to mention. Making such a site was recommended by my graduate program, personal branding and all, oh boy. Please resist the urge to make a sarcastic remark...)
Back to the collage. Lately I've been interested in mixing art/ephemera and text, which I believe is known as art journaling. Probably there are a whole mess of people out there who art journal in blog form (must avoid browsing internet for this likely phenomenon and falling into 10-hour digital detour...)
This was more or less the idea I had for Silent Type 2, because generally I think, with the glut of content out there, that words need pictures to get noticed, but less cynically, that images enhance information. I've been doing loads of research on using visuals in information, and feel that hand-drawn art and ephemera in particular are compelling due to their rarity and personal meaning. Here is a mail artist I admire who does this kind of thing well.
Any further issues of Silent Type I might do, or other zines, would probably further look into this idea, although not anytime soon, oh heavens no.
I dare you to try collage in one of your typecasts.
PS, I totally love masking tape. It is my favorite art supply. What's yours?
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Ooh...masking tape is good, but my heart will always belong to India Ink. Stamping, writing, smearing it all around with no plan in mind - it's just so darn versatile.
Another great art-cast, Cheryl.
As for my favorite art material, I'm a certified 12-step art supply junkie, so it's hard to pin me down to just one.
Mechanical pencils, fountain pens, notepads, pencils, pencil sharpeners are the items I'm most readily attracted to. But I love it all. I can wander the aisles of Staples for hours, like I'm in a trance.
Also, black gaffer's tape is another great craft material, along with black foamcore board, useful for making cobbled-together pinhole box cameras.
But here's the funny thing: the word verification is (I swear I'm not making this up) "crionse". So I'm going with crionse as my favorite art material.
~Joe
Oh, black gaffer's tape is so great for like...every task. At work we get it in four-inch-wide rolls, and it's all I can do to not leave with one in my pocket.
Does a pencil sharpener count as an art supply?
Because I love the Sanford Giant sharpener we bought at the auction at our local elementary school (right before the wrecking ball came, that is). I love the sound, the smell, the little tan-and-yello ribbons of wood.
Cheryl! I am awfully flattered!
Has it really been 11 years since the Kingdome was blown up?
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