Journal to Scarf
I made a map a few months ago in my journal. It is of my ideal city, a village really, by the sea. Southern California was my childhood home, and aside from the traffic I really miss it. This place, La Dolce Vita (The good life) is by the sea, and has piers with cabanas at the end, like this one in Bora Bora. Nothing, but nothing could make me happier. My village is here. Inspired by having a week to play in the YMCA crafts center, and by the new book Dreaming From the Journal Page by my gal pal Melanie Testa. In the book she takes journal pages and creates art based on them. I thought I...
Read MoreMap Stencil Possibilities!
Last weekend I went to my friend Libby’s cabin for a retreat with six women. The cabin has been in Libby’s family for many years. You can feel and smell the long history as soon as you step inside. I took the map stencils that Lisa sent me (see previous post) and we all played with them. We painted and drew on collaborative papers, worked in our journals and watched the critters romp and scramble, buzz and chirp. Here we are. We did lots of things with these stencils, pushed the stencil envelope if you may. In this one, I stenciled with dye inks. Cheryl stenciled with the dye...
Read MoreAncient Cities Stencils
This is a really bad photo of a wonderful new product by Artistcellar Stencils. They are 8.5 x 11, full page sizes, of four cities: Paris, Venice, Amsterdam and London. They are sturdy, and very detailed. Lisa, who is Artistcellar, asked me to play with them and of course I responded with the enthusiasm of any arty cartophile, heck yes! I just got them, and will be taking them on a retreat this weekend to see what wonders arise. After that, I will be posting a giveaway of the piece I come up with. Any of you that cannot wait to get these, buy them and send me your photo, I will post them...
Read MoreAbstract Maps
This month I have an article on drawing abstract maps from Google Earth Images (which is legal, as long as you give them credit, BTW). Given that I have long been smitten with the view of our planet from airplanes, helicopters, any other hover vehicle will do, this was a project I long had in mind and I got a chance to share it. The article is in Cloth, Paper, Scissors current issue. Here are some of the maps I made. Starting with the Google Earth image of my house, I sketched out the basic lines on a piece of pastel paper. Here is the image I started with. Using PanPastel, I painted the...
Read MoreA little Map Video
A little video I made of making a map in my journal. The journal was mad at Journalfest, a venue in Port Townswend, Washington. This is one of the techniques in the book, it is called pochoir. Have fun!
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