I’m looking forward to teaching a mail art workshop tomorrow at Britannia Community Centre. The workshop is organized by the Britannia Art Gallery which works with artists to offer free workshops throughout the year. Of course artists do get paid–I feel that is an important detail for people to know….
Laura
This past August I had a show at the Britannia Art Gallery. The show was called Here Today. Here Today is a mixed-media photographic project shown through souvenir pocket mirrors and focusing on landmarks and establishments connected to the Italian community in the Commercial Drive area and a little beyond….
A city has many faces. Your lifestyle determines what you see but your mind tells you what to seek out. What speaks to you and why? How do you see your city, your town, your village? In my new limited-edition journals on Vancouver I show you how I see the…
I am currently taking a textile design course for the Art Education Diploma at the University of British Columbia. One of the requirements is that we keep a reflection journal where we record what we’ve seen and how we felt about it–of course it has to be textile related. I…
I’d like to show you how many changes and layers there can be in an art journal page. For me the process is unpredictable. A little planning always gets me started but this can be simply the decision to start the first layer with blues and the next with a…
I’ve been using mixed-media sketchbooks for my art journals. I never altered the front cover of the sketchbook, I just focused on the inside. But looking through Art Journal magazine, I realized it was time to work on the covers. I have five sketchbooks that are now in need of…
In the Summer issue of Art Journaling magazine that I posted about a few days ago, the artists in the magazine were asked this question: Do you know what you will write when you start a page, or does the art dictate what you write? It’s interesting to read the…
Yesterday I picked up the Summer issue of Art Journaling (never too late), a magazine published by Somerset Studio. It’s full of great tips and inspiring art journal pages! Have a peak at what’s inside here. I picked it up at Bird on A Wire on Main & Broadway in…
From time to time, I return to look at Sabrina Ward Harrison‘s book The True and the Questions (2005). This book is a journal, half filled with Sabrina’s thoughts, and half with adorned empty pages for you to fill in. This is perhaps a great starting book for someone who…
In the past six months I’ve been working, researching, and creating for the exhibition Here Today that is now on at Britannia Art Gallery. Having such a goal can focus you and give you purpose, but it can also add an element of stress. You get very intimate with the…