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Lessons from Five Years of Making Art
You know when you think you’re putting all your efforts towards something but then that something wasn’t the right thing? This has happened to me over and over. As a good student/citizen etc. I wanted to follow the rules, work hard, get results. I would research like mad, take courses, make lists, plan, etc. But […]
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Visual Journal, Sketchbook, Art Journal or Studies?
Very few of us know consider the different functions of each. If we did, we would probably make better use of our resources and clarify our practice. This is my classification of these different “containers” as I understand them, but by no means you have to keep them all! Sketchbooks A sketchbook isn’t supposed to […]
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The Instagram Problem
This essay was shared with my newsletter subscribers last week and it resonated so much I decided to publish it here as well The optimism waned almost immediately. A yucky feeling installed itself right above my navel and I couldn’t quite pinpoint it. What do you call this? It’s not sadness nor anxiety. It’s not […]
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Painting With Acrylic Inks
Long before I ever held a brush or even bought a sketchbook, I had a Tumblr where I collected my favourite things. During the Tumblr days, I came across a beautiful sketchbook. It had everything I aspired to learn one day: beautiful painterly strokes, expressive freedom, brief poems. Every page was more than a landscape; […]
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Creating a Zine: A Domestika Project
The first class I bought from Domestika was Design and Illustration of a Fanzine with Violeta Hernandez. For most of my life, handmade books have had a special place in my heart. Whether they are sketchbooks or small publications. In the 90s, I used to dream I was part of the Riot Grrrls just to […]