The Week Links: 78

Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. Earlier posts in the series can be found here.

And here is Week 78...

1. Incredible 3-D lettering that absolutely pops off the page from Tolga Girgin - first seen here on Design Taxi.

2. The Painter's Primer: A Survival Kit. 100 suggestions on living and working as an artist. Thanks to Dina Wakley for the link.

3. Even the works in progress from Roxanne Coble are amazing.

4. Incredible surface created by Alaric Hammond via etching and corrosion on zinc plates. Seen earlier this month at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

5. Looking forward to getting Daily Rituals: How Artist's Work by Mason Currey after reading excerpt in the current issue of Professional Artist Magazine.

6. My friends - Mary Beth Shaw, Julie Fei-Fan Blazer, Nathalie Kalbach and Dina Wakley are all featured on the new DVD Art Journaling Live 2. Well done!

7.  One of two gorgeous Rothko paintings auctioned off on 11/4 at Sotheby's in NYC as part of the A. Alfred Taubman collection.

Consider me Your Dealer

It is the time of the year when we all reflect on our lives and give thanks for all that is good and wondrous.

It is also the time of the year for sales!

I never want my blog to turn into a blatant promotional tool -- but I am making an exception today. Just for you. So for all you supply addicts out there (yeah...I'm talkin' about you), consider me your dealer. If you have been thinking about buying some of my (or anybody else's) stamps, stencils, DVDs, books and other artsy stuff, now is the time.

Impression Obsession

Interweave

Or if you can wait till Monday you get an extra 10% off 

StencilGirl Products

This starts at midnight CST and that is when the best deals are to be had. 

ABCs

There is a magical shop in NYC that I head to if I need a dose of inspiration, a visual fix, or a photo op: ABC Carpet & Home. Even their website is a gem. The shop is filled to the rafters with the most incredible objects and their stylists seem to change the scene constantly. It is a place to spot trends, see the work of new designers and find fuel for the creative fire.

For those of you who cannot visit in person, I am happy to bring some ABC to you in these images I shot this past weekend...

Australia 2016

To all my peeps down under: I am excited to be returning to Australia in July 2016 as part of the Art is You Australian Mixed Media Roadshow. My experience there in 2014 was one that I will never forget and happily have documented in these blog posts. 

Information has just been posted about the stops on the 2016 tour on the Art is You website, where you can also sign up for updates to your inbox.

We will be in the country...

Fairbridge Village, Pinjarra Western Australia

7/13/16-7/17/16

We will be in the city...

 Crystal Palace Luna Park, Sydney New South Wales

7/20/16-7/24/16

We will be at the seaside...

Noosa Convention Center, Tewantin Queensland

7/27/16-7/31/16

Please consider joining us. It is guaranteed to be a time you will treasure forever.

The Week Links: 77

Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. Earlier posts in the series can be found here.

And here is Week 77...

1. Spectacular Landscapes of Possibilities made from maps by Ji Zhou.

2. Love the concept of rustic luxe from Amy Duncan.

3. Digging this detail of a work in progress from Bridgette Guerzon Mills.

4. Don't usually have time to take online workshops but when I saw this image for Pathways and Wanderings from Roxanne Evans Stout I signed up immediately.

5. Life-sized scrap metal sculptures by John Lopez (thanks to Donna Joy for the link).

6. Rae Missigman shares her favorite studio tools.

7. This is from Calico - a Brooklyn-based wallpaper company. Their designs would make brilliant book covers.

On Trend

trendsetter or trend forgetter?

Concentric

Artists tend to fall into one of four categories when it comes to trends, with most people straddling more than one. Where do you fit in? Are you a trend lover, hater, setter, or forgetter?

Check out my column The Creative Pulse in the paper or digital November/December issue of Cloth Paper Scissors to read more about the phenomenon of trends and how they impact (or do not impact) artists.

Art Blog Directory

Have you visited my Art Blog Directory lately? In it I include links to creative blogs.

I just finished my biannual review and deleted 55 blogs, all of which have not been active within the last six months. What does that say about the state of the blogosphere?

That still leaves 415 links for you to explore. Yes. 415. Better get started now...

And if you want to add your blog to the list of links, email me at shap97@gmail.com.

Inspirational

I am so pleased to be a featured artist in issue #7 of Inspirational, a 201-page magazine from John Hopper from The Textile Blog. 

For every issue, John highlights a group of 8 artists from a wide range of creative disciplines. He not only includes an extensive number of images of their artwork, he writes an accompanying article focused on how each artist perceives the world around them and, in turn, how that unique perception is projected back onto the world within their art.

In John's words: "Mixed media to Seth is a medium of freedom, of layers of expectation, and of expression. It is the bringing together of events, often long dissociated from the materials used, but still nevertheless imbued with an essence. It is a scattering of old memories, and the bringing together of the new."

"As an artist he takes note of the nature of streets and the people that inhabit those streets. Life is all about attachments, connections, imbuing space and time with meaning and understanding."

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Earlier issues of Inspirational have highlighted a diverse group of artists including some of my favorites such as Chris Keegan, India Flint, Patricia Oblack, Cas Holmes, Wen Redmond, Annie Coe, Jude Hill and Elizabeth Bunsen.

You can read more details about Inspirational, download a free sample feature, and purchase issues here.

The Week Links: 76

Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. Earlier posts in the series can be found here.

And here is Week 76...

1. Veronica Funk shares her thoughts on the highs and lows of being an artist in this wonderful guest post.

2. Looking forward to seeing Squeak Carnwath's new exhibition What Before Comes After at Jane Lombard in NYC.

Love her book Lists, Observations & Counting

3. I cannot get enough of Lynne Hoppe's unique painting style and in this post she shares a tutorial on tea bag painting for the Documented Life Project.

4. I absolutely love the texture that Janaki Larsen achieves on her ceramics. Love every single photo on her Instagram feed too.

5. Love this series of Italian collages from Caterina Giglio.

6. Look closely at these two artworks. They are made completely from paint brushes by Finn Stone. On exhibit through 11/25 at Woolff Gallery in London.

7. Alice Fox's collection of stitched shells are stunning, serene and beyond beautiful. 

Forecast

Today I am guest artist on the PaperArtsy blog. Follow along step-by-step to see how this...

became this...

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