Link Love Long Overdue

I haven’t done a Link Love post in a long time (if ever). I think I link to people when I write a post about them, but I thought I would just do a list of some of my current favorite blogs.  I still visit my friends on other blogs, but these are the ones I visit regularly:

http://www.3x3x365.blogspot.com/ - 3 Friends, 3 States, Sharing one photo every day of 2011

http://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/ - mixed media artist and teacher – lots of art journaling ideas and classes

http://joannezsharpe.blogspot.com/ - I’m in LOVE with her style – lots of color and words mixed with tons of great ideas

http://www.ihanna.nu/ - art journal and other ideas

http://thebloggess.com/ - just hysterical. Sick, but hysterical!

http://teeshascircus.blogspot.com/ - her art started me down the art journaling path

http://www.dblogala.com/ - doodler extraordinaire

Passing It On

Since two of the blogs I follow pretty regularly linked to this site, I went there, read the post and now I am recommending that you, too, read it.  You don't have to be an artist to incorporate the principles - and it is fun, too. The blog I first saw it on was D'Blogala and the second one was Kelly Kilmer's.

There were so many parts that I loved that I decided not to list them here and just let you go and enjoy the presentation for yourself.  The one thing I did "steal" was a quote from the presentation:

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." - Goethe

Isn't that a great quote?

The biggest bummer of today is that I left my camera at work so I can't post any art journal photos this weekend. :(

Who Knew? Art in the 'hood

I was dinking around on the net today, nursing a sore throat (sore throat? must be PTO day) and I ran across this store in my local area:

Art on a Lark - They are having a Soul Collage class and an Altered Book class tomorrow. Next weekend, they are having an Art Journal person come in to teach classes. The ones next weekend are more specialized and a little more expensive, but I'm definitely happy to find this place. They even offer "studio" membership at varying levels. If you have that, you can use the space and their tools. Might be cool to investigate. I'm thinking I would need to check it out before I make any drastic decisions - I find that I am a little shy about making art in public.

I actually found the store via Kelly Kilmer's website as I was looking for some art journal inspiration. I aspire to Teesha Moore heights, but I'm not there yet, so I was looking for other styles and other teachers who might help me shape my own thing. Quite fun to find these other folks out there. I'm sure there are tons more.

I will report back if I decide to take a class tomorrow. I'm not feeling great, but mostly, I prefer not to spread the germs if I can avoid it. We'll see.

A Good Laugh on a Long Day

One of my co-worker told me about this blog post today and then when we had a chance, she read part of it to me and showed me the drawings. It was hysterical and the perfect medicine for a long day. I laughed and laughed and I thought I would share it.

If you read on, there is a great post about never being able to be an adult. Take a look! It is really, really funny.

Here is one about hospital pain scales.

Aside from the hysterically funny commentary and the funny Paint program drawings, it takes me back to high school and the notes my best friend and I would write to each other all day long every day. Many of our notes included these absurd and horrible illustrations of whatever we were talking about. We had one teacher that we particularly disliked and we did a cartoon called "Alls Well that Ends Wells" (her last name was Wells. I later realized that we were just horrible teenagers and she was a nice older lady who had been teaching horrible teenagers for too long.) We had a couple of cartoon series and then lots of random stuff that we wrote and drew and this blog just reminds me of how funny a simple illustration can be.

Anyway, enjoy. The humor may not be for everyone, so read at your own risk.