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It doesn't care if you have
rules, or standards.
It takes no notice what you
think, or believe.
It has its own imperatives,
its own demands
buried in the body. Fire
at the back of the brain,
that ancient insistence.
[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.]
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[I'm doing a series of posts on resources for digital art journalers and collage artists, beginning with digital designers who focus on art journaling. I'm linking to designer blogs or Facebook pages, rather than (or in addiition to) shops, since designers sometimes move shops, and often do guest spots at shops other than their own.]
Hollie Haradon is another designer whose work I discovered early and continue to use. She has a blog, and she has been well-published. Other than her work, that she lives in Los Angeles (& all this time I thought she was British) and that she is (I think) the owner of Deviant Scrap, I know nothing about Hollie.
Except: she is talented, hard-working, and willing to explore the sunny, the quirky and the darker sides of life. Her kits tend to be packed with images; Hollie doesn't do skimpy. It's clear from her work that she has a wide view of the world, and makes surprising connections. I love that.
Hollie's kits are amazingly versatile. I think all of Hollie's kits are art-journaling kits, but here are a few she specifically calls Art Journaling kits:
Go take a stroll through Hollie's inventory. You could choose at random and not be disappointed. Be prepared to use your PayPal account.
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Last night I watched an episode of Perception which featured ". . . an interesting twist . . . a condition that makes him unable to recognize faces." This is called prosopagnosia.
I have a touch of this. When I was about twelve, I once passed my mother on the street without recognizing her. I got new glasses. But I suspect there was more to it.
I still have a hard time with television shows that have more than one handsome dark-haired 30-ish man. I can't tell them apart.
I once lived in a cooperative household. We often had guests, house guests, dinner guests. On this occasion, friends of a housemate had been with us for a few days. I had talked with them several times.
At dinner one evening, at our long, full table – there would have been eight to ten of us – I sat at one end, with a guest to each side of me. At some point I noticed that, rather than two guests, as I had thought, there were three. I kept this surprising observation to myself.
Dinner went on, as usual, a long, active, conversational meal. Toward the end it dawned on me (and a slow dawning it was) that I was flanked by identical twins.
Perhaps it's more an attention disorder than a face-recognition disorder. Dogs, I recognize. Cats, I recognize. People, not so much.
[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.]
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[I'm planning doing a series of posts on resources for digital art journalers and collage artists, beginning with digital designers who focus on art journaling. I'm linking to designer blogs or Facebook pages, rather than (or in addiition to) shops, since designers sometimes move shops, and often do guest spots at shops other than their own.]
UPDATE: Paula is now at The Lilypad.
Paula Kesselring does Retro. Paula Kesselring does Grunge. And Paula Kesselring does generosity.
Choosing designers for my first two posts in this series was easy; I'm on Creative Teams for both, and both specialize in doing kits for art journalers.
But choosing Paula is just as easy. I've been using her work since I began art journaling in March of last year. She may not think of her work as "focused on art journaling" (though she is increasingly moving in that direction) but her kits are fun, quirky, and flexible – ideal for art journaling and collages.
This is what Paula says about herself:
My name is Paula. I live in Brazil, São Paulo and I’m wife to my best friend Ricardo. We’ve been married for 14 years. We have 2 girls- ages 17 (Isabella) and 12 (Gabriella). I love to be a wife and mother.
My biggest hobby and my “job” (Being at home with the kids is my full-time job too) is digital scrapbooking. I paper scrapped for years and years. In may of 2006 I got into digital scrapbooking and have loved it since . . .
I started scrapbooking for so long that I can’t remember, I was a traditional scrapper until 2005 when I discovered the digital !!! I’m designing for almost 2 years now, but I’d been working with Photoshop for a long time before that (16 years now) making stationary for kids !
I'm not on Paula's team, so know her only through her work and a few online interactions. But I can make inferences. She spends lots of time finding, scanning, extracting, and playing with retro & vintage items. She likes surprising juxtapositions. She has a great sense of humor – she gets mine.
Here are a few of my favorite Paula Kesselring kits (click the images to go to the shop):
As of today, Paula sells her work at One Story Down (a shop that will be featured in a future post.) She is also active at the Digi Dares challenge site and at the Gallery Standouts Blog, where she has graciously featured some of my pages. We're mutual fans!
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[I'm planning a series of posts on resources for digital art journalers and collage artists, beginning with digital designers who focus on art journaling. I'm linking to designer blogs or Facebook pages, rather than (or in addiition to) shops, since designers sometimes move shops, and often do guest spots at shops other than their own.]
Amanda is the artist behind Outside The Box Design Studio. This is what she says about herself:
Amanda has traveled and lived all over the world, and this is reflected in her kits (Asian Persuasion, I Dream of Mexico/Sueño de México, I Dream of Africa, I Dream Of India, Batik Chic – all at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com.) Many of her kits have an international flavor, even those that aren't destination specific.
Amanda describes her style like this:
Her style is greatly influenced by her faith, though one need not share her faith to feel caught by her images (witness: me.) She says:
. . . and I think she does that very successfully. This year she began an online art journaling course, ARTchaeology of the Soul, which provides prompts, lessons, links, and kits unique to Amanda. I came in late to this, and have been enjoying it very much. Something about it pushes me to . . . step outside my box. This is the kit that comes with the course:
ARTchaeology of the Soul Member Mega
Here are a few of my other favorite OTBDS kits:
I have been on Amanda's Creative Team since late April of this year, and loving it. Here are a few of my pages made with OTBDS images:
www.flickr.com
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[I'm planning a series of posts on resources for digital art journalers and collage artists, beginning with digital designers who focus on art journaling. I'm linking to designer blogs or Facebook pages, rather than (or in addiition to) shops, since designers sometimes move shops, and often do guest spots at shops other than their own.]
UPDATE: Tangie now has her own shop, with her mother, Rebecca McMeen, at Tangie Baxter & Co.
First, of course, is Tangie Baxter:
I've done the Art Journal Caravan all three years (I joined late the first year) and it continues to be an inspiration for me. Tangie is an excellent teacher and "tour guide". She offers kits, elements, templates, styles (her Paperworn Art Styles are a must-have) and hand-drawn fonts through her shop at Studio Tangie, all designed for digital art journaling.
Tangie has long been a paper and mixed-media art journaler, and this is reflected in her style, if she can be said to have a style other than Tangie Style. Her kits include scanned vintage and retro images as well as hand-drawn and painted elements. I love her Splatter Grafitti Borders:
A few of my favorite kits:
Art Journal Caravan 2012 {Parcel 29}
Tangie's shop is stuffed with high-quality goodies, and I don't say this because I am on her Creative Team. I'm on her Creative Team because I love working with her creations.
Here are some of my pages made with Tangie's work:
www.flickr.com
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The first Blue Moon of August
cools the roof tiles, black
asphalt releasing its heat
into evening. Is it the illness
or the medications? Isolation
or inactivity? I do not move.
The past rises like mist
from the over-heated sea.
[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.]
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