tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82748789021749492472024-03-21T16:51:55.934-07:00Art2Inspire TechStudio Art Techniques combined with Tech and Video Inspiration.The Old Art Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125974139849959232noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274878902174949247.post-12259191629615088782015-09-11T00:43:00.000-07:002015-09-11T00:43:25.570-07:00Birthday Inspiration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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49 today:)<br />
Started the day with a cuppa, Birthday Cards and this video by Darren Rowse which a email had sent me. Great to start the next year.<br />
also this was on a card Gill gave me,"Life is not a Matter of counting the years, it's a matter of making the years count."<br />
So true, so here's to the year:)))</div>
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See the beginning of my circus tent <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://cards2inspire.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/circus-tent-from-folded-book.html">HERE</a></span></div>
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This Circus Album is such fun and great inspiration for ideas to come.</div>
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Happy New Year Everyone.<br />
I am introducing new new topics of inspiration and the first one is,<br />
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I have done lots of research and resource, sketchbooks and journals are being created<br />
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This video is inspirational on how to use and recycle man made fabrics.<br />
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See the post <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://theoldartroom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/shaving-foam-marbling.html">HERE</a></span></div>
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This is a quaint video showing the technique of marbling.
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This is also one of Jamie's great informative videos from Colouricious.
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See Caroline's cushion and the class<a href="http://quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/gathered-and-pleated-cushion.html"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">HERE</span></a></div>
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I just love this lace book and the little elements Scrappyhappyox shares. A real treasure and a way of using all those lovely trimmings and shaved lace in such a beautiful way. I have seen many but this is one of the best. Enjoy!
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"Life of Pi" is something different, a movie of real survival and resourcefulness made with a sense of nature, at it's best, worst and wonder. Storytelling with imagination.
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"You are more beautiful than you think"
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This is a lovely story about the Mousehole Cat and his adventures. The video just gives you a taster of it and it is well worth getting the book to read and the illustrations are beautiful.
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One of my students is basing her body of work on this and much much more about Cornish tradions.<br />
See some of her work <a href="http://quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/mousehole-cats-dream-catcher.html">HERE</a></div>
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Watched "Step Up Four" this afternoon. WOW! What performance ART!!!<br />
Love the Cars and Gallery performance. This Step Up is more about the dance than the lovey dovey between the actors. Loved it. Pumps you up. A film to get anyone moving!!!<br />
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I have been teaching Fabric Folded Flowers or Twisted Hexagon Flowers as they are also know this week and everyone who has tried them, now really appreciates the skill and time it takes to get them looking even. Once learnt they are real fun and if you join them together they make a great fabric interest for bags, wallhangings and quilts. The trick is to start with a good quality cotton fabric and make sure you iron the folds in the right places. It does take practice and as I say to my students who are making anything for the first time, "don't be so hard on yourself. How many of those have you made?" It takes practice before you get any skill. Enjoy making and to see some my students have made click <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">HERE.<a href="http://quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/folded-and-twisted-hexagon-flowers.html">http://quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/folded-and-twisted-hexagon-flowers.html</a></span></div>
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