Here's the link:
http://rabbitdogprints.blogspot.com/p/in-studio.html
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Saturday: In the studio
Hope you will stop by and see what's happening in the studio.Here's a sneak peek.
Here's the link:
http://rabbitdogprints.blogspot.com/p/in-studio.html
Here's the link:
http://rabbitdogprints.blogspot.com/p/in-studio.html
Friday, August 12, 2011
Artist Interviews: Shout Your Art From The Rooftops
"You’ll find your own unique voice and when you do, shout your art from the rooftops. " Rachel Birdsell
I hope you will check out my new artist interview with Rachel from CuriousCrowDesigns
She describes her artwork as: Creepy, weird, fun, found object art. As soon as I saw her quirky little characters I knew I had to interview her!
The link to her interview is here:
Rachel from CuriousCrowDesigns
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
I hope you will check out my new artist interview with Rachel from CuriousCrowDesigns
She describes her artwork as: Creepy, weird, fun, found object art. As soon as I saw her quirky little characters I knew I had to interview her!
The link to her interview is here:
Rachel from CuriousCrowDesigns
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
Monday, August 8, 2011
Book Corner Sunday
Book Corner Sunday- 8/7/2011
I usually have at lest three of four books going at one time.
I usually have at lest three of four books going at one time.
The books I'm reading right now are:
#1 Women Who Run With Wolves
This book is so amazing and has touched my life with the retelling of fairy tales as learning stories for women's lives. I'm currently reading it right now. The story that I'm reading is Sealskin, Soulskin
#2 Collage Lab
I'm loving this book as it has 52 investigations to develop your collage style. The art teacher in me absolutely loves the fact that is each investigation has its own learning objective.
The two authors have launched a blog Collage Lab by two: A Year of Collage
dedicated to the new book Collage Lab. They plan to follow the plan and complete the weekly labs over the next year, publishing their findings, opinions, and artwork as they go.
I'm moseying over to that blog pronto!
#3 Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists
I'm finding this book to be very inspiring and has led me to new techniques I have never used before.
I've done collage before but I completely colored my images and backgrounds using watercolor. This go around I'm using imagery from old photos and have playing with backgrounds in new ways. My substrate has changed too. Before I used old posterboard, now I'm placing all of my collages on canvas. Makes it super easy to display.
#4 Except The Queen
Oh my goodness, I just loved this book! Two fey sisters uncover the Queens secret and let it slip out. The Queen banishes them from the world of fairy and they become old, lose their magic and are separated from each other. The book is so charming and I hated it for it to end. I got hooked on the short story in The Fair Folk, then was pleased to find it was a whole book.
So bloggers, I'm wondering: Are you readers? If so what are you reading right now.
Do share!
Can't wait to read your comments, and I'm sure I'll be heading over to the library for more fabulous books!
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA RabbitNote I orginally posted this yesterday on Sunday. I was playing with the page feature and I was not what I expected, so I'm posting it today. I probably will be posting twice today!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Hunt For The Perfect Thrift Shop
So how's my blogging schedule coming along? Great in theory, in practice, it's going to take awhile. Getting artist and creative people interviews lined up is going to take prior planning on my part, but I'll get there! Right now it's the dream I'm shooting for. It's what I hope it becomes, rather than what it is at this moment.
According to schedule, I should be blogging about flea market finds. I really love to shop for things from garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores. Owning our own thrift store might be possible for us at this time. My husband had an Oldies, but Goodies store, way back when, so he has the experience required to help our dream along. Now all we need is a building and inventory. We have been going to garage sales looking to add to our inventory.
We've bought a ton of baby girl clothes, boys and men clothes. We even chanced on a garage sale that was closing. They had already loaded up the truck and were going to take it to Goodwill.
It was good timing for us! We bought a truckload of clothes, books, and toys for cheap. It was almost as exciting as a treasure hunt because we had no idea what was there. I have boxes I haven't even looked in yet, being as it has been heat record breaking hot.
Now our porch is so loaded down with inventory. We will have to get a storage unit soon.
Where we live in Missouri is loaded, and I mean loaded with thrift stores. Some are almost on top of each other, they are that close. We are looking to move somewhere else so that we don't have so much competion.
We have looked for a building and the prices are outrageous, considering that the buildings are all tore up! Honestly, I had no idea. It was disappointing to say the least. I, at least, expected buildings that were habitable. I was wrong. Several buildings that we looked at, had the ceiling tiles ripped out and linoleum gone too. It was just a plain concrete floor, and wires hanging from the ceiling. One had no lights! Previous renters had taken extension cords and had plugged in lights that way. It literally was an empty shell. We would have to pay beaucoup bucks for the privilege of remodeling the building before we could even move in. Needless to say, we are not stupid, or made of money, nor do we have time to do a fixer upper!
We are looking at two cute little buildings right now. One is a house that we could sell from and live in at the same time which would cut overhead costs and living expenses somewhat. Another is just a one level building. Wherever we go we will have to move to. We are keeping our fingers crossed for a building that we can sell from and live in. It would make things easier for us financially, but then again do we really want to work and live in the same place?
Dean is the agent for the building and he told us about a little house that was a few miles down the road. Only two problems with that place, it's small and I mean small. The other problem was that a skunk had crawled under the house and had died.
Anyway, the hunt continues!
On a happy note, I got from the truckload of stuff headed to goodwill: a sewing kit filled with lace, and an old yearbook from the 1930s. I've used some of the stuff in 3 mixed media collages.
I'll let you take a peek at them Saturday. You can see the two finished ones in my flicker stream to the right.
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
According to schedule, I should be blogging about flea market finds. I really love to shop for things from garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores. Owning our own thrift store might be possible for us at this time. My husband had an Oldies, but Goodies store, way back when, so he has the experience required to help our dream along. Now all we need is a building and inventory. We have been going to garage sales looking to add to our inventory.
We've bought a ton of baby girl clothes, boys and men clothes. We even chanced on a garage sale that was closing. They had already loaded up the truck and were going to take it to Goodwill.
It was good timing for us! We bought a truckload of clothes, books, and toys for cheap. It was almost as exciting as a treasure hunt because we had no idea what was there. I have boxes I haven't even looked in yet, being as it has been heat record breaking hot.
Now our porch is so loaded down with inventory. We will have to get a storage unit soon.
Where we live in Missouri is loaded, and I mean loaded with thrift stores. Some are almost on top of each other, they are that close. We are looking to move somewhere else so that we don't have so much competion.
We have looked for a building and the prices are outrageous, considering that the buildings are all tore up! Honestly, I had no idea. It was disappointing to say the least. I, at least, expected buildings that were habitable. I was wrong. Several buildings that we looked at, had the ceiling tiles ripped out and linoleum gone too. It was just a plain concrete floor, and wires hanging from the ceiling. One had no lights! Previous renters had taken extension cords and had plugged in lights that way. It literally was an empty shell. We would have to pay beaucoup bucks for the privilege of remodeling the building before we could even move in. Needless to say, we are not stupid, or made of money, nor do we have time to do a fixer upper!
We are looking at two cute little buildings right now. One is a house that we could sell from and live in at the same time which would cut overhead costs and living expenses somewhat. Another is just a one level building. Wherever we go we will have to move to. We are keeping our fingers crossed for a building that we can sell from and live in. It would make things easier for us financially, but then again do we really want to work and live in the same place?
Dean is the agent for the building and he told us about a little house that was a few miles down the road. Only two problems with that place, it's small and I mean small. The other problem was that a skunk had crawled under the house and had died.
Anyway, the hunt continues!
On a happy note, I got from the truckload of stuff headed to goodwill: a sewing kit filled with lace, and an old yearbook from the 1930s. I've used some of the stuff in 3 mixed media collages.
I'll let you take a peek at them Saturday. You can see the two finished ones in my flicker stream to the right.
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Blogging Schedule/ Promotional Frenzy Great Etsy Team
I've been thinking that I need a regular blog schedule. I want to blog everyday and I believe it's important so that you, dear readers will stick around. Plus, if I have a schedule I won't have to deal with the dreaded, "what will I blog about" issue. I had other blogs, still have them in fact, but I don't blog regularly over there. Keeping up with 3 blogs, might be too much, for me, but I'm getting better at blogging consistently, over here on RabbitDog.
So, here's my blog schedule.
Sunday Book Corner
Monday: History and Info (Can you tell I'm a teacher?)
Tuesday: Free Vintage Illustrations
Wednesday: Artist Interviews
Thursday: Flea market finds
Friday: Friday Finds
Saturday-What's happening in the studio.
I feel really good about this, excited and ready get started.
Just wondering bloggers: Do you have a blogging schedule, and how often do you blog a week?
Please share your blogging experiences!
_________________________________________________________________________________
PROMOTIONAL FRENZY ETSY TEAM
I wanted to tell you about this great Etsy team. The team so far has been wonderful! Right now we are having a MEGASPECIALS PROMO EVENT!
The team is having a HUGE sale event for the ENTIRE month of August. There are over 50 Etsy shops participating in the event with great sales that are too good to miss! You can learn more on both facebook and twitter:
www.facebook.com/promofrenzy
www.twitter.com/promofrenzy
You can search "promofrenzyteam" in Etsy and find many wonderful handmade items from members of the team. Here is the link.
Etsy MEGA FRENZY search
Our shop special is 20% off everything in our shop! Use the coupon code FRENZYSPECIAL at checkout.
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
So, here's my blog schedule.
Sunday Book Corner
Monday: History and Info (Can you tell I'm a teacher?)
Tuesday: Free Vintage Illustrations
Wednesday: Artist Interviews
Thursday: Flea market finds
Friday: Friday Finds
Saturday-What's happening in the studio.
I feel really good about this, excited and ready get started.
Just wondering bloggers: Do you have a blogging schedule, and how often do you blog a week?
Please share your blogging experiences!
_________________________________________________________________________________
PROMOTIONAL FRENZY ETSY TEAM
I wanted to tell you about this great Etsy team. The team so far has been wonderful! Right now we are having a MEGASPECIALS PROMO EVENT!
The team is having a HUGE sale event for the ENTIRE month of August. There are over 50 Etsy shops participating in the event with great sales that are too good to miss! You can learn more on both facebook and twitter:
www.facebook.com/promofrenzy
www.twitter.com/promofrenzy
You can search "promofrenzyteam" in Etsy and find many wonderful handmade items from members of the team. Here is the link.
Etsy MEGA FRENZY search
Our shop special is 20% off everything in our shop! Use the coupon code FRENZYSPECIAL at checkout.
Until tomorrow,
Kim
AKA Rabbit
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Got black and white illustrations? Need color? Get Akvis Coloriage Photo coloring program
You probably already know that I love vintage illustrations. I have quite a collection of awesome antique black and white illustrations that need just a little color to make them pop!
A few days ago my husband said that he wished we could color old vintage illustrations. So I got to searching on the internet and found Akvis Coloriage.
It is incredibly easy to use! I have had some incredible illustrations that I have just been itching to recolor. I've tried coloring them by hand with colored pencils, which turned out okay, but I'm totally loving this program.
Look at these cuties, before:
After:
After: They look great don't you think? I need to rework the little girl, cause she's not there yet, but still, I think she looks pretty darn awesome if I say so myself!
Note : These images are copyright protected and you may not use them for any reason.
Check back soon you vintage image lovers! I will be making a AKVis Coloriage Tutorial, if I can tear myself away from coloring, that is!
Until next time,
Kim AKA Rabbit
A few days ago my husband said that he wished we could color old vintage illustrations. So I got to searching on the internet and found Akvis Coloriage.
It is incredibly easy to use! I have had some incredible illustrations that I have just been itching to recolor. I've tried coloring them by hand with colored pencils, which turned out okay, but I'm totally loving this program.
Look at these cuties, before:
Note : These images are copyright protected and you may not use them for any reason.
Check back soon you vintage image lovers! I will be making a AKVis Coloriage Tutorial, if I can tear myself away from coloring, that is!
Until next time,
Kim AKA Rabbit
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