art
Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics in Journal's workplace sphere.
paper, scissors, happy
I've always loved how creative stage design, even with a minimum of materials, can build a magical world. My current craft is inspired by this art form, sculpting painted paper to make small dreamscapes that transport me to my happiest of places.
By P. D. Murray5 years ago in Journal
Painting With Scissors
I have a pair of gold scissors saved. I toyed with the idea of pairing them with the slightly macabre pop art-esque yellow-haired baby dolls head… but I think both of those are rare finds so I’m saving them. So far I’ve stuck mostly to deers.
By Debbie Parnell5 years ago in Journal
For Instant Happiness: Just Add Watercolour
I've been an artist for as long as I can remember, making creations from simple drawings to complex line art to mosaics and everything between, but I never found my niche. I've always been a jack of all trades but a master of none until one day it all finally came together...
By Jessica humphries 5 years ago in Journal
Cutting through the darkness
As far back as I can remember, As far back as I can remember, I've always had a drive to artistically create, but it didn't always involve scissors. In preschool, despite good marks across the board, the one area that I needed to work was my cutting skills. I've always been very determined to work hard in order to overcome any obstacles - I like to think that my love of macrame was born very early on from my desire to create and my determination to improve my skills with scissors. It was also this determination, along with the help and encouragement from my family and friends, that inspired me to create my own small macramé craft business: Prairie 724 Knots. Cutting through the cotton cords, creating wall art, plant hangers and earrings using macramé knots and scissors to shape each project pulled me through such an incredibly challenging year.
By Shannon Brodie5 years ago in Journal
Scissors and a Ruler
My mother’s hands, with just a pair of scissors and wooden ruler, cut squares of pink, blue, yellow, green, some from the scraps of my childhood—from the sundresses and jumpers she’d made me. Three-inch squares of florals and solids, stripes and ginghams in hundreds of colors. She never told me. She just cut and sewed half square triangles for years, a bit at a time.
By Lia Huntington5 years ago in Journal
The Journaling is the Journey
Journaling began for me, or so I thought, as a way to record memories while travelling. To record the ‘highlights’, sure. Cutting out and sticking in tickets and photos of us standing next to landmarks, as if our photo wasn’t just one drop in an ocean of instances where countless others stood and grinned in the exact same spot.
By Kia Creates5 years ago in Journal
From Factory to Fashion
Growing up, as a Irish girl, in a small city called Newry, I never quite connected with the girls or boys that enjoyed playing with dolls, or kicking a ball. It was all too loud, too busy. I would usually be found sitting at my dad's factory workbench, while my brother was playing football outdoors.
By Katie McGUIGAN5 years ago in Journal
The Lady with the Scissors
The relationship I have with my scissors has grown alongside my personal evolution from a hobbyist to an upcoming local artist. I am the artist behind Lady Brock Studio, and I make intricate cut and paste collage compositions from mostly reusable materials. The topics of my art include intersectionality, post-modern feminism, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of pop-culture through my very personal style.
By Ramanda Brockett5 years ago in Journal
Happy Mail
From an early age I had an affinity for all things creative. I’d swipe coffee filters from the kitchen to make voluminous skirts for my dolls. In kindergarten, I painted and strung a full set of macaroni jewelry for every woman in my family, fancying myself a brilliant jewelry designer. Growing up in a family with limited disposable income available, I would spend hours flipping through my mom’s old magazines, cutting out the prettiest, most appealing images, then gluing them onto little story “books” I had written. At the time, I dreamed more of becoming a writer than an artist. Without realizing it, however, I was already on my way to becoming a paper crafter, expressing myself with those magazine photos, scissors, a little glue, and a lot of imagination.
By Melissa Weber 5 years ago in Journal
Pain Paintings
I would be remiss to talk about my art without first explaining what got me here. In the Fall of 2019, my life changed forever. I had an accident where I sustained an injury that didn't heal. It was the first rock to fall in my unraveling, like an avalanche on a mountain.
By Shannon Watts5 years ago in Journal
One Square, No Cuts?
The only step where scissors are allowed when making true origami is also the most critical step: creating the perfect square. I fold my best pieces from handmade paper (in this case, made by my friends at Origamido Studio) which comes with rough, irregular edges which must be cut straight. The square must be perfectly straight-edged, perpendicular at the corners, and have equal sides. A small error in the beginning will manifest itself as a noticeable irregularity in the final fold. After that, folding creates the complex forms of the origami creatures, plants, and even human characters that I design.
By Brian Chan5 years ago in Journal
