You're Running Out of Time ~~ AirMail Journaling

The welcome postcards for my summer workshop AirMail Journaling will be mailed tomorrow. The cards include a tune-up exercise to get participants primed and ready to go.

What's AirMail Journaling?

5 art journal lessons mailed to your home (or an address of your choosing) - lessons include directions, prompts, ephemera and materials, along with sample images
we start the week of June 25th and will continue through the end of August - the lessons will be mailed every two weeks
there's also a private, online classroom where participants can share their images and have a dialogue about processes/ideas

So, how much for all this wicked sweet journaling goodness?

Only $30.

I kid you not. Only $30 (within the US - additional fees for international addresses apply). Simply paypal funds tojournal@turtledovedesigns.com and I'll get off a materials list and class outline.

What will we be doing? I'll give you a glimpse:

self portraits with experimental lettering
mail and index card art
working with silhouettes
layers, layers and more layers and even more layers
various drawing approaches
working from life
COLLAGE!
rubbings
embellishments

Can you stand it?

Thanks for following along with me and my art,

Kim

ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com

P S End of school year: one half day. Start of vacation: one half day and a hair.

What is art, or creative, journaling? It's taking a blank book (or page) and dumping your feelings onto it, using whatever sorts of marks and materials you desire, text optional. My grownUPs class meets on the third Thursday of each month - the above sample is a demonstration of what I call "Reality Doodling," making a doodle inspired by an actual object.

Toodle-Loo

I'm off tomorrow for a whirlwind visit with my new godson.

Behave while I'm gone, will you?

I will check email occasionally, and may respond if the baby is asleep and I haven't had too much sangria (and I speak from experience in saying that, yes, you can have too much sangria).

I'm returning to town just in time to teach next week's grownUPs Journaling class (at Little Monsters Toy Store from 6-8pm).

I am REALLY excited about this new lesson I've prepared - it's tactile and patterned and a riot of gooey delicious color.

RSVP if you wanna come!!

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"Tabby Kit," 5" x 7", acrylics on a museum quality panel, depicting a tiny little orange striped guy from Morgue File . This painting can be yours for $289, which includes s&h inside the US. And in case you didn't see it, a little doodle of him is also available for sale here . Inquires may come directly to me . Although it certainly doesn't FEEL like spring here (snow and ice and wind chills, brr!), I can tell that spring is coming. The mercury is rising a wee bit each day and the days are getting longer and brighter. Over the weekend we drove with the moonroof open just to feel the sun's meager and oh-so-very-welcome warmth (although the heat in the car was cranked, too, in the interest of full disclosure!). I wanted to work with spring-like colors today, and this little guy was still on my mind , so I grabbed a small panel and got to work. Of course, I also have Poppy to finish and some changes to make to another po

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One of my favorite unsold paintings from 2008, "Lashes & Corkscrews," 5" x 8", acrylic on canvasboard, depicting a tobiano buckskin curly horse, $289. Inquiries to ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com (but read further on how you can get a special deal on this painting!). Now it's ridiculously easy to browse my painting archives. All you have to do is visit my Etsy store . Etsy has a Shopping Cart (so you can pile it high with purchases from a variety of artists), is integrated with Paypal (although you may still pay by check if you prefer to), and is terribly simple to navigate. When the week has ended, I will have listed almost 100 of my favorite (UNSOLD!) paintings here, grouped loosely by subject matter. During 2009 I'll update the shop regularly, and add non-Dog-a-Day pieces as a bonus, thus making it easy to search for that perfect gift. Watch my daily postings for announcements, promotions and discount codes. If you do not receive the Dog-a-Day emails (

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