http://artful-journey.com Follow my artistic journey as I create altered books and collage art and reflect on how to lead an artful life. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:40:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the last three months scanning, enhancing, resizing, and creating the web pages for over 660 letter images for the Public Domain Images section of my web site. Nearly every letter had to be redrawn, since the quality of the scans from these old books and magazines, when resized ... http://artful-journey.com/2010/01/25/lettering-and-librivox/ Before you start reading this, jump to the end and press play on the Animoto slide show. That way it will be loaded and ready to play by the time you get to the end of this post. What an intense, busy year this has been for me. My art ... http://artful-journey.com/2009/08/08/im-back/ Friday I got it into my head to go to the beach. The weather had been luscious all week long - sunny and in the mid-sixties. My niece is here visiting us from Greece and my husband hasn't been to the beach in forever, so we decide to ... http://artful-journey.com/2009/01/18/summer-in-january/ I was thinking about Barcelona yesterday. I spent four amazing days there in the summer of 2007. Long enough to get a tantalizing taste, and short enough not to become disillusioned. Yes, I had a love affair with Barcelona. I think about her often. I would ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/11/25/park-guell/ My Dress Hangs Here from the Tate Modern Last Sunday my sister, Kris, and I took the ferry into San Francisco to catch the last day of the Frida Kahlo show at the SF Moma. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. The show was there all summer, but for ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/10/05/frida-kahlo-sfmoma/ I had a chance to visit the Olema Cemetery in August. It's a place I'd driven by countless times, but never noticed until last summer. After a two night stay in Stinson Beach, I decided to stop at the cemetery on my drive home, since I was alone ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/09/21/olema-angels/ The Art of Happiness - Page 45 My summer vacation is winding down. I'm trying to squeeze every last drop out of it. My to-do list has been fairly well completed, but my want-to-do list never ends-- it just gets pushed around. Yesterday I went to school to interview ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/08/07/altered-book-art/ Those of you who have been reading my blog over the past few years may remember that my mom died two years ago - May 22, 2006 from Alzheimer's. The summer before she died she spent a lot of her time outside in the garden creating little portraits of ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/07/29/alzheimers-art/ Facsimile of an Original Indian Drawing of a Ceremonial Dance Drawn with colored crayons and pencils by Big Back, a Cheyenne. Source: Humfreville For those of you who are not subscribed to my Yahoo Newsletter, I wanted to be sure and let you know about my new web site U.S. History Images. I ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/07/28/us-history-images/ I love old postcards. Not just because of the variety of art work on the front, but also because of the little treasures of text on the back. I love looking at what people have written, seeing where the cards were postmarked, where they traveled to. ... http://artful-journey.com/2008/06/19/vintage-postcards/