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Craftside authors at Squam Art Fair this Friday, classes and links

Craftside is proud to be a part of this Fall's Squam Art Fair.  

Craftside will have a table with many books for sale, including signed copies of Painted Pages: New Ways of Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

and

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist by Alena Hennessy.

Sarah and Alena are both teaching at this fall session. http://www.squamartworkshops.com/fall-2012 (you can find descriptions of their classes at this link).

And they will both have tables at Squam Art Fair.

http://www.squamartworkshops.com/ 

Alena's online workshop info is also available at the Squam website.

Of course, everyone attending the fall session of Squam Art Workshops will receive a Craftside journal!

Craftside will also be featuring these books at the Squam Art Fair Saturday night:

Knot Thread Stitch:
Exploring Creativity through Embroidery and Mixed Media,

Daring Adventures in Paint:
Find Your Flow, Trust Your Path, and Discover Your Authentic Voice-Techniques for Painting, Sketching, and Mixed Media

by

Mati Rose McDonough

Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!
Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style

by

Flora S. Bowley

The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World

by

Gabriel Campanario

Shake, Stir, Pour-Fresh Homegrown Cocktails:
Make Syrups, Mixers, Infused Spirits, and Bitters with Farm-Fresh Ingredients-50 Original Recipes

by

Katie Loeb

Bountiful Baby Purees
Create Nutritious Meals for Your Baby with Wholesome Purees Your Little One Will Adore-Includes Bonus Recipes for Turning Extra Puree Into Delicious Meals Your Toddler, Kids, and Whole Family Will Love

by

Anni Daulter

Vegan Food Gifts
More Than 100 Inspired Recipes for Homemade Baked Goods, Preserves, and Other Edible Gifts Everyone Will Love

by

Joni Marie Newman

The Best Veggie Burgers on the Planet
101 Globally Inspired Vegan Creations Packed with Fresh Flavors and Exciting New Tastes

by

Joni Marie Newman

Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day!
Revolutionary New Takes on Everyone's Favorite Anytime Meal

by

Tamasin Noyes

and

Celine Steen

The Joy of Foraging:

Gary Lincoff's Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying a World of Wild Food

by

Gary Lincoff

and more!

Now onto crafty links:

Eileen - The Artful Crafter
Wood and copper combine for a casual blue jeans themed bracelet. Instructions included.

Mixed Media Artist
Cut out felt circles...check! Stitch together...check! Add a button on a wire...check! Smile and share your felt flowers with your friends!

Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi has been expermenting with t-shirt fabric all week. Who knew it could be used like yarn?

Cherie Burbach
Cherie makes a glass sculpture using candy dishes, ashtrays, and a tea light holder.

Crafty Princess Diaries
The Crafty Princess is giving away a book about chain jewelry this month. Enter for your chance to win.

RockPaperInk.com

Sister Raye: Fight the Power

   

Craftside at Squam this weekend

Craftside will have a table at Squam Art Workshop's Art Fair on June 9th, 2012 from 7:30-10:00 PM on Squam Lake in New Hampshire.

We will have a special guest, Alena Hennessy, signing copies of her hot-off-the-press new book:

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist

 

Everyone attending Squam will be getting a Craftside Journal in their goody bag, and some of our books will be raffled off at the Art Fair on Saturday night!

Craftside will have many craft and cookbooks for sale at Squam, including:

Daring Adventures in Paint:
Find Your Flow, Trust Your Path, and Discover Your Authentic Voice-Techniques for Painting, Sketching, and Mixed Media

by

Mati Rose McDonough

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Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!
Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style

by

Flora S. Bowley

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Painted Pages:
Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media

by

Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

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Creative Pilgrimage:
An Exploration of Artful Gatherings and Discovery of Innovative Art Techniques

by

Jenny Doh

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Art Lab for Kids:
52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages

by

Susan Schwake

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Shake, Stir, Pour-Fresh Homegrown Cocktails:
Make Syrups, Mixers, Infused Spirits, and Bitters with Farm-Fresh Ingredients-50 Original Recipes

by

Katie Loeb

Foreword by:

Jose Garces

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Knot Thread Stitch:
Exploring Creativity through Embroidery and Mixed Media

by

Lisa Solomon

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The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting

by

Margaret Hubert

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Knitting Socks from Around the World

Editor: Kari Cornell

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Real Food Fermentation:
Preserving Whole Fresh Food with Live Cultures in Your Home Kitchen

by

Alex Lewin

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Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats:
Cut Out the Gluten and Enjoy an Even Healthier Vegan Diet with Recipes for Fabulous, Allergy-Free Fare

by

Allyson Kramer

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The Vegan Slow Cooker:
Simply Set It and Go with 150 Recipes for Intensely Flavorful, Fuss-Free Fare Everyone (Vegan or Not!) Will Devour

by

Kathy Hester

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Extreme Brewing, A Deluxe Edition with 14 New Homebrew Recipes:
An Introduction to Brewing Craft Beer at Home

by

Sam Calagione

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The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet:
Know What Goes Into Every Bite with More Than 200 of the Most Deliciously Nutritious Homemade Baby Food Recipes-Includes More Than 60 Purees Your Baby Will Love

by

Karin Knight

and

Tina Ruggiero

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More about the new Quarry book:

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist

by

Alena Hennessy

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multifaceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward.

Alena Hennessy is an artist who has long been fascinated with nature and the outdoors. After art school, Alena did an independent study in Florence, Italy, where she began to get down to what she loved in art and in life: simplicity, stillness and a sense of little things relating to one another, all peaceful and quiet. Since that time, Alena focuses on what she loves best, making art and thoughtfully designed products available to people everywhere, everyday. She has created custom art and designs for Target, Urban Outfitters, ABC Studios, Galison/Mudpuppy, Papyrus, Lark & Loon, and the City of Chapel Hill, among others. Visit her online at http://www.alenahennessy.com.

 

Craftside at vendor night at Squam Art Workshops and Maker Faire New York

I want to tell you about two fabulous events coming up that you can meet Team Craftside (comprised of those of us who are committed to spreading the crafty word and the authors that write amazing books)!

First up is this weekend:

Vendor Night Fair at SQUAM ART WORKSHOPS, Rockywold-Deephaven, Holderness NH

Saturday, September 17th at 7:30pm

Sarah Ahearn Bellemare will be there signing Painted Pages: New Ways of Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media.

There will also be signed copies of Misty Mawn's Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art for sale.

Lots of other books too!

All the books will be 25% off!

Directions to the Vendor Night at Squam Art Workshops:
http://www.squamartworkshops.com/directions.php

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Next, I want to give you the heads up about one of my all time favorite events...

MAKER FAIRE NEW YORK

Saturday, September 17th from 10am-7pm

and

Sunday, September 18th from 10am-6pm

At the

New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368-2950
718-699-0005
Located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Come by our booth and get yourself a free MakeReady Journal!

These are blank journals made out of the recycled print run ends when the printer is setting up to print the books. These ones are made from when Unfurling was printed!

We will also be hosting a free Make and Take - come by and make a measuring tape and button bracelet!

 

Can't make it to NYC and still want to see how to make a measuring tape and button bracelet? Pop on over to this Craftside how-to post.

How to display your creative inspiration on a wall with guest artist Shanna Murray

Today's inside peek is from the book Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media. It features a bit about Shanna Murray and her design process, sharing how she likes to collect and display her materials.

Click on this page from Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media to enlarge and read how she designs her work.

More about:

Painted Pages:

Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media

by

Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

This book shows how to use an artist's sketchbook in a new way. Instead of the "classic" idea of an artist sketching in a sketchbook, the author shows how to use sketchbooks as a daily working tool. While they begin as a place to collect ideas and inspirations, readers learn how those collections, scraps, ideas, and doodles can lead directly to, and fuel ideas for future mixed media paintings. Specific how to's, techniques, creative prompts, and project ideas are introduced in each chapter to guide the reader through creating individual works of art which launch from a variety of themes. 

Each chapter includes an interview with well-known artists and bloggers who will share a peek into their sketchbooks and journals and readers will learn how they stay inspired and creative.

This is an inspiring and fresh collection of photographs, ideas, and projects that the reader can use on their own to create their own sketchbooks and mixed media works of art whether they are a seasoned artist or someone just starting out on their creative journey. 

Sarah Ahearn Bellemare is an artist from New England who first began painting as a way to illustrate poetry. Her mixed media paintings are layered with found images, fragments of text from old books, and pieces of vintage maps. These ephemera become the fabric and focus of many of her whimsical paintings. Sarah has taught art to many students in a variety of settings ranging from art camps to museums, teaching students age 3 to 63. Most recently, Sarah was invited to teach her mixed media techniques at Squam Art Workshops, and is thrilled to be returning for two more sessions in the fall of 2011.

Sarah and her work have been featured in Somerset Studios (March/April 2011), Cloth Paper Scissors magazine (Nov/Dec 2008), Artful Blogging (Winter 09/10), Cloth Paper Scissors: Studios (Fall 2008), and Memory Makers magazine (Spring 2009), as well as on a number of prominent art and design blogs. She regularly exhibits her paintings throughout Northeast in galleries and art fairs, as well as online in her Etsy shop. Sarah can be found making messes in her studio on a daily basis. See what she's up to in art and life by following her blog: http://www.sarahearn.blogspot.com.

If this is a topic you would like to explore in-person with Sarah, pop on over to the Squam Art Workshops website to read more and see the upcoming schedule.

And if you want to see an inside peek into Painted Pages that features a tutorial on how to make mini art colleges check out this post.

Monday Crafty Links, Squam Art Workshops 2011 Registration Info, and Call For Entries

Registration for both the June and September 2011 Squam Art Workshops is now open! It's never too early to start planning your creative endeavors for the year!
www.SquamArtWorkshops.com

Along with lots of other fabulous instructors, Sarah Ahearn Bellemare (author of the May 2011 Quarry title PAINTED PAGES) is teaching two different classes during the Fall session.

Sarah Ahearn Bellemare Squam Workshop Info: Click here

This tablescape of pencils etc. is a pic my coworker Mary A. took during Sarah's Fall 2010 SKETCHBOOK EXPLORATIONS class. The first few minutes of class were spent on a lakeside screened-in porch, and then we took our supplies and sketchbooks outdoors!

Here is a photo that Mary A. took in September 2010 of the very talented Mary Lawrence's glorious Craftside Journal! Mary's a fellow attendee who'd spent the year in between SAW 2009 and SAW 2010 really putting her journal to good use. She was so excited to show it to Mary A.!

And here is one final photo Mary A. sent to me of just about one of my all time favorite things: a cairn!

It never fails to amaze me how a pile of rocks always looks so cool.

In the next bit of news:

 2 NEW ROCKPORT CALLS FOR ENTRIES!
 
The Best of Business Card Design 10
AND
Design Elements,
Choosing +Using Type

Rockport Publishers
The Best of Business Card Design 10
Get published!
 
In the global marketplace, the business card continues to be one of the most popular and internationally accepted forms of communication and self-promotion, and designers are perpetually pushing the limits with their designs. With unique materials and printing processes, illustration, and complex diecuts, they are able to create lasting pieces that recipients want to keep for their sheer beauty and ingenuity. Rockport Publishers would like to celebrate your winning graphic design in this showcase curated/designed by Funnel : Eric Kass.

Send your most innovative business cards for consideration. Selected pieces will be featured in The Best of Business Card Design 10, a full-color book brimming with great design. Slated for publication in the spring of 2012, this volume will present creative, top-notch business card designs created for clients large and small.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 3.1.11

For more information and how to submit please go to:

http://www.quaysidepub.com/entries.php
Design Elements, Choosing + Using Type
Rockport Publishers would like to publish your best, most innovative typographic work ranging from classic to expressive applications in all media in the upcoming book, Design Elements, Choosing + Using Type. Select projects will be presented in this full-color, 160-page publication to be released in spring 2012 and curated by Kristin Cullen.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 2.25.11


For more information and how to submit please go to:

http://www.quaysidepub.com/entries.php

 
ABOUT THE SPONSOR
 
Rockport Publishers specializes in books for design professionals. Our publishing program includes graphic design, interior design, crafts, architecture, product design, and general reference. Rockport Publishers' worldwide book distribution offers designers the opportunity to show their work in an international forum. Please visit our website at www.rockpub.com.

Craftastic link-olas!

The Artful Crafter
Come one, come all! See The Artful Crafter Parade of Valentine Crafts.

Mixed Media Artist
There are lots of products that will give a translucent finish to paper. Cyndi experiments to see which ones work the best!

Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter
Madge shares basic beading techniques in this week's video on demand for JTV's Jewel School!

Cross Stitch at About.com
Join in the Cross Stitch Forum SAT, SWAT and don't forget about the January Forum Challenge and the Duh One Challenge. Learn about these opportunities and other stitchy wonderfulness going on on Connie's site.

Crafty Princess Diaries
Tammy is duckie over some baby yarn she's using for a new baby afghan.

Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi tests glitter in a spray format to create beautiful sparkly cards.

Aileen's Musings
Aileen shows you how to make a glittery crown any birthday Queen would be proud to wear!

About Family Crafts
If you can't beat winter, celebrate it everyday with these simple crafts and activities!