Tuesday, April 5th 7:00 p.m. Central http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lindaisrael
Spend an hour with Linda, chat & watch as she shows you how to use metal tape to make wearable art Jewelry Metal Tag.
She will use: Metal Tape, stamps, alcohol ink and a few other supplies. Come join the show, laugh and learn with Linda.
One Hundred and One Legends of Flowers
by Elizabeth Todd Nash
The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, USA 1927
I chose this story to remind us that the cold winter is only a season and that season will end. Soon we will be enjoying a beautiful Spring.
There was an old Indian chief who lived all alone in the Northland. He was very, very old, could hunt no more. He was bent over and his hair was as white as snow and hung like long icicles almost to his shoulders, but his eyes were still bright and glowed, and his voice strong, almost a roar. As he was alone in his hut – a beautiful Indian maiden appeared – her eyes were large and soft, her hair jet black, very long and heavy, in it she wore a wreath of pink blossoms.
Her dress was of sweet grasses. She carried a bunch of pussy willows in her arms, her moccasins were made of flowers and the air became soft and fragrant. The cold wind which had been roaring about the hut went off into the forest. The old chief said “Who are you and whence came you?” She answered “I am the Spring Monitiou and I come from far away in the Southland where the flowers bloom all the time, where the skies are blue, the grass green and the birds and butterflies know no winter, the air is always soft and sweet. I like not your cold weather.” “I am the Winter Monitiou,” the old man said. “I love the Northland, the diamond icicles, the frozen torrents, the soft white snow, the great silence, unless I speak.” “But you have had your reign, you are old, you must rest while I rule in your place” the maiden said.
“No-No-o-o-o No-oo-oo-No” roared the old man. “I will not go. I rule this Northland, with my breath I chill rivers and streams so they lie still. The trees sleep.”
“But when I blow gently” the maiden replied, “the water runs, the trees and flowers wake up.”
“I have the power to shake my white locks and the earth becomes hard as a rock and snow covers the land, and all green things die.”
“When I shake my black locks,” the ma
iden laughingly said, “the raindrops glisten, the earth becomes soft, the seeds stir, then the sunlight comes and warms the flowers as they waken, the birds and flowers sing “spring is here – Spring is here.” As she murmured the refrain softly the old chief Winter became more and more drowsy, his head drooped upon his breast, his strength failed, he could no longer send out his icy breath. He began to grow smaller and smaller as the sun became warmer and warmer, the snow melted from around the hut and the pine trees. Finally his white hair turned into water and he sank upon the ground. His robe turned into leaves and covered him.
The maiden turned to say “Farewell” but he was gone, then she took the flowers from her hair and laid them upon the ground under the green leaves and said “These flowers I will leave to tell the earth children that Father Winter has gone and Spring has come.”
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lindaisrael
Tired of having junk mail & magazines lying around?
Wish you knew what to do with all those paper sacks from the grocery store?
Spend an hour with Linda and she will show you how to make a handmade Journal using those, and other “useless” items found in your home.
Come hang out with Linda and laugh while you learn.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:00 p.m. Central Time US
The video of the show:
This is a review of the software: http://www.webcammax.com/
A friend referred me to WebcamMax because I wanted the ability to have picture with in picture when I created videos or did live streaming.
I downloaded WebcamMax without any issues. The software instructions for the download were very easy and both of my web cameras were listed in the software once it completed the installation. In fact I have purchased another camera and I was able to run three web cameras at the same time with the picture in picture feature. This will be very handy as I am an artist and I want to be able to show different angles when I am working with my materials so that people can learn how to create what ever project I’m showing them.
There are a lot of features that come with WebcamMax. I like the Mirror effect because It will show my hands the way that I am working instead of reversing my hands which could be confusing if I say my left hand but it looks like my right hand is moving on the camera.
The Magic features that WebcamMax offers can be fun if you like to play with effects. Like giving yourself a big head! lol. but there are also some cool effects that allow an artistic side to come into play while working with your camera shots.
I was going through all of the features and found doodling and I thought that would be a good thing to have if you were wanting to illustrate something that was on the screen. You could draw a box around something. There are so many options that I know it will take me a very long time just to figure out all the cool things it could do for me!
The Effect Template is very handy. I was wondering how I could make it easier to swap back and forth between camera shots with out having to press a lot of buttons. Well when I set up the cameras the way I want it I save the Effect template and give it a name. Then redesign the setup for a new design. Maybe I want to have picture in picture with my hands and one of my face. Save that then the next one might be two angles of my hands I could save that as a different template. Then swapping templates would be easier than trying to set up the screen again.
I’m glad that my friend told me about WebcamMax! I can see that this will be a tool that I will use a lot. If you plan to use any type of video in your work get this software, I think I’m going to love it a lot!
Linda
The challenge for this ATC was to use something that we “found”. I was lucky, one day while walking to my truck I looked down and found a hoop earring on the ground. I picked up the earring and decided that I would keep it to use later.
The first thing that I did was use my silver leaf paint pen to paint the earring silver. It had been a nice shinny silver at one time, but since the earring must have been outside for a long time, it was worn and tarnished.
I found some awesome paper from K & Company and use that as my foundation 2.5 by 3.5 inch card.
Love was stamped in black Stazon ink and then punched with my McGill label punch. I used a little Distressed ink around the edges and my glitter gel pen to finish the look of the word Love.
I found the lock and key charms in my stash and added jump rings so that these could hang from the earring. The earring was glued to the paper using Glossy Accents from Ranger Inks, as well as the rhinestones.
The green heart is a metal heart. The metal is from an aluminum soda can, I cut the shape, emboss the metal and then painted this green. The heart was mounted using pop dots or also known as 3D dots.
Next time you walk by something that you think is trash on the ground, stop and pick up the item. You never know when something just might become a treasured art piece.
Have you ever made art from something that you “found”? If so tell me about what you found and what you made with the item.
Thanks for stopping by and reading.
Blessings
Linda