I'm in a Treasury!: Up Close and Personal

Many thanks to SimplyInvitingCards for featuring my Star calligraphy in their treasury!

Every item in this list shows off some of Etsy's best macro shots. You know that funny little flower icon in your digital camera? Yeah that one. Flowers and cloth are great ways of practicing with your macro feature. If you get really good you can take macro shots of bugs and other little things that scuttle about in the world. Thanks again SimplyInvitingCards!

Click here to visit the 'Up Close and Personal' treasury by SimplyInvitingCards

I'm in Treasuries!

Seriously, this is an overwhelming amount of love to discover while I was out this long Memorial Day weekend. I honestly don't know where to begin thanking everyone for adding my work to Etsy's Treasury East galleries.

What makes Treasury East different from the (defunct) West and Main? First, Treasury East is permanent. Second, you can create however many galleries you want. What stays the same? Etsy IT system ninja administrators will determine what's hot by clicks, comments, and if it's been linked to other websites.

Thank you thank you thank you for the support and love! <3

Click here to visit 'Gorgeous Greens from the Handmade Highway' by bprdesigns


Click here to visit 'Fine Writing' by ericadaley


Click here to visit 'Things that are yellow for no reason' by CarolynsCollection


Click here to visit 'Romance is Golden' by Analiese

I'm in a Treasury!

Thank you pastelpetals for featuring my 'Star - Hoshi' calligraphy in your treasury. I'm honored to be your influence in making this lovely themed collection. Check out her shop when you can. She has absolutely beautiful jewelry.

Everything Japanese by pastelpetals

Gettin Crafty and some AudioPal Fun

Doing my best right now to keep away from the heatwave that has struck the San Francisco Bay Area. So what am I doing?

I'm making bookmarks to give away as samples for The Little Black Box. It's a fun deal if you live in the U.S. Pay $17 and you'll receive a box filled with random goodies and samples. Sometimes it's food, sometimes jewelry, and just maybe you'll get my bookmarks. What fun!

So why bookmarks? I wanted a way to show off my calligraphy, my handmade paper, and a little bit of my crafty side at the same time. I kept a small size in mind as well, since my sample will be mixed in with other samples of an unknown quantity. I may be ambitious but I'm not greedy.

Materials:

Pre-cut bookmarks

Chagami goofs - The papers were too thick or too thin for me to sell, but I couldn't bear to get rid of them.

Hole punch (.25" round)

Tacky Glue

Scissors

Hemp string

Wooden beads

Pre-filled Japanese calligraphy brush - Traditional sumi (ink) bled through my test bookmark. I liked the way the pre-filled brush moved on the bookmark surface.

Sakura Pigma Pen (Graphic 1 size)

My hanko (a seal or 'chop')

It's a simple, easy way to let someone check out my range and creativity. If I get positive reviews for this I'll invest more time and sell these on my Etsy shop.

Moving on to some AudioPal fun. Thanks to The Paper Element for showing this off. Cookies to the person that gets the reference! =D

I'm in an Coffee Table Artbook!

It's Friday night and I'm very happy to be home. Why? Because I just learned that on of my art pieces was accepted into an art book! Hooray!

The SomethingAwful forums have a (deservingly) bad reputation on the Internet, but it's not all snarky bad apples. A very talented forum member decided to do the impossible and publish a Goon Art Book. There was a one month deadline for submissions and I made the cut!

The theme of the book was 'space'. It could be outer space, the space between two objects, or just spacing out.

Here is the art I submitted. It's the character for 'star' (hoshi) done in tensho ('seal script' style) of Japanese calligraphy. Tensho is considered the oldest known writing Chinese writing systems. The character hoshi is everywhere for traditional Japanese outer space vocabulary, from constellations to planets and even galaxies.

You can download the book for free at http://www.artgoons.com

(I'm on page 31-32 on the low-res version, 61-62 on the high-res btw.)

If you like what you see, you'll be able to purchase this book for $35 + S&H (estimated price and not finalized). It's a fantastic book filled with wonderful art from a whole slew of artistic styles. I'm sure there'll be something for everyone, plus you're only paying for the cost to print the book. The artists nor the book organizer is profiting. I'll be posting purchasing information when it becomes available