#artist advice
Here is a brief thing I did.
I normally never used the default buttons on the pen and usually disable them. After using a cintiq companion with limited button mapping and no keyboard i realized i had no proper way to adjust my pen size.
I changed the buttons on the pen to increase and decrease pen size.
Not sure if anyone else does this but I think its a good tip.
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How to draw: Not white characters
How to colour Black people skin tones
How to colour darker skin tones with alcohol markers
How to draw hijabs/traditional Muslim hair coverings
All links and art provided by @ itsajart on TikTok
Before you go “mY aRt sTyLe iS dIfFrEnT tHoUgH” you can moderate it and play around with your style to get it to fit.
also some tumblr/instagram posts, if it’s okay to add:
drawing black people (instagram–the rest are tumblr posts)- color,naturally kinky/curly hair,protective hairstyles
more tips on drawing black hair
drawing asian people (goes over east, southeast, south asians–LOTS of good resources and tips in the notes from my knowledge)
drawing north american indigenous people (no images, just a textpost, but by an inupiaq person)
Our monthly Patreon Livestream is a little late but now that the hot weather has calmed down we are going live TONIGHT at 7PM Berlin time! We will be talking about making a living as an independent artist. We’d love it if you’d come along!
You can find the link on my Patreon HERE, it’s exclusive for all the kind folks that support my work!
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Supply spotlight! My White Nights watercolors are my favorite watercolors to work with. I have created so many portraits with these paints. They are vibrant, smooth, blend beautiful, and aren’t super expensive for professional quality paints.
CALL TO ARTISTS
ColabCollage
Deadline: Tuesday, 10 May 2022 (residents of Europe only). Brazilian-Swiss collagist Ana Barros’ idea for World Collage Day 2022 is to create together! Ana will start a collage on an A6 sheet (148x105mm) and mail it to the participants to finish it. Participants have until Tuesday, 10 May 2022 to complete it and send her a photo (or scanned image). Ana will put all the artworks together and prepare a video with them to celebrate World Collage Day. For logistical reasons, Ana can only mail starter collages to residents of Europe. A digital starter collage will be made available for non-Europeans to take part. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - LAKE FOREST PARK, WASHINGTON, USA
World Collage Day at ShoreLake Arts Gallery
14 May 2022, Noon-3PM PDT | Shorelake Arts Gallery | 17171 Bothell Way NE. Bring your scissors and join Andrea Lewicki, The Sewing Collage Artist, for a collaborative collage party celebrating World Collage Day! Together we will collage flowers that will later be sewn together to create a community garden mural. Glue sticks and paper will be available as long as supplies last. You are welcome to bring a magazine or collage materials to share. Lewicki will provide examples and templates. No previous collage experience is needed to participate in this free event! MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Joyful, Whimsical & Dark
Winscombe, North Somerset, United Kingdom. Ros Cuthbert embraces joyful, whimsical and dark imagery. Musical, theatrical, ecological, socio-political and personal themes permeate her work. Cuthbert has worked with a variety of materials and for the past few years has explored collage with paint and graphic media. The colored or printed pieces offer a visual conversation between design and meaning which can allow the image to develop in surprising ways. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA
CUTTING EDGE Collage-a-Rama Exhibition Artist Talk on-line via Zoom
14 May 2022, 11AM PDT | Arc Gallery, online via Zoom | 1246 Folsom Street
Celebrate the art of collage with San Francisco artists during the “CUTTING EDGE” World Collage Day Artist Talk in conjunction with the "CUTTING EDGE" Collage-a-Rama Exhibition in the Project Gallery at Arc. All of the work was made during collage-making sessions at Arc Gallery. Featured artists include Carrington Arredondo, Glenn Bachmann, Johnny Botts, Dianne Hoffman, Priscilla Otani, Barbara Pollak-Lewis, Steve Sweetser, Stephen C. Wagner, and Tanya Wilkinson. The exhibition runs 9 April-7 May 2022 with an opening reception Saturday, 9 April, 7-9PM. Register in advance for the Artist Talk on Zoom. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Corporeal Gestures
at the Portland State University School of Architecture in Portland, Oregon, USA through 29 April 2022. In 2019, collage artist Clive Knights put out an international call for submissions from collage artists, asking them to respond to nine “muses”, characterized as the bodily necessities of breathing, nourishing, sleeping, discharging waste, procreating, resisting the earth’s pull, communicating, aging and dying. The result is an exhibition of work by more than 100 collage artists from twenty-one countries. The work presents a diverse response to the ways in which our actions, rhythms, relationships and shared experience of being alive are both predetermined and made possible by the modicum of matter borrowed from the world that constitutes each of our bodies. The project challenged collage artists to consider how one’s body is activated in the world–acting, gesturing, making–amidst the shared rhythms pertaining to our common, mortal predicament in a single, unfolding cosmos. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - FANØ, DENMARK
World Collage Day Exhibition
14 May-7 June 2022 | Fanø Plejecenter | Sønder Engvej 2. Between 15-20 amateur collage artists will have work on display for this exhibition. The call for artists asked for collage work from artists that had never shown in an exhibition before, giving an opportunity for those that are just beginning their collage journey. Located in the garden of the Care Center, there will be music and drinks. All are welcome. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
The Art of Jean LaMarr
at the Nevada Museum of Art through 29 May 2022. “The Art of Jean LaMarr” is a major retrospective of the work of one the most influential Native American artists practicing today. The exhibition presents more than 100 paintings, prints, and sculptures spanning five decades of the art and activism of Jean LaMarr (b. 1945), whose melding of post-modern eclecticism and Native American motifs and subject matter has affirmed the dignity of Native American women, addressed the legacy of colonialism, and above all sounded a ringing “rejection of the idea of the vanished American Indian.” MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - BOLOGNA, ITALY
Collazine: Artists at Risk Fundraiser
14 May 2022 | Collazine | Online. Wars, pandemics, climate change. The world seems to be an unsafe place to live in today and when we think that the only refuge may be in a better future, we realize that we are already living it, and should navigate it with care. It’s not possible to erase the past, but let’s imagine we have a blank sheet ready to rewrite a new story lived by moments of quiet, optimism and trust. We imagine a different future, but one so close that it can almost be touched. On the occasion of World Collage Day, Collazine will launch a fundraiser in support of Artists at Risk, a non-profit organization that since 2013 has been assisting artists who are politically vulnerable and are fleeing oppression and war in 26 locations, in 19 countries around the world. Artists at Risk hosts persecuted artists, writers, curators, critics and scholars by facilitating their safe passage from their countries of origin, hosting them at Artists at Risk Residencies and curating related projects. On rapso.org, unpublished collages made by ten international artists, inspired by the theme, a prompt to create a candid space in pursuit of a different future, will be made available for purchase. All proceeds will be donated to Artists at Risk. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Reveal What’s Beneath
Brooklyn, New York, USA. Meghan Larimer’s collages are her visual diary, interpretations of thoughts and observations, therapy for her wild range of feelings, and a visualization of the poetic narrative in her head. They vary from whimsical to violent, dreamy and surreal. Inspired by the unintentional collage of New York and other cities, Larimer writes, “The street art and walls tell a story of the transient art that is constantly changing with every tag, poster, and attempt to cover it all up with a fresh coat of paint, only to be peeled away to reveal what’s beneath. I try to replicate this beautiful process in my work.” MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Hello Collage
14 May 2022, Noon-5PM CDT | Palacio de Minería | Calle de Tacuba 5, Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Artifício Postal, the community-facing, workshop-oriented collage practice of Selene Ramírez, is celebrating the ability to meet again on this year’s World Collage Day. Ramírez invites you to join her for a community experience centered around collage. Three events will take place throughout the day. The first event is a collage workshop from Noon-1:30PM. The second event is a meet-up from 2-5PM where artists and enthusiasts can discuss collage and get to know each other. The culminating event is a forum from 3-4PM where the public can get to know the people who are making collage in Mexico City. Each event takes place within the Palacio de Minería, a beautiful historical building located in the center of the city. All events are free and open to the public, however the first two events require registration. To register, send an email to [email protected]. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE RESIDENCY
Poetry & Collage Residency – Round 2
After learning a lot from March’s artists, Kolaj Institute heads back in for another round and we’re excited to announce the next twelve artists selected to participate in the Poetry & Collage Residency. Throughout April, through discussion and collaboration, the participating artists and writers will investigate what is at the intersection of collage and poetry. Their efforts will result in a publication of the work they’ve made throughout the month. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Belles Lettres: Collage in the Age of Covid Exhibition
12-22 May 2022 | Scratch Art Space | 67 Sydenham Road
A group of 10 Sydney-based collage students are showing their work with an exhibition opening on World Collage Day. During the Covid pandemic, Australia closed its borders and experienced one of the harshest lockdowns in the world. During this unique and uncertain time, students of the WEA, Sydney (Workers Educational Association, est. 1913.) were delivered a wonderful online weekly collage class by visual arts teacher, Brendan Vivian Smith. Over these weeks of stay-at-home orders the group created collage with images, materials, and papers that were at hand. The class also provided structure to the week and vital social connection. Collectively the group created new horizons, stories, and imaginings that brought beauty into their lives and kept their world large. This exhibition celebrates that work. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
CALL TO ARTISTS
Create for Ukraine
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 9AM EDT/3PM CEST. Art Therapist Julia Volonts facilitates a three-hour art therapy workshop on Zoom using collage for social action to provide community support, raise funds and further awareness on the war in Ukraine. Donation Fee to Participate: $25 USD. All proceeds will go to the Kyiv Collage Collective. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
Artist Talk: Do you prefer group shows or solo shows?
