Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

actegratuit:

Sandra Chevrier

Beautiful mixed media portraits collaged with comic book pages!

wordsbydan:

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

1. Trinity College Library - University of Dublin
2. University Club Library – New York City
3. Admont Abbey Library – Austria
4. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle
6. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7. Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

Anonymous asked: Hello! This is in connection to your project and I don't know if you've answered this but what do you do if you have artist's block? I hope you have great day :))

Hi there! Unfortunately there’s no definitive ‘cure’ for artist’s block, although I have been doing a lot of helpful reading on the subject lately, through many books/links of which were suggested by my followers- so thank you guys! I have found reading these immensely useful.* 

I’d also to sincerely thank those of you who took a considerable amount of time out of your day to submit in your own thoughts and experiences on the subject. (As I’m currently facing the biggest deadline of my life, I have not had the time to properly thank you all individually or respond messages.)

For me in my own personal slump, it’s been fundamental to hear other folks struggles with block. Sometimes you can feel very isolated by your paralysis, and the loss of satisfaction/pleasure from your art causes a near identity crisis! Previously, opening up to my fellow creative friends felt useless and desperate, as through the envious and clouded eyes of a blocked artist, they seemed to me from all outward appearances to perpetually enjoy the creative process with the care-free ease I had felt only as a child. 

Hearing other people’s stories helped put things in perspective again, and ultimately made me feel less alone. Virtually all artists encounter such moments. The panic-inducing fear that your next project will fail is a normal, recurring and generally healthy part of the artmaking process. And often, even our abandoned ideas can be recycled or help pave the way to our next, more successful concept.

Whilst I can’t provide you with a solid answer, I can give you some advice that helped me:

Don’t wait around for inspiration. If you’re anything like me, you secretly do actually have a few ideas tucked away at all times- but as your own harshest critic, you just lack conviction in this ideas. But your persistence in your art, particularly in the face of adversity, is your measure of faith in yourself.

“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art, and tolerance for uncertainty is the perquisite to succeeding.” - Art & Fear

The risks are obvious and scary, but the rewards can be boundless

* Some of the book suggestions I’ve had:

• Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
• Breakthrough!: 100 Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block and Spark Your Imagination by Alex Cornell
• Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told Me About the Creative Life by Austin Kleon
• Do the Work by Steven Pressfield

bifanoland:

I have a sketchbook zine up for sale! 32 pages of my daily creepings on people. 

In here you will find drawings of some local characters and even a few made up ones!

Only 10.00 bucks! including shipping! (Maybe a few dollars more for international shipping).  Yeah!

You can buy it here! 

Stuff We Really Like

sosuperawesome:

Wind in the Willows, Justin Rowe

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nevver:

now voyager.

Birgit Nass

teachingliteracy:

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truebluemeandyou:

DIY Recycled Book to On the Go Mini Art Studio Tutorial from Crafts Unleashed. Detailed tutorial using lots of glue and staples and some machine sewing (that you could do by hand). For another book to sketch book tutorial go here. For more book clutches go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/diy-book-clutch and for more recycled book DIYs go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/books