Text in art

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We’ve been pouring over @toonjoosen’s collage creations! 🤍 #youcreativemedia #collagedesign #collagemaker #typography #layoutdesign #craft

If you love altered books and working with type you should check out Lisa Kokin’s site. One of my favorite pieces is this page that cuts out words so that you can see part of a photo behind i…

“The Dreamweaver is a little man with grey hair and a long beard…” A brilliant and beautiful book design from Nina Jua Klein. Link: The Dreamweaver Via: The Letter

I finally took the plunge and decided to fully dissolve the embroidered text piece I made for Art in the Woods. Carefully trying to wash away the residue in the bath and tease apart the tangled words met with varying degrees of success. But certainly worth doing to record the stages of disintegration. The disintegration of the text into something illegible has a sense of fragility to it; making and unmaking, allowing something to be undone. It reminds me of the idea of wabi sabi.

Well its back to school time, and in preperation for class I began looking up the topic of identity. This is one of the areas that my senior students must complete. I came accross this site and not only did it provide good ideas on identity projects, it provided many other ideas for art class, it is well worth a look. http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/studentartprojects/index.html#. Have any of you run a scheme of work on identity, if so please share…

Writing the same word over and over again can create something beautiful ✨🗣 #words #art #drawing