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Follow Me on Instagram—During the Hiatus, the Interim, and Beyond
Yes I’ve been posting on Instagram. You can find me there under “rozstendahl.” You can also go to the top of my blog and click on the Instagram logo in the top right; or go to the bottom panel that’s on every page of my blog, then click on the Instagram logo on the top […]
Project Friday: How To Deal with Crappy Days in Your Visual Journal
Here’s a question I’m asked frequently: How do you deal with crappy days in your journal? Not long ago a student explained to me that when she kept a written journal she would often write about the stress and frustration in that journal, but then never look back at it. She felt that her visual […]
At Least I Wasn’t Abducted By Aliens: Keeping Your Sense of Humor and Productivity
Note: This blog post was originally set to run during the second week of January but technical issues with the blog delayed it. This version was edited for publication today. Anyone who bothered to stop by or call me from October through January this year knew things were tough. I was beyond grumpy because of […]
30 Pages/30 Days—A New Sktchy Challenge Starting March 1, 2018
I’m very excited to tell you about a new Sktchy Challenge starting March 1, 2018: 30 Pages/30Days. It’s an Art Journaling challenge. I’ve been asked to be one of the featured artists. I’ll even be live-streaming the creation of a journal page on March 13! Click here to register. What is Sktchy? Well, if you’ve […]
In Context: A Piecemeal Portrait of a Dog
Sometimes when I don’t like the paper in a journal I’m working in (here a Zeta Smooth, heavyweight journal from Stillman & Birn) I will sketch on Post-it Notes™ Sometimes I save those bits of paper and make a piecemeal portrait. (See the category list for additional piecemeal portraits.) See my four part review on […]
In Context: Just Got To Sketch
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A Little Bit of Piecemeal Evolution: Dog Portrait
The other day I was working on a dog sketch from an image on Sktchy. I ran off the page with my green brush pen sketch and of course turned it into a “Piecemeal Style” painting, complete with washi tape and of course finished off with gouache. I didn’t think about taking photos at each […]
In Context—Grumpy Roz
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I Can’t Resist a Cute Dog
I’ve never been able to resist cute dogs. (I have a very broad definition of what constitutes cute—just ask my friends who go on walks with me and put up with my frequent stops to chat up dogs.) I thought you might enjoy this cute dog experiment. I selected an image from Sktchy because I […]
Wrapping Up My 2017 International Fake Journal
Today I’ve got a gallery of images created in April for 2017 International Fake Journal Month. (Don’t know what IFJM is? Or what fake journal is? Click on the link.) This year’s journal was a loose sheet journal. All the sketch pages were 6-3/16 x 9.25 inches. In keeping with my goal of using what I […]