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What art do you make?

I was making mosaics for the longest time. I would mozaic wig heads,son's 1st boots,wood and mirrors. I did paintings. Now i want to make my clay tools and start working with clay.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Machaj on July 23, 2008 at 9:49am: I make artist trading cards, but other than that, I guess I am more crafty than arty. Maybe I should make a crafty group? I sew. I like to use/recycle things I find in the thrift store. Pillowcases make great kids pants or skirts or dresses or bags or aprons...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melissa on July 23, 2008 at 6:22pm: I draw, paint, play music...but right now I mostly weave, and make things from the woven cloth.

I make scarves and scarflettes (alongside my eldest dd, lucia 21y), tops and skirts, and right now I am dreaming about felting our handwovens and making little sculptured objects...dunno, mushrooms, animals, people...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melissa on July 23, 2008 at 6:25pm: i adore recycling, or "upcycling" things. I find this to be a very creative act!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Hubbard on July 23, 2008 at 10:27pm: I mostly make quilts. I paint pictures out of pieces of fabric. I also like to make faries out of silk flowers and occasionally I paint and dye fabric, but not often and I like do collage. I've been doing a lot of collage lately with my husband and kids.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cally Brown on July 24, 2008 at 1:48am: I dabble in mosaics, knitting, fabric stuff, but mostly I make books. Next project is a wedding album for one of my oldest friends.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by laura b on July 24, 2008 at 7:16am: i like to dabble in a lot of different mediums. my heart wants to one day get back to doing welded metal sculpture and bronze casting...one day one day.

i like to do illustration with colored pencil and chalks, a little painting sometimes, jewelry making, cork knitting and sometimes "real" knitting, i am getting ready to make some glass pendant necklaces using my illustrations.

i have often had trouble with calling myself an artist. i tend towards just thinking of myself as a person who likes to make things.

i find that i am always being pulled in many creative directions. like i can't stick with one thing long enough to really master it!! artistic ADD!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Heather on July 26, 2008 at 9:17am: I'm a bit off of art at the moment. But I've been really into knitting and sewing the last couple of years. I started embroidering awhile back but haven't done much of anything in the ::visual:: arts in a bit. I always get like this in the summer.

But I've been writing songs, natch. And I think that counts.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Hubbard on July 26, 2008 at 10:03am: It's all art. Living is artful if you feel creative in the way you do it... and writing songs is one of the oldest forms of creation there is.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by cris on July 28, 2008 at 12:03pm: I'm definitely more crafty than artsy. I sew stuff, mostly garments right now, and I think at least some of it can qualify as "art-to-wear". quilts sometimes. a while back I participated in one of imaginationtribe's atc exchanges with batik quilted cards. I also do lots of crochet esp. in winter, and dabble in beaded jewelry, tie-dye, wreathmaking. A very long time ago (in college) I was determined to make pottery for a living. I was pretty good at it, but then I had a kid, and the budget for a pottery studio paid for the homebirth. ;) I miss it, but I'm just as passionate about sewing now.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katherine on July 29, 2008 at 9:03pm: Mostly I like painting, and in college I dabbled in lots of things I'd like to do more with *someday* ---that time in the magical future. Working with clay and anything 3D is something I adore... metals.. for some reason sawing that stuff is strangely relaxing, wood carving.. I have been dying to get into that for some time with white oak -- it just carves so well it's crazy. Jewelry making or just anything that puts all kinds of media together in a way that looks useful but doesn't have to be. I have a metal thing I made with a hinge that has steps in it. It has zero utility except for meditation maybe.

That's another thing. I like to make little shrines that don't look like obvious shrines. Miniatures of any kind are another favorite.

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Permalink Reply by laura b on July 31, 2008 at 11:07am: oh those are really cool, thanks for sharing. i have always loved coloring. i love to make a design and then use a sharpie to draw the lines nice and dark like a coloring book and then go at it with colored pencils or something else. it's so relaxing to just fill in those spaces with color.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Hubbard on August 1, 2008 at 3:24pm: sometimes we pick those up and all 4 of us end up in the floor coloring them together. Coloring is super fun!; ▶ Reply to This