Continuing with my building stuff, I was able to contact Paul Overton of DudeCraft again and get him to sit down with me AGAIN. This time with sound.  I hope to have that interview and many others up this week if Dream Host will sit still long enough to allow that.  Anyway, what I’ve been building are these really cool sketchbenches.  If you’ve never seen one before, they are GREAT for life drawing or studio sketching.  You straddle the bench and use the high back to rest your sketchpad against.  It provides a great support  for your work and a comfortable way to work.  However, when the day is done and it’s time to put them away, they are VERY cumbersome.  They don’t stack well and take a LOT of space.  Not good for most of us with limited studio area to begin with.

I began looking at ways to modify this from the very first time I used one.  I wanted to figure out how I could carry one of these on the back of the bike.  When I quit going to figure drawing in Oklahoma City, I put this idea on the back burner.  However, since we’re trying to get a new studio off the ground in Chickasha, I thought of them again for our membership during figure drawing sessions.  Then I began to think about how I would store them.  That’s when I decided to make them collapsible.

I also made a video demonstration that you can watch on The YouTube or in the embedded player below:

While I was out of town several weeks ago, I had to broadcast The Artistic Biker Live! from a motel room.  During that show I had a brief interview with Paula Phillips, a.k.a. @Journalartista.  Paula has a HUGE following on You Tube because of her wonderful instructional videos demonstrating various tools and techniques for scrapbooking and art journaling.  Be sure and check out her blog Messy Mind Creative Soul and her You Tube channel.  You can also catch her Ustream broadcast on Wednesday evenings from 8-10p c at http://www.ustreamtv.com/channel/Journalartista.

Below is the interview in both video and mp3 format.  I will need to speak with her again sometime when we don’t have so many connectivity issues.

It’s so funny to me that I have to annotate the title with “2010”!  This week marks the one year anniversary of the You Tube videos.  Since I already have an Art Journal for Halloween entry, well… you get the picture.

This week’s page took a cue from Paul Overton of Dudecraft.com.  He posted a tutorial many moons ago on how to paint bricks.  If you’re not familiar with Dudecraft.com, Paul reviews web pages and videos every day to bring us some of the neatest art from simple architecture using a freight car to kinetic sculpture, to 1000 foot tall murals.  OK, I’m not so sure about the 1000 feet, but if there were something like that, you can bet you’d find out about it on Dudecraft.com.

Paul’s site is also the inspiration for the moving parts of this week’s journal entry.  If you pull on Jack’s shoulder, he will lift off his head.  And what spooky chamber would be complete without a secret passage?  Move the torch and the spooky door opens!  So, Happy Halloween and enjoy the carb crash for the next week or so.

You can watch the video at the You Tube, or just watch it in the embedded player below:

Blade’s Coffee Sharpies:

It has been a looooong time since I have released a podcast.  I intend to start publishing one a day until I am caught up with all the ones in reserve.  Then you’ll get them weekly on Sunday mornings.  They will be 20-30 in length so you can relax with a pot of coffee and catch up with some of your favorite artists from around the web.

If you or someone you know would like to chat with me on Blade’s Coffee Sharpies, shoot me an email with Blade’s Coffee Sharpies as the subject to blade@artisticbiker.com.

In this video, I turn control over to @PoeticDreams as she administers a little “Poe Pressure”.  If you’re not familiar, when you agree to submit to Poe Pressure, she watches what you do and looks for your comfort areas.  Then she designs a page to obliterate them.  She caught on quickly that I don’t collage much and that I normally spend quite a bit on the composition.  She had me close my eyes and glue stuff to the page and THEN try to work it into something.  Quite a challenge!

If you haven’t signed up for 21 Secrets yet, DO IT NOW! Wholly Goodness there is so much really cool stuff going on over there from 21 different artists giving 21 different workshops.  I even did a class on Spattering.  Not only do I believe it is an amazing group of workshops and an amazing value, but I also get paid if you CLICK HERE AND BUY IT NOW! :)

You can watch this week’s video over at The You Tube, or just watch it in the embedded player below:

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Posted by mobile phone:
I hate to do this but I have to cancel tonight due to the weather. I sincerely hope this IA the last time I have to do this, but my current studio floods when it rains.

The new studio has been approved for electricity and that should be turned on in the next few days. I’ve also ordered DSL and that should be on soon as well. I hope that means the show will be from there from now on. :-)

Since I obviously can’t do the drawing tonight, leave a comment below for ANOTHER chance to win the sunflower painting when I give it away next week.

Thank you so much for your continued support and understanding during this frustration.

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