FanARTic Magazine, Issue 8

FanARTic Magazine

Issue 8, September 2016

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DIY: String Art Local Artist Spotlight: Joan Blackwell FanARTic Adventures Birthstone Creations Coloring Page Sarcastic Designer v. Vague Client Crossword Photoshop Fun: Double Exposure Artist Spotlight: Atelier Enaibi Art Form Spotlight: Screen Printing Reader Submissions Submission Guidelines

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DIY: String Art Hello, FanARTics! For this DIY, we will be showing you how to make the very popular string art! This is a fairly simple craft involving wrapping string, twine, etc. around pins or pegs to create a shape. You can choose to wrap your string inside the shape to create a silhouette or on the outside for a reverse silhouette effect. All you need for this project are: A board (foam, cork, wood, etc.)

Straight pins Twine, yarn, string, etc.

A pencil for drawing your shape Let’s get started!

Step 1: Draw out your shape Choose any shape you want! Just be mindful that the more complicated your drawing is, the more pins and string you will need.

Step 2: Place your pins If you are going for a reverse silhouette, arrange your pins evenly along the outer edge of your board and along the lines of your drawing. If you are doing a silhouette you just need to place them on the drawing lines.

Step 3: Loop your string For the reverse silhouette, wrap the string around from the outer pins to the inner ones. For a silhouette, wrap the string going from one side of the drawing to the other. Be creative and try out different patterns!

Step 4 You’re done! Sit back and admire your work!

Local Artist Joan Blackwell Spotlight Where are you from?

I was born in Lumberton, N.C. I moved back home six years ago after living in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area for forty-six years. It is wonderful to be back home where life is slow-paced. No traffic, just the beautiful country roads, country food, and good people.

What is your favorite art form?

My concentration is painting. As an Art Education major and American Indian Studies minor, I chose painting as this is something I can do at home. While I enjoy many art mediums such as ceramics, printmaking, digital, and drawing, I still prefer to paint. I usually use acrylic paint as oil takes too long to dry and oil products cannot be used with young students in the classroom. I continue to practice different forms of art and recently taught a class at the Lumbee Tribe Boys & Girls club. We made tribal masks with gourds using the four Lumbee Tribe colors: black, white, red & yellow. I provided the gourds and all materials. The members loved making these masks and taking them home to show to their families. I also enjoy pouring cement turtles and painting them in bright colors for gifts.

Where do you like to create your art?

I have a studio at home or I paint the large-scale artworks in a studio at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, N.C. Where/Who do you draw inspiration from?

I am inspired by many things. As a Lumbee Tribe member, I learned to make arts and crafts at a young age. My grandmother always told me, “Keep your hands busy and your mind will be free�. She was right. As a senior at UNCP, I am influenced by certain art history classes. I learned to create form line art which is used by the First Nations Tribes. Being creative keeps me happy and sharing what I have learned brings me joy.

What is your favorite subject to incorporate?

As a Native American, I tend to incorporate icons representing my heritage. I especially enjoy showing historical icons and positive images to encourage others to honor their ancestors, customs, and traditions. The Lumbee Tribe’s animal totem is the turtle. I love incorporating turtles into my compositions and birds.

How can our readers find out more information about your work?

I have two websites: Fine art Gallery website: http://blackwellartgallery.yolasite.com Gourd Art Gallery website: http://blackwellgourddesigns.synthasite.com/ Do you have any specific works you have done that are your favorites?

I moved back home six years ago to share my knowledge and support my Lumbee community. After studying art for two years I wrote a proposal and was granted funding to design and execute three large-scale murals representing the Past, Present and Future history of the Lumbee Tribe. This was a major endeavor. With the assistance of many UNCP art students and members of the Lumbee Tribe Boys and Girls Club the murals were completed four months later. Recently I published a book about these murals explaining the reason I chose each icon and to document our history for others. The murals have generated a lot of publicity and community interest. They are currently on exhibit at Lumbee Hall at the request of UNCP Chancellor Cummings.

What caused you to begin making art?

I create art because I learned at an early age that art healed my soul. As a student, I am required to make certain art projects depending on the subject(s) I am taking. Sharing and teaching art is my gift to others as I can express many experiences to others through art.

What/whose art do you most identify with?

That’s a difficult question to answer as I love the works of many artists including First Nations Salish form line art, Van Gogh, Gerhard Richter, China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors, etc. The list continues to grow as I continue to study famous artists and new techniques.

What subjects inspire your art work?

At times, my art reflects movement, reflection, representation, historical trauma, life events, honoring of sacred Native American traditions, invoking spirits of the past, present & future, or spiritualism, but always created in a positive genre. A constant juxtaposition of creative ideas is stored in my brain and continually wants to be seen on canvas. I believe my Lumbee Native American ancestors are speaking to me as I show their messages on canvas. Hopefully, these art pieces will continue to carry good messages to the next generation, as that is my intent. These ideals are reflected by the diversity of color, many details, and at times, are shown in cosmic iconographies, such as whimsical animals, realistic, modern and spiritual imageries in form. I am influenced by what I see and feel from day to day. Whether I am researching or listening to an Art Survey lecture, I find myself thinking and contemplating, and I am inspired to create a new art piece. I never know what I will do next, but the creative thinking process is exciting and the completion is the grand journey of being an artist.

What is the main challenge you face when beginning a piece of art?

If it is a required college art project I must study the requirements and focus on meeting those requirements. If it is a personal or commissioned art project I need to do a sketch and decide what mediums to use and size of forms. It is always more fun to do personal art projects.

How has art influenced other aspects of your life?

Studying formal art courses made me realize I am a gifted artist and that I wanted to share this gift with children and elders.

“Movement, reflection, representation, historical trauma, life events, honoring of sacred Native American traditions, invoking spirits of the past, present & future, or spiritualism, positive genre, diversity, cosmic iconography, such as whimsical animals, realistic, modern and spiritual imageries.�

Joan C. Blackwell jcb027@bravemail.uncp.edu http://blackwellartgallery.yolasite.com http://blackwellgourddesigns.synthasite.com/

FanARTic Adventures The Living Letters

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September Sapphire The name of the blue corundum Sapphire is derived from the Latin sapphirus, meaning blue stone. The stone is said to bring protection, good fortune and spiritual insight. It has long been associated with the sacred, as well as with wisdom.

Some lore claims that the 10 Commandments were carved in Sapphire, and that the stone can heal ailments of the eyes.

As with months previous, the only rule is to create pieces that feature the color of sapphire!

Check out our interpretations of the stone, and do not forget to send your sapphire inspired creations to fanARTicmag@ gmail.com, along with your name and a short intro on your piece to be featured in the magazine!

Megan This month’s birthstone creation was a lot of fun. I tried to keep the focus on the blue of the birthstone with subtle purples which are a variation of the sapphire and also symbolic of the flower of the month, the aster. In the background are both the Virgo and Libra signs, but they are very subtly placed.

This birthstone piece evokes an air of mystery and elegance.

Christine

For this month, I wanted to create some jewelry. I originally wanted to make a crocheted piece with beads, but since I didn’t have any blue beads on hand I decided to just crochet the whole thing. For the pair of earrings I made, I chose a pair of hoops from my collection, and worked 3 rows of single crochets, slip stitches, and half double crochets to make a nice design around them. I made a space between the half doubles in the final row to leave a hole for aesthetics, but due to the size of the yarn the hole wasn’t very visible. So, I found some blue gems and placed them in there instead. The end result is a very nice, sturdy piece.

Chelsey

For September I decided to go with different shades of blue in my design. I used a program called Flame Painter to do the design in the background and then I used Photoshop to create the three-dimensional shapes in the foreground.

I wanted to do something simple for sapphire, but that still held elements of design and embodied the blueness that encompasses the sapphire birthstone.

Rebekah Sapphire is a birthstone that invokes deep feelings, such as eternal love. The stone is often associated with a sense of elegance as well, which is why I wanted to create a set of jewelry as elegant as wearing the stone makes me feel.

This set features sapphire blue crackle beads, accented with silver cone beads and sparkling clear seed beads. The earrings and necklace feature drops that resemble crosses. The form is turned on its side for the bracelet. The set is based on a tutorial by Honeysspecial on YouTube called “How to Make Bead Earrings…(Cute and Simple)”. The design is so simple, but it looks stunning in the colors that showcase this month’s birthstone!

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Photoshop Fun

Double Exposure Hello FanARTics! This month’s Photoshop Fun involves a very interesting effect known as Double Exposure. Traditionally, this has been done with cameras to join together two separate images. This effect has gained some popularity in recent years with digital artists as it can be done through Photoshop.

To start with I am using an image of stars. I don’t have one handy in my inventory so I found this one on Pexels (they have a lot of free images for your use). And then, for the second image I used a photo of our very own Rebekah. Now, to do this effect properly, you want the photo to have a white or non existing background behind the subject matter. The goal is that the landscape image, the stars, will fill the portrait.

The first thing to do is separate the image of Rebekah from the background. To do this we go to the channels, and find the channel with the most contrast, and duplicate it by dragging it down to the “new” icon (looks like a page with its bottom left corner bent). Once this is duplicated you want to go to Image>Adjustments>Levels (or Ctlr+L). You want to adjust the darkness as far as you can without it expanding further out. You can see where mine is, any further than that and her hairline was starting to get thicker.

We do want to eliminate the remaining highlights though. So, select the brush tool, go for a “hard round” or something similar, make sure the color is black, and fill in the remaining highlights. After this is done you want to click the rgb channel to return everything to normal, and press ctrl while clicking on your duplicated channel. This will load the selected area. You want to remove the white, but put it in its own separate layer.

After this is done you want to take your landscape image (the stars for me) and paste it into the file with its layer on top. Select the portrait image, and apply a layer mask (the icon which looks like a camera) which you will then drag to the top layer. There’s a chain link icon between the two which you can click and it will allow for you to move the landscape image freely to your desired look, (I like the way mine is so I didn’t do this). Duplicate the portrait layer by right clicking and selecting duplicate layer, and move it to the top of your layers.

You then will go to the menu and click Image>Adjustments>Desaturate to turn this layer black and white.

One it is in black and white (you can make adjustments as desired) you will go to the menu above the layers and select multiply.

Now, if you selected an image that is dark, like I did, you may have to play with this a little bit. I duplicated the black and white layer and placed it underneath the stars, alternating opacity and brightness and such. I also used my eraser tool to enhance certain features more than others, to give a surreal look. These adjustments are different per image and personal preference.

And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this month’s edition of Photoshop Fun! Don’t forget to send us your Photoshop Fun creations!

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Artist Spotlight Atelier Enaibi

Enaibi, a French graphic designer and sculptor that works for popular French media company Ankama, creates beautiful ball-jointed dolls (called BJDs, for short) that inspire emotion and feeling. While the form of some of the dolls might seem exaggerated, combining small chests with very wide hips, the overall sense of balance remains pleasing. She combines exotic skin tones as well as animal-like features in many of her designs. While she did not set out with the intent to become an artist, she has been inspired by the anime and manga that she has cherished for so long. She collected resin dolls beginning around 2005, and found herself with a strong desire to create her own figures based on characters that she designed and already loved. Combining features of animal and human forms has been a growing fascination since she began drawing animals around the age of 10. Her first experience with BJDs came when she purchased her first garage kit containing an unassembled, unpainted figure.

While she enjoyed the creativity involved with painting and assembling figures, she wanted to learn to make them herself. She cast Cybèle, her first BJD, in 2006. When she is not working on new BJD projects, Enaibi works on comic projects, video games, and cartoons.

Check out Atelier Enaibi on Flickr and deviantArt to see more examples of her work and follow her creative process!

Art Form Spotlight Screen Printing

Screen printing is an art form that allows a person to print different parts of the same image, giving the artist the ability to introduce different colors, tones, and effects by using different screens. The art form can be traced back to the Song Dynasty of China, from 960-1279 AD. The process began with the silk-screen method, and newer methods began to take shape as the art form gained popularity all over the world. The process starts with the image that the artist wants to print on paper or any other medium that will readily receive ink. The area under the surface that will be printed on is covered with a pallet tape that will protect the surface below from ink leaking through the paper or other medium being printed. A mesh is blocked off using tape, special emulsions, or pens made just for the process.

The mesh is placed on the printing surface and ink is then placed within the mesh frame. A flood bar pushes the ink across the surface of the mesh.

The artist then uses a squeegee to gently push the mesh down onto the printing surface in a controlled motion. After the mesh bounces back, the image has been transferred to the printing surface. Screen printing is used for fabrics, clothing, signs, balloons, and many other surfaces due to the versatility of the process.

Check out The American Screen Printing Association’s website for more information on the process and for tutorials!

Submission Guidelines We would love it if you shared your creativity with us! At FanARTic we hope to showcase so much more than our own work for your viewing pleasure.

You can submit the coloring page and submit it to: FanARTicmag@gmail.com for the chance to appear in our March FanARTic edition. You can also submit it via Facebook by uploading your finished masterpiece and tagging FanARTic Magazine.

If you are an artist looking to get your name out there, please feel free to contact us. We would love to help, whether it be by placing an ad in our magazine, being our featured artist spotlight, or just having your art showcased in our magazine!

When submitting, please make sure we have: The name you wish to be addressed by Contact information (email/phone whichever is preferred) What you want to call the finished work or any message you wish to appear in the magazine There are no rules for artwork or coloring page submissions. You can use whatever medium suits your taste!

Please note FanARTic is not liable for any compensations for showcasing your work. By submitting, you have agreed to let us publish your work and are not expecting anything more than the free exposure. If you have any questions please email us at: FanARTicmag@gmail.com.