Getting Ready for ART!
August 11, 2007 by kellylock
I spent the day looking at antique malls, Tuesday Mornings and TJ Max, and found some great stuff to decorate my new art room. It’s going to be lovely.
I also went to the art store and got fabric paper to print family photos on. I’m hoping to make some wall art out of the photos. I have a lot of photos from women in my family; I have every grandmother for at least four generations. I’m lucky, and I think they are watching over me every day, so it’s fitting that my art room be decorated with their images.
Now, I just need a digital camera. Yes, not only is blogging new to me, but the entire technological world is new to me! I still use a film SLR camera. I love it, and am having difficulty giving it up. Photography was my first love–had my own black and white darkroom, etc., and as I look at the point and shoot digital cameras out there, I’m very disappointed in what they can do. I looked at a couple of really nice digital SLR cameras, but they are well over $700. On a teacher’s salary, with a kid leaving for college, that’s simply not doable, so I’m trying to decide how to handle this. But, for now, I’m tracking the progress of my new room with film, which I’ll upload later–just a lot of extra steps involved.
At the antique malls today, I found hundreds of family photos that were being sold. As an avid collector of my own family photos, I was so sad to see all of the unnamed photos in the boxes. I can’t imagine a family selling them at an auction or estate sale. I kept wondering if any of them belonged to my family members. Even though I have a lot of photos, there are still many I don’t have, and I’d love to know what their faces looked like. I looked at each one that was taken in Missouri, hoping something looked familiar in the way they smiled, or stood, but there was nothing. Names would be so helpful. So many don’t label their photos. If there is one thing I can say today it’s that you must label your photos. At the least write the first and last name of each person on the back of the photo. It’s so easy to think that we’ll remember them, and we might, but in a hundred years, how will they be identified? Name your photos just in case someone down the line sells them at an auction–a box full for a few dollars, and then someone like me comes across them, and sits for hours looking, hoping, and finds the one named, the one they’ve been looking for for years….
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Hi Kelly
…I wouldn’t change the medium, just stick something in between the works. I apologise in advance if I have misunderstood your question…Hope this helps.
You have left a question on my blog Lara Berch Tutorials about collages sticking together. I use the same clear coating you use. Any type of gel medium. I do not know if they stick together because I never really put them on top of each other. They’re big and are on hard mats, so I don’t have the need to stack them. I do understand though that when making scap pages, and ATC’s etc..you keep them on top of each other. I don’t know of a safe medium that would prevent them from sticking…I never encountered a broblem like that…What I would do however, is put tracing paper inbetween, or any other thin paper..sandwich wrap perhaps
Uh oh. I got rid of hundreds of my great aunt and uncle. I’ll tell you who does this. Me. I had inherited boxes and boxes of photos of most likely the most photographed couple in the world! They had no kids. I saved good ones, but Kel, I had to let a lot of them go. I’d have given them to you if I’d known (it was several years ago)!
Good about your room coming together–cannot wait to see you Thursday!!!!!
Kel, you’re on my heart today. When I see you tomorrow, you’re gonna be in a new season of life, and how lucky you are to be so so young as well. You get to do this season uppp right! But still it’s sad, it’s got to be a very lonely lost wanna take back those years and do them again time for you. I love you so much! xo
First of all…Love your self portrait! It is so busy and colorful just the way I like art! Second, you could just get your photos put on CD when you get them developed like at Walmart. If you have computer….that is all you need. Then later a scanner. I know it is not immediate gratification but you can do editing with simple photo software on the computer. What is SLR camera? I’m probably missing something here! Heehee
Oh, you sound so busy and crazy like me-sounds like we are going through a lot of the same stuff. Son just started college. Hugs and thanks for entering my contest!
I’m so glad you sent me your blog! It’s incredibly (sp) beautiful and has inspired me to create my own. I have wanted to set up blogs in my classroom and this is the perfect platform. What a wonderful creative outlet. I’m intrigued by your back porch project. Now we have to have art night very soon. Tina