Sketchbook: Zentangles

doodles by jafabrit
I had a friend who asked me, "oh, have you tried zentangle, it's so cool", like it was some new craft or artform. So I checked it out and had to laugh. Just a fancy term for something most of my friends and I did back in school many many many moons ago (60's and 70's). I thought I would sit and do a few and WHAM! before I knew it four hours had passed. I think to

Liar!Liar! Pants on Fire and Senile Delinquents

Graffiti Embroidery

Part of mr.gobblehead

long & short stitch, couching

5 colours


Liar, liar, pants on fire, stick your head inside a tire, turn it round and round and round, wait until you hit the ground.

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Liar, liar, pants on fire, hang you with a telephone wire.

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Liar, Liar, pants on fire! Wash em' out in bubble gum and put them in the dryer



Embroidery Flickr Set



HUM!

In the Garden of Delights

Found things in Garage Sales










Not sure if this is vintage , seems like a character doll from a children's book, but I LOVE his shoes. These lace up shoes(espadrilles) were very popular in the 70's.



Links

Bata Shoe Museum (check out the heels on these shoes-phew!)



Was given things from Garage Sales










Jafapal Karen found this Pure linen 50"x 70" crosstitch printed

Cirque Carnival in Yellow Springs

Cirque Carnival in Yellow Springs was fantastic! Watching people parade in their finery, parade their pets, the music, fire eaters, jugglers, firedancers, bellydancers, performers. It was MAGICAL! Major kudos to the Dayton Street Alliance team, specifically Corner Cone and Brother Bears, for pulling this event off.



Mr. and Mrs Brother Bear











You were ROCKIN'

and

so was jafalass

upcycled vinyl

Spinlicious








Will be selling a bunch of these spin paintings at the Cirque Carnival tonight. I love exploring all the  yummy colours after I've done them on my homemade spin art machine.



Upcycling vs Recycling

I hadn't really thought there was much of a difference between Upcycling and Recycling, but apparently there is.

Socializing at Life Drawing?

We had someone storm out of the life drawing this week. She was upset because she felt she can't talk when she wants and she came to have fun and socialize, not have people get on her case about life drawing etiquette.  That there is the problem. Life Drawing is NOT FOR socializing. So for the novice's who are considering going to life drawing please do check out the link below. It could save

Slow Art/Craft Movement

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I've read several articles and manifestos and often they seem filled with do's and don'ts and

Not Another One & Are You Man Enough to Knit

sorry I just can't help it






I figured out how many seconds it takes to capture the firework before it completely explodes and never quite know what to expect.

This is one of few photos that worked out and is my fave from July 4th in Yellow Springs.

Are you Man Enough to Knit
Had to share this from Fibre Alive.





Check out the famous Maori dance, Haka (Ka Mate) by the "All Blacks" Rugby

Felt Eggs ain't New

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Retro Craft Corner







Needlework & Crafts Magazine Spring-Summer 1970



Ah hah, so they

Woman to be Stoned to Death

ID

private collection

oil on wood, wire, mirror

Mother of Two faces being stoned to death.



Her children appeal for help to save their mother: Save Sakineh.



Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch



Muslims against Stoning



International Committee Against Stoning

Iran Human Rights Organization

Ugly Flower Found a Home

Art Box

I was ready to just plonk my ugly flower in town somewhere but jafapal Nancy insisted it go in the Art Box. Three people walked by as we were putting it in and said, "that is one ugly flower" LOL!

YEP!







Located on Corry Street

Yellow Springs, Ohio



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Vintage Corner







I couldn't resist this vintage pyrex carafe in the local Village Herb

Painted Utility Poles

Downtown Rincon, Puerto Rico







From a distance I thought the pole might have knit graffiti on it, but it was one of MANY poles in the area that was painted exactly the same way. I was told it was to help drivers, and I can tell you it certainly did on the small roads with no lighting and lots of foilage. I also just liked seeing these colourful poles.  Love the mini mural too.

Puttering around on a Happy Independence Day

Photo by Jafabrit 2009


and so far mine has been spent spent working on art (as usual),  reading mags and preparing food for tonight. One of my fave mags  Juxtapoz magazine has a great interview  with the godfather of street art Richard Hambleton.  I liked his comment in that "creating a movement called "street art" is more complex than being an academic" and that he would "prefer to be

stencil graffiti

© 2012 by Corrine Bayraktaroglu. All Rights Reserved

I thought I would just whip up a stencil in an hour. Yea, right. Three hours later I was still working out the kinks. So here it is, an original stencil by Jafabrit.



Test One in Keiths Alley









and I realized that I had to refine it a bit more, as well as make it larger.



Links

About Stencil Graffiti










 

Gargoyles

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I loves em'








Seeing them, like this one at Notre Dame University, Indiana

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