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Photographer, Illustrator, Artist. · Erin Sparler

Yearly Archives: 2011

New Custom Zentangle – Seeing Stars and Twisted Stars

Art vs. Craft

Recently in the LinkedIn group Creative Designer and Writers, someone posted the question what is the difference between art and craft? I responded: “Oh boy did you open a can of worms with this question. I had an entire semester devoted to trying to answer this question in Grad School. To begin you have to [...]

Custom ZenTangle

How to Draw a Perfect Heart with just a Ruler and Compass!

So I’m taking an online drawing class entitled, “I Heart Drawing” with Jane Davenport. I met Jane at John Paul Caponigo’s Digital Print II workshop in Maine. This awesome chick is from Australia, and she’s just too fun for words. I’ve always wanted to learn to let go and draw things more from my imagination [...]

Labels on Paints

Recently, I picked up a new water color and mixed media book Water, Paper, Paint by Heather Smith Jones. It had a very interesting tidbit about paint that I’d like to share. Color names are not standardized. So when you are buying paint the name in the tube doesn’t really mean anything. (It’s more of [...]

ZenTangle.com – Instructions for Drawing Abstract Repeating Patterns

One of my latest addictions on the Internet is Pinterest.com. (If your don’t know or use Pinterest yet here is my review of Pinterest.) Through Pinterest, I discovered a web site called Zentangle.com. Zen tangle is a web site touting doodling repeating patterns as meditation. What is so nice about this site though is the [...]

I Heart Pinterest

My newest addiction ( and according to you husband) waster of time is Pinterest.com! I LOVE this web site. Not that it isn’t without its flaws. Pinterest acts like a digital cork-board or like an ideas journal. You basically can save just about any photo you find on the internet. The best part though is [...]