Comments on: Seek to be worth knowing http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/ Design, illustration, painting, bookbinding, art journaling and more. An artsy crafty, fun-loving happy lifestyle. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: linda http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-933 linda Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:59:39 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-933 Hi Niki - Good to hear from you and I'm so glad to be able to see your work and share my thoughts. All my best to you! Thanks for stopping by! Hi Niki – Good to hear from you and I’m so glad to be able to see your work and share my thoughts. All my best to you! Thanks for stopping by!

]]> By: Niki Jackson http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-932 Niki Jackson Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:26 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-932 Dear Linda You are such a supportive friend, thank you for your continuous wonderful comments on my blog, they mean a lot to me. I love the new layout on your blog it's very pretty. Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you more here. Love Niki xxx Dear Linda
You are such a supportive friend, thank you for your continuous wonderful comments on my blog, they mean a lot to me.

I love the new layout on your blog it’s very pretty. Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you more here.

Love
Niki
xxx

]]> By: linda http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-928 linda Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:22:51 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-928 Great tips! I was wondering how folks create the smoothness...I will have to try with watercolor sometime. Great tips! I was wondering how folks create the smoothness…I will have to try with watercolor sometime.

]]> By: linda http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-927 linda Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:21:57 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-927 Thanks a bunch for the link, those are definitely wise words! Thanks a bunch for the link, those are definitely wise words!

]]> By: Hybrid J http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-926 Hybrid J Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:57:55 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-926 Re How to void streaking I've got below from Rowena (http://warriorgirl.blogspot.com/) who left it as comment to my post (The Hoarder). And if I've got more tips, will let you know. :) "From Rowena: How to keep streaks from happening? I think if you wet the entire field that you want to have colored, and then keep a very saturated brush, working quickly, go back and forth over the field with your brush, overlapping paint slightly. Oh yeah, and keep your paper tilted so the excess water can run down instead of pooling. Use a squeezed dry brush to pick up the pooling water at the end, but make sure to touch the pool very lightly, so you don't remove color from the paper. This is what you do for watercolor, anyway, and I'm assuming it would work for any very liquid transparent medium that dries quickly." Re How to void streaking

I’ve got below from Rowena (http://warriorgirl.blogspot.com/) who left it as comment to my post (The Hoarder). And if I’ve got more tips, will let you know. :)

“From Rowena:

How to keep streaks from happening? I think if you wet the entire field that you want to have colored, and then keep a very saturated brush, working quickly, go back and forth over the field with your brush, overlapping paint slightly.

Oh yeah, and keep your paper tilted so the excess water can run down instead of pooling. Use a squeezed dry brush to pick up the pooling water at the end, but make sure to touch the pool very lightly, so you don’t remove color from the paper.

This is what you do for watercolor, anyway, and I’m assuming it would work for any very liquid transparent medium that dries quickly.”

]]> By: Hybrid J http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-925 Hybrid J Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:31:06 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-925 Couldn't agree with you more ... as a budding artist as well as a human beings, we're fear of judgment. And most of the time, we're our own harsh judges. Hence I try to practice below whenever I find myself trying to be the "perfectionist". - Never never never give up - Do what you can, where you are with what you have - There is nothing that cannot happen today I've posted the above in my blog last year, you could check it out here. http://hybridj.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-fundamentals_24.html Couldn’t agree with you more … as a budding artist as well as a human beings, we’re fear of judgment. And most of the time, we’re our own harsh judges. Hence I try to practice below whenever I find myself trying to be the “perfectionist”.

- Never never never give up
- Do what you can, where you are with what you have
- There is nothing that cannot happen today

I’ve posted the above in my blog last year, you could check it out here.

http://hybridj.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-fundamentals_24.html

]]> By: linda http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-920 linda Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:45:26 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-920 Oh, Lori, so nice of you to say that! :P Oh, Lori, so nice of you to say that! :P

]]> By: Lori http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-919 Lori Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:31:33 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-919 Hi Linda, your blog keeps getting better and better! Hi Linda, your blog keeps getting better and better!

]]> By: linda http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-918 linda Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:26:30 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-918 Hi Pam! I suppose it's something we are all faced with at some point in our lives. You are right we just have to keep going! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts as well...I really appreciate it! Hi Pam! I suppose it’s something we are all faced with at some point in our lives. You are right we just have to keep going! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts as well…I really appreciate it!

]]> By: pamq http://www.tortagialla.com/2010/02/05/seek-to-be-worth-knowing/#comment-914 pamq Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:30:01 +0000 http://www.tortagialla.com/?p=597#comment-914 I have sure been doing a lot of thinking along those lines these past few weeks as I have been working on Kathryn Antyr's Vision Journaling Workshop.... I was very hesitant to post my affirmation cards and vision board for the first lesson, but now I am glad I did! As I am getting ready to post about the second lesson, I am starting to feel some of those old "what will people think about it?" "is it good enough?" type thoughts. But I will post it!!! Maybe eventually I will not have any? so many? of these kinds of thoughts....... I need to just keep on going and it will all be ok in the end! Glad you are sharing your thoughts on this. And your work! I have sure been doing a lot of thinking along those lines these past few weeks as I have been working on Kathryn Antyr’s Vision Journaling Workshop….

I was very hesitant to post my affirmation cards and vision board for the first lesson, but now I am glad I did! As I am getting ready to post about the second lesson, I am starting to feel some of those old “what will people think about it?” “is it good enough?” type thoughts. But I will post it!!! Maybe eventually I will not have any? so many? of these kinds of thoughts…….

I need to just keep on going and it will all be ok in the end!

Glad you are sharing your thoughts on this. And your work!

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