LinkLatte Links

Artella's LinkLatte™

February 2008

1
http://www.vadisturner.com/

This collage artist makes art out of the weirdest things -- a fertility quilt out of money and tampon wrappers, for example. Be sure to look at
"sweets" to see the unique craft candies.

2
http://bethtom.com/

Huge-scale paintings with fascinating images and colors. Would you like one of these in your living room?

3
http://purgatorypiepress.com/artistbooks.html

Inspiring samples of artist's books from Purgatory
Pie Press, the geniuses who have published a
recent book we love, How to Make Books.

4
http://web.mac.com/lisapahl/iWeb/Site/Mosaics.html

Outdoor "furniture" created with mosaics. Her other art is nice, too.

5
http://groups.msn.com/RECY-CANRECI-LATAS

You should see the art this girl does using old pop cans or discarded aluminum. Cool!

6
http://www.collagemuseum.com/

A whole museum, devoted to collages! You could spend HOURS exploring this Web site.

7
http://www.pietrevive.it/gallerie/gallerie.html

This Web site showcases painted rocks. The
captions are in French, but that shouldn't dampen your enthusiasm for these wonderful works of art.

8
http://zipskinny.com/

Enter your zip code, and get all sorts of interesting cencus-type information about where you live, compared to the zip codes around you.

9
http://www.bighornquilts.com/elvischallenge/elvisindex.html

Big Horn Quilts made up challenge packets with Elvis-themed fabric. The challenge was to illustrate in a quilt one of Elvis' songs. Here you see (and can vote for) the results.

10
http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/Woodworking/2/3/article1.htm

This engineering young lad built a bicycle entirely of wood! It's beautiful, and it really works.

11
http://doyle.lib.muohio.edu/cdm4/tradecards/

This extensive Trade Card Collection is housed in
the Special Collections Library at Miami University.
It contains several thousand "trade cards" --
advertising cards popular in the 1890s.

12
http://www.workbenchmagazine.com/main/wb305-marble02-video.html

This is a link to a video from Workbench Magazine, showing how to create a faux marble finish using paint, brushes, a feather, a paint eraser, and
wadded up plastic wrap.

13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks_dXhtEOpE

Join in on one of the newest art movements, Youtube's Paint and Pass mail art project. Check
out this site for information,and how you too
can be part of history in the making!

14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEnivHox9V8

Yesterday's LL introduced Paint and Pass. Today's
LL is a video of one girl who got a painting, added
to it, and is ready to pass it on. Watch her draw
the Mona Lisa.

15
http://alivemagazine.org/

Alive Magazine is a really cool magazine and
online resource for young girls -- you'll
like it, too.

16
http://www.festiveattyre.com/gallery/index.html

An absolutely great gallery of old fashioned costumes!

18
http://www.fullbloomtea.com/

As your tea brews, the tea leaves blossom into incredible beauty. Be sure to watch the video.

19
http://www.myoats.com/create.aspx

Myoats is a place where people can create, download & showcase beautiful designs.
Addictive!

20
http://characterconstructions.com/cgi-bin/itsmy/go.exe?page=5&domain=1&webdir=catherinemoore

Great artistic paper doll-inspired creations by Catherine Moore. Be sure to check the Paper Dolls and the Box Dolls.

21
http://detourart.com/

This site is dedicated to the sheer joy of outsider, folk, visionary, self-taught, vernacular art and environment discoveries found all along the back roads (and side streets) around the world.

22
http://typetester.maratz.com/

This is pretty neat -- you have three columns where you can set the attributes of a type font, and then compare the same words in a different font setting.

24
http://www.rarebookroom.org/

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed
as an educational site intended to allow the
visitor to examine and read some of the
great books of the world.

25
http://www.cardstacker.com/gallery.html

Bryan Berg builds incredible structures from
playing cards. Explore the site to learn about
Bryan, and see some of his creations.

26
http://foldschool.com/

A collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer.

28
http://franksemails.com/pics/nail-art/

Making art with nails -- interesting medium, interesting art.

29
http://www.elderwisdomcircle.org/

Artella's Sandi Keefer found this link for us! The Elder Wisdom Circle is a place for people in their teens, 20s and 30s to connect with a Cyber-Grandparent for anonymous personalized advice.