Magazine Workshop 2023

[Cristina]

14 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Day 2 and I changed the template for my photo and put the blue mat to the bottom. I kept the blue color because in my cover the text had that color too. I have a bit of text and I used Arial so all that text is easier to read. I will probably keep the light green color as a background for all my pages, it goes well with most of the photos I plan to use.

Corrie, this must be a very interesting place to visit.

[Cristina]

6 hours ago, Cassel said:

@Cristina That is a fun use of the text for that front page!

I got inspiration from the internet... There are many pages of travel magazine templates, titles, etc...

Ultimately, I did my own, based on my needs but using them as inspiration.

[Cristina]

Everyone here is doing such a great job!

The good thing about this workshop is that a magazine can be about anything; there are no boundaries.

And we are lucky enough to learn about all the different subjects posted.

[Ann Seeber]

My page 2 is now ready. It features Debbie's New Work, and I chose this piece mainly because it fit the portrait format. The pale blue is part of the piece. The font is still Agency. 

[Susan Ewart]

4 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

My page 2 is now ready. It features Debbie's New Work, and I chose this piece mainly because it fit the portrait format. The pale blue is part of the piece. The font is still Agency. 

Love the quote!

[Ann Seeber]

10 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Love the quote!

Me, too! ❤️

[Brian Smith]

[Susan Ewart]

47 minutes ago, Brian Smith said:

Wow!  Just Wow!  After the workshop, I do hope you keep posting layouts with your photos in the "What are you working on now" forum.   

[Rene Marker]

Day 3. One of my photos from early Saturday morning. Again used the background from the previous layouts and the same font, BakerSignet BT. I did put a black stroke around the font today since it was blue on the blue of the photo. I think it made it stand out a little bit.

[Sue Thomas]

The front cover  of my magazine read that there was going to be an article on the secret life of the badger.  Here it is.  Badgers are frequent visitors, they keep my rodent population under control.  This lovely female was digging  to get under the work shop, where several ground squirrels resided.  I added a quote from rat, from The wind in the Willows

 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Sue Thomas

[Susan Ewart]

27 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

The front cover  of my magazine read that there was going to be an article on the secret life of the badger.  Here it is.  Badgers are frequent visitors, they keep my rodent population under control.  This lovely female was digging  to get under the work shop, where several ground squirrels resided.  I added a quote from rat, from The wind in the Willows

 

Beautiful.  I love the mustedlid family.  Your title is out of this world.  Love all the little touches you do.  Like the words "The secretive", and larger "B".  How do you manage to find so many creative ideas.  (Full disclosure:  I really just want to get my face all up in that soft fur..it probably isnt soft at all, and they are probably cranky animals if you mess with them. I bet they have teeth and a jaw to match the power of their claws.)

[Ann Seeber]

43 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

I added a quote from rat, from The wind in the Willows

Sue: I can see there's some text in white on the photo but at forum size, it's unreadable for me. Can you post it separately?

[Sue Thomas]

9 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Beautiful.  I love the mustedlid family.  Your title is out of this world.  Love all the little touches you do.  Like the words "The secretive", and larger "B".  How do you manage to find so many creative ideas.  (Full disclosure:  I really just want to get my face all up in that soft fur..it probably isnt soft at all, and they are probably cranky animals if you mess with them. I bet they have teeth and a jaw to match the power of their claws.)

Thank you ever so much for your  complimentary words.  It makes all the effort worth while, even photographing  subjects. 

You certainly wouldn't want to  antagonize them, not one little bit.  They are at the top of the food chain.  They are aggressive  if not left alone.  I keep my distance when I encounter them.  Their fur is actually soft.  I have picked some up that I have found laying on the ground, during a moult.

[Sue Thomas]

2 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

Thank you ever so much for your  complimentary words.  It makes all the effort worth while, even photographing  subjects. 

You certainly wouldn't want to  antagonize them, not one little bit.  They are at the top of the food chain.  They are aggressive  if not left alone.  I keep my distance when I encounter them.  Their fur is actually soft.  I have picked some up that I have found laying on the ground, during a moult.

I've posted the first three pages of the workshop in  facebook, for  betting viewing. 

[Sue Thomas]

14 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Sue: I can see there's some text in white on the photo but at forum size, it's unreadable for me. Can you post it separately?

I see that you have found my Facebook post.  

[MoniqueN.]

On 9/19/2023 at 2:02 PM, Susan Ewart said:

What a cool building Corrie, I love looking into the refleciton (is that a reflection I see, or is it painted?).  Are we all supposed to finish the colors, or is that to come still in the workshop.

Mooi subtiel qua kleuren ook!

[MoniqueN.]

On 9/19/2023 at 6:11 PM, Marie-Claire said:

Day 1

A giant dog!

[Corrie Kinkel]

Day 3 and we are still in Het Depot at a floor with different areas for restauration, conserving and packaging for transport of the divers art works. At some point there was a cabinet filled with all kinds of pigments and paint tubes. It was a pity that I couldn't take a shot of it due to all the reflections in the glass doors. The whole building, if you can call it that, is full of glass inside and out. The elevators have glass walls, the stairs have glass panels and there are even glass floors, which will be in another photo.

I kept the same font Copperplate Gothic but with colors from the photo. I added an artist impression of the building with some statistics.

[Gerry Landreth]

Day 3

[Marie-Claire]

16 hours ago, Cassel said:

 

@Marie-ClaireDid you edit that photo or did you take it that way? The perspective is spectacular!

 

I took the photo that way, I was sitting lower than Poncho ?

[Marie-Claire]

Day 2

[Marie-Claire]

Day 3

[Marie-Claire]

On 9/19/2023 at 7:25 PM, Susan Ewart said:

 

Marie-Claire, WOW, what a great angle of Poncho and beautiful composition.  He looks so regal.  

 

Thank you ? 

[Dorothy Donn]

I just signed up this magazine workshop. I am not sure but will surely try.

[Ann Seeber]

Here is my page 3 DEBRA LENNOX ART - PACIFIC OCEAN. Featured is her etching called Salmon on the Fin. As you can see, the fish is diagrammed for consumption. This is one of my favorites of her work but unfortunately, she sold it and there are no prints left either. ?The title font is still Agency. The background is another of her watercolors, "Finding Magic," that was an impressionistic treatment of the Pacific, and I used a Hard Light layer effect.