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PapercuttingsPapercutting is an art form that has been seen all over the world, adapted to regional styles based on cultures. It should come as no surprise that the Chinese have the earliest forms of papercutting currently known to us as the 'ancestor to paper' has been found in China. This was dated as far back as 2nd century B.C. and is considered as important as their discovery of printmaking, gunpowder and the compass.

~Thessatoria's It's Your Life
Naturally as paper spread throughout the world this art form evolved, spreading all over the Far East through to the Middle East. For example Japanese Kirigami where origami folds are cut and Indian Sanjhi.
This art form is popular to this very day, take renowned British artist Rob Ryan, which I am sure many of you here would have at least seen his work before! His work has been seen printed over everything you can think of, kitchenware, clothes, books and probably more!
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Out of Narnia... sort ofHere I'm presenting you 10 absolutely extraordinary fantasy and history inspired clothing Artisan Crafters - watch out for the awesomeness overload!
:iconfairysiren: ~Fairysiren - "full of art, fashion, history and hand-made wonders."

:icondaisyviktoria: ~DaisyViktoria - "making clothes and costumes since she was seven."

:iconangirias: ~Angirias - mastering fantasy clothing to the point of madness.

:iconSomniaRomantica: *SomniaRomantica - historically inspired fashion creations.

A Look at EmbroideryWhat is embroidery?
Embroidery is a sub-genre of Needlecraft. It is broadly defined as the art of decorating fabric or similar materials with a needle and thread (or yarn).
The applications of embroidery are as wide as imagination allows. It has been and still is widely used to decorate all manner of clothing, from wedding gowns to hats. Embroidery is used to make rugs, adorn quilts or even to make pictures out of.

Embroidery first found its roots in ancient China, around 500-300BCE. The need for stitches to mend, tailor and reinforce cloth led to the development of many new sewing techniques. The decorative potential of these stitches was quickly realised, and soon the art form of embroidery was born. Each culture has its own history, tradition and style of embroidery, each as beautiful and captivating as the next.
Today, machine embroidery has lessened the prevalence of hand embroidery, but there are still many individuals who practise it, both as hobbyists and pr

PE: Anthro, Architectural Models and Weaving

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Hello!
In this Newsletter Series I will be showing you the subcategories that you can find within the Artisan Crafts Gallery!
Anthro
The Anthro sub category is a relativity new category that has been added to house all sorts of Anthro related crafts. From paws to full fursuits - we have it all!
It is split into clothing, costumes, masks and props and accessories.

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Art History - Textiles FeaturesA Feature from the Textiles Gallery
Gallery Info: Textiles
Art created by using fabric and natural woven materials including
fashion/costume construction and hairpieces like wigs and falls.

And some tutorials about textiles

Can't get enough? Have a look at the gallery yourself!
Helpful links:
What is art history?
How to submit an article.

Art History- Welcome to Literature!
Hello everyone!

This Month, the #ArtHistoryProject has collaborated with #CRLiterature to bring you a whole month of Literature history! We have got a very exciting month ahead, varying through an array for specialist subjects from six word stories, to chidlren’s literature and from tricksters to fantasy literature. Hopefully there will be lots of informative articles that interest you as a reader!
From early hieroglyphics to 50 Shades of Grey, literature has had a wonderful and varied journey, one which spreads over many genres, styles and cultures. This month we will be looking at just some of these through a series of articles written by members of the literature community. These articles are snippets of the great history this proud art form has to boast.
We are inviting everyone, not just “writers” to come and get involved with this month! Maybe you will uncover a subject you knew nothing about but found deeply interesting, or feel

PE: Ceramics, Costumery and Culinary Arts

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Hello!
In
this Newsletter Series I will be showing you the subcategories that you
can find within the Artisan Crafts
Gallery!
Ceramics, Pottery and Clay.
This category is all about objects made from a material like clay or polymer clay that is fired or left to air dry to get the final result.
Sub catogries are - Minitures, Miscellaneous, Ornaments and Objects, Pots and Vases and Tableware.

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Stock Photography: Clint ClemensClint Clemens has long been dubbed the Father of modern Automotive Photography. His work is sleek, crisp, smooth and not unlike the subjects he photographs. One of his most famous shots is titled Kills Bugs Fast. The story behind the image is that Porsche trust him only with the slogan and told him that he had to illustrate the idea himself. So he did. Thus landmark commercial stock photography was created.
Source: Clint Clemens Kills Bugs Fast found here.
Not satisfied with the fame for his astounding images, Clint went one step further to explore and figure out how he could photograph cars in his studio, creatively and with limited resources. He made the connection between car and road and realised that's where he belonged, out in the field rather than inside a studio. In 1980 he got the idea (a genius one!) to attach a camera to a car. H

Food As Art“So all you have to do is take a photo of your lunch and you get a DD?”
“Food isn’t even art”
While I’ve been fortunate enough to have never encountered such comments, I’ve heard from older hats around dA than I that this is the sort of criticism they have received when their deviation has gained enough popularity to draw wider attention around the site.
Now, it would be easy enough to dismiss such notions by pointing out that art cannot be defined. It is a fluid entity, forever being shaped, changed, challenged and expanded. Art is usually considered to be anything produced by skill and/or imagination: to exclude an entire medium from it can only do a disservice to this wonderful entity.
But that’s too easy.
Instead, I’m going to take some time to explore all the creative aspects of culinary arts that make it a medium as worthy of the title ‘art’ as any. Not only is food art, it's everything in between.
Food is s

Art History - Resources and Stock RoundupNovember has come to a close and so has the incredible Resources & Stock Features!
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Our thanks to the lovely ^Elandria and ^PirateLotus-Stock, your super CVs for Resources and Stock for heading up the work done this month!

Also a big thank you and well done to our additional contributors -
^Kaz-D ^SylwiaTelari=DamselStock
Here are all the articles in one neat lot!

They will all be shown in the Resources & Stock Art History Gallery

A short history of QuiltingSince the history of quilting could easily fill a book and has in fact has filled many books, I'm going to keep this rather shorter. As it is a short overview there will be things left out that the more historically minded might miss but there are so many facets to quilting that I cannot include it all.
First of all some definitions to help you understand the terms I use:
- Patchwork is the sewing together of many pieces of fabrics to create a new larger piece of fabric that can then be used to make a quilt or a garment or anything else the maker chooses to make from it.
- Quilting is the layering of two fabrics with a filler layer in between that is then covered with lines or patterns of sewing stitches to hold the filling in place. In modern times it also often refers to a piece of patchwork that is given a backing and a filling and stitched through. In this article I will use both meanings.
Quilting has been around for at least 5000 years if not longer and used to pad fabrics for ma

Photography Weekly: Edition FortyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

Digital Art Features - Sci-Fi"Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".
Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. It is similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation)". - Wikipedia.

Digital Art Feature - Fantasy."Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art. Depictions of ancient myths and legends, as well as depictions of modern day fantasy in the form of divine interventions and other magical or supernatural forces, are very common elements, and help distinguish fantasy art from other forms. Dragons, wizards, fairies and other fantastical and mythical creatures are common features in fantasy art." - Wikipedia.

Question for the readers
Who are the most influential digital fantasy artists of our time, in your opini

Milestones of Digital ArtDigital Art surrounds us everywhere, here are some of the milestones of the genre that lead to the world of Digital Art we know today. This is not meant to be complete, it simply highlights some points in the history of Digital Art that are interesting and maybe even surprising. There are videos!
If you ever created Digital Art, you know that the computer is merely a tool, but never the one actually creating the art. Photoshop may be powerful, but I haven't come across the "Create Awesome Art" button yet

1982 - Adobe introduces PostScript
PostScript as a programming language has changed the work of designers 30 years ago. In short, PostScript was able to interpret any data (vector f.e.) into printable raster graphics, which require dpi settings; Type as well as graphics. This was necessary to allow the same output on any laser printer that supported PostScript, making it easy to share and exchange files without the danger of acci

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Art History Project- Welcome to Artisan Crafts!

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 8:53 PM

December is all about Artisan Crafts, baby! We are very excited to bring you a month full of articles, interviews and features about this wonderful world. But before we begin, what is exactly an artisan craft?

An artisan craft is a physical object made by an artisan completely by hand and usually in small quantities. Being an artisan, or a crafter, is being an artist that excels in the techniques of producing anything from a delicious meal to a deadly sword, from a cozy scarf to an adorable embroidery, from an elegant dress to a complete living room, from a cute plushie to a perfectly accurate doll, and so on.

1:70 Scale Model of Phoenix Hall - Byodo-in Temple by =OutlawSiS

As you can see this is already a huge gallery, but crafters also find ways to get extra creative and create the unimaginable, finding inspiration and potential in everything. It's a very rich, wonderful world to be a part of, full of possibilities and room to innovate.

Crochet Flower Earrings in Wine by ~doilydeas

Shiranui - okami Neelde felting by *Piquipauparro

scrap stainless hummingbird by *ShaneMartinDesigns

There's a lot to say about Artisan Crafts, luckily we have a full month to cover them! If you want to share something there's still time to write an article, you can sign up here. We will also hold events at the official Artisan Crafts chatroom at #ArtisanCrafts, so stay alert! If you have any questions, suggestions or comments don't hesitate to contact us, and feel free to suggest Artisan Craft DDs to ^Talty and ^maytel