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The latest issue of Brand From Home is posted on our blog! Make your own musical instruments, explore art festivals - distanced and online, learn about printmaking, women who rock, and more! https://www.brandlibrary.org//brand-from-home-march-18-2021 #brandlibrary #brandfromhome #myglendale #myglendalelac

Just a reminder that back issues of Brand From Home are available here https://www.brandlibrary.org/blog New art and music materials and streaming music and movies available using your library card. Have a great evening everyone!

Lots of new CDs that are available for checkout from our contactless service. More info is available on our website: https://www.brandlibrary.org/library If you want to be alerted as to what new books, CDs etc we have in the library you can check out Wowbrary: http://www.wowbrary.org/nu.aspx?p=175-84-CDS&mx... Sign up for the email newsletter is here: http://www.wowbrary.org/signup.aspx?zipshow=91201

See what's new this week at Glendale Library, Arts & Culture. http://wowbrary.org/nu.aspx?fb&p=175-85 There are six new bestsellers, 14 new movies, eight new audiobooks, 28 new music CDs, 125 new children's books, and 699 other new books, including 389 that are available online.... The new bestsellers this week include "Dark Sky," "Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond," and "The Complete Guide to Astrology: Understanding Yourself, Your Signs, and Your Birth Chart." The new movies this week include "News of the World," "Promising Young Woman," and "All My Life."

Learn to Play the Recorder! Join our virtual workshop Tuesday, March 23 or March 30. An experienced teacher will guide you from the ground up, starting with the basics and moving into simple tunes. Plastic recorders and fingering charts are available at a designated site when you sign up. March 23: https://glendaleca.libnet.info/event/4906756... March 30: https://glendaleca.libnet.info/event/4906768 #brandlibrary # brandfromhome #myglendale #myglendalelac

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 26: Create a Blot Art. Like a Rorschach test, fold paper in half spreading paint or ink in the middle and draw what you think the resulting blot resembles. What kind of animals or insects do you see? What kind of plants? What shapes do you see? Explore The Art Of Sketching for some ideas. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12217473 Check out the sketchbook of illustrator L Filipe dos Santos for examples. https://www.behance.net/gallery/56191/...See-_-Saw Make a monster with artist Stefan G. Bucher. http://www.dailymonster.com/ Serbian artist Endre Penovác heavily dilutes pigments with water to mimic the texture of fur in his paintings. https://www.thisiscolossal.com//watercolor-and-ink-cats-b/ #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

See what's new this week at Glendale Library, Arts & Culture. http://wowbrary.org/nu.aspx?fb&p=175-65 There are three new bestsellers, eight new movies, 20 new children's books, and 53 other new books, including 27 that are available online.... The new bestsellers this week are "Midnight Sun," "Jingle All the Way: A Novel," and "Black Sun." The new movies this week include "Sonic the Hedgehog," "The Secret Garden," and "Trolls World Tour."

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 25: Try Entopic Graphomania. Let the paper decide what you should draw. This exercise is based on a Surrealist game, developed in Bucharest, where a dot is made on each visible difference in color in a blank sheet of paper, and then lines are drawn between the dots. Simply grab a sheet of paperit can be a page from an old paperback book, newspaper, junk mail or anything with markingsand place dots on specific words or letters. You choose what... set of marks, words, or letters you want. Then connect the dots with curved, zigzag or straight lines to create a pattern. This exercise reveals hidden patterns in negative space, showing you how choices can make a difference and helping you add a random element to your work. https://www.creativelive.com//surrealist-drawing-entopic/ #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 24: Draw Outside. Sit on your front step, back step, or in front of a window. Draw what is directly in front of you, then look left, look right, look up look down. See what you notice big or small. Get some help with outside observation from The Art Of Urban Sketching https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11959342 The American Museum of Natural History has helpful hints to get you started. ... https://www.amnh.org//pl/helpful-hints-for-field-sketching Try out John Muir Laws' website for many videos and blogposts full of techniques. https://johnmuirlaws.com/blog-archives/ Working in plein air can be a fun way to relax and get in touch with nature while you’re working on art. #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 23: Draw with String. Curve stitching is similar to string art in that the way yarn or thread is pulled through hole patterns forms wonderful geometric patterns. The designs can be simple or complex, depending on the placement of the holes and the sequence of where the yarn is pulled. Curve stitching was invented by Mary Everest Boole in the mid 1800s. http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/curve-stitching If you want an extra challenge how about dr...awing with a string soaked in ink? https://laughingsquid.com/india-ink-portraits-drawn-with-/ #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 22: How Small Can I Draw? Challenge yourself to draw something very small. Reduce the size of your paper and try again. Watercolor illustrator and YouTuber Kasey Golden finds out how small she can draw and paint in this Teeny Weeny Challenge. https://youtu.be/2Zv4_cWqKfE... Get inspired with 50 stories of small works by people like you (and maybe even YOU) with 50 small works by Mo Willems. https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/ See some examples in The Big Book Of Tiny Art on hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11959503 #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

What's next at Glendale Library, Arts & Culture? http://ow.ly/RDD450BTR8R

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 21: Draw in 3D. Make some drawings that jump off the page. Learn about the basics of perspective in order to give optical illusions to your drawing. Start with your hand: https://youtu.be/YNEXzvnD7mI and go on from there: https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-in-3D... #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

Tomorrow Wed Oct 21 @ 12:10pm! Glendale Noon Concerts with Violinist Ken Aiso & pianist Valeria Morgovskaya performing Brahms and Janacek. http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com//streaming-on-fac

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 20: Draw some Circles. Gather three sharpened pencils, three rubber bands, a few paper clips, some cardboard, a push pin, some string, and some paper to draw a circle without a compass. How to draw a circle without a compass. Dave Hax has a freehand circle drawing solution in the video, too. https://youtu.be/LvpCX89lHvU Explore printing circles with the Carle Museum. carlemuseum.org//toddler-art-exploration-printing-circles-... #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 19: Make Something for Someone Else. Draw a card or picture and give it away. Making something for someone else can be a great way to feel good and help someone else do so as well. Try starting a drawing and passing it on, in the tradition of the Surrealist Drawing Game Cadavre exquis (Exquisite Corpse). Fold a paper into thirds, draw something on one third of the paper, either the top bottom or middle of something. Then fold your drawing over, letting a few lines cross into the next section and pass it on for someone else to draw the next part. Get inspired and learn how with muralist Hugo Crosthwaite on PBS Digital Studios the Art Assignment. https://youtu.be/bauTo2C7M3Q #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome

With-Draw Together Tips for Day 18: Make Art Around your Fingerprints. Use charcoal or soft pencil to color your fingertips and use them to make a tonal or value drawing. Or just have some fun and add a few lines to a fingerprint to make a character. Check out the work of artist Nicolas Jolly who draws using a kind of cross hatching that looks like the patterns of fingerprints. https://www.thisiscolossal.com//drawings-made-with-finger/... Watch Let's Make some Great Fingerprint Art by Marion Deuchars. https://vimeo.com/49681168 While you’re at it take some time to appreciate the lines in your fingerprints: http://sciencemadefunsg.net/downloads/fingerprinting.pdf #withdrawtogether #brandfromhome