WOW! That was FUN! In the end that is. The Strathmore Online Workshop 1 is finished. Traci Bautista taught this class and she put together a great workshop for us. I think I am past drawing glamorous dream girls. My Mom taught me to draw girls when I was about 8 and I must have [...]
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Re-Use, Upcyle, Add Another Layer or Two – Keep an Art Journal
I always carry a Moleskine journal with me when I am out and about. Not the Art Journal type, but the thin papered, writing in kind. I keep a running list of ‘to dos’ and ideas. Yes, yes, I have an iPad and an iPod etc. but I was trained on paper and that is [...]
Studio Re-vamp 2011|Keep an Art Journal
I am starting a new online art journaling class with Kelly Kilmer called Revel in the Moment. I will make a separate journal for this class. On the way to making my journal I decided to reorganize my studio. Enough climbing over things and reaching around things to find a spray bottle, a drawer of paper [...]
Journalfest 2011 – the extras
Soon I will stop blogging about Journalfest. It has had a lifetime impact on me so I will never stop thinking about it and being someone that comes from having been there. Upon arrival everyone checked in and received a goodie bag along with our room keys and an orientation booklet. In the goodie bag, [...]
Journalfest 2011 – My Miraculous Vacation – Keep an Art Journal
It’s a miracle – I got to go to Journalfest 2011! Sometimes miracles feel like a lot of work, but in the end a miracle is a miracle and who is gonna say no to that? Getting to Journalfest was a major part of the experience! I left Denver in a heavy snowstorm, getting de-iced [...]
Fabric Paper and Eucalyptus Paper Collage – Make an Art Journal
I’ve been making fabric-paper or stitch-paper over the past weeks using decorative napkins acquired in an online napkin swap. I have tried a couple of different fabric-paper/stitch-paper methods and the two that are most reliable for me are Kelli Perkin‘s method and Beryl Taylor’s method. Caution: You need to know for any of these stitch-papers/fabric-papers, [...]
Kelly Kilmer – July Art Journaling Classes
On the last Friday in July I treated myself to a Kelly Kilmer IRL (In Real Life) Art Journaling Workshop! Kelly comes to Colorado once a year and once or twice a year to Arizona. I do my best to make it to at least one of her art journaling classes. The Colorado classes this [...]
Is It Done Yet? More Thinking Outside the Book…
You saw the beginnings of this page in the previous post (at the very end). My question is, “Is it done yet? or am I just in the middle? Maybe I could add more of the ribbon across the top. Or more text, maybe white on the darker patches of purple. Did I leave too [...]
Think Outside the Book – samantha kira harding
The July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, one of my favorite magazines, had an article by Samantha Kira Harding. It was titled Think Outside the Book. I loved the idea, the only problem? I’m not much for sewing. In school, when starting 7th grade all the girls were required to take Home-Ec so I know [...]
Art Journal Every Day – Flower A Day – Week 2- Keep an Art Journal
Following Julie Fei-Fan Balzer in her Face-a-Day project. This week I really did manage to tone down the background enough to be with my daily Flower -a-day project. Now if I could just get the blogging to keep up with the daily flower. I started out meaning to draw some California Poppies as I have [...]
