I am always looking for things I can use as paint tools for my mixed media work. I found these rubber drink coasters at Target. They come in a pack of four in the kitchen section and cost about...
Long shadows of the eclipise.This is a shot of the eclipise looking through my hubbys welding helmet. Good thing I am married to a welder!
This is the studio at North light books where we shot the pictures for my book.I had to organize all the projects for the book in zip lock bags. Then I packed them up and took them to Ohio for the ph...
Come and make mixed media Birds of Poetry. Fun and easy to make, I enjoy the variety of materials and techniques I can use in these pieces, painting, stenciling, sewing, beading, writing, e...
If you are taking my stencil class at journalfest, just some ideas for stencil designs.Photos for stencils- look for bold, simple strong lines and shapes. You can make a stencil design from almost an...
This is one of my new books for Stenciled Journal Journey at Journalfest. Painted on canvas with stencils, free hand painting and bit o collage.
I finally got it together to make my coloring book of portraits. This is a self-published book that has instructions for drawing your own faces and 25 faces that you can color, stamp, paint, collage,...
I will be teaching some classes at "A Work of Heart" in San Jose, CA. The first class will be painted pocket journals on Sep. 30, 2011 from 6-10 pm. To sign up, go to aworkofheart@g...
I had a yard sale today, it was a failure, I made 27 bucks. But while I was sitting there, I was working in one of my journals. This started with crayon scribble with a small amount of orange paint. ...
I am still not tried of the house shape. Chase the weird, you can just see my Grand Girls feet. This is a photo of a house from Fort Worden at Journalfest that I altered. Took a photo in downtown...
I have been on vacation for a couple of weeks, one of my projects was to work in my journal on a daily basis. These are the beginning layers of each page. I have more to do on each spread, I tend to ...
Every summer I like to create an outdoor paint studio. I finally set it this morning and did some spray painting with my 6 year old Grandson Ryder. He is pretty handy with a spray can. We do use lots...
Ruth from Seattle asked what colors of paint I use for my color mixing lessons. I use Blick student grade acrylics, I use chrome yellow, magenta and fluorescent blue. I dont use the traditional prima...
These are portraits that I painted and collaged on sheets of clear plexi-glass. I used to paint on clear plastic all the time in my kid art classes. Draw on one side with a black sharpies and then fl...
I have been checked out for a bit. I got a new lap top and software and Im not to swift on new technology. Finally I am figuring it all out.I hope to be blogging again!
scraps, scribbles and paint
I wanted to make a pencil holder for some of the pencils that I carry with me, I dont like to leave these loose in my other bags, cause they get the carbon and lead all over the other pens. I sewed t...
Someone asked where I get the sponge rollers that I use for my painting, I get them fromDick Blick Art Materials, Dickblick.com They have all kinds of great art supplies for very good prices.
Back from Artfest, lots of ideas floating around in my head. I still have to unpack all my art stuff and start a new journal. But I wanted to say thank you to all the artists who signed up for my cla...
At Artfest, several of the teachers were asked to participate in an art iron chef, we were given a bag of goodies and we had to use a minimum of 5 of the items in the bag to create a piece of art wit...
New bag, I wanted to try painting on an actual paint canvas from the hardware store. I cut chunk out of a painters canvas that I got a home depot, you know the kind you use to cover the floor when yo...
I had to make a few new pieces for Artfest, plus I need a new canvas bag! I made this bird stencil, my source of inspiration was a gift bag. The bag had a great bird shape on it. Now I look at all th...
I got some takeout food the other day in a styrofoam container, instead of throwing it away, I decided to make some printing plates from the foam. I just cut the Styrofoam into large flat pieces and ...
I have been getting ready for Artfest, these are some figures I made for the "Go Figure" class. They are mixed media, created from magazine pictures, painted paper, paper doll parts, random c...
Thanks for all your feed-back, the first choice is the new cover. I will put all your names in hat and draw a winner to get a copy of one of the artist coloring book, when I get them done!Thanks!
I am self publishing a coloring book of some of my portraits , which will have about 30 black and white faces that you can color, paint or alter in some way. I decided that I needed a colorful cover,...
I think the original piece of fabric was a tan polka dot before I started painting on it. The face is a little stencil I made from a photo from a book. You may see this journal in a new publication w...
I decided it was time to replenish my painted paper stash. Today I will work on more yellows, greens and some black and white. This is a great thing to do when I want to be creative but dont want to ...
Made a stencil from a photo of me, added to a journal page with some photos I took of clouds. I will have to journal on it or something. And I realized how may times am I actually going to use a sten...
I could not resist the backside of this box. I love to decorate boxes and envelopes. Do you think the postmen pay attention to them, or is it just a blur?
You are no longer following . Undo?