During the month of April I have been busy. I have worked in my mixed-media journal, worked on an art magazine challenge piece and started back with my classes at New Hampshire Institute of Art. In my art journaling, I created a new piece of mixed-media work. I received a fancy napkin from my Mom, […]
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Below is sample of the second level bookmaking class, The Bindings Make the Design; Handmade Books [Level 2] classes will be at AC Moore in Nashua, NH on May 6th [level 1] and May 20th [level2] 2014 at 6pm. In the book-binding class you will learn the Coptic stitch and the running stitch. ** If you missed
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I have been making handmade books and altering them for a while; now I will be showing others how to begin the process in classes I will give at AC Moore in Nashua, NH. In May, the book making I will be show how to create is a pocket tag journal, in accordion style; a
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March pages started with vintage tissue paper and my new Faber Castell Gelatos. I was having so much fun playing I did not take any photos as I was working and I actually did two sets of page layouts this past week, well since the 1st of the month. Using the Design Memory Craft Gelatos®
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Be creative each day and create art. There are days that are so crazy we tend to forget what we do for our-self or for enhancing our creativity. During the month of February, I sat and created art whenever and wherever, I had a few minutes. Some of the art was mixed media and
Inspiring Artists I have watched other artists on YouTube videos while they create their art, and it is always interesting to see how other artists work. I was inspired by Andrea Gomoll’s February challenge of creating faces this month, as I worked in my sketchbook. I also watched how Donna Downey and Christy Tomlinson create
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Inspired by the holiday of Love. Valentine’s Day is almost here, just a few days away. How will you decorate for the celebration? I hang hearts around my home. This year I created a mixed-media heart plaque. I began with a wood heart plaque, and painted the base with gesso. I then added tissue and
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I was looking back through my sketchbook and found the sketch pictured below and decided, “just do it.” I sketched this image in January of 2013; it is about creativity and the New Year. I used this as inspiration along with some inspiration from Donna Downey, a mixed-media artist on YouTube. Pictured is the sketch
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Holidays come upon us quickly. We start to wonder where the year went. I finished college exams last week. Now I can concentrate on the Holidays; the crafting and baking I love to do. My daughters are helping, getting into the spirit, decorating last evening. We played the Holiday music and snacked on crackers and cheese, all while
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When do you do your art making? 🙂 I am thinking art making will have to be between work and my graduate studies; although that is not much time, I just will have to do smaller art projects.
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Wild Angel – phototransfer, layers of mixed media I almost forgot; a few posts ago I mentioned some art I had been working on, well these are the images. What do you think? The mixed media transfer photo was fun to create, it is 8”x8” wood frame and it was great to work on
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I began on Monday my online classes for my Masters. I am liking the way the program is set up, better than I realized. Still it is a lot of reading and writing. The professors’ ask to utilize what happens in my own classroom, well that is difficult, as I don’t have my own classroom,
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