All those new collage papers I made in Paducah set me off down the rabbit hold of fodder techniques. Time to put the big stash of new goodies to use - this is the first in a series called All My Dreams Flew Out the Window - in the best possible...
I finished it! One of those 100 day Instagram projects done and dusted. I decided to use this project to experiment with gouache - one of those things I had in my stash but had never used. As you can see on the left, a little gouache goes a long...
The stars aligned and I was finally able to stop by Ephemera in Paducah, Kentucky to take a workshop this month. It fit perfectly (kind of) into a road trip we decided to make for me to do a speaking engagement in Austin, Texas. And gave me a...
One of my favorite things in my studio is this gallery wall. I don’t really frame very much, like I said in the last post, but this lets me clip works in process or recently finished (or not so recenty finished) pieces. It’s adjustable up and...
It took me a while to understand why so many of the artists I follow always seem to post pictures of their work beautifully framed and hanging in well-curated rooms. I kept wondering how they afforded to frame everything, how they stored it all,...
The picture I chose of March is a sampler piece I completed during an on-line workshop with Valerie Goodwin, a quilt artist. The workshop is called Map Haiku, and the pieces are abstract representations of places, real or imagined, rendered in...
If you are an Instagram Artist, the #100 day project is familiar to you. If not, here’s the gist of it - starting this year in mid-February, if you choose to participate you choose some kind of project you will work on every day for 100 days and...
Well, I got my answer from the universe on how to work with morning pages. Just as I was beginning the Artist Way program, an artist named Catherine Rains that I follow on Instagram spoke about something called Illumine Hour. It is hosted by a...
One of the new things I started in February, mid-February to be exact, is working with an on-line community through the 12 week Artist Way program. This one is organized by Meredith Hite-Estevez who works under the Lumina Arts Foundation brand and...
Well, there weren’t any acual journeys this January, not of the road trip variety anyway, but there were lots of artistic journeys. This picture is from a weekly assignment with the ongoing Paper Pals Collage Club with Lucie Duclos and the Winslow...