Joined another mermaid swap, 'cause I just love these gals. These ATCs are made with a combination of acrylic paints, art paper, acrylic embellishments and transparency sheets, on which I collaged some sea life.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
CREATE banner
Fun class today using a variety of papers and picking out ribbons and coordinating colors...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 04, 2011
Hot Mojo - playing with meltable textiles
From my Hot Mojo art class (dabbling with meltable fibers, textiles). I put the piece together at home and embellished it with various metals, but the centerpiece was made in class using hand-painted Tyvek, finely shredded cellophane called Angelina, and little snippets of Textiva, all melted together. I also sewed some bronze beads to the Tyvek. The background canvas was painted black, then washed with a copper shimmer.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
"Monster" Artist Trading Cards
I painted these cutie-monsters with acrylics on art paper with rub-on fleurs at the top.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Faces: the Heart of People
I've been wanting to create this kind of character artwork for more than a couple of years now, inspired by artists such as Monica Zuniga and Kelly Rae Roberts. Here is my first attempt. A little rough on the blending (I used a combo of art pens and acrylics. I think I'll use mostly acrylics next time), but I think overall I like how she turned out and can't wait to make more. Her dress is made of vintage sheet music over which I painted.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Domino Effect
Here's a series of domino art I made in a workshop earlier this month. These were so fun and easy! I used alcohol ink pens for the color and Stayz-On for the image base. Each step was protected by a matte finish coating to protect.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Two spreads in a journal RR
Here are two spreads I did last night in artist Terri N-W's journal round robin. Her theme was Pierrot/harlequin/Marcel Marceau/jesters, etc.
(My scanner cut off the pages a little, but you can get the gist of it.)
(My scanner cut off the pages a little, but you can get the gist of it.)
Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Postcards from around the world
The Postcard Crossing Project has been around for about three years now, but I just stumbled on the Web site through another artist's blog (thanks wackystuff!).
You sign up to send and receive postcards from people all over the world. One member just received his 1,000th postcard! The site is trying to log 2 million received postcards and is about 23,000 shy.
I just signed up because it sounds like fun -- and it's so much better than getting only bills in the mail!
Check it out:
I also put a perma-link in my right-side column.
You sign up to send and receive postcards from people all over the world. One member just received his 1,000th postcard! The site is trying to log 2 million received postcards and is about 23,000 shy.
I just signed up because it sounds like fun -- and it's so much better than getting only bills in the mail!
Check it out:
I also put a perma-link in my right-side column.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monica Zuniga's giving this away!
Uplifting spiritual artist Mónica Zúñiga is giving away this beautiful piece of art on canvas. Check out her blog by clicking the title above this post to find out how to enter. Or check out the link "Hands & Heart" on my artists blogroll to the right. I've been a fan of her work for a long time and recently bought one of her gorgeous paintings!
So much art, so little time...
Perhaps this time piece I created earlier this month at Jo's will help remind me to make more time for art. I'm so busy, art has taken a back seat recently to all my other priorities. Which is a shame, considering that art helps ground me and bring peace to my otherwise hectic life.
This clock is made out of a little tin lunch box -- about 4 inches by 3 inches. It was primed with Killz before I splotched on acrylic paints to give it an antiqued look. Others dabbed on alcohol inks, which I did use for the clock hands to dull some of the shininess.
The swirls and stuff are from a rubber stamp and some rub-ons. The BINGO card is a cut-out. The clock numbers are on little round pieces of wood, on which I stamped the numbers. Some artists used Scrabble tiles.
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This clock is made out of a little tin lunch box -- about 4 inches by 3 inches. It was primed with Killz before I splotched on acrylic paints to give it an antiqued look. Others dabbed on alcohol inks, which I did use for the clock hands to dull some of the shininess.
The swirls and stuff are from a rubber stamp and some rub-ons. The BINGO card is a cut-out. The clock numbers are on little round pieces of wood, on which I stamped the numbers. Some artists used Scrabble tiles.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Monday, December 01, 2008
Free Christmas-themed printables
Lisa Vollrath brings back her annual holiday present with The Original Printables Holiday Countdown. Get a new set of downloadable holiday images every day between now and Dec. 25 by visiting her site.Merry Christmas!
Homicide Turkey!
Riffing on noir art for a turkey-themed Thanksgiving postcard. This one digital, of course. It's hard to glue while one is giggling the whole time. :-)Oh, and I'll have to pay homage to wackystuff for this piece, without whom such demented alterations would not be nearly as inspired!
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