Sketchbook Challenge

I am so tickled to tell you all that I have been asked to participate as one of this year's Sketchbook Challenge Hosts!  It's a fabulous group of mixed media artists organized by Sue Bleiweiss.  Every month a challenge is issued, hoping to get people to pick up their sketchbooks and dive in with whatever medium they choose.  There are regular prize opportunities too!   I made a small journal for my contributions this month.  If you want to see all the goodies inside, hop on over to Sketchbook Challenge!

Create CA

Hi gang! Just back from CREATE California, and doing a turn and burn right back to Las Vegas for Art & Soul.  Create was wonderful, and my students were awesome!  They were so open to trying new things, and they plunged right in working and creating wonderful art!  It was so wonderful to meet each one of them in person. 

Pam Carriker and I roomed together again, and we had such a great time trying out each others methods!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE her Mixed Media Adhesive, and will never leave home without it again!  You get all the strength of matte medium, but it has a bit of a ground in it, so instead of the slick plastic-y feel of straight matte medium, you get a lovely toothy surface that you can write on with pencil, pastels and paint with watercolors!  I've always been a huge fan of the liquid pencil, but now that it comes in a squeeze bottle!!! Wow- over the top.  I've been putting mine in squeeze bottles for years and being able to forgo this messy step is heaven!

I have to tell you I have been art stalking Joanne Sharpe for years, admiring her work.  I got to meet her!  OOOH pinch me!  Jen Cushman, Ruth Rae, Kristen Robinson, Jacqueline Newbold, Jeannie Palmer Moore, Most of the CPS gals, and OOOh I'm sure I'm leaving someone out...I had a whirlwind of a fabulous time!

So if you would like to experience some of this wonderful-ness for yourself, come play with me in Las Vegas this week at ART & SOUL!  These wonderful art retreats can change you life!!!

Relic rings

Playing with my polymer clay and Knead-a-mold again!  Finished them off with fabulous metal paints and patinas.  Iron, Copper and Bronze are my 3 favorites to work with. I love how these are organic, and continue to change from day to day as the patina blooms and develops.  Made tons of these and friends gobbled them up as soon as I made them, so I had to make more to donate at the CREATE Orange County Mixed Media Retreat this coming week!  If you are in the Irvine area, come play with me in my workshops!

Eye Candy

I have been so busy lately, pulled in so many directions, and buried alive in so many projects that I'm trying to give my all to, and I've been absent and neglectful of fun art here in bloglandia!  So to make up for it, I'm posting some of the projects I finished just recently.

Hope you enjoy!  I call these little darlings my Vivacious Vials.

Create Blog Hop

I'm teaching at CREATE in California!  I would LOVE to see you so jump in and join my friends and I!

Plus, this being Mother's Day Weekend- What A GREAT IDEA for a gift of spending time with MOM?  Treat her to a trip to CREATE with you!!!!

Besides teaching, I'll be vending at these locations, and will be sure to have my full line of Stamps, as well as my various other goodies!

CREATE Orange County

May 30-June 3, 2012

Hyatt Regency Irvine

Saturday June 2
A Fluid Romance

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

 

 


Saturday June 2

Carved Stamp Papers

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll also be teaching at CREATE New Jersey!

July 18-22, 2012
Doubletree Somerset Hotel

Wednesday July 18
A Fluid Romance
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Thursday July 19
Jelly Roll Journals
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Rockin' Resin Reliquaries
Friday, July 20
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Saturday July 21

Vintage Vessels
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

And Hooray!  I also have the priviledge of teaching at CREATE Chicago!
August 22-26, 2012
Wyndham Lisle-Chicago
Lisle, IL

Wednesday August 22   A Fluid Romance   9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Thursday August 23   Jelly Roll Journals   9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Friday August 23   Vintage Vessels  9:00 am - 4:00 pm

My instructor friends are putting on a blog hop with pictures, so be sure and stop by their blogs this weekend.

Dawn Sokol: dblogala.com/

Dea Fischer:http://www.thestarbook.ca/

Helen Shafer Garcia: agavelatte.blogspot.com

Jacqueline Newbold: djnewbold.blogspot.com

Jeannie P. Moore: Jeanniemooresblog.blogspot.com
Jen Cushman: http://jencushman.wordpress.com
Joanne Sharpe: joannezsharpe.blogspot.com
Jodi Ohl: sweetrepeats.blogspot.com

Leighanna Light: Thingmakerstudio.blogspot.com

Lisa Engelbrecht: lisaletters.blogspot.ca

Orly Avineri: oneartistjournal.wordpress.com

Pam Carriker: pamcarriker.com

Robin Dudley-Howes: robindudleyhowes.blogspot.com

Sandra Duran Wilson: sandraduranwilson.blogspot.com

Sherrie Drummond: sherriejd.com

Sue Pelletier: suepelletierlaughpaint.com
Tiffany Teske: tiffanyteske.com
Bianca Mandity: http://biancandm.blogspot.com/
Kristen Robinson: http://kristenrobinson.typepad.com/

Clarissa Callesen: http://clarissacallesen.blogspot.com/

Coming to California!

Hi gang!  Hope you'll forgive the nervousness, I made my first videos to talk about my upcoming classes at CREATE Orange County in June!  (Anyone who knows me KNOWS how much I dread being on this side of the camera!)

Rockin' Resin Reliquaries  Friday June 1, 2012

Carved Stamp Papers   Saturday June 2, 2012

A Fluid Romance   Saturday June 2, 2012

Please tell your friends who may live in the area, I have a few open spaces in my classes still!

Tennessee Anyone?

Hi gang!  I've been out on the road again, and working on some new workshop ideas for NEXT Year's workshops!  I keep meaning to post pictures, and will soon, but every time I go to do it, the camera is not where the computer is.

Vintage Vessels

I will be at Townsend Atelier in Chattanooga this weekend, with some fun classes, and there are a couple of spots left!  I would love to have you join me, and check out the awesome studio space Stan and Peggy Townsend have put together!  Click here for more info!

Vintage Vessels
Enjoy polymer clay in its finest hour by creating a one-of-a-kind box!  Delight in creating lovely faux-aged vessels to store the most precious of trinkets.   Learn how to use Knead-a-Mold to cast lovely old jewelry pieces  accented by hand rolled and textured forms.   Rubber stamps and metal paints give depth and dimension, while mild acidic washes allow us to enjoy the very best of “instant” aging. The resulting new pieces have very old souls.  Each student will receive a plentiful  materials kit.

Stamped & Stencilled Journals
These richly patterned journal  pages explode with color and visual depth. The binding technique is especially for pages to lie flat when opened.  Students will use stencils and stamps in a unique layering technique to create signatures and covers.  This journal is a treat to hold, and even more enjoyable to use! You’ll find the creation of the pages so much fun, I’ll have to stop you so we’ll have time to bind the journal!  The color and excitement on the pages will give you a great jumping off point and inspire your journaling every time you see it!  Each student will receive a plentiful materials kit

The Studio is comfortable and well equipped, with every luxury.  Spacious, with plenty of room to spread out and work, this well located studio has plenty of free parking!  Hope to see you there!