Why make your own stamps, stencils, and silkscreens? Inquiring minds want to know! Of course we all love to learn new techniques and processes, but are there concrete reasons to invest the time in learning how to make your own tools? I think the answer...
Getting your Summer Journal up to Speed At the end of last month I shared 10 journal prompts for summer and asked you, our diligent and creative readers to send in your best ideas for jump starting a journal. I can’t post all 50+ terrific prompt ideas...
I love interesting metal but I don’t necessarily like new and shiny, or for that matter, new and dull. Sometimes I want it scratchy, other times I want it to be another color. Today, I thought I’d share a video tutorial for altering your metal doo-dads...
This Just In Whether it’s a product, a tool, or a storage item, we have all used our things in imaginative ways to help make our art spaces or our art our own. A child’s lunchbox repurposed to corral ribbons, a vintage hutch storing paints...
a.k.a. Guerrilla Art Hopefully you’re spending your summer learning something new with a book like Living Into Art, or a Cloth Paper Scissors DVD Workshop(TM). If you’ve read your July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors already, then you’ve already...
I was recently alerted to a local encaustic conference by Amy Stoner, one of our new DVD artists. In the spirit of an industrious beat reporter, I made the trek up to Beverly, MA for the fourth annual Encaustic Painting Conference and spent some...
Congratulations SUDUKC! You’re the winner of the Summer Art Journaling contest. Please email your mailing address to me at jmason@interweave.com by July 30th to receive your prize! Thanks to everyone for your fantastic Art Journaling Prompt ideas...
Hi all! I’m so glad to be here at Cloth Paper Scissors ! As the online editor for Artist Daily , this is my first opportunity to pop in at CPS , but I hope it is the first of many. One of the things I love about the artistic process is that we all...
The dog days of summer... sigh. Though that may have a negative connotation for some, to me it means longer days and more time to accomplish some creative projects that were put on hold earlier in the year. But how do you fit it in with all of...
Have you been following along with us and Dawn Sokol’s ‘Art Journaling: Pages in stages’ column in Cloth Paper Scissors ? We started the three part series in our May/June issue with painting. In our July/August issue we are covering collage, and coming...
You may have been reading Cloth Paper Scissors for four months or four years. You know your way around rusted metal, ledger sheets, and image transfers with your eyes closed. You drink encaustic wax and eat peanut butter and gel medium sandwiches for...
The summer calendar is filling up fast! And one not-to-be-missed event is the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California, July 23-25 (Preview Night July 22). Yes, it is a quilt show, but mixed-media artists would be totally remiss to overlook...
We are counting the days here at Cloth Paper Scissors Headquarters. We can’t wait to CREATE with you. August 25th-29th, is right around the corner and we’re pulling out all the stops for our first-ever art retreat, and setting the mixed-media world on...
Are you ever so impressed with something your children made in school that you are inspired to run back to your studio and make something? Such is the case with this cool little pop up book that my daughter made in 3rd grade. It was all tied up...
A remarkable thing has happened since I reorganized and moved my studio space (documented in the Summer 2010 issue of Studios): whenever I need something, I know right where it is.
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