While I was working on a new cover project in my studio, I ended up with a bunch of paper hearts that were leftovers from the project. Not being one to pass up an opportunity to use up my scraps, I worked...
I don’t skate . . . anymore. My ankles don’t like it when I do. Also, my knees complain. But that doesn’t make me want these ice skates any less. I found these lovely skates at an antique market and immediately...
Tonia Jenny Ricë Freeman-Zachery Join Tonia Jenny (longtime acquisitions editor for North Light Books), Ricë Freeman-Zachery (artist/editor/writer/blogger extraordinaire), and I for some insight...
Star light star bright, first star I see tonight . . . This Friday’s photo is of a stenciled starburst I made with a Crafter’s Workshop- Julie Balzer Burst Stencil and some gesso. You can either try using...
What colors do you usually paint with? Do you create with the same colors you wear? Is your home decorated in the same color as you wear and paint with? What if you introduced more colors? What would happen...
Check out this little fungi! This image was captured at a county fair in the fungus collection. I got lots of other photos of mushrooms of all different shapes and sizes but this ‘thing’ really intrigued...
Is it time for a change? We just got our first bit of snow here as a storm blew through a week after super storm Sandy paid a visit. The other seasons seem to change so gradually but there is no denying...
You make me feel like sketchin’, gonna sketch the night away. You make me feel like sketchin’. I feel like sketchin’—ooh, sketchin’—ooh. Sketch the night away . . . Goodness! My apologies. I got a little...
How do you start on a canvas? Do you work from white or do you like to cover the background with black gesso or bright bits of color? Do you like to collage images on the background first? Getting started...
Have you ever opened a copy of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine and wished you could see your own artwork and techniques featured inside? Well, wishing won’t make it so, but there are steps you can...
So, perhaps I’m cheating just a little bit with this photo. I ran it through a colored pencil filter to encourage you to try a little drawing today, or this week. Sometimes, it’s difficult to draw from...
When the idea to do this Encaustic Week was announced, I immediately knew what I wanted to talk about. Assemblage! As editor of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, I get a really good look at a lot of new techniques...
Have you been just reading along and checking out the photos from my Photo Friday blog all this time and not actually made anything? What?!?! Are you chicken? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Plus, I had the...
I am in a pumpkin funk. Don’t worry, I’m not sure it’s contagious, but I think it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Oh, did I forget to mention that I like being in a pumpkin daze? Yes...
Yesterday I had the awesome opportunity to spend an hour talking art with our fabulous Adventures in Arting columnist (and incredibly talented artist), Julie Fei-Fan Balzer along with her always...
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