Tomorrow is October 1st, the kickoff to Inktober, a month when artists challenge themselves to create an ink drawing every day. Are you in? I hope so—I look forward to this event every year. I always encourage artists to take part in Inktober if they can, since it’s a great opportunity to take your creativity…
October is also Inktober, a month-long event where artists challenge themselves to create an ink drawing a day for 31 days and share their work using the hashtag #Inktober. We asked members of our Cloth Paper Scissors community to show us what they were working on, and we received some amazing artwork! First up is…
This mixed media piece was inspired by forgiving, forgetting and letting go. The flowers and birds were drawn with watercolor pencils and inkpens.
this piece began with a discarded remote control, which i utilized only the cover, painting it to make it metallic – to sort of give the idea of a paintbox or some other kind of display/collection box. i "riveted" in my paper flowers and some awesome green moss, and sewed it to this piece of…
layers of ephemera and gesso lie beneath this ink drawing of a girl, painted with acrylic, and her heart caged with barbed wire.
an art journal page exploring the tension between meeting expectations (behave, act like a lady, etc.) and living from desire (delight! dance! etc); using ink drawings and bits of color introduced through paint and thread. lots of layers- my favorite!
a page from my art journal, incorporating my own photography and drawing, in addition to paint & text
A Familiar Tale is a hand-bound, Victorian style album with a debossed velvet cover. The book contains a humorous, allegorical fable of a woman and her struggle with a dog-like beast which represents a negative obsession, such as drug addiction, a bad relationship or over-eating. The illustrations are ink-jet prints of my original…
This art journal is an altered address book; I bought a new planner and had no use for the little address book that came with, but didn't want to throw it out. So I decided to use it as an art journal. I liked that the tabs allowed me to find each page easily. …
I created this book while volunteering at Esalen as an artist's assistant for a former professor. The book is made up of individual cards that are attached to open in an accordion-style. It also incorporates cardboard paper-doll forms in the center of the book. The pages each function individually, and capture different moments or…
