I was going through one of my ephemera packs this evening, when I noticed something that I’d seen before (X2). I’m a sucker for the real thing and honestly, it is much more interesting than the small reproduction. Plus they are the covers of the mixed media juicy journal!
Tonight I’ve been playing with xylene transfers using blender markers. I went and found some images on the net that I liked. If they had any writing on them, I made sure to flip them so the writing is backwards and then printed them out on a toner based printer. Then I positioned the image on the paper and began
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Yesterday I was out shopping for art supplies for the upcoming workshops I have scheduled at Texas Art Asylum (I’ll be posting links for registration in the next couple of weeks). One of the items on my list was sandpaper, which I use to rough up slick surfaces so that gesso adheres better and to make surfaces more permeable for
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Sewing has been the bane of my existance since Home Ec in junior high and high school. Although I wanted to learn to sew and tried my hand at sewing clothes, I wasn’t very good at it. I did successfully manage to make some MC Style Hammer Pants and a vest when I was in college, but I still felt
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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo If you look at the definition of Renaissance, it refers to a particular time in the Middle Ages (14th-16th Centuries) where there was a rebirth in Art, Science and intellectual pursuits. Personally, I like the definition that focuses on rebirth and revival. I consider myself to be a Renaissance Woman.
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When I was very young. I had a quilt that my great-grandma Paulsen had made me, it was a patchwork quilt tied together with red strings. I used that quilt until it fell apart. When I was a teenager we made quilt blocks for my dad and my sister-in-law ended up putting it together shortly before Mom Died (you can
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I don’t watch much commercial TV. Instead I was PBS and usually online. I don’t care about SMASH, The Voice, or American Idol. Give me NOVA, FrontLine, America Revealed, and the American Experience. These shows have meat and they teach us much about our country and our world (that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t keep learning on our own though!).
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