Fairy Tail

This isn't a new piece but rather one I did before I started the blog.  I'm posting it so that a friend of mine, who moved to North Dakota can see it.

Twice in 1 month!

I said in my last post that I wanted to make dent in my pile of UFOs (Un Finished Objects) and here is another one! 

Carnival - the putting away of the flesh



This was started last April, in that class I took from Sarena Barton http://www.serenabarton.com/index.php
at Artiscape.  Some things just take a while to mature.

Goth Arches

I love gothic arches but I thought this picture should be about something more than just an architectural form.  Thus all the goth faces.  Most of them are from http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/index.php   a clipart site called Grandma's Graphics.

The final layer of gel medium did make it kind of soft and bumpy but I think some of that is some camera shake as well - I probably should re-photograph it.  Hopefully, I'll have some more work to post soon - I'm making an effort to finish several half-done pieces.

A Couple Christmas Cards

I am not much of a card person - while I used to send out store-bought Christmas cards to my friends, most of them didn't do that, so I didn't get many in return.  These days, about the only Christmas cards I do are handmade ones for the members of my paper arts group.  I want to be creative rather than bored, so each card is different.  Here are a couple from this year's bunch:

fabric collage

I started this in a class I took at CREATE art retreat in Chicago this summer, taught by Elin Waterston.  There is a picture of it as a work in progress in her blog:
http://willlovelogic.blogspot.com/

Tracks of India

Pearl Ex backgrounds

A Yahoo group for mixed-media artists, Cloth, Paper, Studio,is discussing art supplies one buys and then forgets what they were for.  Pearl Ex was mentioned and I brought up the technique of spraying dark paper (textured is best) with spray starch, sprinkling a little Pearl Ex and manipulating with a sponge brush.  Really simple!  I've scanned some of the papers I've done although the metallic sparkle doesn't photograph that well:

Back from CREATE

I didn't go to CREATE last year because it is scheduled so soon after Pennsic, but since I can't go to Art Is... this year (they've scheduled it with Saturday falling on Yom Kippur), I thought I'd give it a try.  The classes I took were interesting and enjoyable, but I didn't manage to get much finished.  However, during the Encaustic ATCs class, I got the materials and the advice to finish something I'd started at Art Is... last fall.

Elizabeth Regina

I also completed an abstract ATC in that class.