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Succulent Love complete
Succulent Love 36″ x 32″ A couple months ago I posted about painting a new piece called Succulent Love, and in the mean time, I’ve had a couple teaching gigs and a vacation trip and have been working...
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Succulent Love
I have always loved succulents and cacti. Years ago when I lived in Los Angeles, I had a pretty big collection, but I had to give them away when I moved across country. Now that I’m back in California...
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The Value of Contrast and Taking Risks
Before I start talking about painting, I want to say a big Thank you! to everyone who ordered my book! If you’d like to order a copy of my book, click on the photo, use promocode 15MAY for 15% off,...
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Bee-lieving in productivity and abundance
Spring is all around us here with trees blossoming everywhere you look, I can’t help but feel inspired and after teaching in Visalia and before preparing for my next teaching gig in Amador county with...
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Discovering the hidden perks of a truckload of dung
Update: I was very excited to learn my quilt ‘8 of Cups’ won a blue ribbon for Best Use of Color at Pacific International Quilt Festival while I was at Arrowmont! Believe it or not, ‘Discovering...
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New product review: Golden High Flow Acrylics
Recently I bought some Golden High Flow acrylics to experiment with. These are not the same as Golden’s Fluid Acrylics which are slightly thicker in consistency. The high flow acrylics are like...
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Would you like to buy a thermofax screen designed by me?
Lynn Krawczykof Fibra Artysta, you may also know her as the thermofax queen, invited a few of her fellow creative friends to design a thermofax screen to sell in her Etsy Shop. The screen I designed...
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Win a spot in Lesley Riley’s Mastering the Art of Transfers TAP class!
UPDATE! The winner is Linda McGlaughlin. Thanks to everybody who participated here. Check out the blog list below for other chances to win. My good friend, artist and author, Lesley Riley has a new...
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Make a faced binding
Quite often I think bindings can visually distract from an art quilt. Of course there are times when the binding integrates visually to the overall design of a quilt and is a necessary design element....
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Growing pains
I think it’s important to keep growing, learning, honing skills and expanding ones repertoire. The hard part is how all encompassing it can sometimes feel. I’ve been very busy with several projects...
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Making Felted Wool Eggs
Since Easter is right around the corner, I thought it would be a good time to repost this tutorial on making felted eggs. These are really fun to make and stitch, enjoy! While I was poking around on...
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An Artist Date at the Museum
A few months ago I moved to Sacramento and one of the first outings I made was to the Crocker Art Museum. Right now there is a fantastic exhibit of Norman Rockwell paintings and I have already seen the...
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Getting back into creative mode
Now that I’m pretty much settled in, the holidays are over and life is returning to its new normal, it’s time to get back to work. Recently, my good friend Lesley Riley, asked me to submit a piece for...
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Printing some last minute wrapping paper for the holiday
When I left Chicago, I ruthlessly tossed a lot of things, one of which was my stash of miscellaneous gift wrapping paper. Now that the holiday is imminent, I made some new gift wrap using the...
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Prepping fabric
I have so much on my plate that I have very little creative time right now, but I did pull out paint and fabric to prepare for my next teaching gig in Springfield MO for the Ozark Quilters show next...
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Tea bags revisited
My life is a in a bit of chaos right now and I havent been able to work on anything art related for a couple weeks, so I’m reposting a couple of older blog posts about using tea bags and paper on...
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Painted ipad Bag
I have been wanting to buy a case for my ‘new’ ipad, but have held off because I read the ipad 2 cases didn’t work with the new ipads because they moved the magnet that puts it in sleep mode when you...
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A Simple Resist Technique with Acrylic Inks
One fun little technique I found works great with acrylic inks (this would also work with Tsukineko inks) is to draw on fabric with a colored pencil or china marker and paint over it like a simple...
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Would you like to buy a thermofax screen designed by me?
Lynn Krawczykof Fibra Artysta, you may also know her as the thermofax queen, invited a few of her fellow creative friends to design a thermofax screen to sell in her Etsy Shop. The screen I designed...
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