My local region of the SDA is having a juried member exhibit next year. Submissions for the show are due November 1st so I have been doing a lot of sketching and brainstorming about create a new piece of work to submit. They’re encouraging 3d works so I’m planning on doing something that will be [...]
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     | The fall issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Studios is now available for pre-order! (cover image by Debbie Patterson) This issue has part 2 of my 4 part series on building my custom studio and it’s all about flooring choices. Can you guess what I’ll be using for the floor in my studio? Will it be [...] I’ve been working on my book for the sketchbook project non stop all week. Here’s a look at a few more of the inside pages: Once I finished embellishing all the pages I stacked them all up and measured the width of the pile to determine what size to cut the spine. Because [...] Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to take a class with Jane Dunnewold at Pro Chemical &Dye in Fall River MA. I’ve been following and admiring Jane’s work for a lot of years now and so when I saw that she was going to be in my area (well a little [...] It’s reveal time for the latest Fiberactions challenge. This challenges theme was “memory”and the first thing that came to mind when I saw the challenge word “memory”was to choose a memory of some event in my life and depict that in fabric. But I just couldn’t seem to rally around that idea because [...] I started to feel a little worried that the pages of the sketchbook were not going to hold up very long under a lot of handling. My first thought was to use heavier paper but that didn’t feel right. The rules say you can do that but I felt like that would be a waste [...] So I mentioned in my last post that I had signed up for the Sketchbook Project (my theme is “lines &grids”) and that I was planning on re-binding my book. Well I cleared off the worktable and got started on it yesterday. I thought there might be some interest in the process of taking [...] Since I had the grungeboard bin out I decided to make a couple more journals: Both of these are in my etsy shop here. I got a lot of emails about the one I blogged about in my previous post asking if this journal was part of one of my online classes. Unfortunately it is [...] It’s been a while since I made a paper bag/grungeboard journal… Hard to believe that background is a paper bag isn’t it? It’s even harder to believe when you hold it in your hand,you’d swear it was leather… |     It's easy to make your own Silk screens using the sun with PhotoEZ Sheets from EZScreenPrint!Use the offer code SUE10 at checkout to get 10% off your order! Get all the details"here"   | ||
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