Showing posts with label hand painted. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hand painted. Show all posts

Sunday, July 29, 2012

MY CLASS AT THE LAC

Look at the cool stuff that the women in my stamping & printing class did !!!
I was so excited with the way they just picked up on the techniques
 & then just let their creativity fly.






These techniques & tools are so simple that everyone can unleash all kinds
 of new ideas and ways to use their creations.


 I was having so much fun that I forgot to take pictures until the end
 and some of the pieces were already packed away & out the door.
They were all so unique & gorgeous.




What I loved was how we all kept discovering new ways to play
 with all the crazy found objects.  
  



Leslie brought these great lunch bags to print on - aren't they wonderful?
 
 



Everyone seemed to gravitate toward their own personal color palettes
 - very interesting how the same techniques produced such uniquely different art.



And, as always, I get as many new ideas from everyone else as I hope I give to them.
 It's all about sharing & bouncing things off of each other.
 Creative energy at it's best.
 
 
 






Thanks girls - I had a BLAST.








P.S. Don't forget to check out the exhibit at the Newport Library Arts Center (www.libraryartscenter.org).
 The Written Word show opened on Friday - the pieces are so interesting. I'm thrilled to have a piece in the exhibit.
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Friday, April 20, 2012

THE GIRLS


Art dolls made from fabric that I've dyed and stamped.
The stamps are handmade, super simple AND FUN. This doll pattern was in Quilting Arts Magazine Issue #8  Winter 2002


I've been dinkin' around with paper clay and air dry clay and these cool face molds. Very easy - just glued onto the dolls. The clay & molds can be found in most craft stores (ie. Michaels or JoAnn's ) usually with the Fimo clay stuff.
*** The face on the 3rd doll is pewter from Artchix  www.artchixstudio.com





Thursday, March 1, 2012

SPRING IS ON THE WAY

Well we finally have some snow-just in time to usher in the first day of March.



A good time to hunker down and do some projects

I just mailed this out to my sister for her birthday
hope she doesn't see my post today.

I've been stamping up a storm



These are a few of my handmade stamps




Notice that I'm taking close up photos - I don't want you to see the total mess that I create when I'm working.
This is a more realistic view here. I haven't eaten a meal on a real table in years - Isn't that why they invented TV tray tables anyway?


I'm always in awe of those perfect studios in magazines. How does anyone get anything done in those studios ?  I mean REALLY!!!! The only place that I ever saw a studio that I could relate to was Robbi Joy Ecklow's in STUDIOS magazine (Spring 2010) in an article called "Disorganized Organization"


Friday, August 7, 2009

League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair

This is the quilt that I collaborated on with my friend Linda Dunning. It looks so good in this dining room setting, surrounded by beautifully hand crafted furniture & accessories
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OCEAN
30”x90” Hand dyed cottons-hand painted silks –fused,machine pieced,machine quilted




If anyone is in New Hampshire this weekend you really should go to the Fair - Aug 1-9- This is one of the oldest crafts fairs in the country ( 76 years!!!). -350+ juried craftspeople –really extraordinary exhibits.

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It’s located at Mt Sunapee in Newbury, NH. Music,workshops,demos,food,scenic chairlift rides & of course you can see our quilt in all it’s glory in the Living With Crafts exhibit in the Lodge. www.nhcrafts.org

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