Newest Published Artwork in Somerset

Just got my copy of the new Sew Somerset with an article I wrote about some of my journals that I made. I love these colorful little books. Of Course, Somerset always does a great job of photographing the work. I made the books with leftover scraps of my hand painted fabrics. I also used old black and white photos and button cards.

Exquisite Corspe Book

I took to take one class at Journalfest, Yes! It was a book class by Dan Essig. I learned a new binding technique and we used sheets of mica for the cover. We placed art work and pictures under the mica. Both the front and the back cover flipped around to show different images. I used black and white copies of some of my own art work to cover each of the signatures in the book. And somewhere in there you will see my Granddaughters stripped legs. I will try using some of these new techniques in some of my other journals.

This one goes out to Jen!

Exquisite Corspe Book

Exquiste Corspe Book

This my work station.

Jounalfest

Home from Journalfest, had a great time. Teesha and Tracy had this cut out for us to photo in. This is my friend Diane and me, being silly and having fun. Teesha, Tracy and crew did an amazing job putting this event on, it rocked! I took over 200 photos and I intend to journal my week in Seattle with the photos I took. I taught two classes and took one class I have tons of new ideas floating around in my head, lot's more to come.

Over Printing on Painted Papers

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before

I'm always looking for new ways to use my painted pieces of paper. I saw this idea in a new book I got the other day "Book + Art" by Dorothy Simpson Krause. Take a photograph, scan into computer and change it into a black and white photo. These are some trees I took a picture of that we have on our property. I love naked trees. When you print the picture out use a piece of painted paper instead of copy paper. I used acrylic paints to make my paper. I choose colors that remind me of the sunset at our place in the fall and winter. Lot's of possibilities! I will want to cut this up for collage in one of my journals.

Painted fabric for a Journalfest Journal

Time to make a new journal for journalfest. So, I began by painting a piece of fabric. I love to see the process of layering paint and I take a bunch of photos. First I made a stamp out of fun foam, I cut out a flower shape and used tacky glue to adhere it to another piece of foam. I trimmed around that and then glued it to a scrap piece of card board.

This is what the original piece of fabric looked like before I began painting it. It was just a random cotton scrap.

I painted on some thinned gesso. After that was dry, I used my stamp with magenta paint. I use cosmetic sponges to apply the paint to the stamp.

I used a thick paint brush and added some more magenta with white paint in a random way. I blow dry between each layer so I don't have to wait to paint.

Next I stenciled circles with orange and white paint.

More stenciling with blue then black paint.

I added some white lines with a sharpie paint pen. Hopefully I will get the journal done in the next week or so.