Art Journal - A Creative Journey Discoveries and Musings On The Creative Path

Last week, inspired to play…I got out some watercolor ATC cards and began to re-create some of my doodles from the past year with ink and then to color them with gouache watercolors.  I had sketches of apples falling into a bucket or a basket, bird families on an outing and even some on a [...]

So I went to Paducah this week.  I changed things up a bit this year.  I only went for one day and it was Tuesday! (The quilt show starts on Wednesday.) But Tuesday is the day to go downtown and see Fantastic Fibers at the Yeiser Art Center….and visit the downtown stores and see friends… [...]

Yeh, I know it’s two weeks after the fact.  I do have a few photos of our trip to Ohio.  We went to the spring quilt festival on Friday, April 13. The entrance to Duke Energy Convention Center. The aisles. Show goers learning something new at a class. A 3-D village in fiber. Fellow bus [...]

Graced by the cover art of Barbara Barrick McKie,  Art Quilt Portfolio: The Natural World titles this latest work by Martha Sielman and delights us with 192 pages of eye candy.  Included are 19 featured artists with “photos of their quilts as well as essays about their creative process and signature

I am working on setting up new web pages to list The Crafter’s Workshop stencils on.  If you haven’t seen these yet, these are some of the newest hottest selling products on the market.  I started working on new pages last year and now am back at it.   I am selling them quite well out [...]

Here are photos of my booth in Bloomington, IN along with my friend Cynthia who was my helper for  2 days.  I think she enjoyed getting out with people for awhile. We demo-ed painting with Tsukineko inks in the bottle.  They are wonderful to paint with!  They don’t change the hand of the fabric like

I have been pretty busy since the last time I blogged here.  January always brings with it the really well intentioned plan that I will actually get my tax information together early for a change…NOT.  Here it is February 13 and it hasn’t happened yet.  And now I’m in the throes of…wait for it…sprin

I have to look through all my photographs to see what I have been up to!  I recently attended my annual quilt retreat with friends from back home.  We actually stay in a quilt shop that has bedrooms upstairs. Here is the motley crew of five of us….this is for you, Robin! We missed you. [...]

Strathmore is hosting more workshops this year.  The first one is being taught by Traci Bautista.  Here is my first week’s work…er…play. There are layers of stuff on here…Smooch Spritz inks sprayed over resists and plastic canvas, acrylic paints, acrylic inks, markers of all kinds, white-out pen, an