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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Art Camp!

I've been working on creating a better over-all personal brand for myself as I venture forth on my quest to grow my career, and part of what is required to create this "personal" brand is getting all my ducks in a row. This means writing more, making art and documenting art more consistently, and so on. In my last post, I shared a poem and a demo I did for an upcoming art day camp I am teaching at the library. Here are two more demo pieces that will serve as examples for the kids when I explain the projects we will make!


This piece is a relief print (foam and easy carving tools) which was drawn over with india ink drawing pens. Then cut paper pieces and tissue paper were used for the textured flowers. Finally, a few pieces of fabric cut in organic shapes were scattered about to create a fuller garden feel. I think I will have the kids use chalk pastels instead of crayons to create an impressionistic background over top of the print and inked portions!


This is from a project I found on the creative blog At Second Street -- here's the post with this project. I subscribe to loads of arts and crafts blogs, my reader is stuffed full of amazing projects to try! I am so excited to see what the kids come up with this August.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Another Trip to Holy Hill

And on the rustic side roads where I wander
Beside the blacktop road
Grow little purple flowers
Sweet and low to the ground
The most perfect shade of violet.

Wildflowers & Almost Wildflowers . Digital Photo. May 2010.
Satellite for the Sun. Digital Photo. May 2010.
Remnants of Fall, Digital Photo, May 2010.
Blue Spike Peaking, Digital Photograph. May 2010.

Monday, November 2, 2009

New project: embroidery!

Gnome embroidery project with a wonky flower. He needs a lot of filling in, and many more flowers. This is my first time embroidering EVER, which you can probably tell by the lack of quality of my stitches.