Today was my first Zoom costume painting workshop, hosted by University of North Carolina and the inimitable Rachel Pollock (of https://la-bricoleuse.blogspot.com/ fame). I think we would have had a lot more fun had we been in person together making stuff … Continue reading
More four color stencils, again with a fat watercolor brush and Kuretake pan watercolors: … Continue reading
I have recently been designing stencils for StencilGirl products, and that got me interested in making four-color layered stencils. These are printed with a big watercolor brush and Kuretake paints–so satisfying to see all the color combinations. Here are four … Continue reading
Ms. Seitner’s second graders drew some magnificent crows yesterday! I wish I could show you all of them, but I got excited and forgot to screen shot every one. These second graders added lots of interesting detail in the feathers. … Continue reading
Yesterday I received the wonderful gift of an inkblot bird from a neighborhood friend. She is a young artist who just started making inkblots for the first time. Fantastic! I have hung it on the wall in my studio. So … Continue reading
Sue and I attended the Society for Illustrators Best Children’s Books Illustration Show before the new year and I am just getting around to posting about it. But that is NOT because the illustrations I saw did not stick in … Continue reading
Happy New Year, everyone!! This is a print of a woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige that depicts the New Years Eve Journey of the Foxes to the Changing Tree. I like it so much! The foxes are carrying foxfires (magical, not … Continue reading
I was so happy to be a Zoom guest in Ms. Seitner’s first grade classes at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School this morning! We talked about how books are made, from idea to a printed and bound book, and then we … Continue reading
After teaching my inkblot class at the Creative Center’s Creative Aging Conference http://www.thecreativecenter.org/tcc/training_institute/training_institute/ on November 13, 2020, I was so inspired by what the participants brought to the inkblot table that I spent the whole next day making inkblots. I … Continue reading
The Creative Center at University Settlement hosts a conference on Creative Aging every year for artists who work or want to work with our honored elders, as well as administrators, artistic directors, and programming directors of various institutions. To read … Continue reading
