Ken Crossley at EngAGE Utah made it possible for me to come back to Utah and do a couple of workshops at Huntsman Cancer Institute last week. These pictures were from Making Animal Friends, a workshop to make large articulated paper … Continue reading
One of the nicest things that has even happened to me, EVER, is being picked by Room Otto at Aspirations School in California to be the artist they study this year. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, “Now if this isn’t … Continue reading
In my book Make Your Mark: Explore Your Creativity and Discover Your Inner Artist (Chronicle Books, 2004) (http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Mark-Creativity-Discover/dp/B0007ZNV1I/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416922505&sr=1-5&keywords=make+your+mark) there is a chapter on Invisible Ink. You can paint with lemon juice, milk, and other substances, even Champagne, allow the paper … Continue reading
Aging the pages of a sketchbook, or ageing and distressing your art paper is a great way to sidestep creative obstructions…see tip 8, below. Eight tips for getting past creative blocks: Four last week (http://bit.ly/1hVkO27) , … Continue reading
Eight Steps to Sidestep Artists Blocks, Part 1 (Four this week and four next week–it started to be the blog post that ate New York. So stay tuned!) I got a lot of great … Continue reading
Last week, I had the pleasure of flying to beautiful Utah, to Salt Lake City. It was gorgeous there–the natives told me that if I was only there for the spring, I would really see something special–this was considered … Continue reading
Stephanie Harrington wrote a very nice review of Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity on … Continue reading
New from North Light Books: I just got my two copies of Mixed Media Techniques for Art Journaling in the mail from … Continue reading
There is a wonderful exhibition at The Morgan Library called “Drawing Surrealism” (http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=70) that is full of interesting stuff–automatic drawing and painting, decalomania, inkblots, collage–all works on paper, very inspiring. The show is up til April 21st and is excellent. … Continue reading
This past week was the second annual Creative Aging … Continue reading
