Out of the ten stencils I designed for StencilGirl, I am finding that the Looping, Leafy Vines Background is the stealth super-useful stencil. Its good for laying in a background on a journal page, or for printing cheerful green vines … 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
Quinn McDonald has written a lovely book in Inner Hero Creative Art Journal: Mixed Media Messages to Silence Your Inner Critic. With creative prompts, encouragement, new techniques and worksheets, you will get closer to having your inner critic step … Continue reading
Sei Shonagon was a Japanese court lady, in service to the Empress Teishi around the year 1000. She is best known for her Pillow Book, a collection of observations of court life, and also lists of things: Pleasing Things, Hateful … Continue reading
Alternative Art Journals: Explore Innovative Approaches to Collecting Your Creativity BOOK GIVEAWAY! Create Mixed Media is giving away a copy of my book, Alternative Art Journals at their blog The Creative Life, but you must enter by the end of … Continue reading
New from North Light Books: I just got my two copies of Mixed Media Techniques for Art Journaling in the mail from Cincinnati. Its edited by Kristy Conlin, and is a really nice book. Part of the Charm Journals chapter from my book, Alternative Art … 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
Have you ever been walking in the woods and had that curious sensation of being watched? I have been seeing tree faces everywhere recently! I have been taking pictures of them, drawing into them, and writing about them, all as … Continue reading
This past week was the second annual Creative Aging … Continue reading
On Friday I attended two wonderful shows at the Grolier Club at 47 East 60th Street in New York (www.grolierclub.org). The first exhibition, “Rooms of Wonder: from Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599-1899” closed on Saturday, Feb 2nd. It was a show … Continue reading
