Fun with paper quilting
If you’re like me, you buy lots of crafts books with good intentions of doing the projects within. They are kind of like porn for crafters, don’t you think? Well, over Christmas, while away from home for a week, I decided to try some paper quilting …continue reading »
What’s up with that? My “chop”
A few months ago, I took a weekend workshop on printmaking using a hand drill on woodblocks to create imagery. The instructor, master printmaker Steve Prince, included on his work a stamp of something he called a “chop”: essentially, a graphic signature. …continue reading »
Merry Christmas
This year, the creative urge hit me around the time I began considering what Christmas cards to send out this year. …continue reading »
Nunzilla, Aretha, and other Polaroid character studies
A few months ago, Polaroid sounded the death knell for its instant cameras. But thanks to John Reuter’s class at Penland a few summers ago …continue reading »
The curse of comparison
A new book came out this month, Women Of Design: Influence and Inspiration From the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers. I’m not in it.
Boxes, books and other paper arts
Despite spending many summers at art colonies or crafts schools in remote wooded locations, I never got much inspiration from nature in doing my art. All the green just did not do much for me. Then one summer I signed up for a bookmaking class …continue reading »
Embroidering your past
I’m sure that Mom was looking down from heaven last summer, asking “So, now you’re going to take up feminine things?”
Have a seat…
One summer in the late 90s, I signed up for a one-week printmaking workshop at Oxbow, the summer art colony outside Saugatuck, Michigan, with Holly Greenberg. A dynamo of a teacher, Holly does collagraphs and linocuts with a retro feel and a spot-on sense of humor about gender issues.