Aug 24
My sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I told her I wanted rubber stamps that had blocks of text in a foreign language. I couldn’t find any myself, but she’s an expert shopper and found several nice pieces. They were unmounted, which made them perfect for these projects. To get the …
Aug 17
The clay I used this session was a mixture of leftover clay and some new bags that I bought from an artstore that is (sadly) going out of business. This Amador is lovely unglazed, but it turns this iron-speckled grey when it has clear on it. The clear also obscures some of the detail from …
Aug 10
I haven’t done a lot of artwork in the past three months except work on my book covers and create postcards. Just finished a pottery class though, and I got some of my pieces from the kiln. I made a mold of some of Tim Holz’s keyholes (and a few antique ones) and used them …
Apr 24
This is an altered book that I started a while ago. I’d been using different pages for different techniques, but I’d left this page, with the three cut-out alcoves alone. I wanted to work with the juxtaposition of teal with that apricot color. I love these two colors together. First I took the blue art …
Apr 20
These are my favorite of the February batch of bottlecaps. I like the watch face because of its complexity, the baby’s arm because it’s creepy, and the bolt over the flower because it works from a composition standpoint.
