Sep 29
I made this book at Art Unraveled, at the eponymous workshop ‘Bird on Wheels’. It was more of assemblage than the kind of mixed media that I like, but it was one of the few evening 3-hour class offerings I could fit into my schedule. The teacher directed people to make a pinkish beige …
Sep 08
I’d been wanting to try Ice Resin for a while, especially since I already had a bag of surplus scrabble tiles and some silver baels. These were two of my favorites.
Aug 18
This is one of those covers that I altered so much that I can hardly remember what the base looked like. I think it was a pink-and-red calico. I did the leaf pattern with black gesso and a texture plate, then painted over the whole thing with red acrylic. the central leaf shape is …
Aug 04
I’ve been making books like this for several years now, giving them away to writer friends. My rule is that people only get one. Then I realized I’d never given one to Beth, my sister-in-law, even though I talk to her every day. I only had three little books left, so I had to …
May 05
This is the shrine I referenced in the greenman shrine of a few weeks ago. It’s actually more of a mosaic than a shrine. I made most of the tiles during a marathon polymer-clay session last summer. I do most of my polymer clay sessions in the summer because my studio had no heat, …
