Clay
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K is for Kettle
Toot, Toot! The kettle is singing that the water is ready. :o) I wasn't sure what to paint when I sat down this evening, but knew I wanted to do something with this little 6×6" canvas. I rolled on some color with my brayer, dried that layer with my heat gun, then put on a
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Cloth & Clay Dolls
This is so exciting! I've worked quite a lot with Paper Clay and have always been drawn toward a folk-art type of doll. I think I fell in love with Nicol Sayre's dolls originally. Then recently I found this "virtual classroom" online that shows how to make exactly that combination of things ~ a folk-art
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Box People take over!
For almost 8 months I made what felt like a zillion of these little folks. Most of them sold at a juried art show at the Anchorage Museum. It was so fun to see the different reactions from people! Some just really didn't know what to make of them. I still have the notebook page
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In which the floodgates opened…
Still with me? If you're just jumping in, we're looking back at some work I made about 7 years ago. After the first couple, I just had too many ideas to stop! Over the summer my world became well populated with all kinds of Box People. {Click the images below to see them a bit
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Coffee Man
Soon after the success of my garden girl, my thoughts turned to coffee. As my thoughts often do. :) And so was born Mighty, Mighty Coffee Man!He can curl two cups on those copper wire arms, and all with a happy smile and a head full o' beans.A metal shaving {salvaged from the scrap box
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Mother Nature
Look out, we're walking down memory lane now! After looking through my archives to grab those Valentines photos yesterday, I started finding all kinds of fun older work. Ready? {This may take a few days to unfold!}I started by playing with Paperclay to make this little round head. At first I thought of sewing a
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Bits & pieces, thoughts & things…
Look ~ Art Supplies! :) This is the box 'o stuff I ordered from Dick Blick in preparation for Art Nest. Can't wait to dig in!But instead of jumping into a painting tonight, I had an idea last night to make a Valentine ornament. My table was all set up so I could start right
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Inspiration
These two books have really been getting me by lately and I recommend them to anyone in need of a creative boost. The first: Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts. I don't know where to start praising this one! In part, it's a great "how-to" book from which I learned some handy new techniques. But