Better Photo of "Playing Games" Boxes ( I hope)

"Playing Games"

This is a series of five shadowboxes I created, with a "Playing Games" theme. It was for a magazine challenge, but did not get published; so I'm glad I can share it here! I don't know how clearly you can see the details, but hopefully you'll get the idea. (if you click on the image it might help).

More Fun with Alcohol Inks

Three pieces I recently created. Some happy accidents here!:)

Alcohol Inks

I recently started experimenting with alcohol inks. Now I can't stop. Here's a sample of a piece I just created (on YUPO synthetic paper):

New Year's Giveaway: FREE copy of Art Journaling magazine to first commenter on this post!

As a Happy New Year gift, I will give the first person who comments on this post a FREE copy of the current issue of Art Journaling magazine (value $14.99). This is the issue containing my latest article and art. I will mail it within the U.S. if needed. 
Who's going to be first? 

Article in Art Journaling Magazine!

I'm extremely proud that an article I wrote, and accompanying art, was just published in the Oct/Nov/Dec issue of Art Journaling Magazine. The magazine is at Barnes and Noble and some of the larger craft stores. As a bonus, my name is mentioned on the cover!
(Photo credits: Nelson Pollack)

Tutorial: Extending a Photo With a Personal Touch

I promised to post some free tutorials here, and this is the first one. In 2015 an art journal page of mine was published by North Light in the Book Art Journal Kickstarter. The publisher later asked each artist featured in the book to submit a photo tutorial about the technique they used in their art piece.

I wrote about extending a photo with a personal touch.  This involves placing a photo on a journal page and extending the image (e.g., scenery) onto the surrounding page with paint, colored pencils, markers, pen and ink, etc.

My tutorial was published on the Create Mixed Media blog, and later shared by the Cloth Paper Scissors blog. You can find it at http://www.createmixedmedia.com/make/extending-a-photo-with-personal-touch . Below are two before-and-after photos from the tutorial.

Thanks for stopping by!

Article in Somerset Studio!

I feel so honored that an article I wrote, with accompanying artwork, appears in the upcoming issue of Somerset Studio magazine, available July 1 in major bookstores and craft stores. The cover and my two (amateur) photos of the article are shown below. Even when I'm looking at the pages, I still can hardly believe this!

Updates

Hello, out there! 

I have a very belated publishing update. It's not like me to forget these kinds of things!:)

Below are some photos of a mixed-media Hanukkah shadow-box book I created last year. It appeared in the November/December 2016 issue of Somerset Studio magazine. I've submitted other pieces since then, so...we'll see what happens!

I would love to get comments from readers to see who is still checking in, and what kinds of things they might want to see on this blog. I am pretty much exclusively creating "hands-on" art now, rather than digital (although I do combine the two sometimes). I love to share techniques with others, so I'm planning to post some technique tutorials here at some point. It would be a good way for me to keep a record of some of the techniques I've learned recently, and presented to the Artful Journaling club I belong to. And the tutorials might give others some helpful art tips. So please stop by often!

Testing

Just testing to see if I remember how to post here.

Digitally Combined Doodles (for whoever is still reading this blog)

4 of my hand-drawn circle doodles, digitally combined into one, using various blending modes and filters. Looks like a rug!

Somerset Studio Magazine!

Yes, it's been almost a year since I posted here. I've missed my online friends!

I've put aside digital art, for the most part, to concentrate on "hands-on" mixed media art in addition to my usual art journaling. One serendipitous result: A collage I created will appear in the new July/August issue of Somerset Studio. The challenge was to create art with a paper doll theme. The issue comes out tomorrow (July 1). The magazine is usually sold at Barnes and Noble, Michael's, Joann, Queen's Ink, etc.

A sneak peek:

My Guest Post for "Create Mixed Media"

My guest blog post for "Create Mixed Media" has been posted today! This blog is part of a website owned by F+W Media, Inc., publishers of North Light Books. The tutorial explains the type of technique I used in my journal page that was published in their book "Art Journal Kickstarter."

You can take a peek at my post here.

Three Muses: Blue and White

"Too Much?"

 

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Image credits: lisa's altered art, deviant scrap, holliewood.

Take a Word: Mainly Black and White

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Image credits: lisa's altered art, mister whiskers

Sunday Postcard Art: Strong Women

I've been taking a little bit of a break, I guess. But this theme sounded interesting, and it's something new.

 

Image credits: magazineart.org, graphicsfairy

Three Muses: Beatles Songs

Image credits: holliewood, pringle hill studio, artfreebies.com

Take a Word: Hot Colors

Even though the skies here in Maryland have been quite gray lately, summer is usually a season of intensely bright colors: flowers, butterflies, ripe fruit, oceans, pools, fireworks. Here is my tribute to those colors.
Image credits: background and flowers are mine, woman is my alteration of an image from Library of Congress.

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Three Muses: Apples

I believe this is the first time I've ever been challenged to create art with an apple theme! It sounded like fun. Some curious birds insistrd on flying into the picture, so I had to include them. They look like they're eyeing the apples on that poor lady's head. Image credits: harper designs, rubyblossom.

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Take a Word: DANCE!

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Image credits: wikimedia commons, cemerony, beth rimmer, vintage images.