Maira Kalman and her message to me.
I love, love, Love Maira Kalman, all her characters, all her colors and feelings spilling all over the page. Get to the bookstore or library and treat yourself to The Principles of Uncertainty orÂ...
View ArticleBamboo and Haiku
Yesterday I went to the Denver Botanic Gardens with my friend Liz Kettle. There is an exhibit there in the gardens, of sculptural bamboo. It was hot, really hot, so we found a shady place to draw these...
View ArticleArtspark Winter Tutorial Blog Hop
Here are all the projects my Artsparks partners have done for you, for free! Dec 4 Lyric Kinard, Snowflake Pinwheel Ornament Dec 5 Tracie Lyn Huskamp, For the Smell of It Dec 6 Judy Perez, Speculatius...
View ArticleSASSY girls and a Good Idea
In November, two months ago, egads how time flies, I invited some enchanting ladies to join me in the mountains for four days to make art and plans for making more art. Carol Sloan, Kim Rae Nugent and...
View ArticlePam Carriker Strikes Again!
Pam Carriker has written a new book and want to chat with you about it tonight on Facebook! She will be giving away signed copies every half hour, and some of the contributors (like me) will be online...
View ArticleMeet Kate!
I want you to meet my new friend, Kate Thomson. She is talented, kind, interesting and smart. She is just want you want, and lucky me, I have, in a new friend. Kate is a mixed media artist that taught...
View ArticleTamara Laporte’s Whimsical Inspirations
ARTISTCELLAR has done it again! Their new series of stencils in the Artists’ Signature series are designed by Tamara Laporte. Tam has two sets of stencils. One is doodled words called “Inspiration...
View ArticleLeah’s Chickens of Hope
My friend Leah is talented, kind, funny, stylish and a boon to her community. Against all reason and odds, she lost all of her worldly goods in September when a wall of water washed her town of Glen...
View ArticleInventing Goddesses again….
Bonnie Stahlecker was my first book arts teacher. We are trading goddesses, you can see the one I sent to her here. She needed a goddess of lost tools, I needed the goddess that all bookmakers need,...
View ArticlePigments of Your Imagination and a Giveaway
This giveaway is done, the winner was announced last week. Thanks for coming by! Today I am reviewing Cathy Taylor’s new book, Pigments of Your Imagination: Creating With Alcohol Inks. If you think...
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