Five Methods for Drawing Patterned Mandalas

What is a Mandala? Before I get started on the Mandala gig this month, I thought I best do a wee bit of explaining.  I don’t want to assume that if you’ve shown up at my blog you already know what a mandala is.  I know that many of you will, but there may...

Red, White, and Blue Art

  Hello my friends.  I was away from my blog a little longer than I had expected.  I’ve been keeping myself very busy offline though.  I spent the last couple of weeks helping a friends family with some major health and family care issues while doing double...

Tea Cup Art-Collaboration Project

  Collaboration Fun! Over in the LineWeaving community forums we have about 11 artists who signed up for our tea cup shaped book collaboration and everyone has sent in their cups now.  I’m still waiting for a few of the packages to arrive and then my work...

Easter Lilly Sketch

  A Spring Snow is Falling Yesterday was 60+ degrees at my house and today we have snow falling.  That’s not too unusual for us this time of year.  Spring seems to be fickled in Wyoming.  Crazy as it may sound, we sometimes have our biggest snow storms in...

Gelli Plate Play Time

  Last year I started playing with Gelli Plate prints.  I had fun experimenting with various color schemes and different paint products.  After going at it for several days and letting all my prints dry, I set them aside for several weeks wondering all the while,...

You Are My Sunshine – Altered Book Spread

  Here’s the video showing you the creative process for my little book spread called: You are my Sunshine.  I did the background wash about a month ago when I was doing a little tutorial for the folks inside our LineWeaving community forums, and then I set...

Drawing Tips and Sunny Grid Doodley Pattern

  Here’s a video I pulled together to offer you a few tips on how to change up a really simple pattern (like Sunny Grid).  By flexing your creative muscles to go from drawing lines, to dots and dashes or by adding thicker markings you can give a totally new...

ATC Sleeves – Quick Tutorial

In my last posting I mentioned these little paper sleeves or envelopes (without a flap) that I sometimes make to present my Artist Trading Cards in. Here’s a super quick how-to for making them: Steps to Make ATC sleeves: Cut a piece of decorative paper to size:...

Mixed Media with Repeat Pattern Doodles

  I’ve been back in the studio for a wee bit here lately and managed to pull together several pages in art-journals and altered books.  It’s been fun getting my hands messy again.  So I thought I’d share with you a couple of mixed media...

Mail Art Score-Pal Giveaway!

  Miss Diana Crick is the designer of several crafty tools/toys to include those the family of Scor-Pal products.  Several weeks back she sent me a Scor-Pal to play with and an extra one to give away as a gift.  I really wanted to give this toy a good work out...