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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Archive for the ‘Question of the Month’ Category

April 22nd, 2008

Timaree’s sketchbooks

Timaree Cheney wrote and sent me some images. She writes the blog, Freebirdsings, which you need to visit:
I have a few books going. Mostly I am so unorganized I use a scrap of paper and then promptly lose it. I would have liked to send the picture I know I took but can’t find […]

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April 21st, 2008

Leah’s offerings!

Leah Piken Kolidas sent me these images from her sketchbooks. She writes:
I blog at Creative Every Day: http://www.CreativeEveryDay.com
and my art website is here: http://BlueTreeArtGallery.com
Like you, I have a few different journals going at once. There’s a mini journal that stays in my purse. Inspiration often comes at the oddest times and I’ve learned […]

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April 19th, 2008

Shayla wants in too!

Shayla Perreault Newcomb writes:
This was a test of a stamp I’d just made (also have the sketch to go with it). I was playing around trying to get ideas. So far I don’t have a finished painting with this image. I scribbled on some poetry relating to rain. My sketchbook used to be very mathematical, […]

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April 18th, 2008

Noreen wants in…

Here’s a tutorial to Noreen’s spool knitted worry dolls, where there are many more pictures of her sketchbook and her work!
OK, just that easy!  Noreen is now entered into the drawing for the free issue of Somerset Digital Studio…

By Cyndi -- 1 comment

April 18th, 2008

I’m not above trying to bribe you…

Sigh. I’ve gotten no response at all to my request to see photos or scans of your sketchbooks or journals.  So you’ve driven me to take drastic action…
***FREE STUFF ALERT***FREE STUFF ALERT***
 
Now you’ve gone and done it! I’ve sunk to a new all-time low! I just received an extra issue of Somerset Digital […]

By Cyndi -- 11 comments

April 4th, 2008

Question of the month: Show your sketchbook!

I keep several different notebooks going at any one time: one for jewelry, one for other mixed media art, and one that’s small enough to travel with me. I’ve also got files and files and files of pictures, but that’s a whole other matter! I have no drawing skills at all, so a […]

By Cyndi -- 6 comments

March 28th, 2008

Results: Which are your favorite media

Well, it appears that almost twice as many of us prefer sticky fingers to pushing pixels!  Interesting results, I think!  While I would put myself squarely in the camp of those who like to use both physical and digital techniques, and usually in the same project, it seems that most of you prefer the physical […]

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March 7th, 2008

Question of the month: What’s your favorite brand of pen?

Timaree, of Freebirdsings, asked this wonderful question, which I decided must become the next question of the month!
I am a collector and hoarder of black pens. I’ve got some colored ones too, but mostly it’s black black black and black. My personal favorites are those that can write on top of acrylics and gesso without […]

By Cyndi -- 2 comments

February 7th, 2008

Results: What designers or artists have had the most influence on you?

Mark Crummett writes:
My greatest influence has been my father.

Clovis Crummett’s biography and work

Clovis’s work: An Exuberance of Oysters
He in turn was a big fan of Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson. He shaped my artistic paradigm- working with junk, er, recycled materials- and not being noticed artistically. He kept a regrettably low profile. So far, me, […]

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February 4th, 2008

Results: What designers or artist have had the most influence on you?

Mariyarn posted a picture that she did as a “paraphrase” to a well-known painting by Gauguin. You can read her post about it at her delightful blog, The Fiberfairy’s Haven:

By Cyndi -- 1 comment

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