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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Archive for the ‘Question of the Month’ Category

June 6th, 2008

Question of the month: What should I buy in Italy?

Yup, I’m going to Italy. Next week, in fact. Mike and I will be flying to Rome and then traveling to Orvieto to pick up daughter Dani, who has been studying there this semester. Pretty tough, huh? Poor little art major, having to study oil painting and sculpture in Italy…
But I digress.
We’ll be traveling to […]

By Cyndi -- 10 comments

May 3rd, 2008

Results: What’s your favorite organizer?

Shayla Perreault Newcomb, of Hidden Place Studio answers:
My favorite organizers for my mixed media supplies are recycled tin cans. Larger supplies/tools go in 1 litre containers.

By Cyndi -- 5 comments

May 2nd, 2008

Question of the month: What’s your favorite organizer?

It can be a box, a set of drawers, a calendar, or whatever you most rely on to keep you organized. For me, it’s actually my computer desktop!! How much of a nerd does that make me? That’s because the the writing that I do…folders within folders within folders keep me from tearing out my […]

By Cyndi -- 2 comments

April 30th, 2008

Lizbeth is the winner of Digital Studio Magazine!!

She took the challenge and showed us her sketchbook, and Lizbeth is the one whose name I drew to win the free copy of Digital Studio Magazine! Yay, Lizbeth!!

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

April 24th, 2008

Eileen’s offerings…

Eileen, The Artful Crafter, writes:

You showed yours so here are some of mine.
There’s a finished Panadiere, or fabric bread basket along with the original pattern which I did on newspaper. LOL! Then there’s the finished typed and illustrated pattern which I sell on The Artful Crafter. It’s my most popular item.
As for the sketchbooks, […]

By Cyndi -- 3 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Lizbeth is next!

Lizbeth wrote:
These are two pages from a Calendar RR I am doing. I dared to draw just a little. Does that count?
Of course it does!! Here is Lizbeth’s Picturetrail album so you can see more!

 

By Cyndi -- 1 comment

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 […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

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 […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

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, […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

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