Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Introductory Price Mark Making with Nature Video Series


Introductory Price 
(Ends January 31st)

Mark Making with Nature Video Series
Own $39.95 or Rent $19.95 

Click here to learn more!!!

Tired of your fabric looking like everyone else's?  In this video series I will teach you how to push the limits using natural dyes and traditional surface design techniques!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Live Stream Events

January Live Stream Events

January 22nd, 2014 8pm CST
Pigment painting onto fabric and paper using earth pigments and stencils.


January 26th, 2014 8pm CST
Screenprinting with Natural Dyes using thermofax screens and deconstructed printing methods.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mark-making-with-nature 

Mark Making with Nature: Surface Design with Natural Dyes On Demand!


Mark Making with Nature:
Surface Design with Natural Dyes

Now Available On Demand!!!
Own or Rent it Today! 

Monday, January 13, 2014

Mixed Media Supplies



Mixed media nummies found at JB Knacker in Gilbert, IA!!!


The brass numbers are approximately four inches tall.

Stanely 110 Hand Plane


It's in need of some serious TLC but for $3 this is our very first Stanely 110!



The bottom is quite rusty.

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Creating a Strategic Objectives Journal for 2014


Am working through Lisa Sonora Beam's "Creative Entreprenure" book again, last time was 2008/09, and am now just creating my Strategic Objectives Journal.  I have to say this has been a lot of fun this time around, it especially helps that I now understand most of what she discusses, this due to five years of reading and researching how to run a business. (Raven Stencil available soon!!!)


And what would a journal be if I didn't personalize it with my own artwork?  Blackbirds in Tree from StencilGirl Products stencil with FolkArt Indigo paint for the first layer of this journal section.  I found these old manilla folders in hubs office, when I say old we're talking 30-40 years old here, and am repurposing them for my new journal. 


How I dealt with the uneven edge of the manilla folder, I simply placed a piece of old reciept journal paper under the folder edge. 


The journal paper freshly stencilled.  I'll add more layers to this piece of paper and glue it inside of the journal somewhere.  More later, I have more birds to paint now that the first layer has dried, while I think about my objectives.