altered page has mixed emulsions...

Over at The Altered Page...art pal Seth listed me as Chapter 16...and I'm having a giveaway of my book "Mixed Emulsions" ... So click on the link below and leave a comment...but do it soon...the drawing is July 31st and I want you to win. Good Luck!

http://bit.ly/alteredpagegiveaway

The winner will be announced August 1st...

art is lifes circle...

Months ago Becca 'commisioned' me to make a piece of art that could go above her sofa.  She wanted a contemporary feel...LA...her kind of style. 
For 6 months I have thought about it, dreamed about it, mused and confused about it...
The deadline was her birthday to get this art piece done...

...and it all started to come together...layer after layer...over 50 in all... each layer peeling away and adding to a 'life circle'...filling it with moments of a life in progress.... (like above: Becca's Fur Elise music when she was a kid...with her notes on it...and the experience it engraved on her psyche.)
 

title: lifes circle

meet painter...

meet our new kitty, Painter...

  rescue kitty extraordinaire...

I would tell you her story but she wants to sell it as a tv pilot...

 She is  grateful however for her new digs...

  and food in a dish..

 
Painter gravitates to my art studio..
and even if she does have to share attention with a 'dog'... 

Life can be pretty groovy for our new kitty...

thank heavens for girls...

Today is my daughter Becca's Birthday...When she turned 25 I made her a book from a old Woman's Household Companion book.  I cut it, painted, stamped, and altered it with quotes and snippets of memories...In celebration of her special day today...I thought I would post a few pictures here from that book which celebrates some of our favorite moments we have shared together. 

To see all the pages from this book click here...XXV

cheers to a light in my life...

stuff it...

Sometimes when you get stuck...you just have to say stuff it and do something different. And I was stuck...stuck in art purgatory. Having a problem moving ahead with any of the many projects I have going. So I took this class from Joe at Zinnia's and made these sock dolls. The break was just what I needed to unstick myself.

You start with a sock...

Cut out some ears and legs and sew them up...

Add buttons and odds and ends and some of the cool stuff you can get at Zinnia...and voila...
Their personality comes to life...Alot of fun was had by all...

Here's a group sock picture of the motley crew and all of Joe's students...

Sometimes you just have to stick a sock in it to get unstuck...

So I'm just saying...

There's a lot going on right now...and with the summer months, I always feel I want to clean things out and clear things out...Kinda like a spring cleaning...only I procrastinated.

good news...I have an article in the July/August issue of Somerset Studios Magazine.

With the changing of the guard over at Stampington, the magazines are taking on a new look...with a new punch...Check it out if it's been awhile.

If you don't have a news stand where you can purchase this magazine and you want to...

you can order it online here . You can get alot of items at the Stampington website. Worth perusing...

Here's the link for the entire Altered Paradox collection .
You can also view my article here also. And throughout the month I will be listing a few of these pieces in the original art vault section on my etsy site.

Such a cool cover by Anahata Katkin. I love her Papaya art line. I still treasure the piece of Anahata's art that I bought several years ago and hangs in my art studio.

Believer...that's me...

happy birthday America....

 Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 Francis Scott Key

Be safe...

get ready to smile...

I am a huge fan of So You Think You Can Dance and if you aren't, then you may not have seen this...I loved Twitch when he was on the show a few seasons ago...and now we know Alex Wong CAN dance...To take his ballet trained body and reteach himself to do hip-hop in the few days they have to rehearse...well it's awesome.
Pause the volume on my music at the bottom of my blog page cause the music just won't mix with this...