I have gotten back to my practice of carrying around a sketchbook and drawing daily. I took an online course Sketchbook Skool over the past several weeks to help myself get going again and to learn from artists known for their sketchbook journals. Each week we had a new instructor -Danny Gregory, Koosje Koene, Tommy Kane, Roz … More Daily Drawing Practice
I am thrilled that an image from my quilt Rain Dance is featured on the postcard for the SAQA Regional Show Northern California Inspirations at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. I haven’t had a chance to see the show, but I hear it is beautiful. From left to right, images on the … More Northern California Inspirations
A few weeks ago I completed a silk screening class at San Francisco Art Institute with artist Jonathan Palmer. I was inspired by some of his prints where he combined silk screening and relief printing and decided to create my own series using these techniques. I posted about it here. I created three related prints … More Two new prints
Several months ago I created this linocut of a heart. The photo below shows my initial sketches, the carved linoleum, and the print on paper and on fabric. I wanted to take it further, but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it. I’m currently enrolled in a six week silkscreen printing class at … More Silkscreen meets Lino
Here’s an update on the printed piece started during a quilting retreat in Healdsburg. I finished it today and titled it Rain Dance. I was inspired to create a California themed linoleum block print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps (more here). The colors and silhouetted dry seedpods represent our current … More Rain Dance
I just learned that my quilt, WWII Nurses, has been accepted as part of the WWII Home Front Quilt Challenge that will be shown at a special exhibit at the Voices in Cloth quit show. The quilts will also be displayed on an online exhibit and other Bay Area venues. The quilts in this exhibit … More WWII Nurses
A major component for completion of the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley Extension is to develop a portfolio of work suitable for application to a Masters of Fine Arts program. I’ve been developing this portfolio for over a year and studying at UCBX for over three years. Yesterday I presented my portfolio … More Life Forms – A Portfolio of Work
When Katie’s Luminous Linocuts class started up again a couple weeks ago, I decided to create a large print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps from a recent quilting retreat at Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. I wanted the background to create a landscape feeling with a darker silhouette of plants in … More Piece, Print, Quilt
One of the steps I’m taking as an artist is putting together a portfolio to represent my work. The most important element in the portfolio is excellent images. I’ve learned that how well your work is photographed can be the determining factor in whether or not your work is juried into a show. Until recently, … More Photographing Artwork
Back in August 2013, I saw this reader’s challenge in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine and decided to give it a whirl. The challenge was to use our favorite techniques to create a six inch mixed media square with some kind of stitching. I used one of my linocut prints on fabric as the starting point, … More Reader Challenge
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