Sketch of Queen Nefertiti that I plan on using with my Egyptian trinkets for next months Milwaukee Live ATC trade. Now all I need to do is add some color. Inspiration came from Klimt's Eyptian Antiquity from 1890-91. I was able to combine the ATC trade and my online class... Continue reading

Round Robin painting that I added some shadows, additional paint details here and there, and stamped the tunnel and added a little paint to the flowers. Yvonne Ballaera of Apopka, FL started the painting and collaged the woman. VYB of Geneva Switzerland added additional acrylic paint and collaged the rosehips.... Continue reading

Egyptian polymer clay trinkets ruled today. I decided to add the trinket as my focal point to next months Milwaukee Live ATC Group meeting. The theme for our trade is "Jewel of the Nile." Now all I have to do is come up with the background. Maybe I'll draw King... Continue reading

Gustav Klimt is the featured artist that Gina Rossi Armfield has selected for her online class, "Under the Influence." The class takes an indepth look at an artist's work and by thorough exploration and practice one would hope to gleen some knowledge from a master artist. Additional featured artists are... Continue reading

The Darkside Round Robin is a yahoo group that I have been participating with for the last six months. Some of the work that I have done I have questioned if I should post here on my blog. So I haven't. This months installment hasn't raised any "hummms." We receive... Continue reading

It has been a couple of weeks since I posted. Sorry about that. I think I have commited to - to many projects. Which leaves me with not enough time to get to the computer. Added to that, living here in Wisconsin lately we have been dumped on with the... Continue reading

"Freedom to Fly" is another painting that I completed during my class with Mystele's "Gut Art " class. She sent us on a field trip to visit National Geographic's Photo of the day. The photo we looked at was the endangered spotted owl. Mystele also had us look at the... Continue reading

Went on my second field trip in Mystele's Gut Art class. I had the opportunity to look at Brendan Mc Carthy's photo, "Dance Practice" and the artwork of Carl Ramsey. I then took the inspiration that got from both and created a drawing that I call "Eskimo Kisses." Gessoed paper... Continue reading

This painting I did after going on Mystele's first field trip for the Gut Art :4 Freedom class. The class was directed to go visit two web sites and then make note of the impressions you got from viewing a photo at: www.photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo/photo-of-the-day--tuckerman-ravine-pod/ and visiting a featured artist at: www.jillkrasnergallery.com.... Continue reading

On Monday I started Mystele Kirkeeng Gut Art class. I love all her videos on uTube and her artistic style. It was only a matter of time before I would sign up for one of her online classes, which I did of course. Two days in and the creative juices... Continue reading

Yesterday I mailed out my sketchbook to the ArtHouse Co-op. I decided to participate in "the SketchBook Project" for the first time. I couldn't decide on a theme so I let ArtHouse randomly select a theme for me: "And then there were none. . ." Of course I thought of... Continue reading

Yesterday I watched a video on Mystele Kirkeeng ning site, www.littleglimpsesstudio.ning.com/m. She has set up a live ustream video chat. I clicked on the link, http://www.ustream.tv/channel/little-glimpses-studio-live , even though it wasn't live at the time, just curious I guess. To my joy, there was a past video, "art play: girl... Continue reading

Today was such a beautiful sunny autumn day in Wisconsin. I knew I had to get outside and soak up some of the precious sun's rays. I grabbed a cup of coffee and a good book and sat with the warm sun baking on my shoulders. It was heaven on... Continue reading

Recently I joined a DarkSide Round Robin. The round robin was the brain child of Corinne Stubson from the Yahoo Altered Books Group. She limited the group to 8 people, but little did she know there would be such an interest that she had to make two groups of eight.... Continue reading

Here are a few of the books that I have on exhibition with the "Books Unbound display at Marian Gallery. "Poe's Raven", on the right is an altered Big Bird childrens book. You could say a bird of a different color. Years and years ago, I graduated with an interior... Continue reading

Today I took some photos of work that I have on exhibition at the Marian Gallery at Mount Mary College. The exhibit is a combined effort of the Binders Guild, which I am a member. Our exhibition is called, "Books UnBound." The show runs through November 27th. If you are... Continue reading

A few weeks ago, I went with my grand-daughter on a pumpkin walk. She wanted me to see her carved pumpkin. The park was filled with hundreds of pumpkins and we managed to find her pumpkin. Very cute, if I may say so, and as an added bonus, one of... Continue reading