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February 7, 2011

Sunrise in Ocean City

Do you ever just NEED to escape? This past week I was itching to get away from everything. The winter gets to me on many levels. Does it get to you? We decided to go to the ocean for the weekend.

Sunrise in Ocean City

I woke up early and watched the sunrise over the ocean. I find the ocean very calming. The constant waves flowing towards the shore. It was rainy the day before so it was so nice to see the sun inching towards the horizon.

Sunrise in Ocean City

I am struck by how powerful and vast the ocean is. It makes everything seem so small in comparison. It was comforting to gain this perspective that my problems are so trivial. And of course the sun feels good!

Sunrise in Ocean City

Need a little ocean in your day?
I brought you some…

Filed Under: Artsy Field Trips, Photography Tagged With: assateague, ocean, ocean city

Paste Paper and Book Love

June 19, 2010

Diana Trout demonstrates paste paper techniques.

So if you have been reading my blog over the past month, you know that I went to Art and Soul in Hampton, Virginia. I did a bunch of posts after I returned, but I still have a couple of things that hadn’t made it to the blog. Today I want to share my photos and final product from Diana Trout’s Flag Book class.

First let’s start with a little paste paper love. We spent half the day creating a variety of paste papers to utilize in the flag book. I really enjoyed the process of making paste papers. We used a variety of tools to create a huge assortment of designs. I am looking forward to making more this summer.

Paste paper created with a small plastic putty knife

Paste paper created with lace

Here are even more paste papers that I created.

These are some of the many papers my classmates created. It was fun to roam around the class and see everyone's experiments!

After our lunch break, Diana demonstrated how to make the flag book.

Diana brought a fun collection of flag books for us to see.

By the end of class, I had started creating my flag book pages but did not have time to complete the book.

And now may I present my finished flag book…
Or at least I think it is finished. I am still considering text. Hmm….

The Cover

INSIDE!

I love the dynamic movement of the flag book. My book has a nature theme with lots of water, trees, fish and birds. The wave action of the flag book was perfect for this.

Paper Paper Love

The paste papers were the base of the flag book pages. I used a wide assortment of embellishments including handmade papers, collage bits, rub-ons, and rubber stamps. I added some colorful collage papers from Traci Bautista and rub-ons I found in Maria’s on-site store, Collage. I also used bits of travel brochures I found in the hotel lobby. There were perfect little seagulls in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel brochure!

Paper Paper Love

I had taken a book making class some time ago at the Maryland Institute, College of Art but haven’t made many books since. I forgotten how much fun they are! If you would like to learn more about paste papers, look for this book – The Art of Making Paste Papers. For more about Diana Trout, please visit her web site and blog.

Oh, and here is another peek at my butterfly! As you know, I have been working on an altered butterfly-shaped book. I was up early this morning adding paint to a few more pages…

Butterfly Altered Book

Filed Under: Artsy Field Trips, Book Arts Tagged With: Art and Soul

Enjoying the View

June 7, 2010

Green Stripes by Claudine Intner

Don’t you just love spring? I especially love spring green! I looked out my backdoor on Sunday and saw these beautiful stripes on my lawn. I just love them!

With school winding down, I am preparing for the chaos that is summer at our house by trying to cram lots of art time in to whatever precious minutes I can find. Today I wandered over to Maryland Hall to see what they have in their galleries. I was delighted to see the work of Ron Markman, whose brightly colored cartoon imagery made me think of the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. I found it interesting that unlike the outsider artists of AVAM, Markman has a MFA in fine art. The work exhibited at Maryland Hall focused on his imaginary country called Mufka and included a large sculpture piece called Mufka Update which you can see on his web site. In the Martino Gallery, Erika Walsh is exhibiting a collection of watercolors which I particularly enjoyed because they were abstract. YEAH! Both exhibits are on view until June 20, 2010.

Filed Under: Artsy Field Trips, Photography

Why artists don’t get manicures

June 2, 2010

Hand I have always been messy when making art. At Art and Soul, I found I had reached a new level of messy. I was using dye-based stamp pads and could not get my hands clean. I know stamps pads are for stamps not hands, but I couldn’t help myself as I learned to make my own rollers and stamps. Had I realized how staining the dye pads were, I might have considered gloves… Okay, probably not.

So after class, I went back to my hotel room and tried to figure out how the heck I was going to turn myself back to the normal color. Soap was not working. There had to be something.

Google to the rescue! There was a fountain of interesting suggestions including grape jelly. The best solution was Purell. It took off the vast majority of the dye! Good thing I just happened to have some handy… the joys of having boys, you always need antibacterial gel.

Do you have any other good clean-up tips?

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One more quick thing since I have been talking about making stamps… I have to share a link to Judi Hurwitt’s fabulous post. There is a wealth of information on her blog about making stamps. You definitely want to check it out!

Filed Under: Artsy Field Trips, Collage & Mixed Media, Tips & Techniques Tuesday