new work: Mountain View I'm not much of a chemist, but, as a mixed media artist, I am curious how materials work together.  A goo...

I love this sweet journal by Jill Bliss .  It's filled with beautiful illustrations of succulent plants [224 pages!], and it's prin...

PDX: Home Sweet Home It feels great to have my first embroidery works finished and framed- a project that started several months ago.  The...

Whether it's worn clothes, old magazine clippings, discarded security envelops, or yellowed book pages, I seem to come across a lot more...

One of my very favorite things to do is to visit the studio of an artist, even more so than going to a museum.  It's the place where id...

Playing around with my new (used) printer.  I created some business cards on recycled paper. When I first started selling my art online th...

I went bridge jumping once, and all I got from it was a sore bum.  My adrenaline rush doesn't come from extreme sports, it comes from s...

While we're on the topic of sketchbooks, here are a few items I have been eying. clockwise: Death in Art journal , the time is now  ...

Tiger Hills With such a fantastic name, Delphine Lebourgeois must have known at an early age that she was going to be an artist.  Origina...

A blank sheet of paper can be the most intimidating start for an artist.  Sometimes I find it easier to draw on tinted paper, especially whe...

Yesterday, I mentioned making a crocheted star topper for our tree.  I ended up making a new tree skirt instead!  I had this idea of a scall...

As I continue to seek ways to create art in more sustainable ways, I'm frequently stumbling upon artists who are already practicing ...

It's hard enough to render the human form in clay, imagine sculpting a figure out of cardboard!  Here are some amazing works from three ...

Wind is a clean, renewable, and abundant form of energy.  So when I saw Strathmore's Windpower Series at a local art store,  I didn...

I started working on panels this past summer.  I paint with palette knives so I like the fact that panels have no give, unlike traditional s...

This is what my drafting table looks like at the moment.  I've decided to work on smaller pieces for now and move away from canvases. ...