Handmade encaustic book

I recently took a workshop Encaustic & the Artist Book taught by Catherine Nash.  The class was a great learning experience and lots of fun! Two of my friends also took the workshop. Thank you to Catherine and other workshop participants! Here are the results of my first encaustic board book.

Book cover

A little Photoshopping to the book cover. I wondered if maybe the blue should be sky after the fact...

The back.

The pages.

 On a side note: I don't like photographing my artwork. I like making photographs, but not of my artwork. I've historically tried to make quick snapshots with a point and shoot camera. I did this of this book yesterday, late afternoon indoors, with camera flash going off. Ugh! They were bad. So today I went outside and made these.Nice light in the shade and no flash. Much better.

Handmade journal with encaustic elements

 Our Sunday drawing group had a Secret Santa party last Sunday. We all made a gift for whomever we got. This was my gift to B. Everyone went all out. Amazing! It really got me in the holiday mood. A wonderful day!

Merry Christmas!

Time to Reflect

This past month has been so busy and scattered. I've missed checking out Blogs, email, and FB on a regular basis. I sort of fell out of touch. I'm thinking it's time to find a way to slow down, reflect, be quiet, be still, and also enjoy my blog friends all over again.

I realized I got an email from Seth Apter - The Altered Page about his Sunday post that I was included in. So, I'm a few days late, but please visit The Pulse on The Altered Page. Seth is a great artist, person, and promoter of artists through his Blog (among other things). Many thanks, Seth!

The Post: Master Class. Chapter 1: Women in the Arts", artists responses to  'If you could take a class from one artist from anytime in history, including the present, who would it be and why?'  part of The Pulse series - check it out  here

 Here's wishing you all a great upcoming art week!

From our front terrace yesterday

It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon yesterday, temp in the 70s. Mike and I sat out on our front terrace and I grabbed the camera and made a few photos. I got into shadows, light and geometry. Some of these look like my normal photo style and some do not. Anyway, I had fun making these.

TC times Ten

Shows at Subway Gallery opening this Sat., Nov. 12

 

Technique and Tool

The Altered Page

I am hurriedly posting this as I am meeting with our Sunday Drawing Group in 2 hours to put together our Subway Gallery show to open on Nov. 12th. But in the meantime, I did want to thank Seth Apter for including me in The Altered Page post, Technique and Tool. Check out his blog! He has alot of great posts and shares the work, thoughts, ideas of alot of great artists. Thank you, Seth! Oh, BTW, my favorite tool when I responded to Seth, was my camera. I LOVE my camera. It is the framework for most of my art. I also love Photoshop, our great Epson archival printer, and my encaustic/mixed media studio. It's the combo of ALL these tools that lets me make the art I make!