First Post to JKPP

.....was a sketch of Stew Crowther, who urged me to join.

sketching at the mall

I really was dreading that trip to the mall until I realized I could take my sketchbook and draw while my son was shopping. A few minutes of that and I was in the zone instead of feeling the crowds and noise!

Another barn attempt

This time, my first-ever anything in acrylic!

Fun with Mixed Media

While we were clearing out the garage before New Years, I found a soft doll I'd started to make 20 years ago. She needed a face and some clothing....So I finished her. Now she is my studio muse!

And I've continued to play with mixed media. There are encaustic, acrylic, various inks, and embossing powder on canvas board. Just for fun. It's a little tricky to get the heat gun on the embossing powder when you do the encaustic first!

Happy New Years!

Thanks so much to everyone who posted to me and offered encouragement this year. It meant so much to me.

At the beginning of the year, I made a resolution: Learn to use watercolor. Lots of experiments and ups and downs later, and lots of art supply purchases later, I've made a start and had a lot of fun.

So now for a new resolution: Make art every possible day, and explore new tools and techniques.

So here is my New Years offering. I was playing with some new encaustics (does anyone else out there have a dangerous addiction to flockshop.com?) and decided to just throw down some random paint with the iron. I went away and forgot about them for a few days, but tonight I was cleaning up in my studio and a New Years Pegasus and balloon bouquet appeared!

North Carolina barn

It came out a little bit cartooney, but I decided I liked it anyway.

Infinity scarf

Here is a step by step of the infinity scarf. For further details and better instructions, check the article on the Koos Loop from this month's Threads.

Fabric, right side up.....approximately 12 x 72 inches.

At the center, fold one end as shown, right sides together.
Fold the other end, as shown.
Pin an opening 5" across at the center. Sew from the pin to 3" from the end, right sides together. You will be forming a bias fold, but sewing on grain. Then sew from the other side of the opening to 3" from the oppoisite end.
Turn right side out through the opening, and pin the ends together, right sides together. Make sure you have a twist in the fabric loop. Sew the ends together. Then turn wrong sides out, and sew the long bias spiral seam together at the ends, leaving the 5" opening. Turn to the right side and whipstitch the opening shut.