This week in the studio I’ve been gelatin printing coneflowers using stencils and texture plates. In the May module of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s class A Year of Gelatin Printing, I’ve…
A Life Well Lived My father, Lamar Howe, died on May 17th. I’ve been away from the studio and blog since then except for a few minutes of art…
The bookbinding lesson from the April module of A Year of Gelatin Printing uses manilla shipping tags or card stock. These are 3.125 x 6.25 inches, but could be any…
You're invited to come and see Trenholm Artists Guild's 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit at Best Mattress now through May 27. My collage Summer Garden #5 is on display (and for…
As you know if you’ve been reading my blog a while, I’m a fan of gelatin printing. So when Julie Fei-Fan Balzer offered a year-long class of gelatin printing…
This week I’ve finished four small fabric collages that I’ve been working on for several weeks. They’re mounted on canvas so they can be hung for display. Please watch this…
This week I’m practicing adding machine and hand stitching to fabric collages. Sometimes it’s good to have something small to pick up for a few minutes between other projects. …
Did you ever drive a car with a manual transmission? I guess I’m showing my age when I say driving a “straight drive” was one of my favorite things in…
This week I'm adding layers to my fabric collages with machine and hand stitching. The design process is similar to adding drawing or calligraphy to a paper collage. I…
As I worked on my small fabric collages that I started last week, I planned to add texture and definition with stitching. I realized I didn’t have the materials and…