Faux Velvet

Faux Velvet is the name of the technique used for the textured looking background piece here. The technique is in the April/May issue of Technique Junkies.

Stamps are from I Brake For Stamps. The kids sitting on the couch are from the Stampinback collection and the Speckle background from IBFS.

The stars are textured grungeboard that I dabbed with a Radiant Rain Dauber and sponged the edges with black ink.

Sold an assemblage

"Shipwrecked"

I was notified this weekend that one of my assemblages has sold at the Juried art show I entered. It runs through this week. It is so flattering when someone likes my art enough to buy it :)

It was probably my most favorite of the ones I entered.

Why I have been so quiet..........

I honestly have not done alot of art. Sadly there has been an issue on the homefront that has taken over alot of my time once again. My daughter has had some issues going on and her neurologist ordered an EEG. Sadly the EEG did show seizure activity :( So , now onto the next step: getting her on meds for it. Sigh. This kid has been through so much. A part of me is so glad they found it but I am devastated at the same time. The seizures she is having are the kind you can look at her and not even know she is having them! The technician told me that these kind she may possibly grow out of. The symptoms she has been having have caused me alot of frustration and have taken lots of my energy. I am trying not to get too upset over it-but its hard. Because we deal with so much already-its hard to think that now we have yet another thing to deal with, another medication to keep track of, another test to take. Sigh.

Oh well. We can move forward now-on to the next step. I need my art more than ever now.

New Stamp Images

from I Brake For Stamps

Stamp Out Naked Envelopes!

A heavily decorated envelope-all stamps from I Brake For Stamps.

Hope it makes it to Canada safely and with no delay :)

And it was all yellow...........

My contribution (or one of them, I plan to do more) for the Mailmania 4 Exhibit being held in Victoria BC Canada October 8-November 8 2010 at Slide Room Gallery-Vancouver Island School of Art

I listened to the song "Yellow" by coldplay today-hence the lyrics.........it just spoke to me, don't know why!

This is a regular sized postcard.

I used acrylics, peerless watercolors, pitt pen, printed paper and collage ephemera

Art Show

Here are some of my favorite pieces (and yes, mine are here too!) that are currently in the 41st Annual Multi Media Mini Show in Redlands, Ca. There were some other pieces I wanted to get shots of but unfortunately was not able to-lots of people near that area during the reception!These pieces cannot be more than 14 1/2" -so you can get an idea of the sizes. At the reception on Sunday, I actually spoke to the jurist, a photographer ( a brilliant one , at that!) Marguerite Garth. I have to say she has amazing taste (and not just saying that because I am in the show!). This show was ALOT different this year! For one, fewer pieces were in this show than previous. And, the one thing I LOVED!!! There was SO much more Mixed Media pieces. SO unique. I was in awe. I feel very fortunate to have gotten all 3 of my pieces juried in. So many regulars who get in this show did NOT get in. When I was chatting with the jurist and she asked me if I had a piece in the show, I told her I had 3 and she giggled :) She asked which were mine and I told her and she gave me a huge compliment. I was thrilled!

See the cool teapot here with the "Blindfolded Man?" That won first place. It was awesome-and the artist (Dan Soury)was a charachter!LOL And the brightly colored abstracts there? "Emerge" and "New Eyes" are by my wonderful friend, Cindy Jones Lantier! Of course, my 2 assemblages got grouped with one of the amazing Richard Freund's assemblages!

I am in!

All 3 of my art pieces were juried into the art show! yayyyyyyyyyyy! I am thrilled!

The Show is being held at Redlands Art Association Gallery and Art Center
in Redlands CA!

TMTA-Metal

Its been ages since i have participated in this challenge! I needed a challenge today! I knew I wanted to do an ATC today and I remembered the 'Think Monday Think ATC' Challenge. I know I am a day late, but.......hey, better late than never right?

I created this ATC from metal tape and a couple other metal elements. The eye stamp is from this sheet over at IBFS and the flourishy one (behind the eye) is from this image.

Remember, use my code SAVE10KRISTY at I Brake For Stamps for an additional 10% off :)

Entered Art Show Today

I entered a juried art show that I enter every year just this morning! Here are the entries I submitted. I am pretty happy with them. Now the waiting game-I probably won't know if I got in for several days, but fingers crossed! I have always gotten in previous years :) Normally I have only entered canvas pieces but this year I am entering a couple of assemblages. I was thrilled to have seen a friend and favorite artist, Richard Freund, at the take in for this show. He is such an inspiration and his work is just insanely cool! Ours so far was the only Assemblage art there, so good luck to both of us :) He even shared some really kewl assemblage tips with me today! I just LOVE being around other artists!

Now onto the next show! There are a couple more coming up soon that I want to enter , so I gotta get to work! Luckily I have at least a couple for one I am entering in the next couple weeks!