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Sneak peek at the soon to be published children’s book illustrations and my living room

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Sometimes the creative work overflows into the living room from the studio and onto the floor on top of a carpet my mom hooked in the early seventies. I love lying down or sitting on the floor surrounded by inks, papers, glues and best of a all a children’s story entitled Something & Nothing, propped [...]

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OLDisNEW Thursday – Vintage Road Signs

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I love old paper and have been known to take apart a book or two to get at certain sections contained within that book to use as an art supply in collage or to draw upon. There are 13 actual pages from the Civics and Government section printed in the first edition Readers Digest Great [...]

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Knowledge no.1 & no.2 – Exploring the Traditional and Digital Mediums

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Last year I was fortunate enough to acquire two printers. Since then, the task of scanning and digitizing my original artwork has consumed much of my waking hours. Each original needs to be scanned at a minimum of 300dpi. I scan at 800 to 1200dpi to achieve maximum quality. If you scan at a higher [...]

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Lopsided Pearls

Size – 8″ by 10″
This is an original creation drawn with a Pilot Gtec C4 Pen and painted with Windsor and Newton Watercolor. The collage paper is Acid free Ingris and Manila.
Much of my art is available in my Etsy Shop. Please see my Blog’s about page for the details.
Thank you.
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Artist Tip #6 – Why you should save your used Christmas wrapping paper

Artist Tip #6 – Why you should save your used Christmas wrapping paper
The obvious reason is to re-use the larger pieces next year when wrapping your 2008 Christmas gifts. And rather than throwing the smaller pieces out with the trash, consider them for creative collage purposes or as fire starter in your wood stove, furnace [...]

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