Hand painted fabrics

Swatches for a paper doll project.

Hand made journal

This is a journal that I am currently playing with.
I love using the techniques that I used, acrylic paint,
pastel, rubberstamps, colored pencils, collage and markers.










These are not the final words. The stamped words are like
supplies. I will arrange them later to say what i want to say.

Copper Embossing

Playing around with embossing on metal has really been fun.
I cut the randomly cut the pieces into rectangles and with a plain
embossing tool with a tiny ball tip I sketch little drawings.


I dip the piece in a liver of sulfur solution, that darkens the copper.
The fun part for me is buffing the piece and seeing the final result.

Some Paintings I am working on

Here are a variety of paintings that I am playing with using acrylic
paint and pastels:



They may become new paper dolls.

Interesting way to design

I love scrapbook papers for my paper dolls. I have often wondered
if I could design some myself. Here are my first attempts:



I could use these same images over and over with different color-ways.

Work Process

One way that I like to work is to create collage elements from my drawings, cut them
out, and photograph them in different layouts. I use these pictures as a virtual sketchbook.

Navigating my blog....

I decided: No dates! I will not mark dates on this blog because it will have work in progress and I will be adding to individual posts all the time. This flexiblity works for me, I'll have more freedom on when and how I update or add things to it.

I have lots of work that does not fit into the I just did it category.
I might want to post something again in five minutes!Since the posts are organized by month on the side, that's all I need.....

Altered book - Work in progress

I am in the first stages of working on this book. The pages are covered with kraft paper and stencilled. Now I am making the figures and the text.





This is my method for doing affirmations. I print out the affirmations that I want to use and set my intention for using them. Most of the time it is to raise my life condition(vibration), or to put healing energy in my work.





In my mind each figure is a teacher. They are drawn with colored pencil on black paper.
Playing around with the placement, and arranging the words is how I like to work with positive statements.

Ancient Egyptian mixed media hand-made book

I am amazed and inspired by the beauty of Ancient Egyptian writing. Simple and complex, I can see why it was considered sacred. I used some of the hieroglyphs to create a journal for picutes and words.

Here is what some of the pages look like:

The pages are light kraft paper cut to size. The pages are crumbled up, then ironed flat. This ages the paper beautifully.

Each page is rubber-stamped with Ancient Egyptian rubber stamps.

Each page has a flap which is printed paper with a hand colored picture of a heirglyph.

The pages are taped together with clear matte contact paper strips.

The first and last pages are sliped into a paste paper book cover. if needed the cover can be reinforced with cardstock.

Smaller color-copies of the hieroglyph symbols are glued to the end flaps.

Links to the rubberstamps and the heiroglyph sheets available for purchase will be featured here.(link not yet working)