Fall 2014 Daily Ephemera Workshop

Artist Johanne Leveille incorporates her practice of Shodoo and passion for Japanese culture into the Daily Ephemera Workshop (fall, 2014)

This September I held a one-on-one daily ephemera workshop with student artist Johanne Leveille, a CYW list-member and friend. Johanne and I have kept in touch these past few years and finally found […]

October 6th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Artist Portrait, Collage, Collage Courses, Collage Techniques, Collage Tips, Collage Workshops, Eco-Friendly Art, Health and Art, Journal Page, Journaling, Mixed Media, Teaching, Uncategorized, Visual Journal, Visual Journaling | Leave a comment

Tapestries of Time: Refrigerator Door Art

While reviewing photos of our old house this month, my heart warmed at the sight of our old kitchen refrigerator door covered with paper paraphernalia. Perhaps you have a similar ritual of posting things to your refrigerator door. In meditating its collage-like surface which offered brief glimpses of my life, I felt it resembled a […]

June 2nd, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Artist Portrait, Assemblage, Collage, Collage Techniques, Collage Tips, Eco-Friendly Art, Glue, Health and Art, Mixed Media, Uncategorized, Vision Board | Leave a comment

Interview with Wendy Southin: Living the Creative Life, Part II

Wendy Southin in her beautiful country garden… after I snapped this photo, as if on cue, a dragonfly came and rested on her hand… it was like something right out of fairy tale!

At last, the highly anticipated second half of Wendy Southin of Dragonfly Dreamers interview…

MC: Wendy, images from nature […]

October 7th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Studio, Artist Interview, Artist Portrait, Books, Christmas, Christmas Gift Ideas, Collage, Collage Workshops, Eco-Friendly Art, Journaling, Mixed Media, Mixed Media Gift Ideas, Uncategorized, Visual Journal, Visual Journaling | Leave a comment

Collage Your World’s Holiday Book Wish List

Collage by Japanese artist duo Wool Cube Wool from "Cut It, Paste It, Sew It…" edited by Chisa Itou

I derive a small but divine pleasure that exceeds my own imagination from the process of taking apart something and completely rearranging its components as I see fit. For me, collage is not so […]

December 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Book Review, Books, Christmas, Christmas Gift Ideas, Collage, Collage Gift Ideas, Collage Techniques, Collage Tips, Eco-Friendly Art, Health and Art, Journal Page, Journaling, Library, Literacy, Literature, Reading, Uncategorized, Visual Journal, Visual Journaling | Leave a comment