Craft Cat Newsletter - August, 2007
JACQUELINE SULLIVAN COLLAGE DVD
Now’s your chance to join Jacqueline Sullivan as she demonstrates the unlimited possibilities of collage. Learn how she layers tissue, cheesecloth and aluminum and selects the medium to use for each texture for durability. Jacqueline clearly explains the differences between Golden mediums. In addition to stencils and metallics, she incorporates everyday household items and discusses how to analyze your design for a better composition.
This DVD is perfect for collage artists of any level and style.
Meet Jacqueline Sullivan
Teacher and artist Jacqueline Sullivan discovered collage early in life when she took a high school art class. Since then, Jacqueline’s artistic studies have taken several paths, including a degree in graphic design and years as an advertising and publication designer. Jacqueline has also focused her talents on calligraphy, having studied under world-renowned instructors Sheila Waters, Jenny Groat and Reggie Exell.
Jacqueline’s fans can see her work in galleries and learn from her first hand through one of the many workshops she teaches around the world every year. Jacqueline has juried art fairs across the country and has been on the faculty of several International Calligraphy Conferences.
Jacqueline currently resides in Michigan. She and her husband, Victor, run a custom frame shop and gallery, The Artful Framer.
(The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with Creative Catalyst.)
How do you find time to do art? Can people be successful as part-time artists?
If I can find time to do art, anybody can. I own a gallery/frame shop where I regularly work 6 days a week, 10 hours per day. I travel and teach at 8 - 10 venues in a year. In addition, I still do some free-lance graphic design work. To “speed up” the practice of creativity, I make sure that I am around something or someone creative all of the time. Thus, my “day job” has always been something that is creative: graphics, picture framing, teaching. If I am too tired to make art, I am reading about it, watching DVD’s, or looking at art on the web. I am on several Yahoo groups and enjoy the creative “chatter.” When my children were younger they always had a strict bedtime - giving me a couple of hours in the studio between their bedtime and mine. When they were young, the playroom, studio and laundry room were all adjoining, allowing me to multi-task. My daughter is disabled and we spent lots of times in doctor’s offices and hospitals and I always tried to keep a sketchbook or a journal with me to “stay creative” while waiting. This also helped reduce the stress of those situations.
In order to be successful as a part time artist, you have to make some tough choices. I don’t run a “perfect” household. It is often embarrassingly chaotic. Friends who visit us understand that I need to make art and understand the “clean enough to be healthy” concept. I don’t garden, although it is something that I love and I am careful with volunteer activities. I have dinner with friends or they visit with me at the gallery, but my social time is very limited. Shopping can be a very creative pursuit, but also a very time consuming one, and so, I try not to “lose myself” in shopping for new tools and materials.
Out and About- CCP Artists’ Workshops
ANN BALDWIN
September 24 -28
Color & Texture in Abstract Painting
Coupeville Arts Center, Whidbey Island, WA
www.coupevillearts.org
SHERRI HAAB
Aug 4
Image Transfer PMC Jewelry
Kit Kraft
Studio City, CA
818-509-9739
Sign up by calling Kit Kraft, email Sherri with questions (sherri @ sherrihaab.com).
TRACI BAUTISTA
Aug 8-12
Art Unraveled
Phoenix, AZ 8/8 - Crayon Cupcakes
8/9 - Creativity Unleashed
8/10 - Flourished Layers
8/11 - Visit Traci’s booth @ the artist’s show - paintings, journals, kits 4 sale!
8/12 - Diva Fairies
Aug 24-26
Stampers Warehouse
Danville, CA
Sept 7-9
The Art Bar
Santa Ana, CA
9/7-Graffiti Bouquet
9/8 - 10am-2pm - Monoprints & Drizzles
9/8 - 3pm-6pm - Doodles & Letters
9/9 - FIBERfusion Art Book
Sept 14-15
More Than Memories
Schaumburg, IL
9/14 - Graffiti Bouquet
9/15 (am) - Colorful Layers. Doodles. Monoprints
9/15 (pm) - The Macrame Journal
Sept 28-29
Rubber Chicken
Gaithersburg, MD
DAYLE DOROSHOW
John Campbell Folk School, North Carolina
www.folkschool.org
Sept 29-Oct 5
John Campbell Folk School, North Carolina
www.folkschool.org
LESLEY RILEY
September 22-24
East Bay Heritage Quilters Guild
Quilted Memories
Fabric Altered Book
LISA ENGLEBRECHT
August 5-11
Art Unraveled
Crowne Plaza, Phoenix, AZ
www.artunraveled.com
8/9 - Swirls and Twirls, calligraphic flourishing on paper and fabric
8/10 - Letter Tool Time-all the latest cool tools for neat-o letters
8/11 - (10am-4pm) - The Vendor Extravaganza
Sept 21-23
St.Louis Calligraphy Guild
9/21 - Lecture
9/22-9/23 - Workshop
JACQUELINE SULLIVAN
Aug. 5-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Linda Young
info@artunraveled.com
Learn Monotype Printmaking, Fabric Altered Books, Precious Metal Clay, Polymer Clay & Collage
Let your friends know about Creative Catalyst
Elephant Magnets
This fun and quick project makes a great summer project.
