Creative Catalyst Newsletter January 7, 2009

A CREATIVE MIXED MEDIA START TO 2009

The five new DVD workshops by Interweave / Quilting Arts celebrate a variety of versatile techniques for mixed media artists.

Jane Dávila’s One-page Book makes a small fiber book from one piece of fabric. She uses a variety of surface design techniques and mixed-media materials.

Judy Coates Perez<Mixed-media Painted Fabric) explores textile paints, gel medium, and decorative printed images to create a fun, versatile fabric that can be used to make tote bags, fabric bowls, vessels, sculptural objects, or book cloth for handmade and altered books.

Ruth Rae, in The Journey is the Destination: Techniques for Mixed Media & Fabric Art shows you how you can add new dimensions to your artwork! Learn the secrets of transparency manipulation along with fabric altering and creative machine sewing. You explore: working with resin, burning, stitching, dyeing, and stamping. Then it’s all brought together in a project that will combine all the new skills.
Want to learn a tried and true transfer technique?

Join Lesley Riley (Transfers Tried & True) as she demystifies and demonstrates the latest, greatest, and most reliable methods, materials, tips, and tricks for perfect photo transfers onto fabric. Learn which methods to use for art quilts and collage and discover her latest transfer technique for soft, permanent, washable photos on any fabric, from any inkjet printer.

Quilting Arts DVD Series 200 is a 4-disk 13-episode DVD set filmed for Quilting Arts TV.  It was aired nationally on PBS in June 2008. Quilting Arts TV, hosted by Patricia Bolton includes some of your favorite fiber and mixed-media artists as guests demonstrating a wide variety of techniques and projects.

Check out the whole Interweave Group

Any suggestions?

A person wrote asking if I had any suggestions for client data management software for artists. Any ideas? I’d like to hear from both PC and Mac users. Thanks.

Please drop us an email with your suggestion.

From Behind the Camera: Hello again

Happy 2009! I thought I’d begin the year by introducing myself to those of you who have joined the newsletter since the last time I did this.

I’m one of the co-founders of Creative Catalyst. Jim, my husband and best friend, is interested in things technical and I’m the artist. I was introduced to watercolor earlier than I can remember by my mother, Jan Kunz. Around 1989 I assisted her in making three videos using another production company. The experience was frustrating, expensive and a real learning experience. I remember thinking that these folks haven’t a clue what a student wants to see.

When our three kids left the nest, Jim and I decided we would live life with intent. We wanted to work with happy people making something that helped make people happy. I recalled my experience filming with my mother. Producing a video workshop is a blending of art and technology. We saw a need we would enjoy filling. Creative Catalyst was born.
I have a degree in Art History, Graphic Design and Print Technology. I remember very little of any of it. It was too long ago. We live on 4.5 acres in Oregon and the business is on site. Aside from painting, I love to garden. And I seem to have an invisible sign on my back inviting stray cats to take up residence here.

My personal search is to find my own artistic voice. I absorb and filter ideas from as many sources as I can. From Behind the Camera is a weekly reflection on some of the things I’ve learned working with these fabulous artists.
Cheers~ Lynn Powers

Lynn’s gallery

Upcoming Live Workshops by Creative Catalyst Instructors

NOTE: These workshops are not presented online. They are live workshops presented by the artists around the country.
Ann Bagby
February 9-13, 2009 – Taos, New Mexico
Contact: lyn.bleiler@yahoo.com
Ratindra Das
February (TBA) – Ajijic, Mexico
Contact: ratindradas@sbcglobal.net
Dayle Doroshow
February 21 & 22, 2009 – San Francisco Center for the Book
Contact: www.sfcb.org
Lisa Engelbrecht
February 13-16, 2009 – Kellogg Conference Center, Pomona CA
Contact:www.societyforcalligraphy.org
Janie Gildow
February 24, 2009 – Colored Pencil 2 at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute
Contact: www.desertmuseum.org/arts
Caroline Jasper
February 15, 2009 – Sarasota, FL (Painting Demonstration)
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
February 16-20, 2009 – Sarasota, FL
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
Judy Morris
February 17-19, 2009 – Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR Contact: 541-726-8595 – www.emeraldartcenter.org
February 20, 2009 – Buffalo Grass Workshop, Portland, OR
Contact: billbaily@comcast.net
Jean Pederson
February 2009, Covington, LA
Contact: www.theriversretreat.com – 985-871-9100
John Salminen
February 2-5, 2009 – The Presidio in San Francisco, CA
Contact: Karen Powers 510-502-6211
February 17-20, 2009 – Little Rock, AR
Contact: diwizi@comcast.net
Jacqueline Sullivan
January 31 & February 1 & 2, 2009
Forest Grove, OR
Contact: 503-357-7263 www.greenheronbookkits.com
February 6, 7, & 8, 2009
Portland, OR
Contact: www.diylounge.com/teacherlist
Pat Weaver
February 6-8, 2009 – Dade City, FL
Contact: ivel2@aol.com
February 20-22, 2009 – Bradenton, FL
Contact: Diane Shelly 941-746-2862
February 21, 2009 – At Paint Out at the Long Boat Key Art Center
View our Blog for January 2009 schedules, here.

In This Issue

Creative Start

Any Suggestions

From Behind the Camera: Hello Again

Workshop Schedules

This Week’s Winner

Sale Continues

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What Customers Say

Congratulations to Carol Reynolds of Hawaii, USA for being our winner of the Period 2 drawing (12/1-21/08).
Congratulations to Lynn Pajunen of British Columbia, Canada for being our winner the Weekly drawing (1/1-1/4/09).

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“The common denominator of artistic expression is the ordering of a vision into a consistent complete form. The difference between a mere expression – however intense and revealing – and an artistic image of that expression lies in the structure of the form.”
Georgy Kepes
1906-2001
from THE ARTIST’S DESIGN: Probing the Hidden Order by Marie MacDonnell Roberts

Susan, you are so kind to respond to my request so quickly. Every experience I have had with your company has been very pleasant. – Lisa –
I’m so glad you guys are here for those of us that want to learn to draw, paint or whatever. The videos I have purchased have
all been exceptional. – Kristen D. –
Thank you for the wonderful Nicholas Simmons DVD that you produced! It was extremely well done and Nick himself a great teacher. I wanted to get as much information as possible prior to taking a workshop with Nick this past November and this DVD really helped me get an understanding of how he worked and what to expect! It was dynamite! -Nancy G. –
Incredible video production. So thorough, well composed and lit. So enjoy the out takes…good fun. Thanks – Ginny L. –