Cat Dayz Winner & Featured Artist – Susan Clinkscales
Autumn Queen
Arches
What Susan Clinkscales says about her artwork:
“I wouldn’t know what to do if I wasn’t creating with my hands. It’s in my blood and always has been. I am multi-faceted in my work, jumping from traditional 2-D images to beadweaving, with occasional side-trips using fabrics and thread.
I love to work in pencil. The delicate subtleties that can be achieved are magical. I also crave color in my work and enjoy the challenges of watercolor. I am the ever-searching student of art; always trying to learn something new to push my work further. I would have to say my favorite style of painting is realism. It’s all about the details.
I am also drawn to the tiny intricacies of beadweaving; to take a pile of beads and a needle and thread and work
with them until they are an adornment is very rewarding. Each bead joins the others, one by one in a meditative process.”
Horn of Plenty
Draped Beauty
Harebell
RESIN JEWELRY – Sherri Haab
Sherri Haab has done it again! She has done all the research so you can just enjoy this new exciting product with confidence and safety. Resin opens new vistas of transparency and inclusions into jewelry, ephemera or just to seal a treasured keepsake. You learn about the material while making 15 unique projects. Sherri uses commercial molds, makes her own from a family heirloom, uses game pieces in a mini-tableau dangle, creates a theme bracelet … the list goes on. Check it out!
Sale ends when these DVDs arrive at the CCP warehouse.
Hand Lettering on Fabric with Lisa Engelbrecht
Lisa Engelbrecht’s DVD workshop is a sound, yet creative introduction to beautiful hand lettering. She makes practice fun with an easy decorative project. It’s like two workshops in one. Basic materials and the building block of hand lettering are presented in the first part, while the second half shows you the important considerations when working on fabric. You learn how to condition material and seal the surface, plus how she creates her special backgrounds before writing. Lisa brings it all together by using a few simple materials to build a collapsible Bali Lantern. What you learn here can be applied to the fabric arts, collage or just because you want to learn more about decorative writing.
Capturing Limited Light Using Expressive Brushwork by Betty Carr
Betty’s energetic approach to watercolor is contagious. Her workshop covers concepts such as: beginning with darks rather than lights, how to direct the visual path using gradations and darks, painting on a vertical surface, carrying the energy off the page and how to use expressive brushwork to add life to a painting. Along the way, Betty shares how she uses her sketch book to design her painting and think through her value pattern, her favorite quotes, warm-up exercises and much more.
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Ever wonder what the big deal is about polymer clay? Here’s your chance to find out why this versatile product is so popular. In Dayle Doroshow’s two workshops she takes inspirations from the motifs of Provence, France (DD1d) and China (DD2d) to develop exciting faux materials out of Polymer clay (Femo).
You learn to make ‘jade’, ‘bone’, ‘mileflorie’ and how to create an antique look and transfer images. Dayle creates jewelry, pendants, boxes, books, beads and charms… all great fun and it makes wonderful gifts or ephemera for collage or quilting projects. Check it out!
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MIXING IT UP
January 21, 2008
We were wrapping up development of the Gloria Page workshop right before Christmas, and I had the pleasure to view and review the project several times! Gloria inspired me to give it a shot! I have had very little experience in the craft arts, but I decided to make gifts for a group of women friends with whom I exchange gifts. As long as I was at it, I decided I might as well try combining some of the techniques I had seen in some of our other workshops … in for a penny….
I purchased inexpensive note booklets, the kind with brown tag board covers. Using a hand carved leaf stamp, I used a burnt sienna colored stamp pad and stamped the covers with a repeated leaf pattern. Over that I spread clear gel medium, and into that I again stamped a leaf pattern. After the gel dried, I brushed the textured surface with a thinned wash of fluid acrylic paint which settled into the depressions more heavily. Much to my amazement, things were looking pretty good! Of course, everything looks better during the holidays with a touch of metallic paint. Soon the booklet/journals looked very different from the original booklet and the covers felt “leathery”. As Gloria would say, “How cool is that?!”
I was proud to give these to my friends and I think they liked them! In truth, the gift I gave was to myself. Sad comment, but it was the closest thing to “play” I’ve done in awhile and I had a great time! In addition, the project could be sectioned into manageable parts which I was able to sandwich between work, shipping, cooking and the many other holiday activities. There is a lot to be said for the craft arts! I just might be hooked.
~Lynn~
ART STAMPING INNOVATIONS with Gloria Page
January 21, 2008
Get ready to have Art Stamping become your new favorite medium! Expressive, innovative and very practical, art stamping can be everything from a simple gift tag to an elegant full page design. Paper, cloth, polymer clay… it’s all within reach!
Gloria Page shows you all you need to know to get off to an exciting start or push your ‘stamping’ to a new level of creativity. She gives an overview of the possibilities of art stamping and an inspiring closer look at some very creative applications of the medium. Gloria discusses traditional and innovative carving surfaces, and the benefits of each. She demonstrates the best carving technique for accuracy and safety. She reviews inks and embossing products and shows how they vary when used on a different surfaces. You learn specific techniques such as bleaching and image transfers, and Gloria shows you design examples you can try at home. She even shows several methods to transfer images to express your personal style. Additionally, you learn applications for mixed media. Finally, Gloria demonstrates projects that are easy to make and look fantastic.
Gloria’s enthusiasm and great ideas are absolutely contagious. The workshop is fun, creative and stimulating. It will inspire your own design combinations and you will find yourself using your paper, acrylic textures, quilt embellishments, assemblages and collage pieces in new and innovative ways.
The DVD workshop includes a printable list of supplies to help you find these materials easily. And it includes instructions and a pattern for folding the traditional Masu Box.
This DVD workshop is 2 hours in length plus a gallery of Gloria’s work.
KELLY’S ANIMATED " 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS"
This falls into the “What CCP Employees Do In Their Spare Time” category. Kelly, one of our editors has just put a new animated video on YouTube. You have to see it to believe it!
If you like her video you may also enjoy our new Craft Arts webpage.
(Kelly is currently on vacation, but I’m sure she would like to hear your comments regarding her YouTube video.) Please send her an e-mail at: Kelly@ccpvideos.com
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