Opening day!
Hi Everyone, This is my opening entry in my new blog...Let's Talk Color! I wanted to tell you about my fun day yesterday at Stamp Your Heart Outin Claremont, CA! I love this place, it's fun, colorful (I take a little responsibility for that!) and it's alway great to visit with my long time friend and owner of the store, Joan Bunte.
The class yesterday focused on creating colorful "hand-decorated" papers out of plain everyday papers! By now, if you have looked at my website, you may have guessed I work with GOLDEN ARTIST COLORS exclusively. Their paints are the most wonderful, luscious, and intensely pigmented artist paints you can find! I speak from experience. Anyway, 10 of us spent four hours learning the ins and outs of applying layers of paints on paper to create all kinds of wonderful papers. For the one below we used crumbled up deli-wrap paper...YES, deli wrap papers. They are kind of a sturdy transluscent tissue paper that has a fairly slick surface. By applying fine layers of iridescent (these look like metals and pearls) and interference (a little hard to explain, but filled with sparkle and light) as well as some colors the results shimmer! Really fun. We also learned about creating patterns,glazing surfaces and manipulating the glaze, how the interference colors actually "flip" over black surfaces,using the iridescent and interference paints to change the surface of the paper and generally had a terrific time. If you missed out on this class and are interested in taking it, I'll be repeating it in greater detail at TheARTbar in Santa Ana in early December.
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Oh, and while you are out there looking for classes to take, please visit my friend DiAnn Ogawa at Stamping Details in Poway, CA near San Diego. This is a great place to really build your creative abilities. They offer SO many classes and have such a great staff! I'll be there for a weekend of fun-filled new classes over November 30- Dec 1-2! We are stretching our abilities to working on Plexi & Plastic with Acrylics! So much fun. Sign up early, classes fill up quick. If you go for a visit, be sure to say hi for me.
One last thing, my book "ALTERED SURFACES" is due out in late January 2008. I'm looking forward to all of your reactions. The rough draft is beautiful and Suzanne and her staff at Design Originals did a terrific job with all of the layout and formatting. I know you will find it really helpful as I explained so many of the details about Acrylic paints and products that I talk about all the time!
I'll say goodbye for now, but I'll be writing more soon. Look for a little conversation about QUINACRIDONE colors...The Mighty "Quins".
The class yesterday focused on creating colorful "hand-decorated" papers out of plain everyday papers! By now, if you have looked at my website, you may have guessed I work with GOLDEN ARTIST COLORS exclusively. Their paints are the most wonderful, luscious, and intensely pigmented artist paints you can find! I speak from experience. Anyway, 10 of us spent four hours learning the ins and outs of applying layers of paints on paper to create all kinds of wonderful papers. For the one below we used crumbled up deli-wrap paper...YES, deli wrap papers. They are kind of a sturdy transluscent tissue paper that has a fairly slick surface. By applying fine layers of iridescent (these look like metals and pearls) and interference (a little hard to explain, but filled with sparkle and light) as well as some colors the results shimmer! Really fun. We also learned about creating patterns,glazing surfaces and manipulating the glaze, how the interference colors actually "flip" over black surfaces,using the iridescent and interference paints to change the surface of the paper and generally had a terrific time. If you missed out on this class and are interested in taking it, I'll be repeating it in greater detail at TheARTbar in Santa Ana in early December.
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Oh, and while you are out there looking for classes to take, please visit my friend DiAnn Ogawa at Stamping Details in Poway, CA near San Diego. This is a great place to really build your creative abilities. They offer SO many classes and have such a great staff! I'll be there for a weekend of fun-filled new classes over November 30- Dec 1-2! We are stretching our abilities to working on Plexi & Plastic with Acrylics! So much fun. Sign up early, classes fill up quick. If you go for a visit, be sure to say hi for me.
One last thing, my book "ALTERED SURFACES" is due out in late January 2008. I'm looking forward to all of your reactions. The rough draft is beautiful and Suzanne and her staff at Design Originals did a terrific job with all of the layout and formatting. I know you will find it really helpful as I explained so many of the details about Acrylic paints and products that I talk about all the time!
I'll say goodbye for now, but I'll be writing more soon. Look for a little conversation about QUINACRIDONE colors...The Mighty "Quins".
I stumbled onto your website while researching Ketubah images for a piece I am working on (an assemblage as a gift for my mother's 80th birthday). Your work is really lovely and I am glad that I found your site. Your site directed me to your blog---so here I am. I will check back often. Looking forward to seeing more from you.
-shari schneider
luvs2design@gmail.com
www.creativechatter.blogspot.com
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It's great that you have found a way to commemorate your mom's 80th in such a terrific way. The ketubah image that you saw on my website was of my husband's grandparents and that is their wedding photo. I always use high quality color copies for the images on my pieces as I never want to give up the originals. It makes it easier to "size" them that way as well. Good luck with your piece. Send me an image when you have it done.
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I just ordered your book today from Sky Blue Pink and will be excited to receive it.
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