If I had a yard of fabric for every time I got one of those emails I’d have a LOT more fabric in my studio! I’ve curated several juried exhibits now and one of the parts I hate about curating is having to send rejection letters. As an artist who has received a lot of them myself, I know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you open that email and read that your piece was not accepted. Continue reading
I’ve been making a list of topics to write about here on my blog and before the list gets too much longer I thought I’d talk about one of those feared and most often misunderstood subjects: I cover this topic in depth in my Artistic Development online class that starts on June 4, but I … Continue reading
I’m so excited to be a part of the hop, skip jump blog hop to celebrate the release of Jamie Fingal’s new fabric line with RJR fabrics called “Hopscotch“! Hopscotch is a playful tone on tone super blender line of fabrics based on a collection of hand drawn designs from Jamie’s sketchbooks. The colors are … Continue reading
I never work on more than one quilt at a time and I never start a new one until the one I’m working on is finished. Does that surprise you? Are you the type who starts a piece, gets midway through and then puts it aside to start another one? Or maybe you’re working on … Continue reading
In my last blog post on books the focus was on inspiration and creativity. This time it’s all about surface design and dimensional textiles. A couple of these are out of print but they’re well worth tracking down a used copy. If you’ve got some favorites in these categories, please feel free to share them … Continue reading
I’d like to think that people think of me as a generous artist. I openly share my techniques in my classes, books and magazine articles, share images of my artwork both in progress and finished, create and share free projects for followers to download, recommend books, tools and supplies that I like and use and … Continue reading
Over the course of my artistic journey I’ve compiled quite an extensive library. I’ve got books on a wide variety of subjects: quilting, bookmaking, surface design, mixed media, art history, business etc etc. You get the idea – I have a lot of books! I thought it might be fun to do a blog post every so often about some of my favorite books in a particular subject. In this post I’ll share my favorites on the subject of inspiration/creativity and business… Continue reading
