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My Ever Changing Moods Paper Doll

Posted in Amy's Art, Art Dolls, Collage, Creativity, Inspiration, Mixed Media, art, tagged , , on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In another assignment from the online workshop, The Transformative Nature of Art Dolls, we were tasked with creating a two-sided paper doll that reflected both our good days and bad days; the bright and dark sides.  The idea was to depict these bright and dark sides through images and colors with as few words as [...]

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Laurie Mika Workshop

Posted in Art Date, Collage, Creativity, Favorite stuff, Finding a voice, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Nature, Sculpture, Self-confidence, Spirituality, art, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Last weekend I had the wonderful experience of taking a mosiac icon workshop with Laurie Mika.  I’ve been intrigued with Laurie’s work ever since I bought her book Mixed Media Mosaics.
 
Laurie’s mosiacs.
The workshop took place at Absolutely Everything in Topsfield, MA.  Karen, Judy and I made plans to attend together and make it a girls [...]

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Paper Doll Collage

Posted in Amy's Art, Art Dolls, Collage, Creativity, Finding a voice, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Self-confidence, Spirituality, tagged , , on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Two weeks ago I started a six-week online workshop with Pamela Hastings.  The workshop, Transformational Art Dolls, is hosted by Joggles.  This is my first experience with a multi-week online course.  An advantage to this type of workshop is that you download one lesson per week and work at your own pace.
The first lesson focused [...]

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Catching Up

Posted in Amy's Art, CED 2008, Collage, Creativity, Favorite stuff, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Spirituality, tagged , , , on January 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This week has flown by and soon I will be flying to Utah.  The week’s primary creativity endeavors involved making pieces to fill wholesale orders.
However, I did complete another doodle:

And started working on backgrounds for my Soul Collage cards:
    
  
The studio will be closed for a few days while I visit Utah and get in [...]

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Hope to Atone (What the Snow Melt Revealed) Postcard

Posted in Amy's Art, Collage, Creativity, Environment, Finding a voice, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Nature, Spirituality, tagged , , , on January 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »

For my second postcard for the WCA exhibit, I planned to collect some items found during a walk in the neighborhood and was going to title the postcard “What the Snow Melt Revealed.”
I collected bits of trash, including a crumpled newspaper page, candy wrappers, a straw and a crushed can.  It wasn’t until I started to wrap [...]

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Video Improvisations: Dr. T and the Impromptu 3

Posted in Artists, Collage, Creativity, Favorite stuff, Inspiration, Music, Networking, Spirituality, art, tagged , , , , , , on November 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Eric had a gig Friday night at Gallery 119 in Lowell.  He played with two other musicians; Karen on augmented cello and Michael on bass and table guitar.  The three of them (Impromptu 3) were accompanied by Dr. T, who provided video mixing.
So what does that mean?
Dr. T (aka Emile Tobenfeld) mixes video images that he [...]

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