Student Work: Art Journaling Class

I finally had a chance to correct these photos and get them posted here. In Oct/Nov I taught a six-week art journaling series at Vita Art Center, and I was amazed at the rich, meaningful and varied work my eight students produced! Here's just a taste of some of their completed pages:















And here's a grungy graffiti page I did in class:

More Felted Goodies

The assembly line is in full swing here, with felt items rolling off daily.

These baby/toddler sweaters and blankies are all made primarily of cashmere and cashere blends, so they're ultra soft for the little ones.

The hard part will be deciding how much to charge for them.

Next up: More full-size Xmas stockings.

Holiday Marketplace Items

It's been a felt storm around here lately! Here are some of the items I've made to sell at the Ojai Holiday Home Look-in Marketplace, which will take place November 20-22 at the old Ford dealership property.

I've also got baby blankets, Xmas pillows, and more Xmas stockings in the works.

For more info on this fantastic holiday shopping opportunity, go here.

Raven Altered Book

Here are some pages from my newly finished altered book. I started this with the idea of using mostly shades of white, against the black ravens, but as you'll see, after the first spread that idea pretty much went down the drain. I'm still searching for the elusive white book inside myself.

Art Journaling Class

I snapped a few photos of my Art Journaling class at Vita Art Center last week. These ladies were intent on their work!

Another class tonight, and hopefully time for more photos. It's fun to look back at what everyone did. I'm always amazed at the different results each student gets with the same materials.

More Stenciled & Stitched Mini-Journals

At the risk of being redundant, here are a few more of my recent pages.



















































I was at the store yesterday, and Shelby came by while I was binding all these mini-journals and she snapped this photo of me, which I love because of the journals tossed on the counter in the foreground, and hate because I look sooooo fat.

Stitched & Stenciled Mini-Journals

I went a bit obsessive this week painting and stenciling and stitching journal pages. I had intended to put them into a single journal, but Melissa came up with the idea of using each one to create a mini-journal containing only a few pages, which could then be used to write an little story or poem or other personal note and give as a gift. Ialways knew she was a genius!

These are all based on the online class conducted by Mary Ann Moss at Dispatch From LA. Check her out if you haven't already!

Here are a bunch of photos of individual pages and spreads, before assembling into journals.



(this one shows what it will look like with the pages inside; I will wrap the plain paper signatures in either a map, sheet music, or other printed page)




























Believe it or not, this is only a small fraction of the pages I did. I completed 15 spreads, front and back. That's 30 spreads, or 60 individual pages! Yes, it's okay if you question my sanity. ;-)

More photos later.