Artsy Blogging Links for May 19, 2012

Here are your artsy blogging links for this week.

New Paintings: Sometimes I’m an Old Woman

This week I started playing with backgrounds, and as soon as I put down the colors I knew what type of picture I would paint over it. I could see the beautiful white and grey hair of a woman set against the background.

Quoted in Happen Magazine Article

I’m quoted in a new Happen Magazine article that talks about making updates to your profile in the spring.

Visit Me at Beading Arts!

My artsy blogging pal Cyndi was kind enough to host me at her Beading Arts blog, where I’m talking about my trip to Paris. I share a few photos I took, along with a funny poem that describes a dinner I went to with my hubby.

Interviewed at Unruly Guides About 21 Ways to Promote Your Book on Twitter

I’ve been forgetting to tell you all about a podcast I did several months back with Unruly Guides about my book, 21 Ways to Promote Your Book on Twitter.

Mixed Media: Faith Love Hope Joy

I’m working on another mixed media painting this week, and yes, in case you’re wondering, I’m totally hooked the medium. Remember when I didn’t feel comfortable with it? Now, I love it so much I can’t even remember what I did before it.

Green Garden Sculptures

Spring has finally sprung! The weather has been just great this past week, and that makes me think of one thing: gluing glass together. Okay, maybe two things: gluing glass together and making corned beef and cabbage. It was St. Patty’s Day on Saturday after all! So while I had my traditional Irish dinner boiling [...]

Mixed Media: I Love How You Love Me

It’s funny how the papers you put down on a canvas can influence you when you paint it. For this one, I really liked the music papers to “I Love How You Love Me.” I also had some heart scrapbook paper, and a page from a Robert Browning poem.

Mixed Media: Superhero Glasses

I just picked up some 10 x 10 canvasses at Michael’s this week, and couldn’t wait to break into them. I started by covering the canvas with some different papers, book pages, and music sheets. Then I added some stamps and the beginnings of the face.

Mixed Media: Beautifully Unique

The mixed media picture I’ll show you today is a perfect example of if you don’t like it the first time, keep layering. I’ll show you what I mean. I started with a few papers over canvas. I’m using some of the house patterns from the books I bought at the library sale, some scrapbook [...]

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