Filming QA TV and a DVD for Interweave.

I spent Wednesday, Feb 16 in a TV studio in Cleveland, Ohio. That's me with Pokey Bolton, friend and host of QA TV (and she does a million other things, like Quilting Arts & Cloth Paper Scissors magazines.) I started at 8am in make up, and filmed 3 segments for Quilting Arts TV, Series 800. (You'll be able to start pre-ordering in July, and shipping starts around the 3rd week of July)

Pokey makes the segments relatively easy, as she asks great questions and is loads of fun.

That's me listening intently to the Producer. I did a needle-felting segment too. You can see Suzanne Morgan's Everthing Kit on the left, that's what I used to create my Venice pieces.

Jeannie Cook-Delpit, Bernina's director of national events was in the green room to teach me to use the Bernina machine and the needle punch attachment for my segments.

This is what the set looks like. That's Lindsey Murray on the right.

My work, spread out for one of the segments.



After filming the 3 TV segments, we started the filming of my hour long DVD around 3pm. Here I am. Ready!

Pokey was a special guest in my DVD. I taught her to draw and paint!

Here at I about 5pm, ready to start filming the final chapter of my DVD. You can tell I'm starting to tire. I don't know the title yet of the DVD, but it is based on my "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style" and will also show ways to use your original artwork in mixed media. I'll keep you  posted!

See you on Friday!

I'm off to Cleveland to film Quilting Arts TV and a Workshop DVD... See you on Friday! (I'll post on Facebook while I'm traveling)
I was on QA TV Season 300, a few years ago  and here's the Organza Hawk Feather project and the Paper on Cloth segments I did then.

Have I mentioned I love birds?

A little quilt with cotton, organza and image transfers of my original watercolors.

work in progress

Mixed media piece in progress..... collage, acrylic paint, moudling paste, color pencil...


Before the color pencil was added

Wet Felted piece in progress

Work in progress. I love to cut things up and sew on them, then reassemble them. Remember the wet felting workshop I taught last weekend? You can see I'm holding the piece I felted for the demo. Pictured above is what it looks like now. ..

here's how it looked before I wet-felted it.









The felt is just lucious to sew on, so I'm enjoying this process very much.
(You can see where I'm teaching this again here.

Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style

I sketched and watercolored at the Winery yesterday. It was cold!

CREATE registration is open! I'm teaching 3 classes at the Costa Mesa/Orange County Mixed Media art retreat. See you there!

Spoonflower fabric meets Kathi Price!

You know how I love my spoonflower fabric! These adorable fabric bins were made with my fabric and designed and sewn by Kathi Price and ordered via her etsy shop. You can order my Spoonflower fabric, made from my orginal watercolors and have Kathi sew you something very cool.

Wet Felting workshop

I taught a wet felting workshop this weekend for Visions Art Museum in San Diego. Two mornings, 9-noon each day. This picture was taken the morning of the second day, with everyone showing what they'd made the day before.

Here's how we start, laying out merino wool roving. I supply kits and students have the choice of 3 different color ways.





Here's the end of the second day. Some have cut their pieces up, or left them whole and embroidered, needle-felted and stitched.



fun workshop! I'll be teaching wet felting again, at Quilters' Studio near Thousand Oaks, CA on May 14 & 15th (2 mornings) and again in beautiful Idyllwild Summer Arts program for two full days July 1 & 2. You can see my schedule for additional details on both of these workshops.

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 34th wedding anniversary! This was taken, today, on Coronado with a view across the bay to San Diego in the background.

Cloth Paper Scissors CREATE mixed media retreat coming to SoCal

CREATE the mixed media art retreat is coming to Southern California and I'm teaching!
Registration starts February 8. But first go here and read a short interview of me and little about what I'll be teaching.

Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style on Saturday,  May 21

BIG BOOK on Thursday May 18

Fused Sheer Collage on Friday, May 20

Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style Workshop

I taught a "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style" workshop for the Seaside Quilters Guild yesterday, in Gillian's lovely home in La Jolla, CA. Thirteen students, some art school grads and some who said they never drawn or painted.

In my classes, we always draw from actual objects, never photos.

Clearly a talented group, to be able to eat cake and draw at the same time!

Here are the results of the morning's work. Lovely!!

And the afternoon's work

We had a terrific day of learning and laughing. I love teaching! This is what my Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style workshop looks like. I'll be teaching at various locations this year....... here's my schedule.



I snapped this while driving home from Gillian's.

shrinky dink

I do love shrinky dink. All my students, both kids and adults, like them too. Why? it's just fun! That's one of my watercolors below, and then, printed on shrinky dink for inkjet and baked above. Love it! It could be a button, or an embellishment or...