Playing with Sandrine Pelissier's Mixed Media Paintimg Techniques

Ever since I saw Lenall Siebenaler's floral paintings from her Sandrine Pelissier online class, I've wanted to create paintings with these techniques. Here's my first attempt, now to add more color and ink drawings.

Nick Bantock Composition Exercise

Yesterday, friends gathered to play with an exercise from Nick Bantock's book The Trickster's Hat - a mischievous apprenticeship in creativity. We chose to work with exercise eight- composition.  These almost look like eye charts. At first, I wasn't too keen on doing this, one letter glued to a 6x6 inch paper. I actually enjoyed the exercise and see possibilities for combining calligraphic hand made letters with varieties of type set letters.

Creating Beauty and Restoring Soul

Stitched Journal

It's great to start the New Year with a finished journal. Robin Olsen taught our art group how she makes her hand stitched journals. We used fabric scraps and Kantha stitch variations with different colors of embroidery thread. This may be my next travel journal.

2015 Calligraphy Book Exchange Video

Happy New Year! May 2016 bring you many blessings and a year full of friendship, creativity, good health and adventure.

Yesterday, I received a video from Shelby showing her 2015 calligraphy book that resulted from exchanging pages with her, myself and Jan Kruger. I posted some of my pages earlier in the year.

Enjoy the video-   https://youtu.be/3ockQctrV5M