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Stone by Stone .... Circle by Circle ... Cycle by Cycle 

The perception of rotation holds a convincing argument to the unfettered mind ::: yet crystal clear shards of rememberance appear in timely intervals along the pathway of my soul.





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Time in the Print Studio

Time in the Print Studio 



Finally some time for printing, experimenting with water based relief printing inks and a variety of Japanese printing papers to compare results 

The ink used us by a company called Nerchau and is quite sticky in quality, not sure how smooth it is going to dry on large areas if black ..



 Some experiments with chine colle process using mulberry paper, not to keen on the nori glue as it is kind of gloppy and went straight through the paper therefor sticking to the woodcut block ... More play needed 

All on drying rack now
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Deconstruct Reconstruct - Gwen Hedley Workshop Peeks 



 




 
 


 


 
Fave pieces after first night of workshop 
Construct a layered paper surface, Gris stitch , deconstruct and manipulate to reveal textured base layer ... On to day 2 :) 
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christine stuart replied to Ruth Dailey's discussion Piano Hinge Book Gallery in the group The Hinges
"Hi Susanne thanks for the lovely comments i had a great time drawing and painting those birds did a few each day then cut all the shapes out for the backgrounds on some of the pages to mount them on.... ive never made a book like this before so i…"
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Susanne Skene replied to Ruth Dailey's discussion Piano Hinge Book Gallery in the group The Hinges
"Christine, Your bird book is fabulous and as always I am impressed with how much of yourself you put in a project :0)  That's incredible that you hand drew and painted all your birds!  Barbara, I am so happy that my book has reached…"
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"Patty, I received your bird book today. What a wonderful book! It is so similar to the book I made. As the saying goes, "Great minds think alike". I will post pictures to the gallery later. Ruth, I sent my book to you the other day."
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Discovery for Frugal Artists...Free Embellishments from Greeting Cards and Starting Friendship Art Journal! wheeee!

Posted by Camille C. on May 24, 2013 at 8:09pm 0 Comments







Hey there, Frugal friends...probably most artists know about…

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OFF THE EARTH ~ A new kind of art play for out of doors! It's Irresistable!

Posted by Camille C. on May 24, 2013 at 7:41am 0 Comments

Earlier this week there were some spontaneous moments on my part...see.. blog post: http://milliande.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sudden-spontaneous-atc-directly-from-nature

for details and pix...ps...using larger font, as I have trouble reading and writing off the monitor.…

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Strawberry Fields ~ New Colorful ATC, finished today too!

Posted by Camille C. on May 23, 2013 at 2:17am 0 Comments

"STRAWBERRY FIELDS

Candy Wrappers, buttons, wire,embellishments, mesh ribbon…

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Junque Journal ~ Flotsam and Jetsam!!!

Posted by Camille C. on May 23, 2013 at 2:06am 0 Comments

Gosh! That Jungue Journal process has me all excited. There is also much synchronicity to the process. Look and you find!



Distressing the pages...front side view

Wow, I punched and poked the pages of this book, wrinkled all the pages,

Some pages were smeared with ink pad. More pages to cover…

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Sudden Spontaneous ATC directly from nature

Posted by Camille C. on May 21, 2013 at 11:30pm 0 Comments

It's so lovely today. Sunny, warm. Having a roll of scotch tape in hands, quickly the tape was applied to Dandelion puff balls and then maple wings came next...taped subjects, stuck to my fingers and immediately taped the strips to the nearest pieces of paper available...



Quick Stick ATC...



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Finally...Giant ATC finished!!! Phew! lol! "Dragonfly Spring" 5/21/13

Posted by Camille C. on May 21, 2013 at 7:48pm 0 Comments

Well, it was fun, but on larger sizes for collage like this, 8"x10", it was painstakingly slow process...glad it's done, but glad to put a finale on this!



Can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and it shows!…

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Organizing my supplies for Art Journaling

Posted by Roxane Levac on May 20, 2013 at 10:41pm 0 Comments

 

I love to create stuff ; I just need a boost sometimes. I find myself blocking on artistic ideas and  I look at artworks on the net on the …

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Well...A Blog About the recent history of my older art play...I'll start with the ATC "polkalotadots...

Posted by Camille C. on May 20, 2013 at 7:30am 0 Comments

Hmmm...it's going to be a bit messed up as far as dates go, but will do my best: Circa 2008...was introduced to ATCs and did my own series based on "the dot",,,

"Mother and Child"

Stickers, brads and fishing…

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Keeping it simple...ATC

Posted by Camille C. on May 19, 2013 at 2:55am 0 Comments

Doing "simple" is difficult for me, but this ATC was purposely kept simple...made this May...while I was doing the "Visual Weather Report" ATC series. 





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~ For me what is sometimes missing in my life is a place to share with women, just women.

~ There is a primal inborn need in a lot of women, to connect, to nurture each other and to feel like you are able to come, sit by the fire , make art and talk about the beingness of your day.

~ If I call for that need to be met with my inner voice of longing only another feminine voice seems to be able to answer that call

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" Once there was a Woman... who had a dream ... a dream to sit around a fire with creative kin ... and so she found a few twigs of wood, a little log or two , some burning cinder ... and gathered in a little sheltered spot ... to begin ...

.... soon the smoke of the fire was seen some distance away ... and curious women came to peek ... so the Woman put a few more logs on the fire ...asked them to sit and warm themselves a little ..as they checked out her fire ... the women felt comfortable here and opened themselves to receive ... and as the fire needed tending to keep it alight .. the " Woman" quietly went away to gather a few more pieces of wood ...

... as the story goes ..the fire grew and grew ...as more and more women felt themselves strangely warmed by it ... felt a kind of soft feeling deep inside them that held promise of things to come .. that felt akin to a deep knowing ... that simply let them be ...

.... so they invited their women friends to join too ..to warm themselves, to feel that kinship shared .. and they arrived at the " Woman's fire " ..ready to experience all that was being offered ... some women came alone, some brought friends , some brought a piece of wood or two to share to keep the fire going ... some brought a twig as a way of appreciation for the invitation .. some took a log away to light a fire elsewhere ..

...all the while , the Woman's day was filled with gathering many many twigs, making the fire bigger and bigger, making a clearing to create a larger safe place for all the women on the path of arriving at her fire to be met with the same warm glow ..to be welcomed at this little sanctuary

.. and so they came .. and she was glad ..

... the days were filled with joyful laughter..with friendships kindled .. with women sharing ...with creative juices flowing, uncorked, released, shared, enjoyed , women bringing much of themselves to the communal fire ..a fire that in turn deeply nurtured them ...
... wood is precious and the Woman was grateful for every piece that arrived at her sanctuary , yet many twigs are needed to keep a fire burning ... it takes a little fallen oak branch to keep it alight for many an hour .. a few gathered twigs of birch will burn swiftly and make way for the next log to arrive that will sustain this creative fire as long as it is needed ...

...and so today .. 4 years later... this fire holds itself brightly ..the WOMAN can no longer even see the brightest spark reaching the horizon .. yet she can feel it deeply in her heart

... as gathering twigs all by herself was no longer sufficient to keep this large fire burning ...she noticed that many women had settled around her fire

...Deep within the Woman lies a knowing ,that to preserve this fire in the way it was meant to BE... for it to remain a sanctuary, to evolve naturally, organically, without the need to judge, rule, organise, chase, plan, no hierarchy, no leaders, no followers ... just women being women ... bare, honest, alive..
to preserve THIS..to grow THIS... she looks out at the horizon with a widen open heart ... asking for twigs and logs and branches and tree loads to be supplied by the universe ...
..and she knew that wood would come .. "
 
 
 

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