Soul Food and Collage Art inspired by Romare Bearden

 This will be delicious and alot of fun! Dolores is asking for RSVPs to get an idea of how much food she needs to make. 

Collage Art Accordion Matchbox Valentines

Come join me for this fun workshop at Julie Miller Pottery

 Thursday February 6th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm

in Phoenixville.

I will be supplying a myriad of inspiring materials (4 matchboxes per participant, templates and decorative papers for box exterior plus various colored/metallic card stock for the accordion messages inside, tiny vintage and other images, sparkly rhinestones, heart and other stickers, markers, rubber stamps, ribbon, stencils and more). 

Once you learn how to make Matchbox Art, including how to securely attach the ribbon to pull the drawer out, you will be able to make them for other occasions too!

To Register:

https://www.juliemillerpottery.com/event-details/collage-art-accordion-matchbox-valentines 

Bird Wand Making in Phoenixville

 

Candied Hearts Fundraiser for Phoenixville Womens Resource Center

 

It’s fun and meaningful to participate creatively in fundraisers. Including this one!

“Sweet Heart” my 3 dimensional mixed media contribution

Julie Miller Pottery, Barnstone Art and Resonate Horse Event with Artist Victoria O'Neill

 I have joined Julie Miller Pottery store as a collaborative artist for at least the next six months. Right now this includes wearable art jackettes, fiber art birds and bird wreaths. 

Go to my sewing website SewBeeMine.com for more information

Annual Holiday Fundraiser Ornament Sale for Barnstone Art for Kids December 5th at Triptych Salon on Gay Street in Phoenixville.

All ornaments are $50 each. 30 local artists are participating. We are each given a flat wooden circle. The circle is in the background, XMAS KITTY is tied on at the waist.

                                  

      On Saturday Dec 7th come find me with 13 Beautiful Horseshoe Wreaths plus some other creations at a Holiday Fundraiser for Resonant Farms. These are made with real horseshoes! and include little glittery horses frolicking in the foliage. Beautifully packaged in a windowed gift box with a sparkly gift tag.

fun painting class

Back in the saddle with online classes with Yvettee....this was made into a card with a little matching heart inside and mailed today.

I'm in the middle of a transition lately, pulling my work out of a local gallery .....may start selling directly on Instagram and start hosting private art events at my home/studio....haven't figured it out yet. In the meantime working on the painting class....and getting ready for an annual local rug hooking event.

 Click here for a link to the artist who is teaching these classes 

Painting with Color

Finished up Painting with Patterns class, now on to Painting with Color class. I have actually been using my own color combos throughout this class, mainly whatever is on hand. I'm taking the classes to learn techniques that involve painting designs on top of each other.

I opted for this particular second class because of the way the designs blend together in the middle. Here are the first four lessons.....two to a page. These are painted on the back and front of the same 5" x 10" piece of watercolor paper. It will be folded in half for a four sided greeting card, off to a special person, with a little matching painted heart inside..

Click here for a link to the artist who is teaching these classes 

More Pattern Paintings

 Finishing up one of these classes from artist Yvette St Amant......getting ready to start another one. A 5" x 5" watercolor sketchbook is recommended for these little paintings but I've been cutting out 5" x 10" pieces of watercolor paper, painting both sides of each side, then folding half to make special greeting cards. I'm also adding a little matching heart to each one, with a personal message on the back of the heart.

Click here for a link to the artist who is teaching these classes 

Pattern Class with Yvette

Now that I have a permanent residence at Art on Bridge 

feeling very inspired to start painting again.

I've been taking an online class on techniques for painting patterns https://www.yvettestamant.com/ and learned so much already, still a few lessons to go. Here are some of the prints so far. These are created  with acrylic paint, acrylic ink and white gel pens. Each paper is 5" x 10 and each little design is 5" x 5". I painted on both sides and have been folding them in half and using them as greeting cards for special people/occasions.

 

Black and White Drawings by Artist Victoria O'Neill

Drawing is the foundation for just about everything creative that I am engaged in. I started out drawing at age 16, just picked up a pen, started drawing and knew how!

For many years black and white drawing was Queen, then around age 22 started to paint, then got into fiber arts, dipped back into painting, then learned more fiber art mediums. Sketching out ideas has been constant throughout all this but now thinking about doing some serious drawing again!

Yesterday I was "supposed" to be doing so many other things, like clean up my studio, but decided to design a new rug hooking project instead. While sketching it out went a little sideways and figured why not just make this into a fine art drawing? Looking at it now realizing that this might even make a nice painting at some point.

The basics of this image will be used now for a pattern for a hooked rug wall piece.  Rug hooking is portable, something to do while tending Art on Bridge Gallery. I am a resident artist there! 

                         Art on Bridge Gallery

                                               252 Bridge Street Phoenixville PA

 My work is always there 

and I will be there in person 

from 11 to 3 every Sunday in July 2024