2nd Annual 12 x 12 Gala

I’m happy to announce Conroe Art League is having its 2^nd Annual 12 x 12 Gala. It is to raise funds for our work with Art Students within our area, we host shows and provide awards for the winners.

Any hoot these are my contributions to the cause.

  

On Point, collage on stretched canvas

The papers are scrapbook and watercolor paper that I did acrylic washes on.

Visions, acrylic on clay bord

This second one has a VIDEO HERE.

I’m really looking forward to the Gala, it was so fun last year. Please come by and say hi if you can make it. . .

Madeley Building Art Gallery

127 Simonton Street

Conroe Texas

November 19, 2016, 6 to 9 pm

Happy Art’in Y’all

#ICAlumiHop Journal Giveaway – Diamonds & Gold

a Video HOP 

We were to do a 9 x 12 journal page, use an artist quote. For group 3, we were to also do an ATC . . . 

GIVE A WAY --- You see the different pages have been bound together by Shel C, including an ATC page, the Journal will be given away to ONE blessed person. Deadline to enter is Monday September 26, 2016, 12 midnight CDT (Central Daylight Time) and Winner announced by Shel on September 29 . . . so if you are reading this and have not watched the HOP – what ya wait’in fer?

AND as promised in the description box that appears below my video #ICAlumiHop Journal Giveaway – Diamonds & Gold 

MY Ingredients Were: Canson cold press 140 lb watercolor paper;

Acrylic Craft Paints – Craftsmart Navy, Apple Barrel – Aquamarine (I made this a wash using water & fluid matt medium), FolkArt – Neon Purple;

Liquitex white gesso;

Stencils: TheCraftersWorkshop – Mini Microbial & Mini TieDyed, StencilGirl – Wonky Eyes by Carolyn Dube;

Sizzix Die 660220;

Deli paper;

My own Hand carved fish stamps;

Liquitex Matt Medium;

Sea Horse Stamp – sorry I don’t know

Silks – ginger peach;

Archival Inks – Plum, Vermilion;

White cardstock;

Embossing Dabber by Ranger;

Recollections Embossing Powder – clear;

American Crafts black precision pen;

Soufflé white pen;

For the accompanying ATC – that was NOT included in the Video – Watercolor background, Hand Carved “water” stamp, Archival Ink – Manganese blue, Glossy Accents

Diamonds & Gold.

Within the flowing souls of humanity there is a treasure that shall not diminish, diamonds – glistening of strength and gold - a thread that forever connects us with our Source, our Creator, our very Breath

Pick Up Video - Coral Bits etc. , AND a Watery ATC featuring stamp carving - shows how I carved the stamp used on the ATC

Thanks for Watching, Sharing and Liking

Happy Art’ing Y’all

Paper Press

I was asked for photos of my paper press, I recently talked about in a video HERE.

My Husband made it for me info as best as I could measure follows:

Frame is 14 ½ x 12 ½ and 10 ½ tall; it is made from ¾ plywood

The dowels are about 1” round

The actual press plate (plywood) measures 11 ½ x 8 ¾

the washer like thing on the bolt bottom

handle on the bolt

top

underneath the bottom

The Bolt has a handle on top, it was JB Weld’ed, allowing it to screw up and down. On the bottom of the bolt is a round piece of metal (almost washer like) about 3 inches in round. It is not attached to the press plate, it does press down onto the plate. The JB Weld, did not hold the washer thing on the bottom, so I used some Gorilla Glue on it and it seems to be holding just fine.

So there we go, I hope this helps

Happy Art’in Y’all

Paper Press

I was asked for photos of my paper press, I recently talked about in a video HERE.

My Husband made it for me info as best as I could measure follows:

Frame is 14 ½ x 12 ½ and 10 ½ tall; it is made from ¾ plywood

The dowels are about 1” round

The actual press plate (plywood) measures 11 ½ x 8 ¾

the washer like thing on the bolt bottom

handle on the bolt

top

underneath the bottom

The Bolt has a handle on top, it was JB Weld’ed, allowing it to screw up and down. On the bottom of the bolt is a round piece of metal (almost washer like) about 3 inches in round. It is not attached to the press plate, it does press down onto the plate. The JB Weld, did not hold the washer thing on the bottom, so I used some Gorilla Glue on it and it seems to be holding just fine.

So there we go, I hope this helps

Happy Art’in Y’all

Dye'in to Bind

I was recently in a Natural Dye & Book Binding workshop, instructed by Delaney Smith of Delaney Smith Studio. It was a full day of dying fun and learning some simple binding techniques for our dyed papers.

Y’all know I’ve made a few many journals using the pamphlet stitch, staples, glue, hair bands and whatnotage but this was . . . My first time dying (lol) and my first time Japanese Stab(ing more LoL). Now some of my fellow workshopp’ers (I’m just full of ‘em today) had not done any binding before and some had.

Delaney fixed up three different dye baths for us, explained some of the ins and outs and different stuffs about using natural stuff in dying. One of the main things was to record what we used and the various notes to keep when experimenting (spear mints). You see if you want to try and repeat an outcome, you need to know how you got there.

Here are a few photos from the workshop

and TWO videos can be found here and here, of the little books I made at the workshop. I’m sure y’all will see some dying and stab’in videos in the near ta far futures.

Happy Art’in Y’all

Mural Collaboration - Texas Children's Hospital

I was asked to join in a collaboration project, one in which we all would be painting various images. To benefit the new TexasChildren’s Hospital in The Woodlands, expected to open in 2017. So yeah, during a brief gathering of some fellow artist and the spear head, Vickie McMillan, I was persuaded that I was capable of doing this.

Yes I say persuaded, I mean like many artist I’m not always sure that I can paint something. . . really me paint a real flower or a butterfly! My cohorts from Conroe Art League were all pretty sure and jumped at the chance. I lingered, maybe it was my need to be boosted up, you know make myself the center of attention and I’m not saying it wasn’t. But a bit of influence was needed for me to say Okay, I’ll give it a try. Vickie assured me us that if anything needed tweaking she would handle it. In fact we should more or less expect it as this is what would bring cohesion to the piece, whose parts were being painted by professional artist and children alike.

We were to choose an image from a group she had for us of native Texas plants, birds and butterflies. We were to paint using acrylics, in a very basic style – no details, no background. She would scan our painted image, digitally size and perhaps add a paint stroke or enhance the colors and then stich the images together into a 65 foot mural. This mural would be not only for beauty, but to help distract ill children from pains and such during long stays at the hospital or physical therapy. Within the woodsey / fieldy nature scene there would be hidden objects, a sort of I spy or seek and find, to have things like balls or see-saws or other playground images.

Our canvas to use was a plastic wallpaper of sorts . . . highly textured, the background was to remain white and depending the size of the piece you chose you could fit one, two or even three of the same image on it. I picked two different butterflies, I mean why not I had not painted one before – A C K – what was I thinking! Oh you want to see, here is the video.

  

Mexican Bluewing

Pipevine Swallowtail

Now mind you during the filming I had a few issues, not just staying in camera frame but while actually filming my laptop decided it was time to install windows 10, NO MATTER how many times I had said no before, it was going to install. So after the 3-4 hour installation, I moved my lap top into the house . . . my power cord that had been love bitten over a year ago, that I had fixed and then Johnny had fixed more better decided that it had had enough . . . it broke completely in two. And nonetheless it’s all working again, thank God.

Participating artist are to invited to the opening / unveiling of the mural and {cross fingers} I’ll be there and more crossing of fingers I’ll do a post about that and remember to come back to add that link here. And without further ado

Happy Art’ing Y’all

Art'along with Barb & Shannon

it's true, I did this a week ago during Barb Owen, of How to Get Creative, Live YouTube Stream. . . she was interviewing Shannon Green, of  by Shannon Green, and those of us that were there were asked to participate if we wanted. . .

Sooooooooooo I did and some other peoples did too.  What fun it was, I also recorded and that video is up today over Here. 

Thanks Barb'vark & Shannon for the fun'age

Happy Art'ing Y'all

I had a WINNER

Y'all I'm so blessed to have reached 750 subscribers on my YouTube Channel. I had previously said when I reached that goal I would have a Give a Way. . . and by random.org I did just that. . . Video here

THANK YOU ALL FOR WATCHING, LIKING, SHARING AND SUBSCRIBING & thank you some more

please note if winner does not get back with me by June 7, 2016 I'll re-visit random.org - Le Sigh

Happy Art'ing Y'all

Artist Block Thingy

aka #CACTrashToTreasure #ArtistBlock thingy Video that went live today. . . so I can’t stand waiting for y’all to ask about the “Story” of this Artist Block . . . SO I’m just gonna tell y’all

Once upon a time there was a princess my Great Aunt Penny, she loved driving around in her big fancy car. She would just cruise by day, by night, by herself or with friends. Driving was just plain fun. One day when Great Aunt Penny was driving the weather turned, it turned bad, really real bad, so she slowed down. A feat that was not exactly easy for her Lead Footed self. But slow down she did and as it turned out it was a darn good (if not better’est) thing. . .

There she was, a young single lady in a terrible storm on a lonely dirt road out in the middle of the woods (can y’all hear the creepy music?) when all of a sudden, quick as lightening, something went dashing out in front of her car . . . bam she slammed on the breaks real fast, as fast as lightening even. And the car spun around and bomped into a tree. Well it least it didn’t plow into the tree, it was just a gentle little bomp. Great Aunt Penny was a little shook up and when she regained herself, she looked around trying to see if she could spot what that thing was that ran in front of her car. . .

And there it was, sopping wet and shivering under a nearby bush. Great Aunt Penny opened her car door and the little thing came a running. . . straight into her lap!

Yep, it was a little white doggie with black spots. Well Great Aunt Penny went to laughing and the dog went to licking her face and she laughed all the harder and proclaimed, "You're so lucky I didn't run over you and I'm so lucky that I didn't spin right down that deep gully."

And there y’all have it, the “Story” about Great Aunt Penny and her dog Lucky . . . oh and her Daddy owned a copper mine (sorta like a Button Mine) . . . Lucky Penny, copper it all works out for the best, don’t ya think?

Happy Art’ing Y’all

TwitterArtExhibit

The annual Twitter Art Exhibit

This year (2016) the fund raiser was for the benefit of Foster Pride’s “Handmade” Program, held at the Trygve Lie Gallery in New York, New York. I encourage y’all to participate next time as the deadline to mail entries was March 11, 2016.

this is my entry

titled: Life Can Be

you can find the video here

Happy Art'ing Y'all

Let's Talk YouTube MeetUP

this was a fun and very informative meet up organized by TheArtSherpa (Cinnamon Cooney) and yes we did talk YouTube

Blade the Artist, Amber Akins, me (APG Jamie) & TheArtSherpa

Blade & Sherpa

back row L to R- Scott Ford, Blade the Artist

front row L to R - Rogues & Roleplayers, TC Robson (the Daily Fandom), Amber, 

APG Jamie (me), The Art Sherpa, Natasha

Photo courtesy of Johnny

it was a fun MeetUp, 3 of us do Art videos, 2 are in gaming, 1 is in Education, we had 5 who are seriously considering staring YouTube Channels - in the fields of Coffee, Indian Life, Baby Food, and Real Estate/Travel. 

I was blessed to have had my support team with me (Johnny my hubby) he took photos and enjoyed the conversations too, what a great man I have. 

Happy Art'ing y'all

Dust Bowl Motel

Is a play at the Crighton Theater March 18 – 20. In conjunction with the play, Conroe Art League will be having a Themed Exhibit at the Madeley Art Gallery, 127 Simonton St. Conroe Texas. The gallery will the location for the After Parties on Friday and Saturday nights. The actors and play write will be meeting the attendees of the play, and a few of the exhibiting artist will be there as well.

The official Artist Reception is planned for Saturday the 19^th between 5-8 pm

The process video (term used loosely) can be found here

How it looked with clouds – didn’t like it

And the finished (prior to framing) It makes me happy

I urge y'all (I try to remember too) to take a gray-scale photo . . . you can see the values without the colors getting in the way

here is the work I used for the frame , I left is sitting outside because stinky varnish smell & yeah why not make it I have a saw & junk & I wanted rustic. 

this as well as other pieces in the Exhibit will be available for purchase at the gallery and online at Conroe Art League.

Happy Art'ing Y'all

Napkin Journal'age

So y’all remember the post I have here, any whooot this is my Napkin Journal I made from the other parts of the file folder. Yes there is Video here and below are some photos.

I don't know why I can't flip & keep 'em flipped - le sigh

Happy Art’ing Y’all

Mixed Media Morsels

A video series hosted by Cat Hand on YouTube. I’m playing along and made a journal to house said morsels (techniques). There are other YouTube’rs that are art’ing along if you search I’m sure you will find lots to peruse. I haven’t filmed the part where I do the techniques but . . . YES but I did film the making of my journal, and you can look at these photographs. To watch my video clicky here’E. There is Name Drop'age in said video . . . eeeeck lol

Yes perhaps one day I’ll do a flip video. . . maybe and until then

Happy Art’ing Y’all

last one about

the Calendar Challenge as hosed by the lovely DarcyUK of Art - and- Sole. Thanks Darcy for another completed challenge XOXO

before

Just a little Portion of the after'age

Video is Here if you want to see the Whole thing, yes I want you to watch

Happy Art'ing Y'all