Ranger Warehouse Sale!

It doesn't get any better then this a mix of: Sale, Ranger and an art day among friends, oh and did I mention encaustic wax too!

The friday after I came back from LA my mom and I headed down to south Jersey in Tinton Falls for the Ranger Ink http://www.rangerink.com/ Warehouse Sale. Pick from stickles to inks, ink pads, embossing powders, UTEE, paints, foam pads, and loads more. I stocked up on stickles, inks, ink pads and embossing powders and some paints, many are going to be brought to Tinsel Wonderland Dec.5, 2009 and to the Art Opera supply table in April 7-10, 2010.
I'm extremely excited that I am Ranger certified from a company of excellence and supreme products, their staff is AMAZING in every sense and the owners AMAZING as well, each of them welcome you with warmth and joy, I'm so glad they are in NJ.... After meeting up with the girls at the sale, Suze came by, then she, Mom and I headed for lunch at Red Heads, fab restaurant near Ranger. We chatted and dined on wonderful food, sharing stories and fun, gearing up for our next installment of the Tiara Chronicles being held the next day on saturday at Suze's studio.Stay tuned for my next post of the Tiara Chronicles Meeting, a day of artful fun!

Mixed Media Clay Painting: LuLu's Carnival, Finished!

Hello All,
I finally finished LuLu's Carnival, the mixed media clay painting I had been working on, as you know I've been experimenting with various clay recipes that I have been making from a variety of materials, until I finally found one that can work as a bisque paper clay, mixed with paints, air drying and watered down to form a paste which can be adhered to canvas, 3-D sculpted and turned into what I call Clay Paint!

To see the first 10 stages of this mixed media clay painting scroll down the page to the original post.
I added more paints to the background of the piece, drew a few carnival doll performers using scrapbook paper for the legs, paints and crackle glaze, then outlined with a pink glitter gel pen.

On the balloon I drew an L on it, then filled in with the clay paint mixture and clay dots, and glitter. For the hat I embellished with a small pompom and new distressed stickles from ranger ink. Then I had to add some small stars which I hand drew and colored in with 2 different colors of stickles. The border of the canvas was distressed with broken china distress ink from Ranger, applied using my fingers.

Again the background paper is used from an old book, that I recycled. This piece is filled with cucpcake chic colors, a 50s meets modern color palette. When creating something new remember if you love your piece, and believe in it, everyone else will. My works aren't picaso's but they are my artful masterpieces, just as the ones you make will be your artful masterpieces.


Learn Mixed Media Clay Painting in my workshop of the same name where you leave with a medium to large sized canvas art piece and a new way of painting!
Here is an image of my hand molded/ hand made doll heads. I molded one for this piece for LuLu's hair barrett.

The Tiara Chronicles! Another Artful Adventure!

Every Month or a few times a month a group of us get together for a day of adventure, art and fun, playing at a different location each time, sharing our ideas, projects and techniques.
Today we are at Linda's Studio working on fabulous artsy bird baskets with polymer clays and Ranger inks/products, taught by the amazing Debbie http://artistgirlsmuse.blogspot.com/ which was actually inspired from instructions by Deryn Mentock's necklace in Belle Armoire Jewelry Magazine.
We played with polymer clay, ranger products http://www.rangerink.com/ wire, findings, a pasta machine and the good ole Toaster Oven.
Not only is it a pleasure to sit in Linda's Fabulous studio, and consume all the art products and goodies that line her studio walls, but the food assortment she put out was out of control, from Hummus, to veggies, dips, gourmet bread, and Lennis' cupcakes, I think I needed a treadmill when I left too, LOL! Soooo Good!
We are all from different parts of NJ, within an hour of each other, each with our own art likes and themes. We have fittingly called our adventures: The Tiara Chronicles, LOL! Passing on a tiara, regal moment or artful ideas on each adventure.Each of these girls are beyond words talented and are the true meaning behind Friendship! I adore them all and get inspired from them all the time!
The Tiara Chronicles in attendance today: Linda Hahola,
Bonnie Egenton http://bonnieegenton.blogspot.com/
Patti Behan http://www.pattibehan.blogspot.com/
Jackie McLaughlin http://www.rangerink.com/
Debbie Tlach http://artistgirlsmuse.blogspot.com/
Michelle Bernard http://michellereneebernard.blogspot.com/
and Lennis Carlson