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Month: July 2026
Slow Stitching Fabric Book Tutorial by Christine’s Crafts
Copyright and Credit for all images to Christine’s Crafts For the pages and the lining, Christine uses an old sheet. The notebook cover is 9 in by 6 in The lining for the cover is just less than 9 by 6 in so it doesn’t stick out. Cover is Felt Lining about 1/8″ smaller The…
Crayola Ultimate Crayon Box Collection – 152 ct – & Other Glorious Sets – A Luscious List of Colors
Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Green, Violet, Brown, Black, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Carnation Pink, Red-Orange, Red-Violet, White, Yellow-Green, Yellow-Orange, Scarlet, Green-Yellow, Cerulean, Bluetiful, Indigo, Violet-Red, Apricot, Gray, Purple Moutains Magesty, Cornflower, Sea Green, Granny Smith Apple, Olive Green, Spring Green, Lavender, Mauvelous, Goldenrod, Salmon, Sepia, Tumbleweed, Macaroni and Cheese, Burnt Sienna, Mahogany, Chestnut, Peach, Sky Blue, Cadet…
Ways to Creatively Manipulate Fabric
I am about to launch a textile arts program at Jacki Kellum Studios. One of my first projects will be in exploring ways to manipulate fabrics to make new fabrics for creative projects. Annette Morgan offers some great ideas for creative fabric explorations. Creating New Fabrics “Use fabrics from your stash combined with polyester sheers…
Why I Shade with Blue and Not Black – Jacki Kellum Painting & Color Theory
Anyone who has ever studied art with me knows the importance of blue in my palette. I recently studied Cezanne’s Still Lifes–especially those painted in watercolor–and I recalled my early training in color and my alignment with the Impressionists who tended to use blue, rather than black, for shading. Paul Cezanne Detail Still Life with…
Impressionism and the Inventions of Color – from Sotheby’s
“Think of Impressionism and our minds turn to light. We marvel at the evaporative splendour of Claude Monet’s weightless water lilies and how Georges Seurat succeeded in sieving sunsets down to a dazzle of shimmering dots. Whether we think first of the glistering shadows of Camille Pissarro’s immaculate snowscapes or of the restless radiance of…
Cezanne’s Still Life – Watercolors & Oil – The Human Stories Told by Still Life Painting
“Paul Cezanne’s role as the heroic progenitor of modernism stems largely from the achievement of his monumental paintings in oil. But another part of his oeuvre reveals an artistic personality that, while less lionized in the annals of art and its history, is more human and approachable than…
Learn to Draw People in Motion – Constructive Anatomy
“THIS is the story of the blocked human form where the bending, twisting or turning of volume gives the sensation of movement held together by rhythm. … pg. 11 “BEFORE you make a line you must have a clear conception of what you want to draw. In your mind it is necessary to have an…
Kuretake Zig Inktober Pen Set 2 and Pentel Brush Pen — The Best Tool Set for Illustrators and Fine Artists……….
Gesture Drawing of a Vase of Flowers Austin Roye Drawn with a Pentel Brush Pen A few days ago, my much younger adult student marched into my class with a drawing tool I had never seen before – a Pentel Brush Pen. I was fascinated by the way he quickly sketched his vase…
How to Create the Barbara Willis Doll My Marie
My Marie 18″ Tall Barbara Willis Cloth Doll Cloth Doll Workshop Barbara Willis’s Doll My Marie’s Pattern is available in the book Cloth Doll Workshop-which is an invaluable resource for Cloth Doll Makers. “Barbara Willis’s My Marie Doll is part of a trio of dolls–the parts and faces are…