OK, I just couldn’t leave it alone. When I started experimenting with tags for a painted tag swap a while ago, I made a little tag that I wasn’t happy with. It wasn’t a big deal since it was just an experiment, but it bugged me.
I went on to make the tags for the swap, [...]
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Two personality traits define me more than any other—I am an obsessive compulsive accumulator of anything (books, ephemera, paper but also documents and even email); and I have a chronic inability to follow instructions.
I have vague memories of being good at following instructions at school, but adulthood changed that irrevocably. Now I can’t follow [...]
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Someone posted a question about printing digital collage sheets on one of the stampers’ groups I belong to, Midwest Stampers. Her problem was that, whenever she printed digital collage sheets, the colours weren’t true to the monitor and looked washed out. Since I make and print oodles of digital collages, collage sheets and patterned paper, [...]
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February 19, 2009 – 4:00 pm
I made my very first collages when I was a little girl at school. I remember loving it because I had always been into art but never very good at drawing or painting. Collage was a way to circumvent my artistic shortcomings and still “paint” things. What I did at the time was what I [...]
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February 9, 2009 – 5:26 pm
When I started using Photoshop for image editing, some ten years ago, I thought brushes were dull. Sure, very useful for retouching a bit here, and colouring a bit there, but, frankly, I never gave them a second thought.
It’s only when I started playing with digital scrapbooking that I realised Photoshop brushes opened up a [...]
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February 2, 2009 – 2:43 pm
Most mixed media and collage artists start by getting their hands dirty. Gesso, modelling paste, acrylics and glue come first—then, a chance encounter with image editing software allows them to add digital effects to their work. For me, it was the opposite way around.
As a website editor, I had long used editing software professionally. When [...]
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