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Prepping for an Art Walk Part 3
Welcome to the last installment of my art walk prep blogs. This week, I'm taking you behind the scenes for all of the extra non-art related prep that goes into art walk. Art Walk Setup The week before the event is usually when I set up my pieces. Each dragon is to be...
Prepping for an Art Walk Part 2
I'm just under one month out from the first art walk. I wrapped up the dragons last week; all that's left is to sign and glaze the bottoms. These were all creations drawn from last year's Sculptober themes (because I'm slow and still working through them in April...
Prepping for an Art Walk Part 1
I'm thinking this week will be short and sweet. March marked the official beginning of art walk prep, and there's a lot going on! If you haven't seen/heard me talk about it, I have two art walks coming up this late spring/early summer. They are a month apart, so I'm...
Remaking my Mascot
I've been debating on doing this for a while. I don't get to use my mascot/business card holder very often as is, and I wanted to get a little more life out of my current one, but, to celebrate my first truly serious year for JSThreads, I decided it was time to update...
Mixing up your color palette with colormixr
Hey all! I've mentioned this neat little app before, but I thought it'd be fun to write a blog post about it to go into a little more detail about how I sometimes mix my palettes. For a while now, I've been going to Pinterest for ideas for color palettes. I usually...
How to Create Charcoal from Polymer Clay
I thought it'd be fun to pair up last week's collab wrap up with a technique I experimented to create the charcoal base for my fire element dragon. With charcoal, I found the polymer clay resources to be very skimpy, so I spent some time working with reference images...
