Embroidered Collage

She combines paint, paper, fabric and embroidery to create her art.  She experiments with pattern.  This sounded a bit familiar to me. :)  Yet what Charlotte Liddle has achieved is completely different than anything I'm aiming for, even with such superficial similarities.  That's part of why I so enjoyed reading her profile in the Sep/Oct 2007 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.  I visited her website as well. It contains very little additional information, yet is a great presentation if you don't have the magazine.

The workshop on acrylic glazing by Jenn Mason also touched my interests, as I'm always thinking about ways to get transparency to enhance the layering in my art.  I've done some of this before, but have never tried the pre-mixed glazes or tried to make patterned marks in the glaze.  It also inspired an atc swap over at www.atcards.com, which I've joined.

When I saw Jean Littlejohn's article on using an altered book with textured pages as a basis for a sketchbook I was tempted to discard what I'd already started with my daily art journal.  Sure, I've seen ideas similar to this before, but the way she prepared it and used it was striking.  I don't want to do that much prepwork at the moment, though.  Maybe next time.  I also think I'll be served better by a flat sketching surface until I get more practice.

I started my subscription again, for ease and cost-savings once the baby arrives.  Unfortunately this issue arrived late and rather mangled.  I'd gotten used to late so I'm more upset about mangled.  I carefully keep my CPS and QA for reference and inspiration.  Ah, well.  I'm hoping that both things are just because of when I ordered my subscription and will improve next issue.