January, 2012 | Ellifolks

January 8th, 2012

Kelly Kilmer Workshops and Art Journaling

Last week (December 29 and 30) I took 2 days worth of Kelly Kilmer art journaling workshops at Ink About It, a rubber stamp store in Westford, MA. Kelly was a wonderful teacher and the classes were great fun.

I learned how to make two simple journals with 40 pages each. One was made [...]

January 6th, 2012

Suzette, New Miniature Mohair Bear

I finished a new bear. Suzette is a 3 1/4″ miniature made of a hand-dyed sparse German Schulte mohair. She is wearing a pearl cotton headband with a satin rose.

She is sold, but you can see some more photos and description here in my Etsy shop.

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January 3rd, 2012

Illustration Friday – Highlight

The “highlight” of Josie and Ralph’s day was sitting in the parlor together watching the boats come back into harbor before dinner.

I decided to do participate in this week’s Illustration Friday “Highlight” challenge using my new IPad and some IPad art apps. For this little sketch, I used IDraw, a vector drawing [...]