San Diego Watercolor Society at Trevi Hills Winery with Geoff Allen - 2021

San Diego Watercolor Society at San Diego Yacht Club

Inland Painters at Trout Cove, Lake Dixon 2021

San Diego Urban Sketchers at International Cottages 2021

a 2:41 minute Lydeo of the artists and their drawings.

Inland Painters at Buccaneer Beach, Oceanside 2021

Drawing Flamingos at the San Diego Zoo

Drawing Tortoises at The San Diego Zoo 2021

San Diego Watercolor Society Plein Air Painters at Liberty Station - 2021

San Diego Urban Sketchers at Westfield UTC in La Jolla, CA - 2021

Vw series

 Index card a day. # 13

Index card a the day #8

 Following the typography theme. I used practice calligraphy paper, gelli print, collage and my hand carved stamps.

Hard Cover Flutter Book

 The book of the month at Ali Manning's Handmade Book Club is The Hard Cover Flutter Book. I made mine with multimedia paper so I csn use it for a sketch book.

ICAD#7 List

 Index card a day. I am following the theme this week which is text, grafitti, typography and/or lists. My list is: Things I heard today that I liked.

Sketching at Blue Sky Ecological Preserve, Poway, CA 2021

Lake Wohlford with Inland Painters

 A 2 minute video: https://youtu.be/D6wvWfPzzxo

Sea World Penguin Encounter

 My icad2021 #4 was created at Sea World Encounter. They have little partitions in the viewing area so I had my own little space.

A gelli printing day

 These are my #gelliprints from this month's lesson with @balzerdesigns #ayearofgelatinprinting focusing on #paper using #crumpledpaper #tornpaper #foldedpaper and #cutpaper #whatjulietaught #gelliprinting #gelliprintpaper @gelliarts #acrylics #bookartspaper

ICAD#2 Lake Wohlford

This is a 4x6 index card gessoed and oil painted at Lake Wohlford in Escondido. It's part of the Index Card A Day Challenge.

 

ICAD21 Map Crunch Watercolor

This year I am participating in “Index Card a Day 2021”. I chose 4x6 Cards and my first one is a watercolor of Ecuador using Map Crunch as my reference. 

I am excited about this project and hope I can do it until the end, which is July 31st. 61 Days!

Inland Painters at Lake Wohlford, 2021

A 2 minute video taken at Lake Wohlford, Escondido while plein air painting with the Inland Painters.

Gift/ Trinket Box with Sunshine

One of my latest creations using paper clay is available on Etsy.

This box is a hand-painted cardboard box.
Embellished with a handmade paper clay sun painted gold with acrylic paint.
Dots and lines are drawn with acrylic markers.
Size: 3.5 inches high
3.5 inches wide

Life Drawing with 2bornot2bcollective

 I have been digging into materials I purchased years ago and hardly ever use anymore. Next in line were the conte pencils. I believe they were purchased for a life drawing class so I decided to use them for the virtual life session with 2bornot2bcollective on Zoom. These sketches were created in a small handmade sketchbook.

Crow Raven 3 inch Round Sticker

 If you are interested in stickers you may want to check out Sticker Mule. I like to take advantage of their random sales. I usually order when I come across a 50 for $9. special. Subscribe to their email or follow them on Instagram to get notified. 

This particular sticker is a 3 inch round vinyl sticker of a crow. It is was made from one of my hand-carved stamps. I have it listed on my Etsy store. 

Small Trinket Box with Paer Clay Heart Milagro Embellishment

I have been making boxes and books to use with my paper clay projects. I will be listing them this week. This is my first listing for a small Trinket box embellished with a paper clay heart. Available on Etsy.

This trinket box is a cardboard box painted with black paint.
The heart was handmade with paper clay by San Diego Artist, Lydia Velarde. It was painted with acrylic paint and sealed with matt medium.
The lines and circles on the box were drawn with acrylic markers.
The hinge on the back of the box is made of paper.

The box is 3.25 inches long and 2.25 inches wide
It is .5 inches deep and the bottom is lined with red felt.

4 Needle Coptic Stitch

Last week I attended Ali Manning's @vintagepagedesigns #handmadebookclub class on #copticstitch using 4 #needles I was also introduced to #corkpaper #corkcloth which I used on this book. We produced a hardcover without using #bookboard. I chose not to trim my pages even though they were sticking out because I wanted all sides to have #deckled edges. I also left off the closure since I am a sketchbook artist and want to be able to open the book easily and quickly.

Flat Style Australian Reverse Piano Hinge Binding Book

 A fun book taught by Kit Davey (https://www.found-object-art.com/). This book is 3 x 3 inches and requires no sewing.

NE EBAY AUCTION ITEM - Benten - Goddess of Creativity - Paper Clay Sculpture - Handmade One of a Kind

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384005213323

Note: The box shown in the first photo IS NOT included.

Benten - Goddess of Creativity
Paper Clay Sculpture
Handmade One of a Kind

Benten is one of the 7 Gods of Happiness and the Only Women in the group.

Also known as Benzaiten she is the goddess of every thing that flows including water, music, words and eloquence.

She is holding a Japanese Lute.

She was handcrafted by Lydia Velarde using paper clay, collage paper (both handmade and store printed), acrylic paint, gesso and matt medium.  

He body structure is hollow but she dried hard and sturdy.

Her height is 5 inches
Width 2.5 to 3 inches at bottom
The very top of her hair is 1 inch wide

A great addition to your studio or workspace.

Shipping fee includes packing materials.

Returns accepted buyer to pay shipping.

Wooden Book With Sun Embellishment

 Ali Manning's Handmade Book Club Challenge is wood. I created this book using wood for the covers and a sun embellishment using Creative Paper Clay. I tried a Coptic Stitch for the binding but I didn't like how the end columns turned out so I added black thread to the binding. While adding the black thread the yellow thread broke so it came out very messy.

 I will use the sketchbook as a test to see how the paper clay holds up on the cover. The sun has been gessoed and varnished several times and I used E6000 to glue it to the cover. My sketchbooks take a lot of abuse so it will probably be run through a 3-month test. 

Sketching a Live Musician With SFSketchers Meetup Group

On Tuesday I joined the San Francisco Sketchers on Zoom to sketch a jam session. I also tried an exercise using 3 colors: Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue and Cad Yellow Light.

I did not take a screen shot but gave myself the challenge of drawing a live subject.

Prismacolor Marker and watercolor.

Painted Paper Clay

 I finally painted my little #paperclay #embellishments and started a few more. I'm not going to stiop until I use up my package of @creativepaperclay. These will be used on top of a few books and boxes I am making. In photo no.2 I have already covered a metal black box that a fountain pen came in. There are still many steps until finished.

First Try at Paper Clay

My friend, Kathy Pzrekopp introduced me to paper clay last week. She gave a few friends a demo on zoom and taught us how to make the heart on the left. I mad a few other things including some useing rubber stamps I had carved.

These are my first projects and tests for applying the black paint.

This is our "text book" for using Creative Paper Clay.