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Jessie’s Paintings in a Spokane Show

ShareMy daughter, Jessie Rasche, will be showing some of her new paintings at a show in Spokane this week. If you happen to be in the area, please stop by. Here’s Jessie: It’s called 20 under 40, and is a “juried invitational” at Tinman gallery in Spokane, opening this Friday from 5-9 pm, and will [...]

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Artist’s Community Idea Revisited – Time to Get Started…

Share[12/11/2010 Oops - I've already changed my mind - and in just two days. It might be a record! Read my edits below. ] Over a year ago I put up a post that turned into one of the most popular articles on this blog – and it had nothing to do with paper mache. [...]

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New Endangered Animals Color and Learn Book is Ready

ShareThis post is going to be very short – I just wanted to let everyone know that my new Endangered Animals Color and Learn Book is now available on Amazon.com — and just in time for Christmas. The “look inside the book” feature isn’t turned on yet (that will take a few more days) so [...]

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Jessie’s New Project Celebrates Love Between Mother and Child

ShareAnd best of all – you can participate. My daughter, Jessie Rasche, has just started a new project that I’m really excited about. She’s doing a series of small oil paintings, and she hopes to publish the best ones in a new book. All the paintings will show a baby or toddler sharing a loving [...]

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Would You Like to Build Your Own Website?

ShareDo you ever get started on a little project, just to pass a bit of time, and get so involved that it eventually gets totally out of hand? That happened to me this week. I was reading through all the wonderful comments we’ve been getting, with all the beautiful paper mache sculptures people have been [...]

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Paper Mache Custom Work and Ideas Needed

ShareIt’s time again to ask for some help from you, dear readers. I’ve received several requests lately for custom work. I don’t do commissions, since I spend too many hours a day on my “real” web publishing business, and my garden seems to be taking up all the rest. And I don’t have a good [...]

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Spokane Art and Garden Show

ShareThis is just a quick note to let everyone know that my daughter, Jessie Rasche, will be showing her oil paintings at the Spokane in Bloom art and garden show this Saturday, June 19. The South Hill gardeners will be showing off their flowers, and each garden will have space where leading Spokane artists can [...]

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Our Intentional Community Discussion Revisited

ShareUpdate – 9/22/2011: This is a rather old post, but if you’re interested in intentional communities, you can find the latest discussion about this subject at The Querencia Project (It gives us more room for ideas). We hope to see you there. Original post: About 8 months ago we had a very interesting discussion on [...]

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Art Projects in School – A Serious Question

ShareI have some concerns about something I’ve learned from a few of the emails and comments I receive on this blog. The issue has to do with teachers, at all grade levels, assigning art projects to be done at home without teaching the students any of the skills they’ll need to successfully complete the assignments. [...]

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Self-Publish an Illustrated Art Book, Part 3

ShareSo – let’s say you’ve finished the manuscript of your illustrated art book. Now what? How do you transform your manuscript from a file on your computer into a real-life book that’s available for you to buy and sell yourself, or for the public to buy from Amazon.com? The company discussed in the video is [...]

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Self-Publish Your Illustrated Art Book, Part 2

ShareThis is the second video in this series. In this one, I show you the software that I’m using to create my illustrated art how-to book. These are not usually recommended by self-publishing “experts,” (they usually prefer the much more expensive Adobe versions), but my total software investment was $100. Compare that to the total [...]

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How to Build a Book – Part 1

ShareThis video is the first of a short series showing you the tools I used to build my new book about paper mache clay.  If you’ve ever considered writing or illustrating a book, but you let the idea drift away because you thought it would cost too much money or it would just be too [...]

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Win an Original Oil Painting by Jessie Rasche

Snow Geese, Oil Painting by Jessie Rasche

ShareExciting things are happening over at my daughter’s blog this week. She’s giving away one of her beautiful small oil paintings to celebrate the one-year anniversary of her blog. But that’s not all. In addition to the gallery exhibit during the month of March, she was also interviewed by a local reporter about her art, [...]

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Jessie’s Oil Paintings – Spokane Gallery Show

ShareMy daughter, Jessie Rasche, has been invited to present her work in a gallery in Spokane, beginning this Friday and continuing all through March. As you can imagine, the family is rather pumped up about it. I’ll let you tell you about it herself: I am having my first art show in a gallery this [...]

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Paper Mache Sputnik – Ideas Needed

Share(Note 3/6/2010 – see how Suzy’s project turned out at the end of this post) I received an email today from Suzy, asking for help with her daughter’s school project, and we’re hoping you can add to the suggestions I came up with. (I’m amazed by the number of people who are brought back to [...]

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