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What’s Next?

I move to my new house next Tuesday, so I’ve been boxing up my books and art supplies–again! If you’ve noticed that I’ve been a bit slow answering your comments, that’s my excuse. I have no new projects to report, obviously, and I’m not sure when I’ll get my next one started, but I am [...]

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Holiday Deer

Hello, everyone. I hope you had a great holiday, and that you’re looking forward to the New Year. I haven’t been working on any paper mache this week, but I should get to start some big projects as soon as I move into my new house in the middle of January. In the meantime, I’m [...]

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Moving an Elephant, on the Cheap

Now that my elephant is in a box, it’s official: I’m moving! (Papers are still not signed yet, though, so I really hope I don’t have to reschedule the moving van again. Mortgage companies can be such a pain…) I know a lot of you have been wondering where I’m going next. I found a [...]

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Oops – Now What?

If you’ve noticed that I haven’t been posting very often lately, it’s because I’ve been busy painting the house and getting it ready to sell. Well, I put an ad up on Craigslist last Saturday, and there’s already someone extremely interested in buying it. No paperwork yet, so I still have time to change [...]

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Progress Report – And a Discussion About Pricing Art

Yes, I have been working these last few weeks, but I haven’t had a lot of photos to share. That’s partly because a lot of my work has been non-art related. I’ve been painting walls that should have been painted several years ago, but I really, really hate painting walls. This week seemed like [...]

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Molds for Paper Mache Sculptures – Is this a Crazy Idea?

An idea for a new small business has been floating around in my head for a few weeks, and I’d like your input. Feel perfectly free to tell me I’m crazy. Or not. Honestly, I really haven’t decided myself. This would be a way for me to expand my own income while also giving [...]

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Practice Mutt, and Pinterest for artists

I made a short video to show you a little portrait mask I made of a puppy. This happy guy invited himself to my house last weekend. (I saw him later, tied up in front of a house a few blocks away — so I’m happy to say that his owner quickly found him [...]

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Want to Have an Online Paper Mache Class?

[Edit: the lessons have begun! You can find lesson #1, How to Make a Paper Mache Cat, here.] I’m not procrastinating, honest. I really did start my figure sculpture. In fact, I’m now on the third one, because there’ s a bit of a learning curve going on. In fact, right now my latest [...]

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Making Changes to My Mask Making Studio

I spent some time today making a new mask form over a life-sized plastic skull, and then modified it a bit so it will (hopefully) work for animal masks as well as people. I also made a few changes to the tiny rolling table that I like to work on, so I can work on [...]

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What Makes a Good Artist’s Website?

I’m between projects now. My new How to Make Masks! book has gone to the printer, but it still hasn’t appeared on Amazon.com. Soon, though, so I’m on pins and needles, waiting… Meanwhile, my daughter and I have been having long discussions about artist’s websites, and we’d like to get some feedback from you, [...]

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Quick Post – Jessie’s Having a Benefit Auction for Every Mother Counts

This is going to be a fast post. We have another mask post coming this afternoon, I think, but I wanted to make sure nobody missed Jessie’s benefit auction. Jessie will donate 100% of the final bid to the charity Every Mother Counts. (Check out the movie on the site to see why this is [...]

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The New Community Blog is Ready for Your Ideas

This is going to be a fast post today. I have no new artwork to share, and we haven’t received any new masks lately (the ghosts will be arriving any day now, folks – time’s flying by fast. Submit your Halloween-related items here and show them off to the world.) But I did manage to [...]

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Need Help Naming a New Website about Intentional Communities…

UPDATE: a name has been chosen. Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions, even if I didn’t use your idea for the name of the new site. Now I hope you’ll all start thinking about how you would describe your ideal community – your ideas will be the core of the new site. Original post: While [...]

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Calling All Maskmakers – An Online “Halloween Mask Party”

Yesterday, Tejae suggested that we have a Halloween Mask Party here on our blog. Now, I must admit I don’t know exactly what she meant by that, but it does sound intriguing. So much so, in fact, that I started my mask this morning while my onions were in the oven. I even decided to [...]

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Felt Moccasins – Finally!

I mentioned back in July that I was trying to learn how to make felt. Now it’s September, and I finally have one pair of moccasins that I actually like. (Next week I’ll start working on those hats again…) If I can manage to make a few more slippers and hats that I like, I [...]

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