Random Thoughts

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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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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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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Daily Paint Works – For Selling Artwork Online

Jessie just signed up for a new site that specializes in helping 2-D artists sell their work online. Naturally, I asked her to tell me about it. The site doesn’t handle sculptures, but I know many of you sell paintings and prints, so you might be interested. Jessie is trying out Daily Paintworks, which is [...]

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Sad Day for Paper Mache…

Today, I found out through the good folks on the Yahoo Paper Mache Art group that we recently lost one of our own. Jonty, who shared so much of his knowledge with anyone who asked, has passed away. He had a big and generous heart, but it just wasn’t strong enough. I spent most of [...]

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What I’ve Been Doing Instead of Paper Mache

And a creative question for you — that also has nothing whatsoever to do with paper mache… Last month I started making some big changes to the front of my house, and the project has taken up most of my creative energy. That’s my excuse for not producing any paper mache sculptures lately. First, I [...]

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Practical Paper Mache – Anyone Up for a Contest?

I want to have a contest. The details haven’t been worked out yet, so I hope you’ll help me figure out how to make this work. [edit: The contest idea quickly morphed into a reader-supported project. You can read about it here. You can see what we've come up with so far here. And you [...]

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Jessie Has a New Contest – Win an Original Oil Painting

Jessie announced a new contest on her oil painting blog last week, and some lucky person will win one of her original oil paintings. I didn’t want any of my own blog readers to miss out on a chance to win, so I talked her into writing up this short guest post: Hi Jonni’s fans, [...]