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Star Flower: A Paint+Stitch+Bead Adventure

January 25, 2018 ShellyStokes

Star Flower: A Paint+Stitch+Bead Adventure

As part of my “timeout” from the business here at Cedar Canyon, I’ve spent a good deal of time on my Star Flower project. It’s the first of my Paint, Stitch & Bead adventures that will be a completed piece of art instead of a learning tool.   I created the design using the Silhouette […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exploring Design, Hand Stitching & Embroidery, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks, Stenciling

Paintstik Overlay Update

July 6, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

Paintstik Overlay Update

You may remember that I’ve been working on a way to rescue a project with a Very Busy Background. I experimented with a computer-simulated overlay, then took the plunge and applied a Paintstik overlay to one section of the piece. Today, I’m happy to report that the Sheer Paintstik Overlay really works!   In case […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exploring Color, Exploring Design, Fostering Your Creativity, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

Studio Essentials: Finding the Sweet Spot

May 25, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

Studio Essentials: Finding the Sweet Spot

After three months in Chapala with  (very) limited supplies, I found my home studio more than a bit overwhelming. With several decades worth of art supplies on hand, it’s a miracle I get anything done! It’s time to remove the distractions and get down to a smaller set of Studio Essentials. Rather than just “thinking” […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exploring Color, Fabric Art Tools, Fostering Your Creativity, Hand Stitching & Embroidery, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks, Silhouette Cutting Machine, Studio News & Updates

Paintstik Overlay Experiment 1

March 9, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

Paintstik Overlay Experiment 1

About a month ago, I “tested” a sheer Paintstik overlay on the computer screen to see if it would Tame a Busy Background. This week, I decided to see if a “real” Paintstik overlay worked on real fabric. Painted overlay vs. sheer fabric overlay: Does it really work? Click To Tweet   Because I used […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exploring Design, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

Tame a Busy Background with a Sheer Paintstik Overlay

February 9, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

Tame a Busy Background with a Sheer Paintstik Overlay

As I’ve been debating the fate of my Whole Cloth Collage project, my friends encouraged me to save the background, but find a way to tone it down. Of course! All it needs is an overlay. And for me, that means a Sheer Paintstik Overlay! I could “see” how this would work in my head, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exploring Design, Fostering Your Creativity, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

BYO Batik: A Renegade Stencil Experiment

November 24, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

BYO Batik: A Renegade Stencil Experiment

With time set aside for experiments with Renegade Stencils during my retreat, I decided it was time for some BYOB. In case you’re feeling like you’ve encountered yet another strange word in the “Shelly Dictionary,” BYOB stands for Build Your Own Batik. We’ll save the bottled spirits for another time! Build your own Batik fabric […]

Filed Under: Blog, Design Magic (Book), Exploring Design, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks, Silhouette Cutting Machine, Stenciling

Design Magic in Chapala: From Fountain Tiles to Fabric

November 17, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Design Magic in Chapala: From Fountain Tiles to Fabric

Design Magic is the title of a book that I wrote in 2010. It’s a methodology for creating a design using a square of paper, turning the design into a pair of positive and negative (equal and opposite) stencils, and adding the pattern to fabric with Shiva Artist’s Paintstiks. The process described in the book […]

Filed Under: Blog, Design Magic (Book), Exploring Design, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks, Stenciling

Easy Paintstik Placemats

November 3, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Easy Paintstik Placemats

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I want to give you a quick and easy recipe for dressing up your table. Let’s dig in and make some Easy Paintstik Placemats! Dress up your holiday table with Easy Paintstik Placemats! Click To Tweet There are just a few ingredients in this recipe. Some relatively plain fabric. If […]

Filed Under: Blog, Making Rubbings, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

Pine Beetle Rubbings

October 13, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Pine Beetle Rubbings

Last week I posted photos of Pine Beetle Art. In a nutshell, they are photos of tree trunks showing the paths taken by pine beetle grubs as they tunnel around under the tree bark – and slowly kill the trees. Oddball inspiration? Yes. But inspiration nonetheless. Today, I have photos of Pine Beetle Rubbings. No, not rubbings […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fostering Your Creativity, Making Rubbings, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

Water Lily Quilt: A Touch of Hawaii Without All The Work

September 29, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Water Lily Quilt: A Touch of Hawaii Without All The WorkAs I was looking through the original samples from the Paintstiks on Fabric book, I was reminded how far we have come on this Paintstik adventure. I say “we” because it really has been a shared journey. I have had the opportunity to teach thousands of students and readers to use Paintstiks on fabric, and [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Shiva Artist's Paintstiks, Silhouette Cutting Machine, Stenciling

Paintstiks on Fabric: How It Started

September 22, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Paintstiks on Fabric: How It StartedWhen I was filling out the entry form for the 2017 AQS Show in Paducah, I realized how far the Paintstiks on Fabric adventure has come in the past 17 years. Here’s what grabbed my attention.   AQS Entry Form The folks at AQS expanded the section on the entry form to include the most [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Paintstiks on Fabric (Book), Shiva Artist's Paintstiks

Defined: Whole Cloth Collage

September 8, 2016 Jennifer Lutz

Defined: Whole Cloth CollageWith the next session of Whole Cloth Collage coming up, I’ve received a number of questions that all boil down to… What, exactly, is a Whole Cloth Collage? Given all the new things I’ve been exploring in the past year, let’s see if we can pin this down. According to our friends at the Merriam-Webster [...]

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