RedDancer-Studio

This blog has moved - New address listed

To all my loyal followers, all 2 of you, I have moved my blog to the Blogger platform. My understanding is that I will have this Typepad blog free but it won't have all the bells and whistles. Please come on over and if you feel so inclined, I would love it if you started to "follow me" on the new blog. I think you will enjoy the look of the new blog and once I get settled from my Art Unraveled experience, I'll be posting more regularly.

www.reddancerstudio.com

 

Again, thank you for reading my blog and I hope to see you at the new location.

Sincerely, Marrianna

Art Unraveled Shopping Extravaganza - getting ready

Less than 3 weeks to the fantastic, premier art retreat of 2012 on July 30 - Aug. 7 at the Embassy Suites in Scottsdale: ART UNRAVELED. I'm going to be a vendor again at the Saturday Shopping Extravaganza and thought I'd highlight the vintage suitcases I'll have for sale. Last year, I only had 2-3 but this year, I think I have 7-8. Some are already at the storage room in Scottsdale but these 3 are in the garage and ready to go. That top one is an old Kenmore sewing machine case.

I'll be using the suitcases for display during the sale but will also have them available for sale for $5-$15 each. I'm just hoping I can get everything on the 3 tables I have reserved in the ballroom. I'll have fabric bundles, vintage Harrison Fischer American Beauties prints, vintage paper packets, small baggies of jewels, vintage books for $4 each, and a whole boatload of ephemera for making mixed media art.

This is a photo of my inchies for the swap that Jane Eileen has organized for AU. It's the first time I've made inchies and I found it to be quite fun. I'll be putting them in the mail to Jane Eileen on Monday.

Photography fun and treasure found at Goodwill Weigh & Pay

I found a great vintage typewriter at our Goodwill Weigh & Pay yesterday. It works perfectly and the ribbon still has some ink in it. All for $6 - hard to believe. The keys don't stick or anything. I'm doing the happy dance. It is now permanently on my kitchen table because it's too heavy to lift and move. Thank God for strong help at Goodwill and my neighbor.



And while I had the camera all ready to go, I finally took a few photos of these 2 glasses I found at a Goodwill in Gilbert, AZ, several months ago. I used the macro lens for the photo. Here it is without a filter. Gorgeous photo models when I don't have flowers available.

Here it is with Kim Klassen's "Oh My" texture with a soft light layer at 58%.

Another glass photo with a different Kim Klassen texture, "Shine." This is also one of her brushes, "If not now, then when?"

Kim Klassen Texture Tuesday - Reverie

Played with one of my photos of white gladiolas and Kim Klassen's Reverie filter. You, too, can get free textures from Kim by clicking here.

 This is the "naked" white glad before digital processing. Yes, it is a gorgeous image just like it is and I've used it this way in my artwork. But I wanted to see "what if" and use Kim's textures.

I played with the "dark strokes" filter in PhotoShop CS4 followed by using Kim's Reverie texture on 2 layers.

Very interesting and other-wordly looking. The amazing things you can do with filters and texture layers.

Sepia peony/B&W assignment/Kim Klassen layers

The original assignment was to create a black and white image and play with it in PhotoShop. While this isn't a B&W image, I learned something new from Kim Klassen about the Adjustments window in PhotoShop. What an amazing tool. More to learn, thought. Stay tuned.

I used my own image of white and red peonies I picked up at the Scottsdale, AZ, Trader Joe's last Tuesday. Then burned it into a B&W image followed by adding a texture layer from Kim Klassen and then a brush from Klassen, also.

The meaning of the peony is shame or bashfull. I don't like the shame part but bashful? You betcha.