Studio 2
Creative community through sustainable art
Tag: art process
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Fall Terrarium and Shadowbox Workshops- Registration Now Open!
Registration for Studio 2 Design’s Fall Classes through the Bemis School of Art is now open! Are you looking for a unique creative workshop experience? Do you really dig the terrarium and shadowbox art that Studio 2 is known for? Or, do you have the desire to make a truly inventive and inspiring gift for a…
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Getting out of Your Box and the Art of Having Coffee: Lessons in Cultivating A Creative Career
There’s something to be said about getting out of your comfort zone. For some of us, this may be going to a party solo, initiating a friendship, or travelling to a new destination. Professionally, it gets a bit more serious: making that cold call, attending a committee meeting, initiating a connection, or reaching out to…
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Spring Shadowboxing: A Peek at the Process
I’ve been busy in the studio, cranking out work for the upcoming market season here in Colorado Springs. In celebration of Spring, I present to you my Spring Shadowbox Series! Each piece is created using collected and found materials. I have a penchant for old books, (especially children’s literature books), maps, and everything vintage and handmade…
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Become: A 3d mixed-media papercut collage
Another papercut collage. Inspired by: tromping in the woods, building forts, finding mushrooms, wild imaginations, and plant life cycles. Media: micron pens, brush/ink, markers, tracing paper, acrylic paint. Part of the upcoming Rock.Paper.Scissors. show. This original artwork has been sold. Check more of my papercut work in my Etsy shop. Looking for more inspiration? Check out…
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Unearth: A 3D mixed media papercut collage
Another papercut collage. Inspired by: Sea-life, the ocean, growth, travel, and navigation. Media: micron pens, brush/ink, collage, markers. Part of the upcoming Rock.Paper.Scissors. show. Invite yourself here. <3
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Travel Sketch 15: Beauty of the Bahamas Part 2
Pardon the momentary lack of posting! Spring break is over. Literally over, today is my last day and tomorrow begins the mad dash to the end of the semester. I wasn’t nearly as productive as I needed to be over break, but hey, who is? It’s finally starting to warm up! (Although cloudy, boo! X()…
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Grow: A Mixed Media 3D Papercut Collage
The second piece in my tentatively-titled “Moments” series. The title is almost there. I’m getting sooo close, I can feel it! Coming soon This one has a few more layers of depth than the previous piece, Memory(stream)flows. 😀 Inspiration: Memories- how they shift with time, are fragile, fleeting, dream-like, simultaneous and shifty. Perspective-how everyone’s is unique,…
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Memory(stream)flows. A Mixed Media Papercut Collage
Finally. Some Finished Work. From the tentatively titled “Moments” series. Titles in debate for this body of work: Moments: In Living Image, Moments in Reverie, Moments in Image, or Moments: A Translucent Journey. Ugh. I need to pick one…(So bad with titles! Memory(stream)flows Feedback.Greatly.Appreciated! I’ve been working on this a great while. Please tell me what you think. Do…
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Travel Sketch #4: Slimy Seaweed Shells
Another continuation of my travel moleskine sketchbook that I took throughout Key West, The Bahamas, and a few other places. There was this network of rusty, algae-covered pipes with other equally-icky looking cords running underneath of the front porch of the floating house we were staying on in Key West. I would find myself staring…