Hi Everyone, Today I’m bringing you my latest project for Gwen Lafleur's Artist Tribe. This time I'm working on an encaustic mixed media panel featuring a BoHo Chic Butterfly that I coaxed into revealing his Arty Impressionistic side. He's the smallest butterfly of three from Gwen's BoHo Butterflies Stencil and I just love him. I've chosen to capture him under luscious layers of encaustic wax, but you can use the super simple stencil technique I'm sharing later in this post to make a focal point for just about any type of mixed media project. It’s unfortunate that encaustic medium and... Read more →

Master TobiWan Kenobi on his Pet Mat Hi Everyone, Today I'm on the aStencilGirl® Talk blog with a new post for the Creative Team. This month's theme for the team is the Dog Days of Summer which just so happens to coincide nicely with my dog Tobiwan Kenobi's ninth birthday. I wanted to give him a special artsy present. So I did some on-line research to learn about how dogs interpret colors and designed a pet mat in his favorite colors. Join me on the StencilGirl Talk blog for the full post. In the meantime, please enjoy some of the... Read more →