Lil' Feet

Post by The Distractible Scrapper Susan Garman.

Happy Creating.

Susan

Sharing the Studio Space

Kaitlyn, daughter number 1, stopped by on Friday to work on some wall art for her home. She is altering her and her boyfriend's initials to create an entire wall of nothing but letters. The project is moving along and she is about halfway finished with the altering process. I will update with other letters as she completes them and a picture of the wall when it's all finished. 

Happy Creating.

Susan

June Art Walk - aka Route 66

Post by The Distractible Scrapper.

Happy Creating.

Susan

The Distracted Artist

I am always laughing at myself because of my highly distracted nature. For those of you who have seen the movie Up, I am just like those cute dogs in the movie. You know, the ones that came to a complete halt and looked in the opposite direction every time someone said "squirrel". Yep that's me. The smallest of things can steer me off course. As is the case with this new set of coasters I'm working on. While speeding up the drying process after aging the paper, I caught myself holding the heat gun in an area for too long because I was too busy scanning the map for all the interesting names of cities and towns located throughout Florida to be worried about the possibility of FIRE. What I noticed though really was fascinating. This state is full of oddities 

Luckily, I got back on task before I scorched  any of the small map pieces but not before noting some interesting places such as Shark Point, Zolfa Springs, Medart, Venus, and even Cleveland, which is not strange for Ohio but who knew it was also located in Florida. 

Happy Creating.

Susan

Parking Lot Art

Love this new piece now showing outside the studio. Hope you will stop by for a personal viewing.

Post by Orange Avenue Studios.

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Susan

Rt 66

Super excited about the June 11th Art Walk at Art Mundo in the Orange Avenue Studios in Fort Pierce. The Route 66 theme is promising to be an energetic and fun show. I just finished my entry and I'm very pleased with the result.

I started this project with an old record

album and art ephemera gathered from several public domain sites over the internet. Most of the ephemera is fussy cut and coffee dyed, (a little coffee painted over the object and left to dry will give most paper an aged effect). I used matte gel medium to attach and seal everything. The last coat of gel medium was applied a little on the thick side then covered with a sheet of wax paper. I brayed over the wax paper and quickly lifted it off the album. The result was a little roughed up feeling and added to the aged appearance.  Currently the piece is off for framing to my lovely friend Mary Bennett. Can't wait to see the finished piece.

Happy Creating.

Susan