I had such fun creating a Swarm, and it has garnered more ideas percolating in my head. I love how the dragonflies turned out, and am also enamored with the ladybugs. At home, I fiddled with various configurations. The mobile can be added to and subtracted from. I put on a swarmy collection for the […]
As I mentioned, a few pieces are going back up on Etsy, and so is Red Hot Love.  I made this prior to the Arts of Life Square Foot Show in Glenview. Speaking of the Arts of Life, the BUGS!!! Exhibit has another open house with live music on Friday, September 7 from 6 to 10 […]
It’s been a very buggy time around here. Once you become aware of something, it is everywhere, and so it is with insects for me. Since getting to know Lauren, entomology has started to creep in on me, and it continues with the BUGS!!! exhibit at the Arts of Life. Mike Caskel From assemblage to collage to […]
May and June were abuzz with dragonflies, which has inspired me for new projects. I love the blues, such as this Northern Bluet Damselfly and the Twelve-spotted Skimmer. You can appreciate all kinds of insects this weekend and through September 21, at the BUGS!!! Exhibit. Tonight marks the first evening of Bug Fest—a tribute in […]
I’m back in the studio again, yippie. Since taking a variety of workshops over the spring, I have not spent time making encaustic pieces. It doesn’t mean I haven’t created anything. I learned encaustic techniques from Bridgette Guerzon Mills, Crystal Neubauer and Shawna Moore; bound books at the Chicago Print Collaborative, had two sessions of […]
