I’ve taught workshops for children and adults on how to make illustrated collage books from hand-painted papers. The stories were invented from the process.Here is one I worked on in Sitka, AK with students at the library. Click on the image below to see the whole book. I also used this collage technique of hand-painted […]
The unfinished wooden crankie box made its first debut but it needed a paint job. I had an idea… First I painted the box with random patterns of color. Then began to paint black over the colors to reveal my design. Here is the finished paint job with curtain up. Curtain down. The new box […]
You are in for a real treat if you do not know about Crankies. I ordered a traveling Crankie from Louis Leger and took it to Alaska City Folk Arts Camp in Anchorage to make Crankies with young artists and musicians. They are a type of moving panorama, a story put to song, an old […]