INTENTIONS-What are yours?

COMING VERY SOON!
Intentions Plaques Class at Jenny Dohs!
Saturday, January 14th, 2012!

here is My very first teaching gig if 2012

(Look for a grand announcement of my new teaching schedule very soon!)
here is the full description from the Crescendoh website!
Intention Plaques & Sticks
with Lisa Engelbrecht
1-Day Workshop on Saturday, January 14, 2012
in Studio CRESCENDOh

Join Lettering Artist Lisa Engelbrecht to create gorgeous lettered wooden plaques and lettered sticks. You might just need one word to get you started with the process of lettering onto wood ... like begin, create, dream ... or maybe you might need to a reminder of the artist you are ... maybe outlaw, provocateur, renegade, or rebel. In this class, where everyone can be a calligrapher, Lisa will teach you an easy beautiful free and loopy script which can be written with a pointed brush or a pointed pen. Using wood plaques and found sticks and twigs, we prime and color with gesso and acrylics. Students will write their words of intention and then create a unique wire hanger for the plaques or wrap the sticks with colorful fibers. Twine and ribbon wrappings may be included. To finish off the words, colored pencil scribbles will give bright fillings to the spaces in between the letters. Lively discussion of our current state of creativity will inspire us to make a several in one day!
There will be a LOT of fun and laughing!
Sign up Now!

AND WE HAVE A WINNER! JANET!

Yeah yeah it is way past the Dec 10 deadline-but here is the random choice winner of JIll Berry's book!Its Janet of Friday Harbor AKA Taiqi! BUT I need Janet to email me her address in the next day or so-if no response all names go back in the hopper-sorry-I didnt get her email! ( Heres mine Janet! lengelbrecht@earthlink.net-)
We are so pleased at the response that I will be doing more giveaways!Maybe even a Christmas giveaway!

Big news comin' about-My class at Jenny doh's space, Ghost Ranch, Create! I will be blogging soon! THANKS YOU GUYS! Im so amazed at my friends in cyberspace!

IT S A BOOK GIVEAWAY FROM MY FRIEND JILL BERRY!

Hey! Here's a new book I think you'll like! My friend and Author calligrapher artist Jill Berry has created a unique book for artsy cartophiles! Heres a bit of a description AND check out Jill's SITE HERE to see more images from the book!


You don't have to be a world traveler or a professional cartographer to embark on a grand journey of self-discovery through mapmaking. Personal Geographies gives you the tools and techniques you'll need to create artful maps of your self, your experiences and your personal journey. Chart the innermost workings of your mind, document your artistic path and create an unfolding maze of your future dreams and goals.

Inside Personal Geographies you'll discover:

21 mixed-media map projects featuring artistic techniques like working with alcohol inks and pochoir, painting on a black surface and carving custom stamps
Insight into the world of traditional and contemporary maps and how they relate to and inspire personal mapmaking
A gallery of maps by contributors from around the world to spark your own creativity
From mapping your head, hands and heart to recording powerful memories or experiences, the maps in Personal Geographies are a gateway into the fascinating and meaningful world of you.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN AN ABSOLUTELY FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK? Im sure you would-just post a comment below with your email and if you live in the USA I will pick a winner (by Saturday Dec 10) to have this book sent to you!

30 DAYS OF DRAWING FROM MY FRIEND TRACI BUNKERS!

Hey! as Im packing up the terrariums and new necklaces for the craft fair tonight ( www.uptownvillagemarket.com)I thought Id share with you my friend Traci's 30 days of drawing event! I think I could do this! check out her site -its full of fun tutorials and ideas!so click here to go to her site!

UPTOWN VILLAGE CRAFT MARKET IS THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

YES ITS THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY DAY! Go to the website here for all the details! Its going to be a blast... 60 vendors inside a repurposed furniture store, live music , cocktails and opening on the First Fridays event in Bixby Knolls-tons of neato stores and art. Sorry to all of you outside this ares-but I think this will be a wonderful event for everyone in soCAl to attend! I will have the usual letterista stuff and be signing books but wait for it... also Terrariums and Bonsai! So buy handmade and support your local artist by gifting these lovely items!

UPTOWN VILLAGE MARKET THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

NEW COOL INDOOR CRAFT MARKET-COME VISIT ME !
Here's just a couple pics of all the wonderful things I will be selling in Long Beach this Friday. I will have books of course and other letterista things-but also Terrariums and Bonsai! Here is the website with the directions-it coincides with First Fridays in Bixby Knolls -which is a super neat open stores walk with lots of live music and shopping. There will be over 60 vendors, live music and bar-support local and handmade and have a great evening out! ( Sorry for those of you not in the SoCAl area!)

SPECIAL BLACK FRIDAY! Sign up now for the Intentional plaques class!

Hey -local peeps If you were interested in signing up for my Intentional Plaques Class on January 14th in Santa Ana Jenny's offering $10 off coupon today on her website! You'll need to click on the editor's letter tab. Go here for more pictures and a description too!

THANK you and Check out Jill Berry's work!

AWESOME! Thanks to all of you who checked out my blog yesterday and a big ups to those of you who ordered stuff! Now you simply must check out Jill Berry's Geo papers-simply wonderful mark making and watercolors. Go to http://jillberrydesign.com/blog/

MY TURN! -The great Art Spark Tutorial begins now!

EXPERIMENTAL INITIALS


HERE WE GO! I’m going to share with you the super easy way to create cool Experimental initials.





First-using a Micron Pigma pen or any medium point black pen write an initial quickly. Overlap the strokes and get artist-y and sketchy-maybe even don't lift your pen from the paper




Here Ive overlapped the strokes and even gone back over them-creating spots to color in




Using glittery gel pens fill in a couple spots-here i’ve used the super neato Sparkling pens from Signo- you can get them from Jet pens.com -or you can order the kit from me below!
Ive used the gold and pink and blended them together




Then onto adding the Signo Angelic colors-these are super opaque and really nice on black as you will see! Ive also added some Stickles dots-any glitter glue will do-but I like the dimensionality of the Stickles! Don't color in every space- you’re looking for a stained glass effect!




Heres the final product...now lets try it on black paper!




Same deal on the letters-as above but Ive used the Sakura Calligrapher gold pen in large size for the strokes part




again the Signo Sparkling is added and blended ( any glittery gels would work just fine here too)



The Signo opaques are added



The final product with the Stickles-Voila!




OK- OK- I know you want to have a kit full of these pens to make your own initials! so Ive packaged them up just for you- This special package contains a Micron Pigma pen, a Gold Calligrapher pen, A Sparkling Pen and an Angelic pen in random colors. You can order this now on my website RIGHT HERE!( where, ahem... you can also order my book that features this technique!) The low price of $ 22 per kit includes shipping and 4 quarter page pieces of Black Art Again paper and 4 Sheets of Bristol paper to begin creating immediately! MY website is right here!

Kelli's Tutorial today and Its ME! tomorrow!

We are mid way through an amazing Blog roll-full of fun fun tutorials all week and more! Today Its Kelli Perkins with the cutest spool garlands-Click on the above title to take you there right now-oh and if youve missed any of them go down a couple posts and click away-the colors dont show but you can click on them for fun times....tomorrow its me with experimental Initials-stay tuned-dont touch that dial!

Oh the Blog hop is on!

CHECK OUT LYRIC'S BLOG AND ORNAMENT HOW TO!
Day two of ARTSPARK's winter tutorial blog hop features artist Lyric Kinard.
http://lyrickinard.blogspot.com/2011/11/glitter-glisten-glimmer-beaded-ornament.html
She shows you how to make a lovely little beaded ornament to hang on your tree, in your window, or if you're feeling wild, on your rearview mirror!

AND YOU MAY BE ASKING YOURSELF...just what is a Blog Hop anyways? Wellll its talented beyond belief artists sharing and combining their strengths-every day a new blog and artist to check out! Im coming up next week on the 17th! stay tuned and stay hoppin

HOLIDAY CARDS THIS WEEKEND AT ART SUPPLY WAREHOUSE IN WESTMINSTER

Its this Saturday! I apologize to all my friends out of the area=-this will be fun! -Its from 10-1 at the Art Supply Warehouse in Westminster. I will be teaching Gothic and a fun casual scripty style that anyone can do-here are a few samples-we'll add stickles and glitter and bling -oh my! So... all supplies included and its $45. You can sign up on line ( go to the Catalyst tab) or even call to sign up!

ITS TIME FOR A FUN FREE TUTORIAL ROLL!

Artspark Winter Tutorial Bloghop

Are you ready!!!!??? The fabulous ladies at Artspark begin our winter round of free tutorials for you to follow. You don't want to miss this!
JUST CLICK HERE AND FOLLOW THE ROLL!
Im up on the 17th-but dont miss the fun before me!
oh and just cruise these blogs-they are such amazing women!


November 9:: Jane LaFazio Sketch & Stitch Gift Bags
November 10: Lyric Kinard Glitter, Glisten, Glimmer: Beaded Snowflake Ornament
November 11: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
November 12: Melanie Testa
November 13: Traci Bunkers Moldable Foam Stamps
November 14: Diana Trout Japanese-Style Fabric Wrap(Furoshiko)
November 15: Judy Perez Folk Art Inspired Ornament

November 16: Kelli Nina Perkins Whimsical Spool Garland
November. 17: Lisa Engelbrecht Experimental Lettering

November 18: Jill Berry Geo Papers and Projects
November 19: Gloria Hansen Resizing an Image

OLYMPIA, JOURNALFEST AND THE GREAT NORTHWEST!

Ahhh-back to normal almost after a 10 day trip to Seattle-It all started with a visit to my daughters Kristin and Sarah and grandkitty Cairo-and then on to Olympia and the wonderful workshop organized by the awesome Kathy Peterson ( her amazing work apron above!) -more on her later! Her Husband Jim and she hosted me for a grand dinner of steelhead trout and amazing wine-look at Flickr for all these pics-fortunately Kathy had organized the entire workshop and wow am I super grateful. This is only my first post about this trip -but alllll the pics are up there at the ol Flickr site-from Olympia to Journalfest to Sheriffs class-please go check it out!More to come!
OH and this Saturday please come to Art supply Warehouse in Westminster for a fast fun Card class from 10-1-all supplies included and I'll teach you Gothic Christmas style lettering and funky script to make those cards that will impress all!We'll also play with stamps and a bit of bling-hope to get samples up soon! go to their site to sign up NOW!

WILD WONDERFUL WEST VIRGINIA

MORE MORE much more to come-but wanted to let you know that my pictures of West virginia awesome workshop are now up and running-back o crazed life and running as fast as I can-captions and deets to follow soon! Check out the ol flickr account www.flickr.com/photos/25736261@N00/ -


Oh and playing with the layout of the blog-will fix title soon as I figure it out!

HOPE"S NEST AWARDS ME A GRANT!

I am very excited to announce that Hope's Nest has awarded a grant to continue the Letter Arts Classes at the LA Sheriff's Leadership Academy! The Awesome Lonnie Lardner is one of the founders and visited one of the classes Carolyn Canonico and I gave there and facilitated the grant-WOW! Im so happy because these kids are so hungry for letters and art and Im gonna give it to them! I have all sorts of ideas for this and its just the first piece in my grafitti diversion plan. BIG UPS to Carolyn for making this happen and not giving up on it! Thanks too to Mr. Newman their teacher for the support-I'll post results soon! Heres a couple pics

SO Im off to WEST VIRGINIA!
WOW again-I am so excited to return there-some of the nicest people I have ever met live there and Its gonna be a wild weekend! Watch for reports! Packing right now... whats that weight limit again?

AND Im approaching 1000 friends on Facebook ( are you my friend? ) I am cooking up big doins there for that magical number-a big giveaway and more-so stay tuned!!

AN AFFAIR! and JOURNALFEST!

ITS TRUE! The lovely bikes Magenta Divine and Mr. Miyata have begun a bit of an affair. Here they are spotted at a house in Long Beach thisclose! We wish them the very best-a very cute couple!



and...
JOURNALFEST!
OCT 27-30

I have to tell you I am so excited to teach at this event at the end of October. This is an event tailor made for Journalers ( although everyone is welcome!) and features the best in viual journaling instruction and inspiration. It is held at Port Townsend in Washington State-about 1 1/2 hours from Seattle. Its a lovely lovely time of year to visit this area-and the classes! I will be teaching SHIMMER AND BLING-all sorts of ways to created shiny sparkly things and backgrounds-foils, gold leaf and some exciting new discoveries I have made-Love that shiny stuff! and also teaching LETTERISTA STYLE LETTERING-if you havent signed on to the Letterista movement heres your chance-its not stuffy or hardcore calligraphy-just fun and easy and totally cool-come join the fun! You need to sign up here at Teesha Moore's website but theres still space at all the accomodations and classes , I would love to have you join me !

ASW CLASS SUCCESS ! PLUS SHERIFFS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY STUDENTS ROCK FUNKY LETTERS!

WHOA! a big week of letters and flowers-starting with the amazing kids at the Sheriffs Leadership Academy-Carolyn and I taught them cool lettering and they were so into it! Im hoping to make this a regular gig-I am hoping to announce soon some big plans concerning these artists!
AND THEN

on the weekend I taught at Art Supply Warehouse the simple Watercolor flowers that anyone can do and again-WHOA look at these results!
GO NOW and look at the pics here on my Flickr Site


THERES so much happening now I am so excited and happy-I love that you check in and check out my stuff
LIFE IS GOOD!

WATERCOLOR FLOWERS RETURN TO ART SUPPLY WAREHOUSE!

Here we go again! By popular demand I will be teaching this Saturday at Art Supply Warehouse' Catalyst space (in Westminster)those watercolor flowers!The above photos are from students in the beginning class! And yes if you've taken this class before-I will also be offering a second part of these lovely flowers-more instruction on groupings and design , also adding bling and the best of all flowers the Rose! be sure to call today to reserve your space at ASW-the Beginning class is from 10-1, the second part from 2-5, do one or both! They are $40 each and all supplies included! This includes a great packet of reference handouts for further study at home. and yes-you can do this!Its super easy!

LONG BEACH QUILT FEST AND ART UNRAVELED PICTURES

YES! I am still recovering from my whirlwind two weeks-first the Long Beach Quilt Show and then to Phoenix for the 9th annual Art Unraveled. PLEASE check out the pictures on my flickr site-click the title above. My students were amazing-I loved every minute! The above Mother of Pearl pen was a gift( !) from wonderful Melissa and the other pictures are just a small sampling of the work done-much more on site! There was an Art Smackdown and you can see the challenge pieces there too-mine was cringe inducing

LETTERISTA STYLE AT ART SUPPLY WAREHOUSE!

Two quick but fun sessions at Art Supply Warehouse created these results! I loved meeting new artists and seeing old friends! Its getting to be a habit at Art Supply Warehouse's Catalyst space-I love it-its so close to me and I adore rebecca and all the gang that work there! Go see all the photos at my Flickr site here!


Oh and By the Way -heres a super secret announcement-I'll be teaching back at ASW at the end of August ( actually Saturday, August 27! )-Its the return of Watercolor flowers! I'll be doing two sessions -Beginners in the morning and part two -for those who have taken the class before or people from the morning who want to continue will be in the afternoon. You can sign up now
Art Supply Warehouse is located in Westminster! you can check out their website here and also sign up on line!