Time to (Card and Photo) Play

I am excited to share that 2 of the Top Ten products from 2016 in the Cloth Paper Scissors/North Light Media shop were my workshop videos. These are fun workshops, available as immediate downloads or actual DVDs. Each one has a "student" taking the workshop, making it much more real, interactive and interesting.

Based on my 52 Card Pickup live workshop, Card Play: Mixed-Media Techniques for Small Works of Art is 96 minutes of creative fun.

Have a peek below...

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Based on my Photo Op/Cutting Room Floor live workshops, Photo Play: Techniques for Altering Photos with Paint and Ink, this video is filled with 91 minutes of artful techniques.

Here is a preview...

More information can be found in the North Light Shop, where both workshops can be ordered (along with the other Top 10 products) as DVDs or immediate downloads at a special price.

Keep on Playing

Last month,  Interweave put together a cool bundle of my products perfect for mixed media play. The bundle included DVDs, books, stencils and stamps. I am excited to say that the bundle has sold out. But, you can still get a special digital bundle -- and save a bundle of money in the process. 

This includes...

 immediate downloads of all 4 of my recently released workshop videos

a digital copy of my second book The Mixed Media Artist

the eMag Folded Books and Paper Art. I'm not in this one...but it will get you to play too!

Bundle Up

Are you ready to play? Interweave has put together a cool bundle of my products that are perfect for mixed media play. And speaking of bundle...the price will save you one too.

This includes...

 all 4 of my recently released workshop DVDs

You get a copy of my second book The Mixed Media Artist

Two stencils from my collection at StencilGirl Products

One set of three stamps from my collection at Impression Obsession

As an extra bonus, you also get the eMag Folded Books and Paper Art. I'm not in this one...but it will get you to play too!

Click here for details and to order at a savings of nearly $60: Seth Apter’s Mixed Media Play Bundle 

There is also an all-digital version available without the stamps and stencils: Seth Apter’s Mixed Media Play Digital Collection

June Events

The summer has begun in NYC and is going to start off with a bang for me. The month of June is overflowing with creative fun and I cannot wait to be able to share it all with you.

STENCILS

My newest stencils coming from StencilGirl Products

DVDs

Four workshop DVDs being released by F+W Media

WEBINAR

Webinar with the crew from F+W Media

WORKSHOPS

June takes me to:

West Carlton Arts Society in Ontario, Canada - workshops full

The Ink Pad in NYC - workshop full

Kept Creations in Whitman, Massachusetts

Dimensional Stenciling - workshop full

Brick by Brick - a few spots open

Visit my workshop page for info on my upcoming 2016 workshops in Australia, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas. 

It's a Wrap...

I have spent the last 4 days at the F+W Studios just outside Cincinnati, Ohio recording videos. 

F+W Studios is the parent company of both Interweave, the company that brings us the magazine Cloth Paper Scissors, and North Light Media, which published my 2 books among many others.

I completed 4 mixed media workshops that will be available in June as streaming video, downloads, and DVDs.

The studio is the real deal, with multiple lights, cameras, and monitors.

They created a set that had the vibe of a corner in a NYC loft.

It was even decorated with my own work.

I worked with Amy Jones, who played multiple rolls including producer, director and on-camera student for 2 of my videos. We had a ton of fun and I so wanted to take the clapperboard home. But I left it there cause I want to be invited back even more.

Cherie Haas, whose name you might recognize as the person behind most of the postings on the Cloth Paper Scissors blog, was my on-camera student for the other 2 videos.

Erin is definitely one of the 2 best camera operators in the business.

 

And Justin is the other.

No team is complete without a mascot and the studio has Ellie. And that is Ellie's dad, also known as Al and the best photographer who shot all the stills for my videos.

Wish I could bring you these videos immediately but June will be here in the blink of an eye!

DeeVeeDees

There are some new DVDs in town filled with some pretty impressive instructors displaying their techniques. I am happy to be sharing "tape-time" with people like Dina Wakley, Pam Carriker, Mary Beth Shaw, Quinn McDonald, Gina Rossi Armfield, Kristen Robinson and more. These two new DVDs are compilations, with segments culled from previously-released videos.

Top 10 Art Journaling Techniques

Available at Interweave as a DVD or video download

I am 1 of 9 artists featured on this compilation DVD, with my segment taken directly from my earlier DVD Easy Mixed Media Techniques for the Art Journal. My technique focuses on using gesso to create textured backgrounds and making acrylic glazes to add layers of transparent color.

"Hosted by Amy Jones, this instructive video gives you safe place to play with what you know, and what you want to try. From using acrylics to conte crayons, textured items to old photographs, you are in control of your artistic choices. You no longer have to be afraid of messing up your art piece, or spilling paint over your blank sheet, for this video equips you with the skills necessary to turn your mistakes into flawless designs! Find your favorite form of art journaling and make your way through the Top 10 Art Journaling Techniques."

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Top 10 Doodle, Drawing & Mark Making Techniques

Available at Interweave as a DVD or video download

I am 1 of 8 artists featured on this compilation DVD, with my segment taken directly from my earlier DVD Easy Mixed Media Surface Techniques. My technique focuses on using splattering, dry brushing and mark making to enhance your surface. 

"Scratch your way into art through mark-making techniques, splatter your painting into existence with watercolors and acrylics, and find your Zen in pencil sketching and doodling. This video, hosted by Amy Jones, will study different mixed media instructions from a variety of ArtistNetwork.TV favorite video workshops. Bu bringing the diverse art forms together, you will become skilled in multiple areas and end up with a toolbox full of doodle, drawing, and mark-making techniques."

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These DVDs, along with my previous two, can be purchased through my online shop, at multiple online outlets as both DVDs and immediate video downloads, and at many of your favorite art and craft stores.

Top 10 Doodle, Drawing and Mark Making Techniques

I am excited to be one of 8 artists included in a newly released DVD from F+W Media entitled Top 10 Doodle, Drawing and Mark Making Techniques. 

This video brings together segments from previously released DVDs that focus on mark making, doodling and drawing techniques perfect for mixed media art and journaling. My segment focuses on using splattering, dry brushing and mark making. This is culled from one of my earlier DVDs Easy Mixed Media Techniques for the Art Journal, which shows you step-by-step how to create the journal pictured below.

The other artists sharing their techniques on this new DVD include Mary Beth Shaw, Dina Wakley, Pam Carriker, Jean Pederson, Gina Rossi Armfield, Nita Leland, and Tiffany Lovering. 

Get more details and see a preview here.

And while you are visiting, check out The Mixed-Media Education Multi Pack, a specially priced bundle of mixed media publications that includes the downloadable version of my book The Mixed-Media Artist - along with eBooks from Joanne Sharpe and Gina Rossi Armfield, a workshop DVD from Diana Trout and an issue of the magazine Cloth Paper Scissors.

CHA 2015

As I write this post, the first half of my west coast trip is winding down. For the last 5+ days, I have been attending the Craft & Hobby Association annual conference in Anaheim, California. 

The CHA Mega Show, as it is now called, is an annual event in which manufacturers, buyers and designers come together for 5 days of education, buying, selling and networking. It is the time when many companies release their new products and many retailers try to figure out what will be best sellers in the crafts and arts industry. For designers and bloggers, the show is typically thought of as the biggest perk of CHA membership but in fact there are a lot of other benefits as well.

This is the second year I have attended. I came with a plan this time and ended up having a very productive experience and good time -- as can be seen below...

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Day One was education day, with workshops and seminars held throughout the day. I taught a workshop called Mixed Media Layer Conveyer to 50 attendees and somehow managed to feel like I knew them all very well by the time the workshop ended.

The workshop focused on paint techniques to create dimensional layers. I was too busy to take too many pictures but here are a few detail shots of some of the participants' pieces.

I am sending a shout out to Imagine Crafts, PaperArtsy and StencilGirl Products for providing some of the workshop supplies and the very ample sample kit that all class attendees took with them.

I was joined at the hip with Mary Beth Shaw and Pam Carriker all day, as we each assisted in each others workshops. Traci Bautista also taught that day and we had fun sharing students and notes.

Day 2 saw the opening of the show floor, where all the exhibitors displayed their products in creatively-designed booths. There is always a huge crowd at the ribbon cutting waiting to get in and this year was no exception.

There were over 400 exhibitors and I managed to at least walk BY every booth over the course of the show. Naturally I walked INTO many of the booths as well. This is a wholesale event so I was not there to purchase any supplies. But I did get samples of some new products that I plan to experiment with -- and share with you in later blog posts.

Just a few of the booths and/or displays that caught my eye included...

Spellbinders Paper Arts

Spellbinders Paper Arts

Spellbinders Paper Arts - I am not the only person blown away by their display as it won an award for best booth at the show.

7 Gypsies

Marion Smith

My Mind's Eye

Tattered Angels

I was fortunate to be able to give away signed copies of my workshop DVDs at the F+W Booth.

The people who stood in line for my DVDs were a patient and fun bunch, as can be seen by the evidence below...

The best part of the show for me was connecting with other creative people, networking with a number of different companies, and seeing the success of so many of my friends...

Dina Wakely's newest journaling book

Finnabair's line of mixed media products with Prima

Pam Carriker seeing her new book with F+W for the first time

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Though the sun may have set on CHA 2015, its effects will last for some time. Stay tuned for another post where I share my thoughts on the trends coming in 2015. And part 2 of my travels in California.