Carol Wiebe

I’ve been making decisions about what I want to do next, artistically speaking. I could obsess about this. Encourage angst. Wring my...

It will be 18 months, at the end of this month, that I have been posting every single day. It was part of my goal to also post at least...

A comment I received on yesterday’s post, from Ellen, was a wonderful one because it gave me pause and made me think. Her questions were:...

I have two of these, like most people, and that is nothing new. Thumbnail sketches are nothing new either–artists have been making them...

This design came from the painting Knock Four Times. Suspended I have done some stitching on a version of it, which I’ll scan tomorrow,...

Whenever I create a few new paintings (4 last week, 3 this week) I end up with a whole raft of digital images. Yum, yum ~ collage goodies...

I’ve been thinking about the differences between collage and painting. When I use paint, and only paint, there is great excitement...

It seems I am not yet finished with A faulty construct. Now it has morphed into As above, so below. As above, so below If you take a look...

A deadline can rattle you, or spur you on. Actually, it probably does both~ back and forth, over and over. So, as I keep adding layers of...

More Photoshop Elements saves, from the painting in a former post (before I messed it up beyond the point of no return). These are kind...

Anything can yield a great design, even a ruined painting. Snap a pic, take it into Photoshop, and soon you have something you DO like....

I finally thought I was getting somewhere with this version (see a selection of the rest of the versions if you care to). Unfortunately,...

I put together 2 pics I took today: one of shards of icicles in the snow, the other a plant . Winter plants are so stark, seem to stand...

I think my hot pink phase has passed with this last one, but I can’t be sure. Getting There

Hot Trail You can see that my last three paintings are related. As soon as I get a chance, I am going to start ripping/cutting them, and...

The painting has really grabbed hold of me. I love that cycle: paint, scan, print and stitch, go back and paint some more on the original...

As I sit and stitch, it occurs to me that I am in transition. I am figuring out, as I stitch, what I want to do next. It is a repetitive,...

At least for now (I have been reminded several times that there is never only one way to do things). I found that stitching paper with...

I mentioned yesterday that I was trying out a felt glue. As it turns out, I probably won’t need it. Shirley commented that I could try...

Stitched Paper . .. . . . . . . . Usually, I stitch on paper alone.This piece is a typical example. For these two journal pages, I put...