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J & M Enterprises Newsletter	Fun Easy Art December 2010

Happy Holidays- wax paintings are great gifts

:: Supplies

:: Classes

:: Other web sites I use

:: Videos Online

Years End, can you believe it!

   Thanks for reading this newsletter
and staying connected with wax painting.

Gift giving time of year and your wax
paintings will be wonderful presents and
holiday cards, get busy. Below is another of
the images I downloaded from the
http:TwistedPaper.com site and then waxed in the same
way I have told you before using the griddle and stylus.

   santa

This month I am going to focus on a project that
I first saw in Daniel Smiths catalog. Here is the page
out of that catalog. Page is large so you have to scroll
to see it all. daniel smith article

You will have to use your arrow keys to scroll right and left
to read all of the above. You might want to do some research
on Patricia's work. Her book lets me know we think along
the same lines although she does use the brush method. But
she is always thinking out of the box and loves to experiment
with wax.

I will be doing some of these sized pieces that are ACT size
in case you are interested in trading around the world with
other artists. This has become quite a movement and lots of
resources on the web for connecting with other artists.

Here is one contact:
http://artandimagesbykim.ning.com/group/atcaceoartistcards
and another:
http://artandimagesbykim.ning.com/group/atcaceoartistcards
And one last one:
http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/index.html

You can google some more if you have some interest in
trading or selling the ATC's. I just ordered some 8.5 x 11
mats cut out to hold a selection of ACT cards from http://www.jerrysartarama.com Look close as I made a
mistake when I ordered them. I wanted the ones that had
9 holes cut in the mats and I got the ones with just one.
I didn't read the information close enough.

Here is a collection of ATC just done on regular card stock.

ATC 1

             And another lot of the same ATC. What is so neat
about doing these is that you can use your pictures you have
made, but didn't really like that much. You just have to
locate a section the fits the 2.5 x 3.5 frame and cut it out.
What I did to finish off the back was to mount them
on full sheet label paper and then trim around that to have
a nice clean back. Then I took a wide clear tape and
put my business card on the back. This way I had a finished
card with my info to trade with.

My idea was to interest the other gallery members to do the
same and have a section in the gallery where we would have
these available and encourage other artists to come and
start trading with us. This being another way to invite artists
to join the gallery and or become friends of the gallery.


      ATC 2

The next batch are ones that are done on the Daniel Smith
Ampersand boards. The same ones that I showed you up
above in the article. I have glued a hanger on the back side
so they can be put up in the gallery for sale and I also
painted them with future floor polish to protect the surface.
I have selected three of them to be mounted on samples I
got from Home Depot for free. It is the large size samples
they hand out for counter tops. They make a nice presentation
this way and thought you might like this idea to use yourself.

act1

And here are the mounted ones on the samples from Home
Depot ready to hang.

mounted ATC

For any who had to wait for supplies this last month there
was a delay from the Netherlands because they changed
suppliers and got quite back ordered for awhile.

Also think ahead if you are going to want to order materials
from me in January as I am going to go to Mexico for two
months and may have to shut down the supplies during that
time. I might not have time to do this newsletter during
that time either.

If you are going to be close to Gallery North in Edmonds
During the Month of December I will be the feataured artist
along with my gallery mate Stan Rust that does the wood
turned bowls. Our show is THE ART OF WAX AND WOOD.
We will have a reception on Dec 11th from 1-5 and also
there is art walk on the the third Thursday Dec 16th from
5-8pm. Please come for these events as I would love to
meet you.

dec show

The following link will bring you a video of some of my images and
photographs Journey Of Sight And Sound
I had fun combining images and sound with video. Hope you
enjoy.
I also have another video clip on ideas with the stylus
at youtube that you can see here on Stylus Tips
Finally because I am not sure I am going to have time to do
a newsletter for the next few months I am stacking up this
month to hold you over.

I have also finished my store that I mentioned
in earlier newsletters and I will be continuing to add to it
on an ongoing basis. Right now some of the items are at
an introductory price and when the store is arranged they
will change. That address is
http://www.ArtGiftsStore.com

Happy Holidays to all

Supplies
You can find all the supplies for this process on my web site on this page.
There are three box sets of wax, Starter, Expanding and Vivid. These are the Starter colors.

Encaustic Starter Wax Set $21.00

If some of you want to make your own wax here is a link to get the how to do it info.

Upcoming Class Schedules

Gallery North - Art Class

508 Main Street Edmonds, WA 425-774-0946

Sign up at the Gallery North

Beginning Encaustic Painting Class

Date(s): December 5th

Time:10:00 AM - 4 PM

Fee: $80.00 All Supplies Included

Min of 4 students and a Max of 10 Class Restricted to age 14 and older because of the hot tools. Payment of class fees need to be completed 3 day before class starts to make sure we have our min of 4 students. Call Gallery North to register and pay. November

Other Web sites I show my paintings: Red Bubble Fine Art America

You can order reprints off either of these sites from cards to prints on canvas and watercolor paper. Framed or unframed. Fine Art America is also a site you might want to check out for yourself.

Free Instruction
35 video clips to watch.

To look at the video clips I have on the web simply access them from these links.
Series 1.
Series 2.
Series 3.
Hope they help you and inspire you to give wax a try.

Also I started a project called Lets Write A Book Together with some other artists and they never followed through, but if you want to read what I was putting together go to this link

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Thanks for your continued interest in wax painting, my website and, blog, and now my e-newsletter.

Sincerely,

John Vandebrooke
J & M Enterprises

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