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palm fronds: when there’s no money for art papers, canvas or boards

In Uncategorized on January 22, 2012 at 6:44 pm

Southwest Florida Artist Heidi Saletko hand paints animals on palm fronds and calls them “FrondZoo”. Palm fronds are in plentiful supply in this region, they hold acrylic or oil paint well, they’re durable, and they’re easily transportable. Heidi was featured recently in News Press as having captured the imagination of school-aged children through her realistic animal portraiture. She sculpts the fronds to create 3D creatures that almost appear alive! She’s a member of The Naples Artcrafters,The Naples Art Association,The United Arts Council of Collier County and her FrondZoo masks can be purchased at: The Artist Boutique, Tin City, Art Etc. Bonita Springs, Naples Ships Store,12th Ave.S.,Naples, Frame It, Bonita Springs, and Your Island Home, Marco Island.

FrondZoo is a kaleidoscope of creatures. The wall-hanging animal masks are as unique as the trees from which they come. The shape and size vary slightly, but just as zebras living in the wild, no two are exactly the same. All pieces are created from recycled palm tree materials and are carefully hand painted. (www.frondzoo.com).

Shauna Lee Lange is a full-service arts advisory firm and design studio located in Port Charlotte, Southwest Florida. We are dedicated to helping women and girls live more creatively artful and authentic lives through coaching & teaching, craft workspace design & organization, and art marketing & branding. The Artist Shauna Lee Lange exhibits nationally in paper and book arts in art journaling, visual diaries, and sketchbooks. Her works center on personal geographies and women’s transformative issues through the use of vintage ephemera, collage, and mixed media components. Come on over and be a part of our International Linkedin Arts Network Creative Art Consultants. More art IS more love.

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art studio and workshop tour

In Uncategorized on January 1, 2012 at 11:50 am

Art Studio Sign, Shauna Lee Lange, mixed media & chipboard letters 2011

I spent the Friday night before New Year’s Eve assembling the very basic components of my own art studio and workshop. We had just relocated to Port Charlotte in September 2011 and I had taken a short sabbatical to concentrate on my “day job” as a workforce development professional for the State of Florida. With the new year approaching, and having missed three months of dedicated art journaling, visual diaries, and sketchbooks, I just knew I had to get the studio up and running and soon. And given that I am set to teach a six-week art journaling workshop starting on January 14, 2012, there was even more reason to go through our boxes.

We’re using a very small alcove off our residential laundry room that has carpeting and natural light from two windows. The room needs much in the way of “finished” cosmetic appeal and the air flow needs to be addressed. We had just fixed the electrical outlets and were ready to move forward with providing individual art instruction in 2012. With that finished, I thought it might be interesting to show how, over time, we’ll be developing the studio on a very limited budget both monetarily and time-wise for the start of 2012. Here’s a photographic tour of our bare-bones beginnings of some of the components using only what I have on hand. I am a big believer in individual work stations for separate tasks and I could go on and on about why this is the most effective art production method, but I won’t here. This art studio and workshop tour is a work in progress, my system for all the writing and drawing tools still has much work to be done! Let us know what you think.

Before I close, let me just say that 2012 proves to be very interesting in art growth. I am trying two new techniques for the ability to concentrate my artworks and teach effective methods. The first is by using my brand new digital drawing tool called the Wacom Tablet Bamboo Pen which was given to me by my daughter. I have only succeeded so far in learning how to manipulate the pen and in downloading the Corel Draw software. There’s a huge learning curve here and it is sure to open up a whole new world of digitized elements, which I had previously poo-pooed. The second technique is again one of separation. I have for the first time ever, moved my art studio tools completely away from the computer. Because I, like most artists, am a visual learner, the Internet has a very addictive power in my life. Hours can go by while I am examining others’ works, or looking at art calls and submissions, and it feels like five minutes. Recognizing that this has stolen time away from simply creating, I’m trying to separate the functions. We’ll let you know how it goes.

Side workstation for immediate tools, Shauna Lee Lange Studios 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, vision & inspiration board 1, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, natural light, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, Clip It System station, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, writing implement station, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, professional art tools station, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange, cutting, rubber stamping, and template station, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, art inspiration and vision board station #2, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios, the most beautiful artwork there is, 2012

Shauna Lee Lange Studios is a full-service arts advisory and creative studio located in Southwest Florida in Port Charlotte. The Studios are dedicated to helping women and girls live a more creatively artful and authentic life. The Studios is actively engaged in helping people find and design their own arts or crafts studios and workspaces. Shauna Lee Lange the artist is exhibiting nationally in paper and book arts through art journaling, visual diaries, and sketchbooks. Her works center on personal geographies and women’s issues through the use of vintage ephemera and collage and mixed media components. A tireless arts advocate, Shauna Lee Lange Studios also works in professional business and networking endeavors for creativity and idea generation. Come on over and be a part of our international arts network Creative Art Consultants. More art IS more love.

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paper stacks online artist collaboration

In Uncategorized on September 14, 2011 at 12:23 pm

On Wednesday September 21st, Shauna Lee Lange Studios of Port Charlotte, Florida will join The Altered Page‘s online exhibition “Paper Stacks”. Artists were encouraged to post an image on their own blogs of their stacks – be they papers, books, journals, or anything else of their liking. The Altered Page is the infinitely imaginative blog of Art Journalist Kelly Kilmer, who has long given art journaling classes in highly specialized paper and book arts. Kilmer will post a list of all participating artists on her arts blog and within her own art network. The project was inspired by Kilmer’s recent move. Lange, who has long admired Kilmer’s work, was happy to collaborate since she’ll be sharing stacks from her own recent relocation to the Suncoast region. Do you have stacks? What are they of? What do they mean?

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constructing your own drafting table: the Wright measurements

In Uncategorized on April 27, 2011 at 12:35 pm

The fabulous sculptor Carl Wright (plus an all around great guy) offers these instructions for constructing your very own drafting table. If you’ve checked prices lately, drafting tables are going for a pretty penny for the tried and true authentic wood versions. Plastic laminates and veneers can be found saturating the market, but these DO NOT LAST. So Carl understood perfectly what I was trying to accomplish with my search for a sturdy and stable drafting table (you may want to visit a history of my drafting-table-search-saga here). The Wright Drafting table is quite the workhorse. Carl’s abused and neglected his for about 25 years and it still functions. Now, a great guy and a visionary sculptor all wrapped up in one is hard to find, so I want to start out by giving you Carl Wright’s contact information (hey, did anyone else notice Wright as in Frank Lloyd! I never did ask Carl!!!) Maybe construction is in his genes. :)

Carl Wright

Abstract Stone Sculpture
Art for Homes
Art for Public Places | Corporate, Health Care, Hospitality, Public Art
304-263-2391 | carl@wsggallery.com

Now, here are the Wright-Do-It-Yourself Measurements

Cut List for Drafting Table

All measurements approximate.

Overall table is 36” deep x 60” long x 36” tall – height can change if you are shorter than 6’ tall.

Table top: 3’ x 5’ x ¾” thick; ¾” x 2” strip underneath perimeter of drafting table. 2 pcs 2” x 36”; 2 pcs 2″ 56″

Bottom: Legs are “L” shaped when seen in cross-section. Each leg is 2 ¾” x 2 ¾” x 35” tall.

Apron: Apron is finished size of 26” x 53”. Apron is where the top of the logs connect to.

2 pcs ¾” x 3 ½” x 26”

2 pcs ¾” x 3 ½” x 51.5”

Back Brace: ¾” x 2 ½” x 53”

Side Braces: 2 pcs ¾” 2 ½” x 26”

Adjustable Table Support: (to incline table) – ¾” x 2 ½” x 10”. With holes drilled every 1 ½”.

Foot Rest Front Brace: Hardwood with rounded edges. Not plywood because plywood bends when you put feet on it.

¾” x 1 ½” x 53”

Other: About 1 ¼ sheets of plywood, bunch of bolts, washers & nuts.

Table is assembled with nuts, bolts & washers, so it can be easily disassembled & moved. Drawer dimensions can be added later if required. The example shown is a table Carl actually bought about 25 years ago when drafting tables were being replaced with computers. It was a commercial grade table that was rented out with a draftsman for places like Singer (the defense firm) etc.

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the new artist's tool: moo mini cards

In Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm

After re-reading The Fine Artists Career Guide: Making Money in Arts and Beyond by Daniel Grant (who by the way has a whole bevy of art career books to his name with Allworth Press), we were inspired to re-create our very own business cards.

Grant is a big believer in the “get” – the things that help artists stand out in the crowd and promotion is BIG on his list. We had previously seen Moo Cards - mini business cards and were inspired to draft up our unique slice of the pie. After easily and quickly loading some of our own artwork on the site and then selecting the right crop, we waited about two weeks for delivery and simply could not be happier with the quality or end result.

The benefit of Moo Cards is now we have something extra to talk about when handing out the card – the image that appears on the front as a series from our very own artwork (we uploaded 30 images). It’s a highly visual world according to Daniel Pink’s Right Brainers Will Rule the World book and it requires a new approach on marketing, a fresh breeze of air, and smart thinking.

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international sketchbook project – en route to stop #2

In Uncategorized on April 17, 2009 at 9:28 pm

We’re so thrilled to be the first artist to have completed our initial portion for the International Sketchbook Project as conceived and designed by Kenya Bevans. You can learn more about the ISP by visiting Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, or the ISP website, or Kenya’s blog. Kenya did a fabulous job collecting sketchbook artists from around the world to participate. Representatives from Israel, Turkey, Croatia, Germany, France, Portugal, the UK, Scotland and many others have signed up!

Each artist has four pages with which to communciate about their world. The first is a page about themselves and the remainder can be about anything the artist chooses as long as it remains true to the theme of location. Our collage pages (made from re-used and re-cycled luxury magazines) concentrate on the USA and President Obama’s recent win, the green spring of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the inspiring art community of Old Town Alexandria. We’ve posted them here. Look for more information about The International Sketchbook Project in the days to come.

For paper and book arts enthusiasts everywhere, not to mention collage artists, we want to give a very special endorsement to Winsor & Newton’s All Purpose Varnish For General Purpose Arts & Crafts. A beautiful clear gloss varnish which provides permanent non-removable protection of craftwork is ideal for a variety of surfaces including wood, metal, paper and modelling materials. What I first thought was going to be a DISASTER when initially sprayed, turned out more beautifully then I could have ever imagined when dried. I am completely SOLD on this product. (Thank you for the recommendation, Alex!)