I am so pleased to share with you a wonderful new book
The Sketchbook Challenge
Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Achieving Your Creative Goals
Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Achieving Your Creative Goals
In The Sketchbook Challenge, talented artist, Sue Bleiweiss, invited other sketchbook artists to help her inspire readers to make the most of their own sketchbooks through exploration of different themes and how the visual concepts brainstormed on the page can, in turn, become finished works of art.
I was so honored to be part of this very talented group asked to share their own pages. Below are two sketchbook pages I created using artist's pastels for my theme, Treasures.
From my illustrations, I constructed a mixed media artwork that is a poignant ode to Anne Morrow Lindbergh's, Gifts From The Sea.
I know you will love this book!
And can purchase your copy at any of the following book distributors...
In celebration of the book's release the following prize will go to a lucky commenter!
From Mistyfuse, a 10yd combination package of Mistyfuse that includes 6 yards of White and 2 yards each of Black and Ultraviolet and a Goddess Sheet.
From Mistyfuse, a 10yd combination package of Mistyfuse that includes 6 yards of White and 2 yards each of Black and Ultraviolet and a Goddess Sheet.
Just leave a comment on or before July 11th!
And be sure read the other reviews shared and leave a comment. There are prizes being given away on every blog!
June 26: Jill Berry and Sue Bleiweiss
June 27: Violette Clark and Kathyanne White
June 28: Kathy Sperino and Leslie Tucker Jenison
June 29: Jamie Fingal and Lynn Krawczyk
July 2: Jackie Bowcutt and Lyric Kinard
July 3: Jane Davies and Kim Rae Nugent
July 5: Carla Sonheim and Carol Sloan
July 6: Susan Brubaker Knapp and Diana Trout
July 9: Tracie Lyn Huskamp and Judi Hurwitt
July 10: Jane LaFazio and Kelli Nina Perkins
and many thanks to the sponsors for the giveaway!
Mistyfuse
My Creative Classroom
ArtPlantae Today
Gelli Arts
Joggles
Sue Pelland Designs
ProChemical and Dye
The Thread Studio
Blue Twig Studio
ArtistCellar
June 26: Jill Berry and Sue Bleiweiss
June 27: Violette Clark and Kathyanne White
June 28: Kathy Sperino and Leslie Tucker Jenison
June 29: Jamie Fingal and Lynn Krawczyk
July 2: Jackie Bowcutt and Lyric Kinard
July 3: Jane Davies and Kim Rae Nugent
July 5: Carla Sonheim and Carol Sloan
July 6: Susan Brubaker Knapp and Diana Trout
July 9: Tracie Lyn Huskamp and Judi Hurwitt
July 10: Jane LaFazio and Kelli Nina Perkins
and many thanks to the sponsors for the giveaway!
Mistyfuse
My Creative Classroom
ArtPlantae Today
Gelli Arts
Joggles
Sue Pelland Designs
ProChemical and Dye
The Thread Studio
Blue Twig Studio
ArtistCellar
123 comments:
This has been such a great way to discover new blogs. Thanks, enjoying your work
Pleasant blog. Thanks for the chance.
Love your use of image and writing to communicate profound truths! Just beautiful.
Beautiful artwork! I loved seeing a finished piece come together from two of your sketches. It makes keeping a sketchbook worthwhile when you know you can look back later and get inspiration for a finished piece!
Looking forward to receiving my copy but Amazon is a bit behind in Britain. Have enjoyed following the challenge. Would love to win. Best wishes.
I have seen the book; it's on my wish list. Your pages are sweet. I love the soft beachy colors along with the collaged addition of the tulle and other fabrics/paper.
That looks amazing. My dream is to be asked to participate in a group projest like that someday. When I did Somerset in Love, I was still early in my art journey- and my style has changed so much since then. I got very little covereage in it.
Enjoying the variety of participants to the this Sketchbook and looking forward to the opportunity to win! - Sharon
Through the Blog Hop, I am so glad to have come by your blog.
Do not know if my comment registered if it did delete this one. I am enjoying the trip along these blogs and lots of inspiration/
Your artwork looks beautiful! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would love to win some Mistyfuse. I really am looking forward to reading this book also. Thanks for participating.
Your birds and butterflies are so beautiful. You have a wonderful sight.
Iadore your blog with all the birds and buttterflies.
The book looks very inspirational, can't wait to look inside it!
Can't wait to look inside the covers of the book.
Would love to win the Mistyfuse! Enjoying your blog.
Your starfish is just amazing - I had to look closely at the photos in the book(until I read your commentary)to see that it was actually drawn (and not an object).
Valerie Brown
I love the beach theme. I grew up in Cape Cod, MA...so beaches remind me of home!
Beautiful work, love your birdhouses and flowers Thanks for being apart of the give away
I have really enjoyed discovering your blog! Thanks for the opportunity.
I really enjoyed looking through your blog. This has been a fun blog hop.
I really enjoyed looking through your blog. This has been a fun blog hop.
I'm so much enjoying seeing all the posts on the hop! It's fun to discover new to me artists too. Thanks!
What beautiful pages you created and your mixed media piece is wonderful!! I wish I were near the sea again!! I hope you have recovered from your fall too and are as good as new!!!Thnx for a chance to win!! I can't wait to get the book!!
That starfish caught my eye, too --looked so three-dimensional on the sketchbook page.
Spectacular work Tracie! Thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for taking part in the blog hop. Enjoying your blog.
I have been following the posts about this book...just ordered it from Amazon. I love, love, simply love Misty Fuse...it is always my choice when working with fusibles. Glad to put my name in the drawing.
Kristin
rockymountainbirder at google dot com
I'm thrilled to discover new blogs/talent through A Sketchbook Challenge and Giveaway. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work.
I enjoyed your blog, and I'm enjoying the new book.
What a fun blog hop. Here's to find new artists.
I am enjoying this blog hop soooo much ... being introduced to a few new artists has been a joy! I've admired your work since I first saw it long ago, especially your birds.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Your pieces are stunning; I love the beach theme and the compositions really bring that out.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Grace
Love your Blog - gonna have to snag this book! Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks for all!
I love finding new blogs each week. Your work is especially lovely.
Love your use of color.
I love you starfish...thanks for the opportunity for the giveaway.
So excited. I love your work. So glad I found you.
I have found so many different blogs - just love your pieces from your sketchbook
I have found so many different blogs - just love your pieces from your sketchbook
Your starfish piece is beautiful. Would love to try the misty fuse.
Hi, I am definitely going to get this book. Your illustration is absolutely beautiful. The one element I love of your work is its softness. It just speaks to me.
Glenda
Love your blog. I need to buy the book. It looks fab.
I have this book in my shopping cart right now! Thanks for the sneak peak and recommendation!!! And chance to win a fabulous prize!!!
Blessings!!!
Your work is beautiful.
Your work is wonderful! and I will agree with Brenda, this has been a wonderful way to discover new blogs. I will keep my fingers crossed on a chance of winning!!
One of my favorite books is Gifts from the Sea. I take it on each trip to the Oregon Coast and relive each page. Your artwork is a beautiful tribute to this book. (I hope you are healing and feeling better.)
This would be a great book for Kaitlyn to see! Sometimes artand talent is defined a different way to kids! I am so happy you had the courage to go after your true passion!!! I started classes on 6/3 towards mine!!! Sure miss you!!!
Should be a great book for Kaitlyn to see! She loves drawing and sketching. We recently added a chalkboard wall to her room. I am so happy that you pursued your passion and are being so successful!!! Sure miss you!
Tracey
This would be a great book for Kaitlyn to see! Sometimes artand talent is defined a different way to kids! I am so happy you had the courage to go after your true passion!!! I started classes on 6/3 towards mine!!! Sure miss you!!!
Your artwork is lovely - I like the flowers and bird from your "accident" project. Thanks for the giveaway as know that I will use the Mistyfuse products. Here's wishing you a speedy recovery from the cuts, bruises, and muscle pain. Please check with an M.D. that nothing is broken -- some fractures take a while to show up so suggest a digital orthopaedic x-ray set. I learned this the hard way.
Your artwork is lovely - I like the flowers and bird from your "accident" project. Thanks for the giveaway as know that I will use the Mistyfuse products. Here's wishing you a speedy recovery from the cuts, bruises, and muscle pain. Please check with an M.D. that nothing is broken -- some fractures take a while to show up so suggest a digital orthopaedic x-ray set. I learned this the hard way.
I love your sand dollars!
Without this hop I never would have thought to buy this book.
Thanks all
Love the book, and your part in it. I'm looking forward to using it for inspiration!
I bought this cool book and love it. Thanks for the chance to win.
Your work is wonderful! I'll be looking for this book, as I've just begun to keep a sketchbook!
love your pages!
I've really enjoyed checking out all the new blogs. Thank you for the opportunity to win this book.
This has been a wonderful opportunity to check out all the great blogs. Such amazing artists out there! Hope you heal very soon from your "accident." I really enjoyed perusing your blog and wonderful drawings and sketchings. Thanks for sharing with us all.
I love Gifts from the Sea. My mother introduced me to it when I was a teenager. Didn't really make sense to me until I married and had children. Now I reread it every summer.
I love the starfish artwork. It reminded me of finding sand dollars on the beach when I was a kid.
Your starfish are great...I really appreciate anything with a beachy theme. And I wouldn't mind winning some Mistyfuse.
loving the book - thanks for the opportunity
Thanks for all the Hopping, Have found some amazing blogs and enjoyed all the hopping. Wonderful prizes, thanks to the sponsors
Heather B
Cape Town South Africa
Congratulations on being in such a cool book, I would love to read and look though it and be inspired by it...
:-)
This looks such a great book! It's on my Amazon wishlist!
Your starfish treasures are beautiful! I'm enjoying the Sketchbook challenge...thanks!
Your Ode to Anne Morrow Lindbergh is pretty and touching (that's one of my all-time favorite books). I am enjoying seeing everyone's blogs. :D
I love the your image of the starfish on the coloured circles. It's a beautiful, if a little surreal, page and makes me smile :)
Looks like a great book - and so many generous sponsors!
"Gift from the Sea" - one of my favourite books for over 40 years. Love your tribute.
Erin
thanks for the great giveaway. Love your starfish
thank you for sharing, this is a great blog hop.
Not surprised you are in this book! Looking forward to seeing it fly onto my bookshelf!
Another chance to win this great looking book! Hooray!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Just love your art work! Can hardly wait to see your pages in the new book!
I would love to receive your new book, thanks for the opportunity.
I would love to receive your new book, thanks for the opportunity.
Can't see my comment yet, so here is another. Love your art Traci!
I would love to receive your new book, thanks for the opportunity.
Thanks, Tracie! I need more Misty fuse and have never seen the ultraviolet. Your artwork is beautiful!
I love Lindbergh's book, and the starfish is such a fitting treasure.
Great blog! I would love the chance to win the Mistyfuse! I've been wanting to try it for a long time!
I love your blog! I would be so happy to win the Mistyfuse! I've been wanting to try it for a long time! (I hope this isn't a double post - I wrote one and then was prompted to log into my Google account and then my comment section was blank... please delete any duplicate! Thanks!)
I'd really get use out of the Sketchbook Challenge and the Misty Fuse. Thanks for offering prizes.
I'd really get use out of the Sketchbook Challenge and the Misty Fuse. Thanks for offering prizes.
A great idea!
What a great idea!
Great giveaway! Your artwork is beautiful!
Great inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win!
Susan
Love love love your artwork. You are the genuine thing for sure.
Just gorgeous!!!
Wow this book is certainly filled with lots of talent. Please count me in.
A gift from the sea! maybe not but the give away is lovely.
Congratulations on your contribution to the Sketchbook Challenge book, can't wait to read it!
Congratulations on your contribution to the Sketchbook Challenge book, I can't wait to read it.
I have not visited your blog before. Very nice. Love Mistyfuse.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Fun blog hop! I don't think I've been here before so I'm happy to find you.
Tracie,
It is a wonderful book, bought it last week after seeing your name in the credits. Love it!!!
Lisa
I love your sweet artwork!
I can't wait to look through your new book!!! Congratulations!!! xxoo, Dawn
So pretty. I am off to buy the book. I need to learn how to direct myself.
so pretty. I must get this book so I can direct myself. THank you for sharing.
Oh, what fun! Looks like another must have book!
The book looks great! I'd love a chance to win the Misty Fuse!
Oh, I do love sea-shells. Thanks for the opportunity,
Thanks for sharing, really love all the prizes, and the book....
I want this book! It looks informative and inspiring. Thank you for the chance to win some really cool craft supplies!
Great way to increase awareness of the fantastic developments in textile arts.
I love the piece with the circles and starfish! Beautiful, bright colours.
Love all of your pieces, Traci - fabulous work!
Starfish, starfish, how you dance. On top of the waves, you giggle and prance. The mighty, roaring sea lifts you to new heights. With a tango and a waltz, you delight!
Starfish, starfish, how you dance. On top of the waves, you giggle and prance. The mighty, roaring sea lifts you to new heights. With a tango and a waltz, you delight!
Starfish, starfish, how you dance. On top of the waves, you giggle and prance. The mighty, roaring sea lifts you to new heights. With a tango and a waltz, you delight!
Lovely blog. Lucky to find you.
Lovely blog. Enjoy your work.
love the starfish collage. Your colorsense wows me!
I know I am too late for the giveaway. Just wanted to say how beautiful your artwork is!
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