Soil and Art
Well, it has been awhile since I updated the Soils4Teachers website, since I have been really busy with this whole farm loan, and planning out the Post Dissertation Plans. However, […]
Category Archives: Art
The Birch
More black and white pastels. I really miss the north woods… And we used to start our fires with birch bark. This nostalgia gave me the motivation to paint a […]
Cemetery in the Moonlight
Sunrise in New Zealand
Finally got my color palate back! A few years back, I gave my heart to a country with phenomenal beauty, amazing people, and a whole bunch of sheep. Yea, New […]
The Incoming Storm (Art, not Farm)
Man, my color skills are so rusty! After I cleaned out the rabbit shed and all of the cages, and continued to scrub out my bedroom, and clean my craft […]
The Lifeboat
It has been awhile since the art part of Dirtartful came into the picture. However, I am on vacation, and it is pretty much saturated outside, so aside from basic […]
The Soils Dress: Part 3
One layer looked really good, but we decided to add more volume. For the batchelorette party, Sam, Courtney, Kristin, and I got together and went to Durham scrap exchange to […]
The Soils Dress: Part 2
I visited the Durham Scrap exchange and got some fabrics that would match and compliment with the soil dyed colors. Since the panels are white, I used a maroon color […]
The Soils Dress: Part 1
I wanted to totally customise my pi day wedding dress and make it myself. So I decided on a tattered skirt style, which would keep the cost low, and allow […]
Finally… A craft studio in the making.
Our last rental house was 1200 square feet with a LOT of wasted space… The new house we bought has a TON of room for me to actually have a […]
Winter Shimmers
It is 90 kajillion degrees outside, so I was tempted to create something cool. I got a set of $5 oil pastels, and wanted to do some experimenting with colors […]
African Mud Cloth: Soil and Art at it’s Best!
African Mud Cloth: Soil and Art at it’s Best! So, I love combining art and soils, and this is by FAR my favorite activity! I have done several variations of […]
Citizen Soil Science Rain Garden Day
I realize that I am skipping ahead like seven blog posts… but my girl scouts are doing amazing job teaching younger girls about rain gardens before we plant our final […]
Fall in Western Wisconsin: An artistic process
As spring dawns on the Southeast (FINALLY?!?), I find myself homesick for Wisconsin again. Today it was the region that I went to college (River Falls, GO FALCONS). The hills […]
Purple Mountains Majesty: An Artistic Process
When I was in middle school, we took a trip out west, into the mountains of Colorado. Being from the flat-lands of Wisconsin, I had a lot of love for […]
Portrait of a Sheltie
I will fully admit, I was sort of scared to take on a custom piece of a friends dog. Up until this point, I was practicing on stock photos, or […]
Launching My Art Business
So, in the last few months, I have gotten in a lot of practice in the pastel art medium. Landscapes, pet portraits, and other various commissions. All of these things […]
