Category: Art
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Sep-Nov 2023
Dear Friends,We’ve set our retirement party! Hope you can join us there or at our final furoshiki demonstration. Take a look at what else is on the plate for the Pixeladies. Bid On Our Quilt!Sep 14 – Oct 8, 2023 • OnlineWe have donated our final collaboration to Studio Art Quilts Associates for their 2023…
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Deb’s 2023 Dream Collection
The bidding for our favorite auction, the Studio Art Quilt Associates Benefit Auction,* starts on September 14, 2023. As in years past, Kris and I are making our dream collections. This year I have no rhyme or reason. I just liked these eight pieces together, and they would look great on my wall. Ingrid Langhorst…
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Kris’ 2023 SAQA Dream Collection
Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) holds a benefit auction every September to raise money for exhibitions and to further education of the art quilt. They invite everyone to create a dream collection of eight pieces. Deb will post her collection next week, and I would love having the following works in my home. Why don’t…
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Squared Off: Kris’ SAQA Dream Collection
The bidding for our favorite auction, the Studio Art Quilt Associates Benefit Auction,* starts on September 9, 2022. As in years past, Deb and I are making our dream collections. Click here to view Deb’s collection. This year eight pieces make up a collection. My tastes run the gamut, but this year I kept returning…
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These are a Few of Deb’s Favorite Things
The bidding for our favorite auction, the Studio Art Quilt Associates Benefit Auction,* starts on September 9, 2022. As in years past, Kris and I are making our dream collections. This year eight pieces make up a collection. Usually I create a very cohesive dream collection. I start with one art quilt and build a…
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Celebrating Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu
Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu passed away last week. We stop at moment at the Pixeladies Studio to celebrate their lives.
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Bid On Our Quilt At The SAQA Benefit Auction!
“The Language of Color 11: What’s the Point of White Pencils Only?” is a celebration of the diversity of the human race. It’s coming up for auction soon.
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SAQA Benefit Auction: Kris’ 2021 Dream Collection
The 2021 SAQA Benefit Auction starts on September 13. Kris and Deb have been creating their own dream collections. Here’s Kris’s!
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SAQA Benefit Auction: Deb’s 2021 Dream Collection
It’s that time of year again to bid on some great art at SAQA’s Benefit Auction! Is your favorite piece in Deb’s 2021 dream collection?
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100 Days Of Creativity
If you’re feeling a bit stuck and need a push to jump-start your creativity, take a read and see what we have to suggest!
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Our “Home” Project: Reworking “Log Cabin Redux”
We’re sewing again! Take a peak at our latest project, which is actually an old piece we’ve torn apart! Find out the why of this latest project.
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Rosie Lee Tompkins and Her Velvet Dreams
Get yourself down to the Berkeley Art Museum soon to catch the amazing and inspiring Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit! The exhibit ends July 18.
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Went To See Van Gogh, Got An Earful!
We are on the road again! Our first trip together since the pandemic was to San Francisco to see the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit.
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Visit Katharine McCormick “Live” in San Diego!
California is open! Plan a visit to the Visions Museum in San Diego to see “Deeds Not Words” and our “Katharine McCormick: Making Her Mark.”
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We’re Zooming! Join Us for 4 Women : 4 Stories
Please join us on June 8, 2021 at 4:30pm EDT (GMT/UTC -4) as we give our presentation called “4 Women : 4 Stories” for the Maryland-DC-West Virginia Region of SAQA.
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We’re Back In The Studio Again!!
Here’s a little taste of our first day back in the studio after our pandemic hiatus!
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SAQA Spotlight Auction: Small Works, Small Prices, Great Art!
Looking for great art for a small price? Well, we’ve got a deal for you! We are currently at the annual SAQA conference, via Zoom, of course, and the Spotlight Auction has already begun. You do not have to be a SAQA member to bid. You just have to get a paddle and start bidding!…
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Create Text On A Path In Photoshop Elements
We thought we’d give you a little gift this week. It’s a lesson from our online digital design class about putting text on a path. You can see how we teach online. In our class, you receive a video lesson and a handout with each topic along with access to a classroom website to post…
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Join Us In Canada (Via Zoom!) For 3 Women : 3 Stories
Well, we can’t travel to Canada right now, but we can at least Zoom our way there! Please join us on Feb 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm PST as we give our presentation called “3 Women : 3 Stories” for the Region of York Quilters Guild. The cost is Canadian $7. Register for the event…
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Logging Museum Memories Because We Miss Visiting Museums!
Oh to be able to go to visit a museum again! The last museum I (Deb) visited was the Crocker Art Museum on February 27, 2020. I thought I’d reminisce about one of the exhibits on display there. I hitched a ride downtown and took myself on a little art date. There was nothing special I…
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Rainbows, Books on Color, and Creating Color in Photoshop Elements
Are you interested in creating color? This is Kris with a confession. I registered for the Color Seminar offered by Studio Art Quilt Associates. It’s free for members. Let’s just say I am a big slacker because I haven’t created anything for class. But, the one thing this seminar has done for me so far…
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Bernie Memes, Brendan Smialowski, And Copyright Laws
Well, Senator Bernie Sanders is making the rounds again. This time it’s in memes galore with his amazing handmade mittens at President Biden’s inauguration. So, what does Bernie Sanders have to do with Brendan Smialowski, and who is Brendan Smialowski anyway? Mr. Smialowski is the photographer who took the now iconic photo of Bernie Sanders at…
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Pixeladies’ Student Art: Chris Beardsley Masters Photoshop Elements
Here’s a new topic for us: student art. We have been teaching online for years—way before the start of the Coronovirus/Covid-19 pandemic. We certainly love online teaching, but one of the bad things about this format is that we rarely get to see the our students’ finished projects. Imagine our joy, then, when Chris Beardsley…
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The New Mississippi State Flag And Our “Mrs. Hamer”
During all of the hullabaloo of our recent presidential election, states managed to pass new laws or make some historic changes to their state. The citizens of Mississippi, for example, approved a new design for their state flag. Why, you may ask, was this historic, and what does this have to do with our work?…
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November Already? It’s Furoshiki Time!
November signals the start of the holiday season, especially for those of us who make our own gifts. In the case of the Pixeladies, we start thinking of gift wrapping with the super useful furoshiki. What we love about furoshiki (Japanese for fabric wrap) is that the object actually determines the type of wrap you…
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Happy 100th Birthday, Wayne Thiebaud!
This is Kris, writing to say the Pixeladies are taking a break from our Tech Tuesday posts to wish a happy 100th birthday to Wayne Thiebaud. He is a fellow graduate of Sac State University. Okay, so he graduated several years before either of us was born, when the place was called Sac State College,…
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Textile Talks And The Importance of Words
We think it’s pretty obvious to our readers by now how important we think words are. They are the underpinning of our art, so when we moderated in a recent Textile Talk, which is sponsored by a consortium of fiber arts organizations, we weren’t surprised the topic arose again. Deeds Not Words The irony doesn’t…
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Basketball and Art, Part 2
After five months of being in a creative and general funk, and with pro basketball shut down, I joined a critique group with eleven other talented, creative, intelligent, articulate artists. We’ve only had two virtual meetings, but I really enjoy them. I had met several of the women in person, known others by their work,…
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2020 SAQA Benefit Auction: Kris’ Dream Collection
Every September I look forward to the SAQA Benefit Auction, where you can bid on some really fantastic artwork. There’s a tradition of creating your dream collection from the hundreds of available artwork. Deb created her dream collection a couple of weeks ago. Mine is below. Why don’t you build your own dream collection? Click…
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2020 SAQA Benefit Auction: Deb’s Dream Collection
See Deb’s Dream Collection of SAQA Benefit Auction Quilts.