Thank you for following along on my art journey! I appreciate your support throughout the year!
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Creative New Year!
Blessings to you this Christmas
Unique Notecards available!
The Holiday Art Market at Brushwood in Riverwoods was a success! I do have a few sets of notecards left that are for sale. They are a set of 5 cards and envelopes for $20.00. See the images available below:
Here’s how they look bundled! Perfect as a gift, they can be mailed out as they come with envelopes, great for a 1st anniversary (paper), they can be used for any occasion, and they can be framed as is!
You can email me at tammy@tammyhaman.com to order your set today! Just let me know which set you are interested in!
Holiday Art Market
Looking for unique gifts this Christmas for those hard to buy people of your list? Look no further! Stop in at the Brushwood Center at Ryerson in Riverwoods, IL this weekend!
I was accepted as a contributing artist this year! I will be selling notecards of my work. After this weekend, I will be posting more notecards for sale on my website. Here are a couple of examples:
They are perfect for any occasion and they are blank inside ready and waiting for your personalization!
If you’re in the Riverwoods area this weekend, December 7th & 8th, stop in to see all the goodies!
| NATURE-INSPIRED HOLIDAY ART MARKET December 7th & 8th Shop local for all your holiday gifts this year at our third Annual Nature-Inspired Holiday Art Market! Enjoy some hot cocoa and listen to carols in the welcoming historic Brushwood home while you shop for unique art, handmade gifts, cards and prints from over 50 local artists and makers. Come support local artists this holiday shopping season, and be sure to check out the full schedule of events below: |
| SCHEDULE Saturday: Open 9 a .m. – 5 p.m. 9:30-11 a.m. Drag Queen Children’s Story Hour with Mother Nature 1:00 p.m. BASE UpCycling Championship Kick Off 1:30 – 4:45 p.m. Live UpCycling Competition 4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Judging and Award Ceremony Sunday: Open 12-4 p.m. 1-2:30 p .m. Mindful Merriment: A Guide to Holiday Eating 1-3 p.m. Botanical Art Demonstration by Heeyoung Kim |
Feeling Blessed this Thanksgiving!
The month of November is a wonderful time to look back over the year and feel grateful for all the wonderful things happening! My Blessed Beyond Measure project is completed. I had the opportunity to hand out 50 pieces of encaustic art to family and friends!
They got to keep one and they get to give one away to someone who has blessed them! I’ve already had one comment from a grateful recipient and it feels wonderful to pass the blessings around!
While everything isn’t always perfect, I hope you all can take some time over this weekend to be grateful for all the blessings in your life, big and small!
Thanks for going with me on this journey! Happy Thanksgiving!
Fun Mixed Media techniques in Encaustics and Transfers (with a little gold leaf)
Here’s my last video in my Birthday Blessings series! Hope you have enjoyed getting a sneak peak into my process!
36th Annual Juried Art Show
This year marks the 36th Annual Juried Art Show for the Artists’ Association of Elk Grove Village. I am so honored to be the Exhibit Chairman of this event! The show began at the beginning of October where 91 pieces of art were displayed in the Elk Grove Public Library and a professional watercolor artists was brought in to do the judging.
We also had 5 businesses that Promised to Purchase a Painting. They come in during that first weekend of the show and choose the paintings they would like to purchase in their price range.
All together, there is over $3,000 going out in prize money and sales!
This show is open to non-members as well for an additional fee, so if you would like to participate next year, send me a message and I’ll add you to the list!
The winning paintings are on display at the library for the remainder of the month of October. If you would like to take a look at some fabulous art, stop by during regular library hours, and if the large meeting room is open, go on in! It’s fun to see what the judge chose and compare it to what you would have chose!
I had a painting in the show that won an Award of Excellence ribbon and that same painting was sold to Dr. McShane from Medical Dental Associates in Elk Grove. Here’s a photo of the painting with me and my mother-in-law!
I really enjoy putting this show together and so excited to receive an award on top of it! It is wonderful having so much support from my family and the other artists in our guild!
Your last chance to see the artwork is Sunday, October 26th. The show comes down around 3pm. In the meantime, be creative!
Fun Mixed Media Techniques with Encaustics and Texture
Onto our next week with the Birthday Blessings Project! This video shows how to add layers of wax, how to scrape away layers, and how to make indentions in the wax and then fill it with R&F pigment sticks. So fun!
Fun Mixed Media Techniques: Encaustics and Alcohol Inks
This week we are experimenting with adding color to encaustics using alcohol inks. This is my favorite technique!! Let me know if you try it!
Fun Mixed Media Techniques: Encaustics with Pan Pastels & Mica Powders
It is week 3 and time for another encaustic technique video! This one will explore using pan pastels and mica powders to add color to the encaustic layer. The pan pastels that I used are tints which means that they are all pastels. Pan pastels also come in full saturated colors and metallics.
The mica powders are from USArtquest. They are a small business located in Michigan and online. The mica powders come in a wide variety of colors and have many uses.
Enjoy this video!
Fun Mixed Media Techniques Painting with Encaustics & Collage
Welcome back to week 2 of the Blessings Project! This week I’ll be showing you how to start your encaustic pieces. This video will demonstrate the first 3-4 layers of encaustic medium and fusing but the remainder pieces I will complete offline and then just work on different techniques on each piece.
Collage using music paper and red tissue paper will be shown.
Let me know if you have any questions on any of the techniques!