Lisa Kerpoe

 Post-holiday blues got you down? No motivation or ideas flowing your way? Been away from your art so long, you aren't sure how to ge...

  Many cultures have developed methods for creating cloth that imparts meaning through woven patterns, printed designs and embroidered i...

I've been creating a variety of stencils to use with a blank silkscreen.  I haven't done it in awhile and forgot how much fun it is!...

I've been a member of the Art Cloth Network for four years. I have found that the opportunities for community, conversation, inspiratio...

My heart is aching over the tragedy in Connecticut.  No words can describe what I'm feeling or make the pain go away for those affected...

I've taken this month "off".  Partly because my workload has decreased considerably and partly because I was so busy this fall...

In previous blogs, I wrote about different ways to create dimension on cloth. Today, I'll focus on the use of acrylic medium.  There are...

In Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way, she talks about crazy makers.  These are people who, for a variety of reasons, make you c...

You can still sign up for my online workshop, Visual Texture: Resists from the Pantry, which starts today. It's a great way to try so...

My print paste experiment has been in place for three months. My theory was that the Print Mix from ProChem had additional ingredients that...

Some of my work is created with intent and with a specific meaning in mind. These pieces are generally about something for which I have stro...

I've taken a long vacation from my blog.  I didn't realize how long until I saw the date of my last post.  I took a two week vacatio...

I absent-mindedly left a cup of flour paste resist in my studio yesterday and woke up to 2 cups of a frothy, foaming liquid. This is th...

I'm trying something new this fall - teaching online classes.  I thought about doing so two years ago, but the perfectionist in me asked...

I'm always a bit behind the latest trends.  Needle felting is no exception.  I remember when the needle felting machines became popular ...

Earlier this summer I did a lot of screenprinting with dye and have many pieces in the works.  I finally finished one! It incorporates multi...

Beads add a touch of elegance to cloth.  They shimmer as they catch the light and their subtle shadows add depth. I tend toward minimalism,...