This is such a great tutorial on how to paint spotted eggs with gouache perfect for fall:
Click on the image and enlarge to read the full how-to on painting a natural looking spotted egg.
This great tutorial is from the new book:
Vintage Collage Journals
Journaling with Antique Ephemera
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Vintage Collage Journals is the sequel to artist Maryjo Koch's Vintage Collage-Works, her first book illustrating her unique style of collage art with antique ephemera. In her new book, Koch has compiled an inspiring portfolio of her many themed journals combining collage techniques with watercolor painting and other artist's techniques. She explores the collage medium in travel journals, recipe keepsake books, and nature and garden sketchbooks.
As an avid collector of antique paper ephemera, Koch utilizes the things she collects in inventive ways to add personal touches to her journals, mingling them with photos, sketches, and paintings of the many themes she explores. Along the way, she also shows how the act of making a journal can be a valuable way to explore an experience or subject in greater depth.
Maryjo Koch is a popular and highly regarded naturalist painter and collage artist who has authored and illustrated over a dozen books including the best-selling Bird Egg Feather Nest. She began teaching nature painting at both the California Academy of Sciences and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and now conducts painting and collage workshops at her studio near Santa Cruz, California.
Her work has been exhibited in natural history museums nationwide, and her paintings and prints are sold in galleries and specialty shops throughout the United States and Japan. Maryjo's artwork has been featured on fine housewares products and on gifts and stationary by retailers such as Chronicle Books, Marcel Schurman Fine Papers, Smith & Hawken, and The Republic of Tea, and The Nature Company. Work by Maryjo Koch can be seen on their website: www.kochstudios.com
OK, those have got to be some of the coolest painted eggs I have ever seen.
Posted by: Telemark | October 06, 2009 at 01:20 PM
Gorgeous book! I love Maryjo Koch's work!! Thanks for sharing this!!
Posted by: Barbara Hagerty | October 06, 2009 at 08:16 PM