These past few weeks I have been having some SERIOUS AT & T issues. Our cell phones haven’t been working properly, our internet service has been shoddy, and there have even been slight issues with our land line.  They just recently upgraded their mobile network in our area, but they claim that wouldn’t have affected all of those other systems.  Maybe I just have gremlins.  All I know is that for six weeks I have been building up to The Big Sekrit Project show where I can finally announce what I have been working on with Leslie Herger, Rhomany, Eveline, Connie, and Samantha Kira.  The night I was finally going to make the announcement, my service shuts off entirely.  I am not amused. The last thing AT & T told me was that I had to buy a new modem. I did, so let’s see if that solves the problem.

Because of the technical difficulties, not only was the Big Sekrit Project not revealed, but my discussion with Jeanette Jobson didn’t get to happen either.  I am rescheduling with her and it looks like we might be able to go live on Wednesday evening to make up for the missed show.

The other week, I had the amazing Journal Girl herself, Samantha Kira on The Artistic Biker Live! She told us about her upcoming books and her ongoing workshops and just simply lit up the screen with her presence! Samantha’s advice and workshops center around layers and being true to yourself.  In her honor, I did a page in layers similar to how she starts hers, but then the spray paints and beer bottle caps come out to make this page my own.

You can watch the video of my Journal Girl page on The YouTube, or in the embedded player below:

Be sure and “Tune In” to The Artistic Biker Live! every Thursday night from 7-9p central!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-artistic-biker

Upcoming events on The Artistic Biker Live!:

05AUG2010 We will discuss adding doodles and lettering design elements to your pages and I will speak with Dawn DeVries Sokol author of Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls.

12AUG2010 Stencils, Stamps & Bows as we talk with Paula Phillips, better known as Journal Artista

So tell me, what sort of things do you do to your pages or your work in general that you feel defines it as “YOURS”?

Last week on The Artistic Biker Live!, I interviewed the Journal Girl herself, Samantha Kira.  I think the interviews are going well and with the feed back I’m getting, obviously the majority of you do as well.

I am still struggling with recording and editing the interviews done live during the show.  I have already posted the interviews with Rhomany, Leslie Herger, and Connie Hozvicka.  I still have the WONDERFUL interview I did with Eveline Hussels (Eveline Timeless), and now this one with Samantha, to edit and get online.  My hope is that they will both be finished an online this weekend.

There’s a reason those five interviews are so important to me right now.  The six of us have a Huge project we are working on together. We have kept it VERY hush hush up until now.  I was going to yell it from the rooftops six weeks ago but the others tackled me and taped my mouth shut.  Not necessarily a bad thing as I do tend to ramble.  Anyway, TONIGHT I will finally be free to make the announcement of what we’ve been working on and fill you in on all the solid details!  I am VERY excited!

Also tonight on The Artistic Biker Live!, I’ll be interviewing Newfoundland’s Jeanette Jobson of Illustrated Life! Jeanette received a grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council to study the almost lost Japanese art of gyotaku or “Fish Rubbing”.  What a unique technique for my journal! I’ve bought some fish and I’ll be trying out this technique as she fills us in on how she even found out about it. She also suggest that I stamp Boy2 so if the mama turns her head, you never know!

Be sure and tune in tonight, and every Thursday night from 7-9p U.S. central time for The Artistic Biker Live!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-artistic-biker

Two weeks ago on The Artistic Biker Live!, I interviewed Connie Hozvicka of Dirty Footprints Studio.  She has been having some BIG and FEARLESS workshops going on and in honor of our interview and of her great works, I did a journal tribute to BIG and FEARLESSness.

Starting off by gluing an extra manila folder onto the page to create a three panel spread, I gessoed all FOUR sides and allowed it to dry.  Then, I layered some purple and yellow florescent paint with an old credit card.  I cut up a few pages from Wreck This Journal to make panels in the background so I could paint butterflies like Connie’s.  The rest is just straight paint.

Of note in the video, however, is that normally my left hand is just a useless stump meant only for stabilizing material for me to work on with my right hand.  Here, you can see me switching between using the blow dryer and painting left AND right handed.  That is SO far from normal for me that my lover immediately sat up while watching the video, grabbed the remote to rewind and said, “What did you just do!?!?”

You can watch the video on The You Tube, or in the embedded player below:

The interview with Connie was also cut very short due to a thunderstorm knocking out my electricity.  I have battery backup on everything EXCEPT the Wi-Fi router!  I’ll have to remedy that in the future.  Anyhoo, if you would like to see the interview, I have it posted on The You Tube as well, or in the embedded player below:

I have some GREAT interviews lined up so be sure and tune into The Artistic Biker Live! on Thursday nights from 7-9p U.S. Central time.  We have a blast discussing all kinds of art stuff and gossip while I work in my art journal.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-artistic-biker

Tonight on The Artistic Biker Live! I will show you the results of last week’s journal entry done while I interviewed Connie Hozvicka of Dirty Footprints Studios!  At least I TRIED to do that on the webcast…

In my never ending efforts to improve the broadcast, I managed to unplug everything just as the show was beginning.  Somehow that lost the sound driver for the computer.  I also switched out computers just before the show and it turns out the computer I chose doesn’t have enough ram to support the twenty plus programs I run during the show.  Ah, isn’t technology wonderful.

Anyway, tonight I will have the laptop hooked back up so that my interview with the darling Samantha Kira of Journal Girl fame.  She’s a bright and shiny that you’re not going to want to miss so be sure and tune in to see her!

“Tune” in on the Thursday nights from 7-9p U.S. Central time for The Artistic Biker Live!

I’ve been doing interviews for the last few weeks now and recording them.  I’m trying to find the best format to release them as a podcast.  Below in both video and mp3 format, is the interview I did with Klaire Scattergood, better known as Rhomany from Rhomany’s Realm: