I am proud to share a Fantastic Artist and a person I consider a dear friend, Karen Elaine Thomas. Karen lives in an area of Arizona known for it's beauty, which fits her perfectly as a person! She is an inspiration both as an Artist and for her courage of being a cancer survivor. Here's to many more years of success, Karen!
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A Folding Extravaganza
Karen Elaine is an artist, author and
instructor widely known as Karen Elaine Thomas.
Karen combines her experience as a fine
artist with her passion for paper to create unique and distinctive paper
crafting techniques. She has been the creative force for Yasutomo since 1997
and recently created Splash Ink, a color mixing system in which you can create
an infinite amount of colors using only four basic colors.
She is the author of Origami Card Craft
published by Random House as well as several other paper crafting books.
In 2014, Karen developed Kumomi, an art
technique which combines spontaneous painting with meditative drawing as an art
form. She will be teaching Kumomi at Art Unraveled in Phoenix this year.
A place for everything and everything in
its place.
I work in several mediums so it is
necessary to be organized or I will drive myself crazy spending more time
looking for things than actually creating. I usually spend one part of a day
during the week organizing my studio and workspace preparing for upcoming
projects and deadlines. I think of it as a meditation which opens my mind to
more creative thinking while making sure my workspace is always clean and
organized. I take the time to go through art supplies and throw away dried up
pens, paints and glue making a shopping list as I go and I group supplies by
medium and store them in bins with labels making sure they end up back where
they started. I also take inventory and give up what I don’t think I will ever
use. Will I really take up macrame again or polymer clay? If I haven’t used it
in a year, then I give it up to make room for more creativity and peace of
mind.
Fuse Box
Kumomi
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Thank you for sharing with us Karen. Your Origami art is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen!
DeleteI love the Kumomi painting! Thank you for sharing your organizing tips.
ReplyDeleteThank you Tonya!
DeleteKaren, not only is your art wonderful but so are YOU! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and Art with us.
ReplyDeleteKaren, I have admired you for many years, and I remember watching you on The Carol Duvall Show. You Kumomi painting technique is amazing, and I will try to use your organizing ideas to my own good use.
ReplyDeleteI love your fuse box! Beautiful creation!
ReplyDeleteI need to be more organized. I have so much frustration in finding things.... because they don't get put away after I use them. Gotta make some improvements!