MarauderCon 2007

Congratulations to Jason Eaton for taking Best in Sci-Fi at the Baltimore/Washington IPMS MarauderCon. Jason also won a gold medal for his Maschinen Krieger Falke (Best Sci-Fi vehicle) and a gold medal for his Maschinen Krieger Luna Pawn/Großerhund, shown below.

For more photos, visit http://www.jasoneaton.com/.

Altered Curiosities

Jane Wynn's book, Altered Curiosities, will be available in stores and online tomorrow, September 20.

Jane is a mixed-media artist from Baltimore, Maryland. You can find her work for sale on Etsy. Jane was featured on HG Tv's That's Clever, interviewed on HeartsART, and contributed to many books and magazine articles. She taught at Towson University and has led workshops for Art & Soul in Oregon and Artfest in Washington.

Here's Amazon's book description:

Featuring techniques for assemblage and surface alterations never before seen in a mixed-media art book (kit-bashing, wiring, egg-shell texture, casting and more), Altered Curiosities offers a new twist on a hot topic.

A fresh variety of projects (such as hair barrettes, jewelry, a drawer pull and a bird feeder) prove that artistic assemblage and collage styles can be expressed beyond wall art.
Readers will learn a new storytelling approach to their mixed-media art. Altered Curiosities goes beyond construction techniques to help readers discover how to create a personal narrative with objects and visually tell a story, not just infuse a piece with meaning or symbolism.

Two very important things make this book stand out from the crowd of other collage, mixed-media and assemblage titles: the projects (full of oddities and the unexpected) and the techniques--several of which have never been published before. A common element of Jane Wynn's style is to find an object, break it and put it together again (sometimes more than once), and she loves using anthropomorphic associations to tell stories in her projects. Step by step, readers will learn her unique method and her sought-after techniques. Along with surface alterations (faux-aging, patinas and the use of unusual household products) Altered Curiosities teaches metal etching with rubber stamps, simple wiring to create dramatic lighting, instruction for altering simple toy figures (making two-headed animals, for instance) and more.

Interested in learning more about Jane? See her...

• Website
• Xanga Blog
• Typepad Blog
• Etsy Store
• Book!