Inside Autumn 2000

Here are just a few of the wonderful articles
from inside the September/October 2000 issue of
Somerset Studio®

Creating With Lazertran

Creating with Lazertran Lazertran is a "water slide paper" or decal that allows the artist to transfer black-and-white or full-color images onto almost any surface, including paper, canvas, ceramics, glass, sheet metal, plaster, wood, and vacuum forming plastics. It's capable of faithfully taking on the most detailed and vibrant images that color copiers can transfer onto it. Artist Robin Schoenfeld shows you how to use this unique art material in your next project....

Stamping With Friendly Plastic

While experimenting with friendly plastic recently, Carolyn Waitt found that–thanks to rubber stamps–it is indeed a "friendly" material for artists and crafters. It's great for stamping (takes a clear imprint) and makes an inexpensive medium for jewelry making, collage, or art objects to be sold at holiday fairs and boutiques. Friendly plastic is easy to handle and has a wonderfully soft metallic effect....

Here are just a few of the wonderful articles from inside the September/October 2000 issue of Somerset Studio®
	Art In The Round While Australian artist Heather Crossley was organising her computer software CDs, one day she came across several unneeded ones. It suddenly dawned on the artist that it would be interesting to create her artwork on them. CDs are light, easy to mount, and can be decorated in a multitude of ways with rubber art stamps and collage technique....
Creating With Lazertran Creating with Lazertran Lazertran is a "water slide paper" or decal that allows the artist to transfer black-and-white or full-color images onto almost any surface, including paper, canvas, ceramics, glass, sheet metal, plaster, wood, and vacuum forming plastics. It's capable of faithfully taking on the most detailed and vibrant images that color copiers can transfer onto it. Artist Robin Schoenfeld shows you how to use this unique art material in your next project....
	Easy, Elegant Holiday Cards Few people will ever understand (or even believe) how much work and time goes into crafting elegant holiday greeting cards. Some artists spend an hour or even longer creating a single card. During the hectic holiday season, we simply cannot do that. Yet, the holidays present the perfect opportunity to show off our stamping and crafting skills. Are there any solutions to this predicament? Yes! The author calls them easy, elegant holiday cards. Lea Everse asked several artist friends to make some quick-and-easy holiday cards to share with our readers. Each card can be made in 15 minutes or less. They are easy because they are simple in construction. And they are elegant because they are beautifully designed and creatively executed....
Stamping With Friendly Plastic While experimenting with friendly plastic recently, Carolyn Waitt found that–thanks to rubber stamps–it is indeed a "friendly" material for artists and crafters. It's great for stamping (takes a clear imprint) and makes an inexpensive medium for jewelry making, collage, or art objects to be sold at holiday fairs and boutiques. Friendly plastic is easy to handle and has a wonderfully soft metallic effect....
	Artist Portfolio: Nina Bagley Nina Bagley is a fairly recent contributor to Somerset Studio, but her artwork has already graced the covers of three issues. Her very first submission, a decoupaged cigar box that enclosed a handmade book and other items, landed on the cover of the November/December 1999 issue. Her second submission was meant for the Storyteller page in the Treasures of the Pharaohs (March/April 2000) issue, but it was also featured on the cover. I think that's when I knew that we had to feature Nina as a portfolio artist sometime before the end of 2000. For one thing, I was dying to see more of her artwork myself. I wanted to know how she came up with these sublime narrative art pieces, and I was sure our readers felt the same. The result? Once again, Nina's artwork graces the cover of another issue....