New Faeries For The Holiday Season!!

The Winter Solstice Faery Dress, Wings, and Yuletide Wreath Crown are done!  The videos - Part 1 and 2 are published on my vlog - and the paper-sculpted creation has just been shipped out, today, from my Etsy shop!  I am so pleased with the Winter Solstice Faery and I am guessing - whomever she was - she was pleased with this creation; my camera detected a blink when taking these photos for my shop.  I hope she takes the shipping part, well.  Or, I'd better get busy with the December dress and wings - The Moon Faeries.  Schedule posted above.  I hope you will join me in creating a handmade Yuletide tree!!

This All Hallows Eve Faery Dress and Witch's Hat (above) kicked off the start of the Holiday-themed faeries on The Faerie Project  - a playlist of videos on my Youtube channel. 

Printable from Video - Raven and Skull

It's a little early for skeletons - for some - but this skull and raven are part of Craft-A-Review for the book, In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters.  Read my review of theYA novel on Craft-A-Review.

Draw A Raven & Skull

Download FREE printable Raven & Skull by clicking the image, then right clicking and choosing Save Image As.  Rights to this image are owned by Kara Skye at KaraSkyeArt.blogspot.com under *Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution.

Cover Your Ass With Creative Commons

*Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution means that you are able to craft with images determined creative commons by the artist's consent and even sell a limited edition of items you make with it; however, you cannot sell the image, itself, and are not able to commercially reproduce items you make with it.

Art By The Book - Reviews

Do you ever see art books that you simply must have just to find that they were a waste of your time?  I've started a series on my channel called Art by the Book where I show one of the step-by-step exercises from the book on video.  That way, you can see if a featured art book holds the type of art and training you were looking for, and also the difficulty level of the demonstrations.  Usually the claim I try to prove or disprove is in the subtitle.  In my reviews, I try to show if the book lives up to its promise.  Viewers can also get an idea of how much success to expect in a short of an amount of time - sometimes with even the first workbook demonstration.

The truth is, I haven't put any books I don't like on the channel or the blog - I just don't have time to video a book that didn't provide any results that it promised.  I do have one example book on the blog - what I think you can use to try to avoid a frustrating purchase and time spent with a bad workbook. The trick to finding an art book that works for you as a guide - or even  bible - is determining where you are starting and what you need to get where you want to be. The blog is called Art by the Page and my Youtube channel playlist of book reviews is called Art by the Book.  Have a look and find a book - it could be just what your art needed.

New Year a New Attempt to Get Organized

Two new pages, this year, feature vlog channel updates: The Faerie Project and Art Journal.  Art Journal paint alongs were something I established in 2014, and now will have showing on a regular basis, each month, here, a featured art video. 

Here is what you can expect to see each month:

• 5th - Refashion Passion: recycle, upcycle, recreate
• 8th - Art Journal: watercolor, pen, and ink art journal entry
• 14th - The Faerie Project: imaginative faerie realm paper-craft projects
• 20th - Kara Skye Fabric Shop: pillows, wildlife quilts, mixed media art
• 28th - The Faerie Project: a part-two, faerie project video

For more information - and a rockin' reading list to get your creative juices flowing - with all sorts of magical inspiration - see the Faerie Wood Project Page. Check this page for videos and links starting January 2015.  For easier access to videos the minute they are posted, be sure to subscribe!!

Mixed Media Art Journal to Celebrate Day of the Dead!

Day of Dead - Art Journal: Paint a sugar skull.  I painted Frida Kahlo and then sugar skull'd:

Make a Picture E-Book Vlog Series

Let the kids color while you do crafts - find FREE
downloadable color pages from character sketches, HERE.

Wondering what I've been up to in the studio?  It certainly isn't rearranging new furniture!  In fact, I'm so worried about the place that I've been meeting 2 and 3 deadlines per month with projects like entering the Oregon Book Awards and adding Smashwords e-books to my platform.  So, in the middle of all of it, I added a vlog series which shows you what I really do to make an e-book come to life.

Here, a gang of skateboarding owls are sketched out, colored, and given a personality on paper, while I, their author, try to determine just who(oo) Barny, Buddy, Hoot, Sawl, Snowy, and Great Gray are about, what they'd act like, and which skate trick level they'd be at.  Who am I kidding? Owls know all the skate tricks, no risk of falling - or failing.  You can watch them here, SUBSCRIBE HERE if you liked this video for updates to my Youtube Channel.