Atelier Ningyo (doll workshop)

Expensive materials take all the pleasure out of art. Buy cheap paint and use lots of it!  It's true that student grade paint lacks pigm...

I started learning to paint in 2012. I use both oil and acrylic but mostly oil. In the beginning, acrylic was easier because it dries fast b...

This post is to help anyone having difficulty learning to live without solvents. Technically water is a solvent, but I am using the term ...

I have made another crucial fitting discovery along this years long journey of botched, ill fitting garments. I felt like I had almost worke...

...or so I thought. Meet the newest member of the family: This is a Viking 6440 ca. 1978. I found it at the local gold mine with manuals...

Here's a neat trick if you have a back clamping 66. A lady in Florida sells locally machined adapters to put on your presser bar that en...

The day I thought would never come has come! The 66 is finished and operational! I can't believe how after 102 years, it's still suc...