Artsyletters

05/29/2026

America's 250th is this summer! Here's a new bookmark set to help you get your semiquincentennial celebration on. Both feature vintage eagle illustration images and original art including gel plate prints. The “250” was originally stamped from antique classroom rubber stamps. The “We the People” celebrates the US Constitution (1787) with a stenciled image and a copy of the actual Constitution in the background. Click here to see in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4513178037/america-250th-anniversary-bookmarks-set

05/21/2026

Had to get my medieval on for this last piece I made for Catherine Rains’s “Collage Joy” online workshop series this spring. The course was such great fun! This is an 8X8 collage on a cradled wood panel.
© Robyn Hood Black

05/19/2026

A 6X6 cools & neutrals collage and an 8X8 one with warms & neutrals. Catherine Rains's Collage Joy series has been great fun this spring. 🎨 (I always veer a little off-script with the projects....)

05/02/2026

Fun "Glue and Go" collage session today with Catherine Rains as part of her online Collage Joy series this spring; this fast-paced exercise is great for those of us who, ahem, might "overthink" a bit....;0)

04/24/2026

Happy Poetry Friday! The last of my weekly videos on "Poetry and Art" for National Poetry Month is up and running over at my author blog. This week's word/theme is LIBERTY. Thanks for your patience as I've been testing the waters with this project; I'll be launching bite-sized versions with a similar twist through artsyletters® in a bit. Here's the video of how I made the journal cover:

Poetry and Art Week 4 RHB Liberty Journal

04/17/2026

Happy International Haiku Poetry Day! I've got Week 3 of my "Poetry and Art" series at my robynhoodblack.com blog with a link to the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB7G2-armho

Poetry and Art Week 3 RHB 2026

04/16/2026

Such a wonderful weekend with Lynne Perrella and seven other attendees at the "Spirit Messengers" mixed media art retreat in Wi******er, Tennessee. I borrowed a bunch of stencils from Lynne to use on this Bristol board triptych featuring several (copies of) antique and vintage images/manuscripts I brought. Deepest thanks to Lynne for such a soul-nourishing weekend!

04/10/2026

"Episode Two" of my Poetry Month project at my author blog... this week, exploring "story" with a wonderful poem by Tabatha Yeatts and a collage using fun antique elements.
https://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog/posts/47688

04/04/2026

AND… a journal celebrating the word “AND,” inspired by a poem by Patricia J. Franz. Vintage elements are from the early & mid-1900s.

04/04/2026

Some journal making for Poetry Month! Inspired by “Ode to AND” from fellow Poetry-Fridayer Patricia J. Franz.