I spent part of Monday afternoon at the Seattle Arboretum.
Aren’t magnolia trees beautiful?
Flowers are the best.
Oh dear. I accidentally published a post of text that was just being copied and pasted. I deleted the post from the blog, but I know it went directly into many of your email boxes, and I apologize for any confusion!
While I’m here… a quick hello!
Cheers!
Hello! I’m here in Port Townsend, WA being a student at the Artfest retreat… I’m taking Jesse Reno for two days and here’s what I had at the end of yesterday:
It changed during today’s session… I do hope it’s better, but I don’t know! Here’s a detail:
Tomorrow I’m sculpting with Ty and Marcia Schultz…
Hope you’re having a great day!
Sometimes I just love how things come together!
The other day I was at the pharmacy and passed a whole row of nail polish. I thought, “Wow, THAT’S something I’ll never buy again.”
Then yesterday I saw this video tutorial via a link found on Pinterest, and I thought, “Hey, I can do this with paper!”
And then I went back to the pharmacy and was asked, “Credit or debit?”
“Picasso Cat” by Tori.
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Hello!
I spent the morning working with high school students making “Picasso” dogs, cats, and elephants, wrong-handed portraits, exquisite corpse imaginary animals, and silly haiku.
Wes is a Junior, and my oldest son Christer is a history teacher at this school, so it was fun to meet the students that are part of their daily lives. I’m going to be scanning everything in and creating a book that we will then sell as a fundraiser for the school. (I’m thinking perhaps a coloring book!)
Here are a few of their imaginary animals!
“Picasso Elephant” by Keegan.
“Picasso Elephant” by Margaret.
Exquisite Corpse Imaginary Creatures by Michelle and Jeffrey; Angel and Jared; Lanee and Alema.
Fun!
A quick plug for my Flower Crazy class starting in just about three weeks!
It’s a 5-week online class, where we’ll work with watercolor, gesso, and all kinds of other fun stuff to create your own unique garden of abstracted flowers…
… ending just in time for the REAL flowers in May!
Bonus: During the last week we’ll do floral artist books using repurposed children’s board books!
(And have a wonderful day!)
P.S. Seattleites: Don’t forget there’s a live class running concurrently! Details here.
Can I just say that you guys are the best?!
Thank you for all of the encouraging comments on Monday’s post. I feel so much better now (I took a nap on that day, that helped a bit, and then I moved the small mountain that was on my desk yesterday, that helped a lot).
Thank you!
Watercolor, marker on paper (unfinished)
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Hello! I just wanted to check in and say hello. I’m suddenly swamped and I don’t know how I got here. I’m all worked up and stressed about it… I need to calm down!
Perhaps you can help!
Can you leave a comment and tell me to just chill out?
(I hope you’re having a calmer Monday.)
According to my teenaged son, I’m old.
And since his definition of old is “anyone over 30,” I bet you’re old, too!
I can’t remember why Old People came up this morning while driving to school, but we did. It was something along the lines of we “shouldn’t be allowed to text” (but that might have been last week’s rant).
I think it’s so wonderful that God made teenagers to point out that we are old on a regular basis. Otherwise, I might not remember!
This is one of those pieces that looks better to me scanned and online than it does in person! Watercolor, marker, pencil, white ink, on paper.
