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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Artfest 2012

31 Saturday Mar 2012

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art, Artfest, Jesse reno, Marcia Schultz, painting, Port Townsend, Ty Shultz

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!

Marbling with Nail Polish

23 Friday Mar 2012

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art, marbling, Marbling with Nail Polish, nail polish art

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?”

High School Visit

21 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Animals, cats, dogs, elephants, imaginary animals, picasso, picasso cat, wrong-handed drawing, wrong-handed portraits

“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!

Flower Board Books

16 Friday Mar 2012

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flower board book, flower books, flower crazy, gesso, watercolor, watercolor flowers

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!

Click here for details.

😀

(And have a wonderful day!)

P.S. Seattleites: Don’t forget there’s a live class running concurrently! Details here.

Thank you.

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

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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!

 

Swamped

12 Monday Mar 2012

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flower crazy, painted flower, watercolor

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.)

Strange Relative

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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flower crazy, Musings, painted flowers, watercolor

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!

Some Strange Ones

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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flower, painted flowers, painting, watercolor, white ink

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.

FLOWER CRaZy “Live” Class in Seattle

02 Friday Mar 2012

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art class, flowers, painted flowers, painting flowers, seattle art classes

Hello!

(This post is mostly for Seattleites!)

I am opening my studio up for some “LIVE” teaching fun (to coincide with the online Flowers class in April/May).

If you decide to join the live version, you will be signed up for the online class as well, so you can share your work and be inspired by others! Check out the online description for more details and samples.

• Draw, paint and play in my Pioneer Square Studio for five consecutive Sundays from 1-5pm.

• First session starts April 8, 2012 and last session is May 6th. (On sunny days we will meet part of the time OUTSIDE.)

• All supplies provided. (Just show up!)

• Healthy snacks provided.

• Join me?

Cost: $350 Click here to sign up!

It’s Thursday

02 Friday Mar 2012

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Animals, birds, flower crazy, Girls designs, krista peel, Secrets of Parenting: Ramblings of a First-Time Mom

“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” — Douglas Adams

How are you, today?

I spent the day working at home. My son, Wes, was sick.

Now, he’s 16 and perfectly able to care for himself, even when sick, but I must have needed some down time myself because I sure did take a long nap!

Here are some things on my mind:

• The live version of Silly 5 ended this week (so sad!). Thank you to EVERYONE who participated… truly the BEST group of people ever!

• My daughter-in-law, Christi, has started a new blog! It’s called “Secrets of Parenting: Ramblings of a First-Time Mom” and it’s delightful. She is a terrific writer…  funny, too! If you have time, please head on over and leave some blog love! (If it’s been awhile since you’ve had an infant in your home, Christi will take you right back!)

• Krista Peel, an artist friend of mine, has also started a new blog! Krista rocks in just about every way, I love this woman. She’s interested in architecture, miniatures, and combining the two (along with “rocks, color, light, art, space, design and magic”). Check hers out here!

• I am in need of new music, and I would LOVE some suggestions from you! I like just about everything except “hard rock,” which can mean many things, but I’m sure you know what I mean.  (Steve shakes his head whenever I call one of his songs “hard rock” as he so very cheerfully changes the song….)

• Filming the videos for Flower Crazy starts next week, and you KNOW how much I love being in front of the camera!

• When it rains, it pours! I’ve been so blessed with work lately… and today got word from my agent that some of my Girls designs have been picked up to be published as prints. Yay!

• I spent a few hours with Liam this morning. He’s five months old and truly a joy! He’s so cute I can’t take my eyes off of him whenever I’m around him, not even to pull out the camera. I promise I will, though, next time.

• Goodbye!

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