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Monthly Archives: May 2019

Registration Open for a NEW class with Cori Dantini!

29 Wednesday May 2019

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Mixed-Media Girls with Cori Dantini
6 Lessons – 2 Weeks – $85

You cannot imagine how excited I am to be sharing my own little world of mixed media painting with all of you! By layering vintage paper, we will create a different type of an underpainting, one that will (typically) reveal its own message as you draw and paint. We’ll spend time looking for our own illustrative style of faces/people and will become familiar with using a pen nib and ink as our drawing implement.

We will create a series of mixed-media paintings and will talk mediums, color pushing, line, pattern making and — for our final hurrah — we will use white paint to hold everything together.

Oh! and I almost forgot…  we will discuss the magic of all the layers and how they push and pull each other forward and backward, not to mention all the tiny little written details floating around, which help to create a different kind of story.

It really is a delightful process filled with its own kind of magic. I hope you will join me!

OOx, Cori

For details and to sign up, click HERE!

All Jumped Up

20 Monday May 2019

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I wrote the phrase “all jumped up” in a 2015 journal and now have no idea why… it was under the “ideas” column.

Perhaps I was thinking a that a pogo stick could be “jumped up.” We had one as kids — bouncy, bouncy, bouncy. All jumped up.

Maybe it meant that one of my grandsons had jumped onto a low stool, and therefore was all jumped up.

Or perhaps it struck me funny that day for a reason that I can’t now remember.

Or — and this is the honest truth now that I am looking at it more closely — it doesn’t even say “All Jumped Up.” It says “All Jumbled Up,” which totally makes more sense since I am almost always jumbled up.

Wow.

Animal Book Demo + Thank You

15 Wednesday May 2019

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I just got back last night from a 4-night trip to Southern California.

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This was the demo artist book I worked on during a workshop I taught at Jenny Doh’s Crescendoh Studio. Thank you to the 13 wonderful women who attended, to Jenny who hosted me, and to all of you for the fun time!

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I was also able to have a fun dinner with Jenny and Pam Garrison, a downright wonderful person and artist. We laughed continuously throughout our very long dinner….

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And I spent an extra day visiting my step-mom, Laura, who lives in my hometown of Riverside, CA…. We also laughed a lot. 😉

I’m happy to be home and hope you are having a wonderful day, too!

 

 

 

Today is My Birthday

09 Thursday May 2019

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Today is my birthday… 56!

56.

56!!

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This is a little ATC that turned out as kind of a self portrait with my first cat, Snowball.

(This blog is technically called “Snowball Journals” as Snowball was a main character in my first remembered dream, and my blog all these years [quite a lot now, ahem] has in some way functioned as the “working out” of that dream.)

I know I look sad but I’m really not!

A little tired, maybe….

But a “good” tired. I am blessed.

 

The Painting Techniques of Anne Marie Grgich – Registration Now Open!

08 Wednesday May 2019

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The Painting Techniques of Anne Marie Grgich
6 Lessons • 2 Weeks • $85

Class Dates: May 28 – June 6, 2019

Work on six paintings in a fun frenzy using all manner of mixed media with internationally recognized Outsider Artist Anne Marie Grgich as she shares her approach to mixed-media painting. Anne demonstrates that creating expressive portraits is accessible to anyone.

We all have an inner magical child. Letting our intuition guide our shapes and forms is a process that is fun, freeing and creates authentic results. We will do this by working on multiple paintings at one time, using any and all media at hand, as Anne demonstrates her beautiful way of working that is at once both intense and wonderfully casual.

Build, with paint and pens, faces that tell a story, speechless yet full of human emotion.

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About Anne

Born in Portland, Oregon in 1961, Anne Marie Grgich began making spontaneous art at the age of 15, mostly junk constructions and clandestine paintings in her family’s books. She first introduced collage into her work around 1988, but took it to a higher level in 1997 during a period of illness. After her recovery she began to produce collage paintings – images of people encountered over time in the street and in mind journeys that manifest themselves and recombine, according to her mood, in the process of creation. Over the past 30 years, Anne has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, and her books and paintings are in public and private collections worldwide.

Join us for this unique opportunity to learn from Anne online!

Sidewalk Crack Art

06 Monday May 2019

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Animals made from prints of sidewalk cracks. Colored pencil.

 

 

 

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