T-Shirts!

Hi everyone!

I want to introduce you to my oldest son, Christer. He is the dad of my three grandchildren and a high school teacher (social studies, P.E.) at Seattle Lutheran High School.

During his summer break he has been working on creating an Amazon t-shirt site! I am his first “licensed” artist, and he has created 12 designs… one is our logo, the “hippo frog,” and the other 11 have some of my girls designs!

So if you’re in the market for a t-shirt, please take a look! 😉

He named his company SparkleBearCo. 😀

Thank you for looking!

 

 

 

 

 

How to Give Up Coffee for Good

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I’ve been a coffee drinker for over 20 years, and have tried many times to let it go. But this time I’ve finally done it, and I wanted to share how with you!

It takes just 7 days!

Day 1
Let your “good” coffee run out and use the backup coffee your son Wes bought. Drink a little, gag a little, set aside after just half a cup.

Day 2
Plunge into a really deep depression. One that keeps you in bed most of the day and away from the grocery store. (There is no way I was going to get to the grocery store — you needn’t either.) Contemplate the bad coffee and take an Advil instead.

Day 3
Feel better! And notice that you have only had 1/2 cup of coffee the last two days! Celebrate by going out for breakfast (who are we kidding — lunch) and order iced tea instead of coffee… a little caffeine “bump” to keep the headache away!

Day 4
Dust off your Ben Franklin Tea-Bag Ceramic Jar that your very young granddaughter picked out for you as a special present and retrieve a 2-year-old England Breakfast tea bag. Boil water; have two cups.

Dav 5
Repeat Day 4.

Day 6
Repeat Day 5.

Day 7
Write a blog post sharing your success with the world!!

In-Person Art Retreat in 2020!

Mixed-Media Collage Class Sample

Hi everyone!

I am excited to announce that I am teaching at a NEW (in-person) art retreat next summer! Kathie Vezzani of Bellissima Art Escapes has created Islandwood Art Escape, a 3-day event August 12-16, 2020 in Bainbridge Island, just a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle.

I’ve taught several workshops with Kathie and she is an amazing organizer… I appreciate so much her thoughtful attention to all the details — food, gifts, special events.

I am teaching a one-day Mixed-Media Collage class… here is the formal class description:

Get ready for a full day of mixed-media exploration, techniques and fun! In the morning we’ll make some grid collages, people collages, and moon-paper transparency collages. In the afternoon we will go larger and make a “scraped” animal collage and a more elaborate landscape illustration, complete with sidewalk-crack characters.

We will work with vintage and found papers, hand-painted paper, “moon” paper/transparencies, drawings, photocopies, “tape texture pulls” and more!

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In addition to teaching, I’m also going to be the opening night SPEAKER! 😉

I am also so happy to announce that Lendon Noe and Cori Dantini, two of our online instructors, will also be teaching workshops.

Won’t you come and meet all of us? Click HERE for more information, and thank you to Kathie Vezzani again for the invitation to teach!

IslandWood on Bainbridge Island — our beautiful venue!

Creatively Create Creative Creations

When you create creatively, you practice creativity, and when you practice creativity, it will result in creative creations created creatively.

If you don’t create creatively, you might not (probably will not) get a creative creation.

Put another way, you may not get a creative creation unless you creatively create.

In order to create creatively, one must get creative. Creativity is created by creative moments, creatively created, and result in creations that create and inspire more creativity. 

Without creativity, we would be uncreative.

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Kids Art Week 2019 – FREE!

 

Hi everyone!

Kids Art Week 2019 is now open for registration! The dates are M-F, July 22-26! In the past we’ve had over 5,000 kids and kids-at-heart sign up… please join us for another week of fun art projects!

Every summer we offer a week’s worth of free art classes for kids on their summer break. And while they’re aimed at engaging the imaginations of younger kids, we’ve found that people of all ages and abilities have fun taking them, so feel free to jump in no matter how old you are!

This class is totally free—really! To access it, simply go HERE and click on the Add to Cart button and go through the checkout process. You can then follow this class in your Online Classroom. And if you liked this class, be sure to check out our other free Kids Art Week classes as well as some of our paid offerings.

We hope you enjoy this class. Click HERE to sign up!

Sincerely,

Carla

P.S. This year we have a wonderful Guest Instructor from the Netherlands, illustrator Nelleke Verhoeff!

P.S.S. The theme this year is “sidewalk cracks,” so the first thing you’ll need are some printouts of some cracks! Here is the link for the PDF of the 15 cracks you’ll want to have on hand to choose from this week… just print out on regular computer paper! SWCtearout1KAW

*If you don’t have a printer, don’t want to print or just would love to have as many cracks as you desire easily, I’ve created a book which contains 150 total cracks (10 each of the 15 designs)! The cost for the book is $15.99 and can be found HERE.

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Class Itinerary

Lesson 1 – Sidewalk Cracks!

Lesson 2 – Sidewalk Story Book

Lesson 3 – Sidewalk Crack Collage (with Nelleke!)

Lesson 4 – Find a Bird In It

Lesson 5 – Packing Tape Animals