Moon Flowers

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art, artstronauts club, flowers, moon

I wanted to mention a project that my friends Teesha and Tracy Moore are starting called The Artstronauts Club!

Teesha writes:

It is our goal to have this meeting place that continually has new sources of inspiration in the form of online workshops, interesting videos, relevant articles and how-to’s, downloadable art and art supplies (like collage sheets, patterns, wrapping paper, etc.), tips on new art supplies and books, random quirky stuff and a forum to share ideas and your own art.  We will delve into anything and everything that enhances your creative life.

She and Tracy will be the editors of this new subscription based site, but they have a huge network of teachers, artists, musicians, and other creatives that will contribute work to the site (including me!).

I haven’t had time this month to contribute yet (STILL working on the launch of the next “Year of…” class — sorry to make you wait!), but I did quickly create these moon flowers just for fun. Here are some details:

(They are scanned twigs, digitally manipulated, and collage)
Congratulations Teesha and Tracy — the site is wonderful and rich — and I hope you will consider peeking in and joining the fun!

Flower Crazy Class Starting Next Week

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drawing flower class, drawing flowers, flower crazy, flower drawing, flower drawing class, flowers, online art class, online art classes, painting flowers, spring art classes

A quick advertisement about the “Flower Crazy” painting class that starts next Monday (March 4th). Five weeks of watercolor, gesso, and mixed-media tips. The class produced the most beautiful work last year! Check some of it out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1910487@N25/

And here’s a little 15-second video:

I hope you can join us!

A Busy Weekend!

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collage, flower collage, flower painting, flower power, flowers

Friday night: Went to the Seattle Lutheran High School production of “Don’t Drink the Water” by Woody Allen. Funny! (Wes played the priest, who also happens to be an amateur magician.)

Saturday: Track Meet. Then, played tennis with my daughter-in-law for the first time in ten (?) years? I loved it. But… I’m SO sore today!

Sunday: Had a live “Flower Power” work session at the studio. Lots of fun and lots of great art by the women who came… yay! We worked on paintings with collage as our beginnings; the piece above was one of the demo pieces.

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And I have a busy week ahead. Busy = Good. I am grateful!

😀

More Scanned Flowers

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blossoms, flowers, petals, scanned flowers, scanning flowers, scanning plants

More scanned flower experiments from last week.

These days I’m not drawing or painting as much or, if I am, it’s for the Flowers class….

There’s always so much to do, isn’t there?

I hope you are enjoying your day!

Scanned Flower Petals

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flowers, scanned flowers, scanned petals, scanning plants, scans

FLOWER CRaZy “Live” Class in Seattle

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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!

“Flower Crazy” Online Class

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Carla Sonheim, collage, flower, flower crazy, flowers, gesso, online art class, painting flowers, watercolor

Hello! Lately I’ve been FLOWER CRAZY!

I’ve been hosting online classes for almost two years now, and have long wanted to offer a more in-depth painting class, showing the techniques I’ve developed the last 15 years with watercolor, gesso, collage, and other fun stuff… With the flowers emerging these last two months, everything “clicked.” So here we go!

Five-week class begins April 9th. Go HERE to find out more!

Workshop Output

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collage, flowers, Sarajo Frieden, Susy Pilgrim Waters, The Teahouse Studio

Over the weekend I spent two quick days in Berkeley, CA at The Teahouse Studio, at a two-day workshop with the wonderful Susy Pilgrim Waters and Sarajo Frieden…

… paint and paper…

… gel medium, collage bits, and other fun stuff…

… for some reason these temple-churches kept appearing…

… and, of course, the flowers!

I had a great time, and was happy to spend two full days playing with paint and paper, in the company of so many nice people! It’s a really wonderful, warm and friendly venue, so do check it out!

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I’m back at work with a long to-do list, but happy to be home, too. I get to see little Liam tonight!

Odds and Ends

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Artwork, cat, flower, flowers, painting, Paintings

Just checking in on a rainy Monday. A bit slow getting it together this morning afternoon. You?

Guest Post over at Art Camp For Women!

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art camp for women, art camp for women blog, Carla Sonheim, elephant, flower, flowers, guest post, spoonflower, spoonflower designs

Hello!

I have a little guest post over at the Art Camp for Women blog today. I will be teaching two artist books in October… class descriptions will be up soon, but there’s a little preview over there now…

I’m still painting flowers a bit each day and having fun turning them into Spoonflower designs… and I haven’t forgotten that I promised a quick tutorial later in the month!

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!