Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
What a Great Weekend!
We had a great weekend with eight women joining us for classes, food, laughs and a few tears.
We worked with paper clay, paints, wire, cloth, old yarn spools, trims, ribbons, yarn, glue, needles and threads...
Paper Clay Bird
Elizabeth's Stamped Face
Kathi's Head
Kathy's Gypsy
Sandi's Shoulder
Loretta's Mermaid
Anne Holliday
Stephanie Suskin
Hil and Miss Linda Willis - Stitcher Extraordinaire
xxxxxx
Monday, January 9, 2012
Preparing For our Figure Extravaganza!
Started with crunched up newspaper wrapped in paper tape.
Then added a layer of plaster gauze.
Paperclay was used to create the facial features and then painted with acrylics.
Working on a bird that will sit on her head!!!
Check out the latest Cloth Paper Scissors...my sis Allison has a great article! As you can see from the picture below, she is clearly very excited about the exposure!!!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Dec Has Flown By!!
If I sneak in a quick blog post, I will have managed to say something this fine month of December! Loved that it was soo warm here in the Northeast!!!
The Studio Sale was great with visits from friends and new faces, sharing holiday goodies with the locals! With that big event over, Sue and I headed for Florida to visit the Stilwell sisters...all four together for the first time in eight years!! Took lots of presents to pass around!
Midge and Al have been working on their Florida gardens, shifting the plantings to local shrubs and flowers. It was remarkable to see the number of butterflies that danced around their front yard enjoying the plantings. It was like a little paradise with the butterflies, caterpillars and chrysalis doing their respective jobs. We had been watching the chrysalis pictured below, hanging onto a twig outside of the front door...and voila!! there is miss monarch!
It was great to see everyone and I helped Midge and Allison with a few jobs as they prepare for their March show at the Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery. Opening March 17th if you are in the Orlando area!!
Also made a pile of screens that I am happy to say are all taped and ready to use!
Also made a pile of screens that I am happy to say are all taped and ready to use!
Back in Little Rhody Sue was dealing with a chicken slaughter....
something got one of our new girlz, and the following morning the five older girlz were dead. The night I got home from Florida a possum got the second bunny. Thank goodness things have calmed down and the girlz are out eating bugs.
Helped our buddy Rick move into his new house.
The holidays have come and gone in a rather relaxing manner for us!
Visited with friends.
Chowed with the family. Did I take one picture? No.....
Working in the studio...getting samples together for our Jan workshop.
Happy New Year to all and hope that folks can find serenity from day to day!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
California!
It seems so far away already, but in September Linda Willis and I took a great trip to Petaluma, California for the premier of the West Coast version of Art is You and couple of added on days for visiting old friends! The venue (Sheraton) was great and of course the fact that we got to meet new peeps and see some long lost buddies was the best! Among an inspiring array:
Ricë Freeman-Zachery and her amazing husband Earl!
Was feeling inspired by the work that was flying around the hotel. Loved Petaluma and thank you Julie Panusis for taking us around town!!!
Got to visit friends in Joan and Pietro Parravano in Half Moon Bay (where I spent many years). The weather was unusually warm for the northern coast of California and I loved the Giants game, picnic on the beach, relaxing sauna, the most excellent food and the time to just chat! Thank you!!
And Leo, Great to see you!
Finished up the journey with MT Silvia, former girlfriend and maker of the film "Atomic Mom"! We had a wonderful dinner with her best girlz some of whom I hadn't seen in 25 years. A talented and very funny group of women!! Got to sleep under the quilt I made her in 1985!
On my to the airport in Oakland, I check out the Institute Of Mosaic Art. (Thanks for the tip Katherine) It is a building in a mixed use part of Oakland that is filled with wonderful finished pieces and many ongoing works, such as the bathrooms. As you can see the outside of the building beautifully reflects the good works.
I missed my baby and was glad to get back to the East coast to see Sue and prepare for the Danbury Art Is!!
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