Teaching & Learning
I taught and encaustic collage workshop this weekend and because it was a small group I was able to set up a work station and do some creating also! And because it was a small group I decided to share
Inspirational Mini Quilts to Mail: When words are hard to find
About a month ago I shared a series of peace quilts I’d made. With the scraps from the fabric that I had created I made some 5x7 mini quilts that I stitched to card stock and made into mini quilt
What Price ART? My eternal struggle with what is the value of my art….
I have always had trouble assigning a price to my art. I believe strongly that art should be a part of everyone’s life that why long ago I framed the following “the why cheap art manifesto” that my sister gave
Peace Be With You…. continued
In my last post I shared with you some of the pieces I did inspired by the phrase “peace be with you”. As the week went on that became something of a mantra. I kept cutting and stitching and reflecting
PEACE BE WITH YOU
PEACE be with you….peace BE with you….BE peace….peace be with YOU….this phrase with all it’s possible inflections has been rolling around my head since last Sunday when I went to our regular episcopal church service here at The Bishop’s Ranch.
A Bright Idea for a Big Day!
My mom turned 80 last week (I don’t think she’ll mind me telling you) and I wanted to make something special. Over the years I’ve made her all kinds of things for her birthday, paintings, drawings, clothing, quilts, ceramics you
A Quick Show & Tell
When I shared this golden gate fabric with you in my 2/6/15 post I promised I would show you what I made so here’s me keeping my promise! I love my deliciously soft and comfortable cotton knit dress made from
Waning and Waxing
Today I had a rare day to go to my studio and just experiment. I’ve taught quite a few encaustic collage classes over the past couple of years but I have just played with the medium for a while. Today
Our Dyeing Day….we’ve got the blues
I spent the afternoon dyeing, yup nothing really artsy about this day just about making a change, taking something old and making it new. Awhile ago my friend Sonia told me she wanted to dye her wedding dress blue, her
Plein Aire drawing with Twenty-six 1st graders!
I couldn’t pass up a quick post about my morning plein aire drawing with twenty-six first graders today. We walked down to the historic one room school house just down the lane from their school and with clip boards, pencils,