Home from Artfest

 It will be hard to describe what a great time I had at Artfest. I will start by saying I had the privilege to teach some of the happiest, artistic, energetic students ever. The first day was Wire and Clay sculpture the students had such wonderful imagination and created their own and unique sculptures that surprised and really pleased me. The second class was Santibelli Saints (Santos) we had a big project to complete in one day but the work that was turned out was outstanding. I will let some of my photos tell the rest of the story.

Thank you to everyone who took my classes and to all the Artfest participants and your infectious energy.

ARTFEST or BUST

Dayna, Steph and I are riding together to Artfest in a few days. We are packing for 9 classes, 3 each and 2 of them I will be teaching so I need to pack enough supplies for 25 people x 2. Well that's the excuse we are using to explain why we need to take Howard's, Dayna's husbands utility trailer. And being crazy artist people we couldn't just put half our studio in the trailer and cover it with a tarp...oh no...we decided to...art it up.

We started at 1:00 pm Sunday afternoon...

we had a plan and some rattle cans, those taggers don't have anything on us.

Well maybe they have a bit more practice. It took two of us to hold the stencil and spray. We had a few over sprays and more than one drip but we learned fast and figured out how to fix our mistakes.

I even tried to touch up Dayna's hair for her....what the heck it's the same color.

By now we breathed in quite a bit of paint and were laughing and thinking our handy work was looking pretty darn cool.

I love the colors, it is my palette! But these are my first trailer flames.

Time for the punch line...

5:00 pm same Sunday afternoon and we are done. What a fun day, this is the sort of thing I live for. A few hours laughing with a friend mixed with paint and a little creativity. I could live on that energy for a week.

Watch for us on I-5 next Wednesday, here we come.

What A Week !

It started off well enough ....
A group of us decided to stay together next April 6th - 10th at Artfest so we combined our registration forms and mailed them off. What fun we are going to have! It's not to late for you to go, follow this link to Artfest 2011 and have a look at the classes. I will be teaching two of them, Sculpture: Wire & Clay and Santibelli—Saints , check them out we will learn so many techniques and have fun in the process.
I started some art scarfs for a few shows coming up, I'm using antique sari bits and yarn as well as beautiful batiks. I have made an assortment of colors and can't seem to stop. They all have polka dots, next week I will show you more and tell you the polka dot story.

This is Woody modeling the new scarf. Woody is a 6' drawing doll that moves slowly about my house.

then the week went to H- E- double hockey sticks!!!

I got into Poison Oak and was flattened for more than a week. I have never had it before and thought I was immune, HA. The rash started and with in a few days I was covered, every spot on my body and then my eyes swelled shut. My nurse daughter took me to urgent care where I got a bag of medication. Thank goodness for modern medicine, 8 days later I'm feeling better. Nature I love most of it but now have found the part I don't!

Beautiful little bee on mint.

This paper wasp holds it's ground after I knocked down its handy work.

I'm always amazed at the work these little creatures can do.