Hello! I just bought my ticket to go to Las Vegas in February for the Art and Soul retreat. http://www.artandsoulretreat.com/index.html Sally Jo and I have been to 3 Art and Soul retreats now and they have all been such a great learning opportunity. We have been to 2 in Portland, and 1 last year in Las Vegas where we stayed at the Paris hotel on the strip.
We have participated in the ATC (Artist Trading Cards) exchange each time. This past Oct. in Portland it was a Halloween themed exchange. We worked together, painting, stamping and stitching to get our cards ready: 25 of each kind. We made pumpkin cards with batik fabric sewn on for the pumpkin, leaves and stems. The other set was orange and pink with spider webs sewn on and beads hanging with a little skeleton head on each one. The edges were all stitched and our info was on the back. It actually took quite a long time to complete these - staying up until 2-3am to finish it up the day they were due! Each one was a little bit different. Unique art pieces.
We have participated in the ATC (Artist Trading Cards) exchange each time. This past Oct. in Portland it was a Halloween themed exchange. We worked together, painting, stamping and stitching to get our cards ready: 25 of each kind. We made pumpkin cards with batik fabric sewn on for the pumpkin, leaves and stems. The other set was orange and pink with spider webs sewn on and beads hanging with a little skeleton head on each one. The edges were all stitched and our info was on the back. It actually took quite a long time to complete these - staying up until 2-3am to finish it up the day they were due! Each one was a little bit different. Unique art pieces.
Sally in class making a picture frame that turned out quite nicely.
Here I am working on a mosaic collage that I painted, inked the sides, and painted all the little tiles on. Then you pick little found objects to attach to it. I have an old bulb - perfect shade of turquoise, some old dice, a ringed rock, the head of a dog found in the Willamette or Columbia river by a diver who looks for old lost objects, and a watch makers tin with an old watch face on the front. Still looking for 2 other objects to place on the remaining tiles.
6 comments:
looks like great fun....
Hello! Great that you have started writing your blog. The beginning is very interesting! You have so much to show us - all your work is beautiful!
Regards, Tika
So much beautiful colour! Lovely blog, I will deffo be back to peek into your world again, I hav also added you to my blogroll :)
Glad you made it back home to a nice welcome by your boys :) Thank you so much for coming to the workshop and for a lovely Saturday! It was a treat to meet you. Big hug from sunny Mexico ♥
Oooh! FAbulous cards again! It is such a pleasure to see how you and Sally work together. I hope you both know how lucky you are to have so many shared interests! You're probably the coolest mother-daughter team I've ever seen!
Thank Lulu! We got lucky - the two of us. Its more fun to work with your best friend. Now - we've got our group of 5 to work with - which I just love!
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