2 Day Encaustic Class

Wax and Wine Once Again!

After a wonderful Wax and Wine Weekend in March of this year, I plan to do it again, and this time it's a 2 day event.
Here are some photos of the first event, taken by the lovely Jeanette Reynolds Cullum!

The Foundry Vineyard

Photo transfering

Some work from the talented students

Love these!

Foundry sculpture

Attentive students

I love wax.

Delicious lunch catered by Graze

Beautiful work

Before the mayhem!

One of my favorite sculptures, by Deborah Butterfield

showing a tissue transfer

After class, a wine reception in the lobby

Whew, the end. 
Look for details soon on the new class: 
Wax and Wine Part II will be held in Dayton WA, at the studio of the talented Monica Stobie. 

I'm excited to be offering an encaustic class here in Walla Walla, March 28-31, 2013.

Go here to read all about it!

http://brixspot.com/blog/2012/12/30/wax-art-in-walla-walla/

If you are interesting in attending, go here!

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=P5UUUXBTZE45S

This is the extent of my technological abilities, so I hope it works.  The class is limited to 20 people, so sign up soon!  Leave me your contact info in the Paypal 'instructions to seller' space.

blog vs. website?

I realize I am not a blogger...some may blog daily and I am lucky to blog once a year.  I want to have a place to show my art.  Maybe I need a website.
I look on this blog and see that the text just doesn't show up.  What's up with that?  Will I write all this down and no one see it?
Frustration abounds.  So I tried to set up a wordpress blog site, just as tricky.  I wish I could figure this stuff out.  Maybe it's the cold invading my head that's keeping me from the figuring out part.
Sigh. 
Done.

Liberated My Art!

I participated in a wonderful postcard swap, postcards with lovely art from artists around the world.  Organized by Kat Sloma, you send her 6 postcards of your art, not original work, but I used MOO, so they look fantastic, I love MOO...but I digress...
I have seen 3 of my postcards posted on the FB site, but can't for the life of me remember what the other 2 cards were!  I had 20 images made, and picked them at random.  Was it a nest?  An abstract?  If you received my card, let me know!!

I received some wonderful cards!!

 Ok...tip your head to the right...I tried several times, even saving changes to the rotated photo, and it still comes out sideways.

The wheat field, Shannon Joyce; Dirty Martini, Jill Hejl; Beautiful bowls, Jen Erbe, jennifererbe.wordpress.com; Vase of flowers, Tangerine Meg, www.tangerinemeg.com; Tulips, Dotti Romejart, www.focusingonlifegrp.blogspot.com; Hydrangeas, Kat Sloma, www.kateyestudio.com.

 

This has been quite fun, and I can't wait to do it again next year!!

 

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Art vs. Flowers

I am an artist.  That's getting easier to believe. 
I taught encaustic painting for the first time this summer.
I'll be selling my art at the Best of the NW Art and Fine Craft Show in Seattle in Nov.
I have been able to participate in Friday's On First, part of the WW Art Walk.  It's been so wonderful to meet people who don't know what encaustic art is, and this month I did a demo!  That brought many more people to watch and ask questions.
Now, to ponder the title, Art vs. Flowers...
I leave tomorrow for Seattle again to play with beautiful flowers, something I still enjoy, it is a form of art, is it not?...but I need to focus on my encaustic art, and that leads me to wonder if I should continue being a florist.

Or...I should start doing encaustics paintings of flowers.  Would that satisfy me?

IEA

Ta da.
Happy to have had one of my encaustic pieces chosen for the IEA Conference that concluded this last weekend.

I was a wreck getting it shipped, such a silly procrastinator!  But it arrived, and a couple dear friends posted my art hanging on the wall of the gallery.  That feels FANTASTIC!
I didn't win any awards, though am still wondering if my piece sold?...

Up and away I go, again

Once again it's time for the trek to Seattle to earn enough money to buy dog treats for my doodles.  I will miss them all so much, Lilybutter will hold down the fort, Larry will stress about what to have for dinner (I have made his favorite, it should last a week, then he's on his own) and the doodles will destroy the house playing.  I usually chat about the flowers, and the job, but this time all I can think about is missing my family.  My wonderful, goofy, loving family...