Our first day together in Concertina Sketchbook at Naperville Art League. Sample set out and supplies too. Working on large sheets of buff colored papers we use this technique. India. Ink, with a long stick and feather on the end was used mostly but ...
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  1. Last few weeks in class, Naperville Art League
  2. In our neighborhood
  3. Another new course ready
  4. Press Pause
  5. Wild Stuff to Think about
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Last few weeks in class, Naperville Art League


Our first day together in Concertina Sketchbook at Naperville Art League. Sample set out and supplies too.  Working on large sheets of buff colored papers we use this technique.
India
 Ink, with a long stick and feather on the end was used mostly but other shapes came in with stamping.  





These larger mixed media papers start with a Kraft Grocery bag and sometime I use just Kraft shipping paper or a lunch bag.  A bit of Gesso to start building up the layers then the fun begins....There is a point when we all don't know what we are doing but we are loosing up some and explore the surface then something happens and we really do know what we are doing and feel pretty successful. 
This sheet and the solid will be used for the concertina book covers and the inside through the folded pages. 




Measuring the large paper to fit the book board to begin the process of making the cover. 




Here the students are working on the long folded pages and adding color over the india ink areas and allowing for inspiration and creative nudges to guide the process. 



 

   

In our neighborhood





I have two Elderberry bushes growing in my own back yard, but there was enough to work with.  The berries are so small and packed with such great stuff.  But I made two batches one had more water involved then the other.  All I know is when I felt like a cold was coming on,  I took about 4 tablespoon of the elderberry syrup all day and by the next day I didn't have a cold.   Not saying it's a miracle medicine but its very close.   Preparing for the winter months.  





 

   

Another new course ready


 Head here,
Coptic Stitch Bookbinding at Lonecrow Studio 

   

Press Pause


 This morning I set outside under the metal gazebo, checking my emails and the to do list for the day. 

I get up early in the morning to do my pages and listen to the awakening sounds.  The cardinal starts off then it's the robin and the flickers in the large cottonwood tree. Other morning the sounds of the night herons can be heard.  

I pulled this collage up from the files because I do like it.  Gratefully I'm able to share the image as the piece has been sold.  Here is the description

#021020-TDT, "Press Pause” 12 x 12 Collage on Wood Panel, Ready to hang on your wall.

 

Materials Used: Wood panel, Gloss medium, Nevr Dull magazine paper, sanded magazine paper, acrylic paints, Image transfer of Ukrainian words, Image transfer silhouette of a woman in pants suit, waxed book thread sewn through wood panel, wax crayons used for line energy.  glazing with acrylic, sealed with a layer of UV satin varnished.

 

Meaning behind the art: As in many of our lives we are smacked hard with a sudden moment of loss, grief and or death. Are we every prepared for it?  I know my heart would want to hit the pause button, and fast so that I don’t have to really feel what is happening. Love comes in many forms and if you’re in one of these moments, mending our hurt hearts is never a straight shot. The need to press the pause button in our lives so that we can feel means it’s real, our love that is…allow the mending to take whatever path it needs; we will be better for it.


As my own inspiration, I begin the day....I question does the melancholy feed the creative spirit ?  I do know that stronger emotions are the ones of great loss in some form so to pause and feel them and then reveal them as in a piece of artwork is so very memorable. 

   

Wild Stuff to Think about

 

               
 
   

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