Category: art
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It’s slow going, mainly because my life and house is messy right now, but I only have about three inches left to weave on “98% Water.” My new-to-me Shannock tapestry loom is still sealed in the shipping box, because I don’t have a place to put it with our belongings scattered about in boxes. Most…
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As with the other class, I was so completely engrossed in Sharon Payne Bolton’s Far East class that I didn’t get many process photos. However, I took a lot of photos of her books and my classmates’ books for inspiration and they are on my Flickr page. The photo above is of the front cover…
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Roxanne took this photo of me on the second day of our class, when we went on a field trip to Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California. The task before us was to sketch and take photos of the many unusual sculpture gardens on site, and I went a little crazy on the photos. In this…
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Tuesday, September 23 was a traveling day for Sandy and me, but we took off in different directions. He went home to Greensboro, NC, while I headed further west to Art-is-You Petaluma, a retreat that I also attended in 2012 and enjoyed so very, very much. On the way there I flew over Utah, which…
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On our second day in Colorado, Cherie, Sandy and I went to explore the Santa Fe St. art district in Denver. I was itching to spend some time at the Abecedarian Gallery, which specializes in book arts. To my surprise, their current exhibition was of my favorite book artist, Daniel Essig, and his wife, Vicki…
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This sunset greeted us when we left the Denver airport on Thursday. It turned out that all the sunsets were beautiful. On Friday, Cherie, Aunt DeLaine, Sandy and I went to the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the Denver Botanical Gardens. It would have been a great visit even without the art, but the Chihuly glass…
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Almost there. Maybe by the end of September? I had forgotten about my community garden plot. It was bursting with flowers and the red amaranth had gone to seed. The green cotton is still struggling (planted too closely) but blooming. Maybe I’ll get some bolls this year if it doesn’t turn cold suddenly. Lots of…
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I don’t usually take photos from airplane windows, but I couldn’t resist this time. What beautiful compositions! Those are sand dunes ^^^
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Wednesday, August 27, our last day at Cannon Beach… The famous Haystack Rock. Not nearly as crowded as an August day on our beaches here. At Wave Crest Inn Shirley’s little tapestry Flowers around Pam’s cabin Pam drove Linda and I back to Portland where we stayed at the fabulous Lion and the Rose Victorian…
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Tuesday, August 26, morning low tide in Cannon Beach, Oregon Pam helps me with the finishing touches on my wee tapestry, “Laurie Meets the Pacific” or “Saint Feet.” Linda Weghorst’s small tapestry
slowly she turned 