Turtle
Trax Diary. Page 38
July 15, 2002
Spring and Summer! Page Two
by Lucky Magnolia (Susan Shie)
The photo above is another detail of "Seeds and Weeds."
This is page 2. If you like, go back to page 1 now.
OK,
so we're still talking about the Wash U Print Quilt Turtle Art Camp in
June. Here's a detail shot of the bottm right corner of the first quilt.
It's Jimmy and a moon face, and below the moon face is another little quilted
panel sewn on, that tells that it's Print Quilt #1 out of 16. Actually,
the technical edition is only 16 quilts, but there will also be 3 artist
proofs, also real quilts, which will go to the three women who are doing
the main work on the project. Jimmy and I get 8 quilts, of the 16 quilt
edition!!!
Roxanne is in charge of the project now, since Maryanne has moved on to running Wildwood Press, also of St. Louis. Amanda and a student named Jessie are working with her, as the core of the print workers and sewing team.
I'll be working with Uni Markers and my respirator very often, as I prepare the writing and drawing in black paint on each quilt's panels and then send those to Wash U for quilting. We tried back in 99, to use a lithographic stone to make the diary that I'd written for the first artist's proof. But it didn't come out well, with the ink sitting very faintly on the painted and printed panel. I then proposed that I could make a new hand done diary on each quilt, as they came up, and therefore that the quilts would all have this difference, making them more interesting. They took me up on it!
When I was inking Print Quilt #1, I put my Toasted Cheese Sandwich recipe, in a very long, narrative form, into the book image in the center of the central panel. Since then, I've done #s 2 and 3, which are Guacamole and Meatloaf, respectively. So the official name of each quilt will include its recipe. And I'm thinking of making one of my little xerox books as a cookbook of all these recipes. I think #4, which I'm writing on now, will be either Burritos OR Beer Can Chicken. Hmmmm.
I took this picture early Sat am, June 8, as a working shot of
the unfinished, but almost finished "Print Quilt #1: The Cookbook
/ Hierophant: Toasted Cheese Sandwich." Its central panel is modelled
after the central panel I was making in 99 for "The Cookbook / Hierophant:
Card #5 in The Kitchen Tarot." That piece has different colors from
this editon, but the same images in the central panel. All the outside
panels are entirely different from the Kitchen Tarot piece's outer composition,
which is two St. Quiltas in diary muu muus, holding open the cookbook,
with two Pyrex cups and Marigold the cat. Very different look than this
quilt has.
As I said, this piece is 75"h x 45"w, all
one piece sewn together from 11 fabric panels that are all hand sewn and
beaded over printed plates, hand painting, and hand drawing and writing.
The print panel front fabric is a polyester bridal satin, chosen for its
good uptake of printer's ink. The batting is Polyfil Traditional, and the
backing fabrics are hand dyed cottons from Lunn
Fabrics. This first quilt has side panels backed with donated cottons
from Anne Warren's studio, but the coming quilts will use more and more
of the Lunn hand dyed fabrics. Beads are from Embellishment
Café.
Soon after camp was over, and the Wash U crowd packed up the new
print quilt to take away (a real shock for me, since it wasn't even quite
done, and I may never see that one again!), we got back to normal a bit
around here, having a great Shie Night the next Tuesday evening. Aimee
and Omari came, as well as Julie, Jacob, and my brother Jimmy. Many Tuesday
nights now, it's just us grown ups, but this one was a real reunion.
Omari loves to have his picture taken and then look at it right away! Maybe he thinks all cameras are digital. Here he's mugging in Jimmy's fly fishing straw hat. If you take tons of photos, you get some really foxy ones like this! What a doll, don't you think?
And then, what we've all been waiting for: Pat's YaYas, who first
gathered in Hilton Head last August,
went together to see the YaYas movie! OK, not all of us went, but a good
chunk of us.
Here are Pat Cornelius, my other best friend besides Robin, and our fearless YaYa leader, and Deb Phillips, and Rita Chewning, in front of the movie poster, before the movie. YaYas Darlene and I also attended. We loved the film, and I think Jimmy would enjoy it, too, because he loves period pieces, specific cultural focuses, and old folks who are feisty! This film has it all: flashbacks to the 20s and 30s, oh, and the 50s; specifically central Louisiana setting, very pretty and earthy; AND the feisty old folks are wonderfully feisty! It also helps to have read Rebecca Wells' books about the YaYas. And to have some wine! ;)
Oh, there's a site where you can put in your real name and it gives you a YaYa name. If you don't like the one it gives you, you can either try your nickname or variations thereof, or you can make up your own YaYa name, sez I!!! Last year at Hilton Head we just used names like YaYa Pat, YaYa Susan (ok, they call me Susi, but that's not my fault!), and YaYa Rita. I don't know how this site's little software works, but it always gives you the same name for the same thing you type in. I don't normally surf or play computer games, but this gizmo fascinates me! I didn't have to download the software, but Pat did. Maybe because I'm Mac and she's PC??? Mysteries!
So then it was mid June and time to pack up
the studio and go down to Columbus for the first weekend session of the
2002 Quilt / Surface Design Symposium,
for the first time at the University Plaza Hotel. The symposium was having
its 13th year, having begun in 1990. And this was its fourth location,
having been at the Pontifical College Josephinum for many years in Worthington,
north of Columbus. Then in 2000 it was at Ohio University in Athens, and
last year was at The Fawcett Center in Columbus. I think we all agreed
that The University Plaza was the best location yet, and we want the symposium
to stay there! I've never had such a good time teaching!
The painting above was my donation to the Q/SDS silent auction for next year's scholarship fund. It's one of my Teapot Head series, and I did the writing and drawing over the painted canvas surface, right there at Q/SDS, so it was a "new" piece, "Teapot Head #6", 13.5"h x 8.25"w. I love to write new diary on things and bring them up to date! The painting was all hand brushed with Deka Permanent and Lumiere Pearl and Metallics.
This is the construction the first weekend class students made
from our Lucky Samplers, made in the two day workshop, which had a theme
of recycling, as well as the basic techniques I teach. We all used a very
stitchable old blanket I'd brought, to be our batting (tho I still prefer
Polyfil Traditional batt!), and everyone was encouraged to bring a few
recycled fabrics, whether from clothing or from someone's abandoned fabric
stash. You just have to be very careful, when making art out of recycled
materials, that the supplies are still good. Since I sell my work, I tend
to use new fabrics, fearing problems with older fabrics, especially with
fabrics taken from used clothing. We also recycled jewelry for some beads,
etc, but for the most part, I would say the work was new materials.
This was a wonderful group of students, and being 19 in all, I have to admit I didn't learn many names! I wish they would've stuck around for a full session, like the five day! I always learn all the names pretty fast in a big group with five days to do it in! I think I learned about a third of these, and I didn't get much time to take pictures either. Wah!
While I was teaching that first session at Q/SDS, Jimmy stayed
home, getting ready for his big trip to Grayling, MI, where he'd be hanging
out with the bamboo rod makers and other fly fishermen, all gathered together
for the big Makers Rod Raffle 2002. Jimmy had made and donated the rod
case this year, for their charity raffle, and he was trying to get a couple
of flasks made up to sell, even
though he usually only works on custom orders. (He did make two, and they
were sold as soon as he got out of his car in Grayling!)
The salmon fly he tooled and painted, in the detail shot above, is on the front of one of the flasks he finished in time for the trip. And after making up those flasks, he was gone for six days in Michigan! Our friends Kate and Luis Arango took me to Columbus the next Sunday, so I could get our stuff set up at Q/SDS, for our second session, five day class, the last of four class sessions. Jimmy arrived from Michigan, via Wooster, after midnight, the night before we started teaching again! He'd had a great time in Grayling, and came back full of stories of friends, old and new.
By the time I saw him again that night, I'd had time to finish
the rather large sampler I'd begun in the pre-session two day class, which
was a Father's Day present from me to him, called "Fish Fry",
7"h x 6.5"w. I had made it, one step ahead of the students, like
usual, showing all the Lucky methods, including the shisha mirror and my
quilted holes.
The skillet in the piece is from bridal satin, cut from a bridesmaid dress I'd bought used, and it had been worn only once. Since I am the Skillet Doctor of WIMMINS (Women's International Mega-Medicinal Institute of Neuro Skilletology), I had to state on the piece that Jimmy should not be whacked on the head with a skillet, even this sexy satin one, but rather be given lots of kisses and hugs. He's the opposite of an abusive man! He likes his present and it now hangs in his studio!
The day before I went down to Columbus to Q/SDS again, Aimee,
Julie, and Omari moved back to Florida. They stopped by our house to say
goodbye, and I was glad to see them, but very sad that they were moving
back to Florida. Since their mother lives there in Daytona Beach, and they
spent part of their childhood there, it stands to reason that they are
torn between Ohio and Florida, in calling a place home. Aimee has her nurse's
job to guarantee her work anywhere, and Julie is getting back to her education.
Omari has two real grandmothers there to dote on him, not just a fake granny
like me!
Off they went!
The five day Q/SDS class began with a bang! Shelley Baird signed
up for it, after taking our two day class earlier that month! Everyone
at Q/SDS was still in a great mood when I got back, tho it was three classes
later. No one seemed worn out, and I was happy to know my way around the
place a bit, in going back. This time I did a seating chart right away
and got into the business of learning names of my students!
Here are the samplers of the 20 students we hadf, plus my own piece. Again, these were finished mostly within two days, tho some may have been done at the end of the first day. In a five day class, we have a lot more to do, besides these tiny pieces, which average 5" on a side.
On the morning of the second day, we started demonstrating painting,
both by hand and airbrush. Jimmy had an area set up in the hall, behind
our classroom, to airbrush in, and gave the whole class a lecture about
Aztek airbrushes and safety. He took two students at a time, and by that
afternoon, they'd all had a little taste of using the airbrush, and I'd
done an airbrush demo for them. Later that day I brush painted over my
airbrush work, and left the drop clothed area for students to use.
Above is Ramona Muse, of Madrid, Iowa, working away on her self portrait, which she'd first airbrushed and was now filling in with some Setacolor fabric paints. Since Deka quit making its fabric paints, the race is on to find the perfect substitute. Looks like Setacolor may be it, and Scarlet Zebra, one of the Q/SDS vendors, had a great supply of Setacolors for us to purchase! In fact, they worked extra hard to get a UPS order of it in, in time for us to purchase yet that week!
Susan Leopold of Toronto,
worked hard on her airbrushed painting, into which she integrated an actual
fabric book page from an old children's book. She's got the whole book
and is thinking about doing a bunch of quilts, with one page collaged into
each quilt. It's very elegant!
It was way too hot in the hallway, where Jimmy and the airbrush
set up were. And it was too cold in our main studio, so we did end up opening
the door between them, despite the hotel's requests not to. We missed the
airbrushers and they deserved to cool down a bit! I know Jimmy's a much
happier teacher when he's more comfortable, and he did a great job, in
spite of being pretty overheated all that week!
It had been nice and cool during my first Q/SDS class this year, but got hot the next week and stayed that way, all through to the end. We even had a storm on Tuesday night, ripping up trees around town, but it still got hot again afterwards!
Our students did a great job of working with airbrush to get outlines
especially and then coming inside the cold room, to do fabric paints on
top of the airbrush.
Here Joan Marks of Columbus, and Anna Prince of Marietta, OH, work side by side at the brush painting table. Painting seems to put everyone into a good mood, probably because you see results and changes so fast, compared to when you do the sewing sessions. Painting is so instant, compared to stitching, stitching, and stitching!
By Tuesday night of the class, we were moving ahead with the artmaking,
and it was time for the Q/SDS Bazaar. I had a table there, to sell things
like my greeting cards, my hand drawn prints, etc.
Because I'm not much of a vendor, I enlisted Mookie (Michele Pusateri, of South Pasadena, CA, vending with St. Theresa's Textile Trove, and in our class, and not shown here) and my good friend Andi Stern (Peppy Whirlwind, of Chauncey, OH, vendor and owner of Embellishment Café, on the right here) to help me with my booth. Rita Scannell, who lives in Cork, Ireland, and who's a good friend of ours, too, stopped by at my table to talk and tease! She's in the middle here, and Jimmy took this picture, to show what it looks like when three women are up to no good! Rita brought me a copy of the Irish Patchwork Society's new newsletter, which is really a magazine now, in which she editted an article she had me write about Jimmy and my work. It looks great! The thing even has some color pictures in it!!!!
I sold a little stuff, but think I'll leave vending to the great Vendor Mall of Q/SDS, where we had about 10 stores of stuff specific to our art quilt needs, right there at our fingertips all week! They were there for all four classes! Laura Wasilowski and Melody Johnson had their ArtFabrik booth, Embellishment Café and St. Theresa's did great, as did Bizarre Bazaar and Lynn Young's Art/ Quilt Magazine book booth. And Scarlet Zebra had a magazine stand, along with the Setacolors and some Test Fabrics on bolts. Oh, Andi had some Lunn Fabrics to sell, too. I'm tellin' ya, this vendor mall was hot!
Margo van Strien of Holland transferred into
our class the third day of Q/SDS, and was a very diligent and fun student.
The other students around her mentored her, to bring her up to speed on
what we were doing, but she already knew, as she'd been peeking into our
room, and had started a piece, based on what she thought the processes
must be.
Something I really love about Q/SDS is how it draws students from all around the world! Having someone in the class from another country makes it more interesting for all of us. Jimmy the Sagittarian is certainly all ears when there's someone foreign in the room! He can sit captivated for hours, listening to them tell stories of home!
Shelley Baird, our student who took both our classes this year
at Q/SDS, volunteered to have a class party at her house, near the hotel,
and we decided to have a Shrinky Dinks party. I had been thinking for years
of trying the stuff, and it seemed like something simple enough, to not
trash Shelley's house. Most of the students went, and we had a great time.
Shelley's beau John came home from a trip to Chicago and became our Shrink
Chef for the whole evening, and we were freeed up to make art!
Actually, the stuff the students found at the local rubber stamp store was not Shrinky Dinks, but something called PolyShrink, by Lucky Squirrel. After two little objects made with the clear stuff, I swung over to the canvas white plastic and loved the results. You can even sign the backs and date them. I've ordered a bunch from Lucky Squirrel, and plan to use it a lot!
These are most of my shrink art portraits I did of all the students.
Some of them weren't there anymore, when I took the pictures tho. I gave
the portraits to each student, and enjoyed that being shrunken very tiny,
they couldn't so well see how bad my likenesses were!
Actually, the shrinkage means that your writing can get very, very small, and still it has its detail. I punched holes with a paper punch before baking the shrink plastic, so everything can be sewn on. I am so very excited to have new art material, on which I can write and draw with so much precision! Yea! You bake it at 325º in a toaster oven outside of your house, for only about 3 minutes, with the plastic on a piece of cardboard in the oven. Do not, DO NOT, leave the scene, while the stuff is baking. Shelley did last week, and had a small fire in her toaster oven. Beware! Stay put!!!!!
Here are part of the studentson the last afternoon of class, tho
some had already left earlier. In front are Ethel Baxter, Jo Johnson, Martha
Degen, and Debra Levin. Back row are: Linda Frost, Susan Leopold, Shelley
Baird, Joan Marks, Mookie Pusateri, Jimmy, and Mary Izetelny.
This is the other side of the massive and rowdy group... and some
have jumped around to new spots! Front: Jo Johnson, Debra Levin, Mookie.
Middle: Martha Degen, Amy Stewart
Winsor (not looking up, sorry!), and Ina Stentiford. Back: Shelley
Baird, Joan Marks, Mimi Wholberg, Jimmy, Mary Izetelny, Ramona Muse, Laurie
Kestelman, and Jackie Holman. Students who had already flown the coop are:
Jan Brasier, Jana Swanson, Anna Prince, and Margo Van Strien. They were
clearly worn out! Ha!
My airbrush demo that led to a regular paint demo and then a quilt
sandwiching demo of when you start with a painting, became this piece,
which is only started.
In case you haven't kept tabs, I've shown you three such large paintings that I've begun in classes this Spring and Summer, and there's one more yet to show you, later down the page. These are all biggies, around 45"h x 34"w, about the size of "The Rolling Pin / Chariot" and "The Skillet / Strength." This would be great, except that I would prefer finishing each one before starting the next. Trouble is that it's a nice, big, dramatic demo, to work this large. Working smal has much less visual impact! I'm thinking I need to go back to some machine work in the pieces, as I was doing this winter, to augment the hand work, in order to make more progress! Yikes!
Incidentally, this one isn't even a Kitchen Tarot piece, because I didn't have my deck at Q/SDS, and I couldn't think up what the next card would be!
Here is Jan Brasier, one of the five day class students at Q/SDS,
holding the piece she'd bought from me, "The Garlic Queen." And
above that is the 2003 Quilting
Arts Magazine calendar quilt I did, which will be January's illustration
in the calendar!
Jan is a retired Ohio public school art teacher, who not only serves on several boards around the state, but teaches art on cruise ships now, as part of her retirement. She and her husband Jerry average three cruises a year, in which she teaches two hours a day, with all sorts of art projects for the cruise goers. With her powerhouse of energy, she's not very retired, and does it all with great style.
I decided I should add more pix of our students
in that wild class, so here are Mary and Hot Shot (Debra), at the start
of the Shrinky Dinks party at Shelley's, after a great struggle with a
wine bottle. As you can see, they triumphed!
I was so psyched about using the PolyShrink, I didn't even drink water all evening! I just sat there and drew! What a nice thing it was of Shelley to have us all over at her place! Besides, we got to see a lot of her art, all the way back to art school!
Mimi is the rabbi's wife, and lives on Long Island, not too near
Ina, with whom she came to Q/SDS. They're great friends, take a lot of
quilting classes together, and made our class very lively! Here's Mimi
with her sampler, which is a really beautiful pommegranate, full of beads
for its seeds.
Ina is Mimi's partner in crime, and I understand she told wonderful
jokes the only night Jimmy and I went somewhere else and missed the classroom
after-class adventures in the studio. Ina chose to work larger on the sampler,
and made this lovely leaf, showing me a different way to bead, from what
I'm used to.
Here's my own sampler from this class, "Lucky's Snappy Solstice
Tea", 4.75"h x 5.25"w. It started out to be a face, but
morphed into a teapot. Since my stash of samplers to show students was
all used up this year, by sales or by making the Lucky Duet pieces, I am
glad to have the start of a little pile of sampler samples again!
Ah, Spot! Er, I mean Ethel! Well, I gave her the name Spot when
she was here at Turtle Art Camp years ago, when she kept spilling food
on her shirt, MY white sweatshirt which she'd borrowed, because it was
colder weather than expected. Ethel was so happy with her sampler of a
butterfly, because it was the first time she actually got a project finished
in a class. She volunteers at a nature center, and will use the butterfly
as a pin, while volunteering. She brought some pieces she'd started in
other classes of ours, and ones she'd made since then, in my style of working,
to show the class. Her daughter Sharon was also taking a class at Q/SDS,
but they were pretty independent of each other, with Ethel staying up late
some nights, working in the studio.
This is about one third or one fourth of the
massive "fake quilt" we built at the end of our five day class
at Q/SDS. The students had to work with all the art any of us started that
week, and arrange it on the boards, edge to edge, as if we were really
going to sew it all together. We had to keep adding more and more work
boards, as the art just kept coming. I'm not the only one who's got a lot
of new stuff to work on and finish from that class!
Like how I demonstrate sewing a quilt together on the wall here at home, I showed the students this, and some of them tried both the vertical and the horizontal steps. In the two day class, we'd had only the little samplers to do this with, and the students paid a lot of attention, but that was at the start of the symposium. This group, some of them having been there for two full weeks, said "Yeah, yeah, we get it!" Most of them were ready to collapse from exhaustion by then. But it had been a super great class! We all worked hard, made new friends, and came away with new ideas.
Anyhow, you shoulda seen this huge wall of work, which we left up for the "walkabout", when everyone walks around the whole symposium, to see what was made in all the classes. Oh, and some of our work was already gone, since a few students had to leave early, and we still had about 50 running feet of work up there! We were vcery cool. ;)
Ah, the fearless leaders! Here are Tracy Stitzlein
and Linda Fowler, the owners and directors of Q/SDS. Linda has been co-owner
from the start of Q/SDS in 1990, and Tracy took over Nancy Crow's position
two years ago, when Nancy retired, after 11 symposia.
They make a great team, along with their hard working helpers, Diane Muse, Marla Hattabaugh, Linda's mother Vi, Tracy's mother Mary, and so many more!!! Between them and the vendors and the hotel staff, we had a great experience and look forward to doing it again.
I've been asked to teach two classes again in 2004, so keep that in mind, if you'd like to study with me. Or if you can't wait that long, come to a camp here at our place!!!
So Q/SDS was overwith, and we went home to recuperate and get
ready for the July Turtle Art Camp, but on the very day it was to start,
which is our big Clean Up Day, old friends unexpectedly stopped in! Bob,
Jesse, and Marti Kaufman, formerly of Culebra, PR, and now of Savanah,
GA, came by, while visiting Bob's family nearby.
We only see each other every few years, and this time, like the last, I got them to take my old Macintosh computer and its parts. Last time it went to the community center in Culebra, and this one went to Jesse's room. Bob is a pretty good Mac techie, so he should have it up and running now. It's the 7300 Power Mac I got when I started this site in 1997. I'm so glad to get it out of storage and into use again!
We had two students for most of the July camp, but the first full
day we had three, including Pattie Sly, in the middle here, who could only
attend one day. That first day we make the Lucky Samplers, and that's what
she'd chosen to learn. She may come to another camp to learn airbrush for
one day, later. The students were: Betty Cell of St. Petersburg, FL, Pattie
of Kent, OH, nad Jennifer
Reis of Morehead, KY, formerly an Ohioan.
I think we all missed Pattie, after she left. But Betty and Jennifer had so much in common, in their taste in music, movies, etc, that they kept the place very lively. For instance, they both like punk music, and I think they are the first students here to feel that way!
It was quite a week of celebrations, since it began on July 3,
and right away, we had the Fireworks! Then, July 5 was Jimmy's brother
Gary's birthday! Here are our housemate Floyd Kerr, Gary, and Jimmy, getting
ready to barbecue that evening. It was our camp's margarita party night,
as well. The students and I kept sewing, too, though it was a pretty hot
day. We took a walk afterwards and came back into the AC.
This is Betty's painted quilt, begun as an airbrushed piece. She
had recently started experimenting with automatic drawing, based on an
exercise in a book, and thesse wild heads were what she was getting. So
she did that with the airbrush. She found the pagoda image and added a
"moon over the mountain" quilt block image, along with an infinity
sign and a highway, and we were all off, trying to decipher the story!
Jennifer came prepared, too. She's been working on a series of
goddesses, and this one was to be Kale, the Hindu goddess of destruction.
Only it was also to be Jennifer! She also showed us a series she's working
on of beaded, quilted vintage pin-up girls.
This woman has an incredible sense of humor, and she just loved the look of this piece. She worked like a dog on it, trying to get it done before camp ended. She even sewed during the South Park movie, as did Betty and I, too. We were dutiful artists!
But the very last night of camp, we had Betty's birthday party,
as the next day, their travel home day, was really Betty's birthday. So
we had cake and presents and a card for her. Even Rita and Meeper attended
in their little kitty trays on the table.
This camp had been very good for me. The students wanted to shop a little, take walks a little, sit on the patio and play music a little, and even go to Wal-Mart, which hadn't happened for a while. The June camp had been all business, tho a lot of fun as well. We'd just had that huge goal of finishing the Print Quilt, so extras were few. I don't think I could survive too many projects as intense as that June camp, but I am so glad we did it, and hope the Wash U girls don't wear themselves out, making those quilts!!!!!! I hear they are ready to start quilting Print Quilt #3! (Good, because I'm only partway through writing on Print Quilt #4!)
Tulip has been getting more and more attention from students here.
Even tho she hates the other cats, she's totally charming for the students.
In the June camp, when they came from St. Louis, she revealed her joy in
being "kitty slapped." This is a gentle little form of petting
that goes back and forth, instead of just back. Inspired by Tulip's funny
little preferences, the students told me about a convention of S+M people
that had happened in thier city, called "Beat Me in St. Louie."
... This time Tulip instantly trained Betty and Jennifer to worship her,
and I still couldn't get either of them to take her home.
In the picture above, Tulip is clawing my body, in order to escape my hold. I'm not really smiling, but gnashing my teeth, as I have her in an iron grip, just long enough for Jimmy to take this picture!
Here's the start of my "The Food Scales
/ Justice: Card #11 in The Kitchen Tarot", now about 45"h x 34"w.
It was my class demo for this July art camp, and I have gotten into the
quilting stage a bit, but realize it looks very mushy in its composition.
So I'm going to go back and paint some more on it, darkening the figures
and objects behind the weird shaped food scales, which are the real food
scales at our food co-op, Wooster Natural Foods. We've had these same scales
for weighing out herbs and spices since 1969, so I'm very attached to them,
as a symbol of the co-op.
Wow, I have all these fairly large quilts to work on....! Time to stop starting quilts for a while!
Here's my little "Fourth of July Sugar
Pie" sampler from this last camp. It's 4.75"h x 5"w. I
started it on the Fourth, and demonstrated all my techniques with its making.
She has a shisha mirror for her third eye, and you can check your makeup
by staring into her forehead. (I don't wear makeup, so I can check to see
if I have any ink or paint on my face, by accident.)
I wish I'd gotten closeups of Betty, Pattie, and Jennifer's samplers to show you, too. Sorry! I don't always think of getting everything documented, but I should. If you July campers send me jpegs of your pieces, I'll put them into this diary, promise! Make them at 100 dpi, and I can go from there. Or send me a good photo of them, and I can use those, too.
With the recession still effecting our camp enrollments, we still have openings in our August 7 - 13 Turtle Art Camp, as well as all camps this Fall. Now camp activities include a session in making Shrink Art!!!!!! And where else can you take a class where the teacher makes your astrology chart for you? Where? Nowhere else! Ha! Now you must come!
Take care. Make art, and be happy. Love, Lucky Magnolia
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