I finished my visual journal a week after Roxanne Evans Stout’s beautiful workshop, but left right away to Oaxaca, Mexico ( photos forthcoming 😊). Here are some photos taken outside of Jana Freeman’s fabulous Way Art Yonder workshops (above) , Day 2 of the workshop ( details from Roxanne’s teaching table and my work area with “preparatory piles”) and, finally, my completed journal.
At home, I had to co-opt my kitchen ( I need my studio back 🤪)… but thought this would make a nice tableau, so I’m sharing it here. This is how things looked deep in the night, two Sundays ago..
And finally…c’est fini! My first art journal – and first video posted here on SketchBloom.
All of the lovely journals from the workshop:
A closing plen air celebration at the end of the weekend. Can’t wait for my next (February) art workshop…
On Sunday I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon at my friend Jana Freeman’s Way Art Yonder Studio for one of her monthly open studio days. I met Jana at my school, first we were friendly colleagues then mischievous friends, and now she is living the Dream running her own art studio and hosting incredible workshops with Mixed Media artists the world over…
Here is a sample of the work I was “curiousing” on on Sunday ( yes, I am making up this word). Most of the vibrant work I photographed is by Suanne Summers, then there is the dreamy stitch/ fabric art of Shelley Watkins and the layered collages of Krista Jarrard. Jana, the studio owner, can be seen completing one of her exquisite pieces. This is my Art tribe, comprising of Carla Bange who could not make it this time.
Paintings by Suanne Summers
Collage in progress by Krista Jarrard
Jana in the process of assembling one of her captivating mixed media works on small square canvases, painted black.
This cool collage is by a sweet lady from Minnesota (!) . I will find out her name 🤔[[[[[[
Fabric/stitch art by Shelley Watkins. She dyes her own fabric 😮
Above, Jana and her regal ring touching one of Shelley’s distressed samples of fabric. She uses a process involving peroxide to “ eat through” the fabric. We named this “ Dickensian Orphanage, or the street urchins.”
Here is more of Suanne’s work:
What can I say, these ladies have been at this a long time and I need to up my game and get back to my collages instead of collecting drawerfuls of materials (but if I say so my self I have lots of exciting materia prima from my travels).
But first I want to finish my “flower portrait”- here is the work-in-progress ( which will include poetry and mixed media). The
The original was GORGEOUS, made for me by a very special person who ” painted” my portrait with handpicked flowers. {swoon}
Work in progress, acrylic on canvas.
Jana and I at Way Art Yonder, my happy place!
Thank you Jana!
I will soon be back under the portico with my bags 😉
This is one place where I don’t feel bad lugging all my stuff with me- as all the other tribe members do the same. I think I found my people.
Favorite drawings, paintings, collages and handwork on SketchBloom
Pilot Pen on Paper. November 2009
Pencil and Watercolor on canvas
our very own coffee cart @ NewSchool: Cafe’ A la Carte
Baggalini Red.
The Sun, the Moon, and on there being no abstracts in life. Pencil, ink, watercolor on 4″X5″ canvas.2009
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
Pilot pen on paper. January 2011
Coffee Carrier (delle). Graphite on paper. Kuwait. January 2010
Earth Henna, Eucalyptus Oil. May 2, 2010.
Barcelona Chairs by Mies Van De Rohe, 1929 @ the CED Library in Berkeley
Dr. Gregory House. Watercolor on Paper. June 3, 2010
Ink on tracing paper. Kuwait, January 2010. The scene at the bottom is what I saw-or decided to see- at The Avenues, the most popular malla in Kuwait City. There is nothing like seeing photography and drawings from a trip abroad to make you realize all reality is subjective, and we choose to see what we want to. We just don’t realize it in our own backyard.
July 27, San Diego Museum Of Art. The Age of Enlightenment – Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breuteuil, Marquise du Chatelet by Yinka Shonibare- Ink on hand.book paper
Felt tip on paper. March 22, 2011.
Ink on Paper. Calabria, Italia. September 29, 2011.
Queen Califia’s Garden, Totem/Sculpture. Ink, color pencils and markers. 2009
Ink on hand.book paper. Paris, 2011.
The funambulist. Ink drawing + digital collage. August 2011.
Twomoons Wax Proof-modeled after concept sketch
Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’
Waiting for Godot | Static Head. Digital Collage. May 5th, 2010
Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
Miniature Pomegranate. Watercolor on chocolate wrap. Kuwait. January 2010
Earth and Water. Beads and yarn. June 24, 2011
Persimmon- very quick pastel rendering. November 12, 2009.
Watercolor on paper. June 3, 2010
Platonic Solid Exercise. Graphite on Paper. 2007
Watercolor and Graphite. November 12, 2009
Final Twomoons Piece, Summer 2008
Ink on Paper. September 2009
Mare Mosso Act II. Graphite drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collage. March 18,2011
Mare Mosso Act III. Graphite and pen drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collag and pastel. March 19, 2011.
Ink and watercolor on paper and tracing paper. A bit of digital manipulation. Feb. 09,2011.
Collage, Pilot Pen on Paper
The Fortress of Lost Time. Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
Casa Del Fascio, contrast corrected thru Photoshop, Como, 2007
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