I've taken a lot of classes lately... and done a little teaching too!
In October Patty and I got to go up to Mass. to spend a weekend taking classes from Dyan Reavley. It was so much fun, and I learned a ton! We took Writing in your Journal, Stamping in your Journal, and Art Journal Extravaganza.
I'm so glad I got the chance to do that!
Then we had our October mixed media club where Debbie Mac taught us about doing faces.
We started out drawing, working on the different proportions. Mine looks okay, except for the fact that she looks like she's stuck up and bored.
We also worked with acrylic paint and some of Donna Downey's new face stamps:
Then at the end of October, I taught my cardboard art journal class. We had a great group and I think everyone had a good time. I've heard about a few people still working on those, and Sue showed me what she had done at our club meeting this last week - they all turned out great!
So that was October... then into November. I was in Chicago for the first week, and then the following weekend I met Patty at The Inspiration Station up in Stafford Springs for a day of advanced Zentangle classes. We took tangling in color, where we learned about drawing and coloring as well as using colored backgrounds.
And that afternoon we took a class on organic tangles on toned paper. That was also super fun.
After classes, Patty took me to Stew Leonard's - it's a grocery store, but a very cool one. Probably as close as I've come to finding something similar to a Wegman's... not quite, but still pretty good. They sell a really good boulognese sauce and they had these killer corn popper thingies on their hot bar... lots of fun! Close enough that I'd go back, but not so close that I'd be there a lot. Which is a good thing!
Finally, this last week we had our November mixed media club - Mac and I taught water soluble crayons - Lyra and Neocolor II. It was a smaller group, but that made it so we did lots of techniques and projects. I think the real hit of the night was using them with gesso and stamping with them.
Here are some of the projects we did... I had made a sample coloring and then using water to make the circle design, so a lot of people did something similar in their books.
Whew! That's it for the classes... big update, but lots of fun over the last 6 weeks or so.
Every time I go to visit my friend in CT, I have to stop by Stew Leonard's -- love that place!
Posted by: Heidi | November 26, 2013 at 07:36 PM