Studio Cleanup / Make way for the New

Its about time to pull it together for the whole studio to be prepared for the next phase of the mural.
Cleared off tables would help. Unfortunately it is easy to get complacent about what has happened.

 So the studio will be prepared, clean-up begins ... right after I check on my Etsy store and  right after I work on the grant, well right after that, REALLY! Anyone who wants to come to the studio to volunteer some time you will be welcome! Serious , leave me a note ...

Children's Work Installed at the Kindergarden

As the Summer approaches nearer school lets out , seems like yesterday when everyday hordes of kids were romping through the studio. Could happen again for Summer classes. The layout for panel = Number One , begins ... I've stopped spending all my time going after GRANTS . Although  now I spend only some of my time.  Another one is due on the 25th of June. Cash certainly greases the wheels for getting shtuff done , fo shure !!

 I guess that makes me an eternal optimist. What sagacious advice do you folks out there have? Your guidance and experience will always be appreciated.

If I hadn't lost my camera on my trip to Milwaukee,  I would have up to the minute photos of the current installation, at the kindergarden. Soon I will purchase a new camera as I am realizing how much I utilize the images.

So let's here it for Roxanne and John who are doing the tiling . GOOD LUCK!  and Thank you!

Images from this winter workshops ~part of the doorway and a new tile design "apple core" by chinmayo studios. All images are copyrighted,
all rights reserved. Thank you for your understanding.

ART ART ART designer tiles

There will be a new installation at the Friday Harbor Elementary School soon! The work of many hands this winter in the enrichment programs created tiles that will grace the outside door at the kindergarden .
Thanks to the adults( Tanja, Jane, Debbie) and the PTA that can foresee the value of children making ART. It has taken me a few !! extra days re-glazing tiles with names to make sure everyone who helped is recognized. More time than I anticipated. Oh well.  At last it is complete on my end. Now ? ... GOOD NEWS ...Roxanne Angel will install the pieces for the grand finale on the end of the year at school.

thanks to everyone!
 

Arts and Crafts together

When I first began to create art it was all on paper.
 Then eventually it moved onto board or canvas.
Oils and pastels, pen and ink large or  small  it all seemed to feel so temporal.
    In 1995 I was creating small outdoor murals. The very first one went to the back wall behind 'funk&junk' where a little FAMOUS restaurant hid named "Katrina's" . I worked for Kate and told her she needed a window on her back wall . So I painted one ... hence the beginning of my outdoor paintings , which eventually led to looking for a more permanent surface. Enter >> tiles and the marvelous tile mural at the Port of Friday Harbor.
 To be good at anything one must spend time.
        This tile spiral taught me a lot!!!
  Preparing me for the teaching of tile painting for our MURAL on Blair Avenue. Yeah Team!

 

First things first

Well the work begins this week to spread the first panel

of tiles on the table for the First scene, of our first nations design. Here we have the tail end of the last projects getting completed . Then the studio tables will be free for the Mural on Blair Ave.