Art Day will be a monthly meeting from now on. I'm thinking the second Tuesday of each month would be easy to remember. As I posted before, I think once a month will give us a better experience when we meet. We'll have more time to have moved ahead on our projects, and we can plan more exciting events on a monthly basis. Besides, now that we're all farmers, we need time to till the land.
So, that would make the next meeting June 9th. We can show off our gourd projects, and plan the next project.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Silver Dollar Fair Results
Susy, Bill, and I entered some of our projects in the fair. Susy and I got best of show awards, and Bill got ribbons too.
Susy's jacket got a blue ribbon:
And her cookies and scones got best of show:
Bill showed his abstracts.
The competition was fierce in the fine arts division, as shown by this magnificent basket.
And I had fun taking pics of the Midway at dusk.
Susy's jacket got a blue ribbon:
And her cookies and scones got best of show:
Bill showed his abstracts.
The competition was fierce in the fine arts division, as shown by this magnificent basket.
And I had fun taking pics of the Midway at dusk.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
More Gourds!
Last week, we worked on gourds some more. Lori came, and cut a nice star in the bottom of her gourd. She plans to make a musical instrument out of it.
Titus came over with Lori and Gracie, but when Jane finished work and arrived, Gracie only had eyes for her! In the background, you can see RickC's gourd being worked on.
And of course, Titus's piece is wonderful. He's such a good artist.
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Art Day Changes
I think it might be better to make Art Day a once-a-month meeting. I've been watching the ebb and flow, and about every fourth Art Day seems more inspired and interesting. So I think if we limit the meetings, then try to really get something done when we DO meet, we'll be better off. Also, with summer coming on, and the farm to work, we need that time.
My idea is that once a month, we meet, show off our old projects, and either start a new project, hold a class, or take a field trip, such as to the clay studio again. In between meetings, folks can work on their projects.
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Titus came over with Lori and Gracie, but when Jane finished work and arrived, Gracie only had eyes for her! In the background, you can see RickC's gourd being worked on.
And of course, Titus's piece is wonderful. He's such a good artist.
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Art Day Changes
I think it might be better to make Art Day a once-a-month meeting. I've been watching the ebb and flow, and about every fourth Art Day seems more inspired and interesting. So I think if we limit the meetings, then try to really get something done when we DO meet, we'll be better off. Also, with summer coming on, and the farm to work, we need that time.
My idea is that once a month, we meet, show off our old projects, and either start a new project, hold a class, or take a field trip, such as to the clay studio again. In between meetings, folks can work on their projects.
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Gorgeous Gourds!
Last art day, we met at my house and started working on gourds. I didn't count my harvest, but I've had two pallets of them drying over the winter. By now, the outer skins are almost all rotted off.
With some water and scrubbing, plus a dip in some bleach solution to kill the mold, they look much better, and are ready to begin working on.
After cleaning them, I used the dremel tool to cut a shape in this one. On the other two, I cut the top completely off. One of those was beautifully mottled, like fine old parchment, so I simply sprayed it with urethane and called it done. With the little one, I'm making a yarn basket component that's anchored to holes I drilled around the edge. But the one with the side cut was destined to be the yardafact reliquary.
On art day, we all picked our gourds. Catherine's friends Linda and Dwight were in town, so they came too.
I had already cut and primered the gourd for the reliquary, and Katinka was in town, so she painted .
And it came out great!
With some water and scrubbing, plus a dip in some bleach solution to kill the mold, they look much better, and are ready to begin working on.
After cleaning them, I used the dremel tool to cut a shape in this one. On the other two, I cut the top completely off. One of those was beautifully mottled, like fine old parchment, so I simply sprayed it with urethane and called it done. With the little one, I'm making a yarn basket component that's anchored to holes I drilled around the edge. But the one with the side cut was destined to be the yardafact reliquary.
On art day, we all picked our gourds. Catherine's friends Linda and Dwight were in town, so they came too.
I had already cut and primered the gourd for the reliquary, and Katinka was in town, so she painted .
And it came out great!
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