Wednesday Workshop and Sunday Snippets

Next Tuesday I am flying out to New York City and then to New Hampshire to go to Squam Fall 2012 - an art workshop on Squam Lake.

Today was my last Wednesday Workshop with Neil Elliott, a local mixed media artist for 6 weeks so I thought I'd catch you up on what's been happening at the workshop.  Neil is a great teacher, very informative, always encouraging us to have fun and take risks and gives out lots of praise.

Here are all four StreetScapes that I did this year - using sewing patterns, acrylic paint and masking tape. Interesting to see how I changed as I played around with this style and technique...

Which is your favourite scene???  I like number three - Outback House - the best....

Outback House evolution pics...

Neil's House evolution pics....

Cardboard art I've been working on - background and finished painting:

Little Brown House:

Dragon's Head background - I can see a dragon's head in the background of this painting so that's it's title for now...

Here's Neil Elliott's Batboy!!!

Today Neil showed us his bitumen technique - more work still to be done on this test piece - shame I won't be here to see the transformation...

Here's a group piece we are all working on as a donation to a local school to be auctioned....paint needs to dry then more layers will be added next week...some bitumen too no doubt...a very stinky process...

I created one more Flower painting over the past couple of weeks...

My order of new postcards and business cards finally arrived from Moo - 2 weeks after their ETA...

Lemon Meringue Pie I made for a family dinner last weekend...

Here's what the dinner table looked like - as fancy as it comes in our house...

This is Who I Am pic - me with my new prescription sunglasses on....

So I think we are all caught up with what's been happening....now I can start packing my bags for my Big American Adventure - scared and excited all rolled into one.....any tips or advice is appreciated....