Georgia Angelopolous Workshop with the Chicago Calligraphy Collective

 

Georgia's ample supply of paints and pigments for us to use.

 Mosaic inspired color gradations with the addition of gold which was later tooled.

 Example of the tooling on this one.

 I painted this from a photo when in London which is one of the art shops that Georgia buys her pigments!

Life Lines with Pam Paulsrud

 More photos and explanation on my regular penandpaints.blogspot.com

Donaldson, Indiana

 I visited Donaldson, Indiana yesterday to gather with two other artists and the planners there for the Saint John's Bible retreat in June.  We will "teach or lead" calligraphy, illumination and making of a book.  Barbara Sutton,  from St. John's University also involved in the planning and leading the retreat.

These are photos of the church within the Mother House there built in 1922.  It resembles a European church and was inspirational to see the artifacts, etc.  I'll post the photos from Moon Tree Studio that is across the street and was built about four years ago to house the art gallery and studios.

I had to take a photo of the rooster- our church, St. Peter's United Church of Christ had a rooster atop the steeple!

Newberry Calligraphy Exhibit

My artwork was selected to be in the Newberry Library Calligraphy Exhibit!
Dates:  Exhibit opens  Monday March 16th-and runs until June 12th
            Reception: Saturday, March 28th
                             Program: presentation by Susan O'Leary on the Zen Art of Kazuaki Tanahashi
                                            with several artist demonstrations

Ink sticks -Lucky Find!

When I saw the box and how it was made I knew even before I opened it that it sure looked like a box that might hold ink stones and/or sticks.  Could hardly believe it when I opened it and found three ink stones and several ink sticks!  I've never seen the little porcelon cups before -I guess you can put the ink in them as you grind it.  The box is about 6 x 10 and I came across it in a large antique mall!

New work from workshops

I've actually been posting most of my new things on my penandpaints.blogspot.com blog

Beautiful leaf stain and leaves

 Found on Betsy's driveway in N. Carolina.  Just love the stain image!

Christmas cards and work from Heather Held's Workshop

 This workshop was a delight and I used what I learned for my Christmas card, above

New Dragonfly Collage

 This was another of my Dragonfly series.  Made mostly with my handmade and altered papers with the dragonfly transfers.  Yes, I love greens!

Stamptastic Tiny Workshop with the Chicago Calligraphy Collective

 This photo is of my samples.  The stamps are made of fun foam with adhesive backing- the kind you find for kids!  In one I added pen and ink lines to adhance the card.

 Some of the student's work.  The creative part is what you do with the stamps you create and these were beautiful!  They repeated the stamp with different colors and arranged them on cards.

This one uses the left over scraps and she printed with separate colors to make a spectacular card!

Tiny Workshops with the Chicago Callig Collective

I took the jewelry making workshop- the second photo is the "homework" we had to bring for the pages of the necklace we made.  What a fun class!! And it was really easy to make!

Pen and Ink

 Still working on these- top one is my garden gate in pen and ink and the second is at another garden with watercolor added and the pen and ink is very light.

Sycamore Leaf

Another painting started in our Plein air sketch class

New Envelopes

 Sorry, photo turned.  Working with gold ink was nice!  I feel the lettering came out pretty good.

Little Red Schoolhouse

 Almost forgot to include my photo of the Schoolhouse for the previous post!

  The other picture was a house that would be fun to paint but the wild flowers were too high.  Had to hold my camera way up in the air to get this.

Little Red Schoolhouse

 Path at the Little Red Schoolhouse.  What a wonderful place to take kids and its all free.  They have a new building but the old one was closed for renovation.  It will be nice to have that still open as it was there when I was young and visited with the girl scouts!

Our last plein aire class met at the Little Red Schoolhouse -had to have our critique at a nearby forest preserve.  The weather was ideal and even cool in the shade that day.  We always luck out with the weather! I should have taken more photos of all the wonderful work, done in pencil, watercolor and pen and ink.

Plein Aire group at my yard

 Thirteen people came and what a georgeous day in the 70's.

 My pen and ink.  Someone opened the gate and it looked so inviting.

 Luce's beautiful watercolors which she starts with a wash of color and subtle bright colors for the flowers and leaves.

 Three of Sandy's flowers-two pen and ink and one watercolor

 Joan did the iron bunny!

 Peggy always picks out something unique to draw.

 Lastly, Lois' (the teacher) perspective drawing of the back of the house.