Some of my work in Yves' class

In the bottom photos the marks were put down first and then the lettering so they may be upside down.

Calligraphy Retreat with Yves Leterme

We stayed at the Cenacle in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Roomed with April and this is our view from the room.

The name of the workshop was Watchfull Experimenting and the Fine Art of Controlled Scribbling. Yves also taught about his use of gesso which was a challenge!

Some of Yves' work with the special projector so everyone could see! Here he had added gesso over his work, and then added washes of color and lines and scratches.

There were 22 in the group!
It was so nice that Jim and Alice could come and visit!

Some quick photos of demos. Yves came all the way from Belgium and will be teaching at several locations. And some participants came from Michigan and Oregon. It was such a nice group to work with and learn from, even though I struggled with the abstract type of work at the end!

New Collage

We started with watercolor paper, glued down the page from the phone book in April's class. Then used masking tape to tear away some areas and added the acrylic paint wash.

One more step done

I worked on outlining the details that will be painted. Valerie gave me a little tutorial to help with the highlights and a little more info that I didn't quite remember from my class with her many years ago. Now to get the colors just right. And still have to add the 'Anniversary" lettering at the top and the "author" at the bottoom.

Working on a Project

I forgot that I don't know how to flip this the right way, oh well. I'm experiementing on colors now and I think I'm going to have the gold go down the strip in the middle, and might make the leaves all blue...my daughter made some suggestions. We'll see but I'm not liking the shade of green so will be working on that for sure. You can see the border on a previous post, as I just have it lightly traced.

New collages

I didn't get to finish this collage, the bird isn't glued in place yet. And I wanted to add a quote or something to the left side.

I finally added a butterfly -transferred, to finish this one that is made up to go with the former one with these papers -see Sept. 9

Serenity Prayer