5 days in Wisconsin August 31-September 4, 2015

School of the Arts, Madeline Island, Wisconsin

The beautiful prairie meadow Madeline Island campus is the site of the historic Sandstrom Dairy Farm. All but one of the buildings are new
and have been custom-designed for workshops.

Join me! 
August 31- September 4, 2015

Nature Journal workshop ~ Jane LaFazio
5 days 15 students

This fun workshop is open to all levels!

You will spend time outdoors, sketching and painting from nature, using pencil, pen and watercolor. I will show you basic drawing and quick, intuitive watercolor techniques, which will become the heart of your nature journal.

Using Madeline Island’s flowers, pods, leaves, and rocks, as subjects for your drawings, you’ll also carve original stamps, create monoprints and add collage to your journal. There will be plenty of time to bring your findings back to the studio to draw and paint.

By the end of the week, your journal (the cover made from recycled cereal boxes and fine watercolor paper) will be filled to the brim with color, images and memories of your week on the Island.

REGISTER HERE

Ferry to Madeline Island, Wisconsin

The shore of Madeline Island, Wisconsin

I'm really excited about this 5 day workshop. Why?

• 5 solid days spent doing and teaching what I love
• we'll be surrounded by the beauty of nature
• we'll spend time sketching and watercolor
• we'll print from nature
• we'll carve stamps
• we'll do everything I love!
• and there will be just 15 students!

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

We'll have time to draw the details and to go outside and draw the landscape.

Landscapes in my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

drawing and painting on a cereal box cardboard ~ by Jane LaFazio

I know, the cereal box cardboard thing may seem weird, but it's really fun, and somehow satisfying to make something beautiful from recycled cardboard.

monoprinting from nature ~ by Jane LaFazio

We'll use gelli plates for monoprinting. 

monoprinting from nature ~ by Jane LaFazio

And we'll combine all the pages we drew and painting and printed into a beautiful handmade book as a treasure of our week on beautiful Madeline Island.

REGISTER HERE for Nature Journal Workshop. Details on accommodations here.

Madeline Island has been described as "one of the great undiscovered treasures of the Midwest." It is located in Northern Wisconsin in the Chequamegon Bay - approximately 90 miles east of Duluth, Minnesota along the southern shoreline of Lake Superior.

Dreaming Tuscany in May

Dreaming Tuscany in May (detail) by Jane LaFazio 

Dreaming Tuscany in May (detail) by Jane LaFazio 

Dreaming Tuscany in May (detail) by Jane LaFazio 

Dreaming Tuscany in May (detail) by Jane LaFazio 

Dreaming Tuscany in May (detail) by Jane LaFazio 

May is the season for red poppies in Italy.

Dreaming Tuscany in May (12x9 inches) by Jane LaFazio 

I'm really enjoying this new series of machine needle felted hand-stitched pieces! It's truly 'armchair travel' as I sit in my living room and stitch, and think of these fabulous destinations!

Dreaming Lake Como (12x8 inches) by Jane LaFazio

These two are in my JaneVille Etsy Shop.

Dreaming Lavender Fields (12x9 inches) by Jane LaFazio

San Diego ~ a symposion for women

Women's Voices Women's Visions 

Symposium in San Diego, California

I hope you'll join me for this 3 day event, Women’s Voices, Women’s Visions, at University of San Diego from August 13-16, 2015. 

I'm on the committee, with my friend Jan Phillips, author and photographer and workshop facilitator and genuine visionary. I will be teaching some workshops along with other artists and business professionals. 

No matter what our attempts to inform, 

it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides.

     Jan Phillips, Marry Your Muse

Women’s Voices, Women’s Visions will inform and inspire participants, empowering women to:

• Combine creativity and activism for social good
• Think originally and lead creatively
• Increase their impact on their communities

Come together with other cultural creators, educators, business professionals, spiritual leaders, artists, activists, and writers who are  ROCKING THE WORLD!

Learn more or REGISTER NOW for Women's Voices Women's Visions  

August 13-16, 2015 at the University of San Diego 

$299 Early Bird (Now through May 15th, 2015)

$349 May 16th - August 1st 2015

For more information, including media or sponsorship, contact:
email: Jan Phillips Livingkindness Foundation 

email: Lorri Sulpizio  

Women’s Leadership Academy, University of San Diego 
858-571-1417
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The Symposium will raise money for the Livingkindness Foundation.

Post by Jan Phillips.

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Above is a VIDEO (click here to see it on my blog)  of my friend Jan Phillips talking about her Livingkindness Foundation. The foundation is building a school for children who Nigeria. Children who are hungry to learn, but have no teachers. Why no teachers? The teachers live too far away and have no where to live near the schools. Livingkindness foundation is building the school and two teacher apartments. 

Dreaming Lake Como

Dreaming Lake Como (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming Lake Como (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming Lake Como (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming Lake Como (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming Lake Como (12x8 inches) by Jane LaFazio

For sale in my JaneVille Etsy shop.

Lake Como, Italy, is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Surrounded by high, often snow capped mountains, its water changes color constantly. Clouds come in fast, from the Alps. From the lake, you can see hundred year old grand villas. The air is clean and clear.

I've been there twice. And still haven't seen George Clooney. :-)

Dreaming Lavender Fields

Dreaming: Lavender Fields detail by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming: Lavender Fields (12x9 inches) by Jane LaFazio

Just finished stitching on this and added it to my JaneVille Etsy Shop. I've never been to the famous lavender fields of Provence, France, but I was dreaming of them while I stitched on this.

Dreaming: Lavender Fields detail by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming: Lavender Fields detail by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming: Lavender Fields detail by Jane LaFazio

Dreaming: Lavender Fields detail by Jane LaFazio

Blue Milagro

Blue Milagro by Jane LaFazio

Blue Milagro (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Blue Milagro (detail) by Jane LaFazio

Blue Milagro by Jane LaFazio

Blue Milagro (detail) by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ Georgia

detail from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

detail from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

detail from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

detail from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

detail from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

I'm teaching a 5 day workshop at Madeline School of the Arts in Wisconsin! Nature Journal: August 31-September 4, 2015. Limited to just 15 people!  

Magical Sketchcrawl

Yours Truly doing a Yoga Pose in a Public Place ~ Queen Califia Magical Circle. 

 Queen Califia Magical Circle in Escondido, California

Our wonderful San Diego Sketchcrawl group got together recently at Queen Califia Magical Circle. It's a sculpture garden created by the renowned Niki de Saint Phalle. It's recently reopened in Kit Carson Park in Escondido, California. It's hidden away, and open very limited hours. But as you can see, well worth a visit!

Close up of one of the many many sculptures at  Queen Califia Magical Circle.  ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook (detail) ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook (detail) ~ by Jane LaFazio

close up of one of the sculptures ~ by Jane LaFazio

The center sculpture at Queen Califia Magical Circle ~ by Jane LaFazio

selfie ~ by Jane LaFazio

San Diego Sketchcrawlers at Queen Califia Magical Circle