Pink Polka ~ gelli plate monoprint

detail "Pink Polka" by Jane LaFazio  

detail "Pink Polka" by Jane LaFazio  

You know I love me my Gelli plate! Here's my latest, Pink Polka, measuring 10 x 10 inches. Paper on mounted on board.

  "Pink Polka" by Jane LaFazio (10 x 10 inches)

detail "Pink Polka" by Jane LaFazio  

I'll be teaching this workshop (Abstract collage using the Gelli Plate) at Art is You in Minneapolis on Friday, September 18. and at Art is You in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday, October 9.

Workshop description: If you’re new to mono-printing on gelli plates, or just love it, like I do, you’ll enjoy this class! You’ll learn many mono-printing techniques and use them on different sheer papers. By lunch time, you’ll have a stack of gorgeous colored papers! After lunch, you’ll compose and assemble a finished layered piece (or two) of original artwork, using your own beautiful papers with some additional mark making and maybe even a stitch or two. You’ll learn about composition and focal point combined with lots of pattern.

Cherry Sunday ~ a totally original art quilt

detail "Cherry Sunday" by Jane LaFazio 

detail "Cherry Sunday" by Jane LaFazio 

detail "Cherry Sunday" by Jane LaFazio 

detail "Cherry Sunday" by Jane LaFazio 

"Cherry Sunday" by Jane LaFazio (11x10 inches)

Published! Sequins and felt and beads, Oh My!

Quilting Arts magazine, page 62&63. August September 2015 issue.

Quilting Arts magazine, page 62&63. August September 2015 issue.

I've got a short article in the latest Quilting Arts magazine about creating with felt and bead and sequins. You can see me on Quilting Arts TV (Series 1600), demonstrating how to do this, too.

Triple your pleasure by joining me in an in-person one-day workshop entitled Felt Like Stitching, and I'll teach you to make your own milagro or stuffed, sequined and beaded thingey.

I'm teaching Felt Like Stitching  on October 10, at Art is You, in Stamford, CT. 

Corazon by Jane LaFazio

Heart Orange by Jane LaFazio

Nothing is worth more than THIS DAY by Jane LaFazio

Cherish by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ looking back on the Taos church

from my sketchbook 2014 LavenderSage Art Retreat ~ by Jane LaFazio
 

from my sketchbook 2013 LavenderSage Art Retreat ~ by Jane LaFazio

I showed you my journal pages from LavenderSage Art Retreat 2015 on my last post. Thought you'd be interested to see how I painted San Francisco de Asis the two years previously. 

from my sketchbook 2015 LavenderSage Art Retreat ~ by Jane LaFazio

I also wanted to share an insight from one of my online students. She is taking my beginning class "Sketching and Watercolor: Journal Style" and she wrote this after I introduced the third lesson. The assignment was to draw an object, straight to ink, using a continuous line. Here's what she wrote: 

"I had an epiphany about art journaling. Somehow as an avid writer, I would never worry about the finished outcome of a written journal page. It is about the JOURNEY....that moment in time. For some reason, I was not seeing this about the drawing. Yes, my brush and color technique needs work, yes, after I do it, I see how I might have done it better, but it doesn't matter. I get now that yes, you want to improve, so you can capture the moment, but it is just a moment in time. What you saw at that particular second, not a masterpiece." 

So true!

LavenderSage Art Retreat ~ from my sketchbook

 from my sketchbook ~ detail (photo by Jane LaFazio)

from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Since I was, after all, teaching LavenderSage Art Retreat, I couldn't fill my own journal. But here are some pages that are finished........or nearly.

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

The front door of Mabel Dodge Luhan Inn (photo by Jane LaFazio)

I designed and carved the stamp below, based on the iconic design on the door of the Inn.

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Teaching monoprinting (photo by Tina Larkin, Taos)

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

 from my sketchbook  (photo by Jane LaFazio)

LavenderSage Art Retreat ~ student work

Student Journals from LavenderSage Art Retreat 2015 (photo by Jane LaFazio)

The LavenderSage Art Retreat was 7 days, in magical Taos, New Mexico. At the end of the week, the students put together their pages into a journal. Here are some individual pages from the students journals:

            

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Then we put out all the journals on the table and oohed and ahhed!

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

Students, sharing their work. (photo by Jane LaFazio)

LavenderSage Art Retreat 2015 (photo by Tina Larkin, Taos)

Next post, I'll show you my journal.