Recycled Circles

My recycled circles in progress. (12x12 inches) By Jane LaFazio 

I taught another workshop at San Clemente Art Supply, recently. This one was my popular Recycled Circles ~ mixed media on paper. Thought you'd like to see some pics of some of the fabulous student work.

That's me teaching in the great classroom at San Clemente Art Supply

Happy teacher me!

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

Student work ~ Recycled Circles

I'll be teaching at San Clemente Art Supply again, on May 4, Stamp Design and Carving. Save the date! Registration will open soon. 

Here's a video of some of my fabric recycled circles:

The beauty of my recycled circles project is it can be done on a paper substrate or with fabric, as an art quilt. The video below is an instructional video for the fabric version.

Download the instructional video here.

Valentines

hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

detail ~ hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

I have an exhibition, entitled TEA STORY, up right now at a local tea shop. I created 8 or 9 new works that include tea bags, especially for the show and sale. 

hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

detail ~  hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

After the show was hung, I decided to make some valentines, using the same techniques as the work I created for the TEA STORY. 

I used bits of ephemera found in my studio: unfinished quilts, pretty papers, tea bags, postage stamps, and machine stitched them to a small piece of watercolor paper. Then I added hand embroidery. When the small collages were complete, I zig zagged machine stitched the collages to pre-made greeting cards, stuck them in the envelope and sent them off.

hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

detail ~  hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

detail ~ hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

detail ~ hand made original Valentine by Jane LaFazio

You can see the large stitched collages I created for TEA STORY at Point Loma Tea, San Diego, until March 29th. And I'll be at the reception on Friday night, March 3. But I warn you, the show has only been up a few days and two pieces have sold. 

Here's the postcard for the exhibition at Point Loma Tea.

40 years ago today.......

Wedding Day, Lake Tahoe, Feb 5, 1977

Don and I met on St. Patrick's Day, in a bar in Palo Alto, CA, in 1976. We got married at Lake Tahoe by Rev. Love at the Love Chapel February 5, 1977, wearing blue jeans.

Love Chapel, Stateline, Nevada (back in the day)

 April 1977. Seattle. reception.

We moved from the San Francisco Bay Area in 1977 to Corvallis, Oregon and lived there until 1985.

1984. Seattle, Don's school reunion

Then, we moved to Seoul, South Korea, and lived there from 1985 to 1987.

10th Wedding Anniversary. 1988, Seoul, Korea

We moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and then to San Diego, CA in 1989.

photo booth over the years. Early 1990s

Florence, Italy 1998

Feb 5, 2011 in San Diego

Our 35th Anniversary February 2012 (wearing 3D glasses at a movie)

summer 2014, Sequoia National Park

Seattle, July 2016

40 years together. Through sickness and in health. Through laughter and tears and back to laughter.