Spoonflower fabric meets Kathi Price!

You know how I love my spoonflower fabric! These adorable fabric bins were made with my fabric and designed and sewn by Kathi Price and ordered via her etsy shop. You can order my Spoonflower fabric, made from my orginal watercolors and have Kathi sew you something very cool.

Wet Felting workshop

I taught a wet felting workshop this weekend for Visions Art Museum in San Diego. Two mornings, 9-noon each day. This picture was taken the morning of the second day, with everyone showing what they'd made the day before.

Here's how we start, laying out merino wool roving. I supply kits and students have the choice of 3 different color ways.





Here's the end of the second day. Some have cut their pieces up, or left them whole and embroidered, needle-felted and stitched.



fun workshop! I'll be teaching wet felting again, at Quilters' Studio near Thousand Oaks, CA on May 14 & 15th (2 mornings) and again in beautiful Idyllwild Summer Arts program for two full days July 1 & 2. You can see my schedule for additional details on both of these workshops.

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 34th wedding anniversary! This was taken, today, on Coronado with a view across the bay to San Diego in the background.

Cloth Paper Scissors CREATE mixed media retreat coming to SoCal

CREATE the mixed media art retreat is coming to Southern California and I'm teaching!
Registration starts February 8. But first go here and read a short interview of me and little about what I'll be teaching.

Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style on Saturday,  May 21

BIG BOOK on Thursday May 18

Fused Sheer Collage on Friday, May 20

Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style Workshop

I taught a "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style" workshop for the Seaside Quilters Guild yesterday, in Gillian's lovely home in La Jolla, CA. Thirteen students, some art school grads and some who said they never drawn or painted.

In my classes, we always draw from actual objects, never photos.

Clearly a talented group, to be able to eat cake and draw at the same time!

Here are the results of the morning's work. Lovely!!

And the afternoon's work

We had a terrific day of learning and laughing. I love teaching! This is what my Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style workshop looks like. I'll be teaching at various locations this year....... here's my schedule.



I snapped this while driving home from Gillian's.

shrinky dink

I do love shrinky dink. All my students, both kids and adults, like them too. Why? it's just fun! That's one of my watercolors below, and then, printed on shrinky dink for inkjet and baked above. Love it! It could be a button, or an embellishment or...

coffee shop journal

I'm teaching "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style" March 19 in Encinitas, California at the California Center for Creative Renewal. We could draw our breakfast, as our hostess puts out a fine spread. But the garden is really stunning!

On Location: Coffee shop

I'm setting a good example for my students in my online class, Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style ON LOCATION. We're in week two, and the location this week is a coffee shop. One of my students chose to draw a cute dog biscuit rather than order something with too many calories. Clearly, not my MO. (method of operation.) And yes, husb is by my side, also fulfilling one of my New Year's words.

dreaming of Venice

"Dreaming of Venice 1" completed. (machine needlefelted and hand-stitched. Tutorial on this process is here)

this and that

I told you about a profile of yours truly on the wonderful blog and resource ArtPlantae Today. Readers sent in some thought provoking questions and I've answered them here.

Another element for my Nostalgia series. The bird is one from my watercolor journal, transfered to the linen.

see page 36-39

My "Basillica San Marco" art quilt and article is in this issue (feb/march 2011) of Quilting Arts magazine. Wish you could see the quilt in person.

detail from "Basillica San Marco"

On location

One of my tiny sketchbooks and part of the Sketchbook Challenge. I visited Oceanside Museum of Art yesterday, to see Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries and an Imogen Cunningham Botanical exhibiton. My purse-size sketchbook, watersoluble pen, and waterbrush were perfect for some quick sketches.


Here's the page from this on location. Not to thrilled with the way it turned out, but I sure enjoyed the afternoon spent painting it.


And another, from the nearby winery.

Still dreaming of Venice

I'm still thinking of Venice and inspired by the beautiful wreck it is aspects. (ha, my first musically accompanied blog post!) This is a machine needlefeltd piece that I'm going to hand sew on. (You can see my tutorial here) It started with one of Suzanne's everything kits and some bits from my stash. I'm preparing it all for a segment on Quilting Arts TV that I'm filming next month.(gulp)

Beautiful Utah in July? here's the scoop on the art retreat I'm teaching.
Just found out I'm teaching at CREATE in Costa Mesa, CA in May.
Oh yea, and let's not forget Italy in 2012.

Etsy shop and Art Unraveled in Phoenix

"Pomegranate Past" just added to my JaneVille Etsy shop.


"Almost Ripe" just added to my JaneVille Etsy shop.

I'm thrilled to be teaching at Art Unraveled in Phoenix, Arizona again this year! I'll be teaching "Big Book" on Wednesday, August 3, "Monoprinting on cloth and paper" on Thursday, August 4, and "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style Pinecones & Pods" on Friday, August 5. Registration is now!

One more thing. Yesterday, in Mundo Lindo (the afterschool art program I created and teach) was a full circle moment. Check out this post.

Monotype Mania!

I love gelatin monotypes and my friends requested a day of it. Here they are, in Andy's studio. L to R: Susie Clark (in the back) Andy Hein, Helen Shafer Garcia, Pamela Underwood and Jill Hall

We spent most of the day making monoprints, having lunch, talking and laughing.

It was a gorgeous warm day, so we put some of our prints outside to dry.

These are some of mine.

   
When I got home, I selected one of my prints on fabric to begin sewing on. The pic on the right is from the back, some free motion machine stitching.

Here's the work in progress~ adding some hand stitching. Okay, a lot of hand stitching.

I'll be teaching a day of this, gelatin monoprinting, at the Long Beach Quilt Festival on July 29th.

Remember my fabric vase tutorial? Suzanne Stewart followed it and made a beautiful vase to go with her table runner. Check out her work here.