Moving On

Now that my relief printing class is over, I have several projects that need completion.
I attended a great workshop given by my friend Pamela, and we wrote cinquain poetry. I offered to make books with the poetry, and two of the attendees accepted. These are the books that I created. They are triangular accordian books, wrapped in wrapped pipe cleaners.

This is the book on the left, opened out.

And the book on the right.

Since I have to mail this, I am making

tuckboxes

(click here for instructions) or

see http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox

One is complete, and the other is opened and creased.

Note: legs are Babycakes (see below)

Revised Chine Colle

This is the revised purple chine colle, trimmed and with a wrapped

pipe cleaner added. More additions will be forthcoming


Same for the brown chi chine colle

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Off to see my Mother this weekend, so no posts from me for a while!

Here are the final prints from my relief print class. We were working on Chine Colle, but my results were not what I expected. I tried using fabric on all of them, and I think that was part of the problem. I like the process, and will have to work on the fabric angle.

Great class, and I plan to take more classes from Carol Sanchez

Purple Solar Circles

Purple Kanji



Brown Kanji

Red Solar Circles

Red Solar Circles on Dictionary Page

Rainbow Artist's Meeting

I am rejoining a group of artists called Rainbow Artists.

We made collage tonight, and I went totally unprepared! All that I had was a sheet of copy paper, magazine pages and some gloppy Elmer's glue! Not bad for making do!

More Prints from Relief Printing Class

Blue Aborigine, I may have forgotten to really ink the blue...

Orange Aboriginie

Red Aborigine

Yellow Black Circles

I am loving this class, next week we are doing Chine Colle. I am ready for that!

Next installation of Relief Printing

Blue Circles version 1 and 2
Next week we are doing Japanese wood prints and chine colle. Can't wait.

Windy, windy Albuquerque

Unfortunately, the winds have whipped a fire that was almost contained into a raging wildfire. The wind usually blows in the spring, but this is really nasty. Windy, dusty and now smoky! YUCK

But the relief printing class continues, we did multiple plate three color reductive printing last night. My registration is HORRIBLE, but it does not look this bad in person! First cut

Second Cut

More Santa Fe Photos

What is this????

TA DA! We were all fascinated by this artwork (talk about mixed media) that is hanging in the Capitol in Santa Fe! I did not record the name of the artist, but this is amazing

Mission San Miguel

An interesting view, Jan!

Straw adobe (straw does not show up that well) but it is in there.

Flying Buttress

Window covering over the oldest house in Santa Fe

Enjoying the spring sunshine

Great pics from Santa Fe trip last week

Pink Adobe Restaurant
I forgot my camera when we went to Santa Fe last week but Jan remembered hers. We saw a great SAQA show in the roundhouse and everyone picked their favorite quilt. There were 6 of us, and there were 6 different favorites!

Jan picked La Memoria del Cerro Grande by Susan Rojas

Karen picked Garden of Dyer's Delight by Colleen Sizemore

Sandy picked Desert Prickly Poppy by Yadi Flannery

Winona picked Sand Patterns by Nancy Steidle
Michelline picked JiFaF's Giraffes by Julie FilatoffShari picked Passages by Mary Olivea

5 of the 6 of us

Capital Rotunda

More tomorrow!

Relief Printing Class Number Two, we actually printWoodcut on handmade paper

Poppies #2 (the good copy)

Poppies #1 (not inked well enough)

Is it a tree with the moon in the middle

Or a face?

Aboriginal #1, probably my best print.

The aboriginal, poppies and the woodcut will probably all be reductive prints.

Carol Sanchez is an excellent instructor, and I LOVE this class!

I have come out of hibernation!

Just like these daffodils, given to my by a new friend. "thanx" W.

After my busy week, I stayed at home today and worked on homework for the printing class that I am taking. After some consideration, I decided to pass on the woodcut portion, and concentrate on lino for now. I had a hard time controlling my cuts on the wood (I know that I did not have the right tools at home for that... I could not use the speedball cutters, as I could not control where my lines ended. And I will be busy enough on the lino. Here are two preliminary lino cuts (poppies are inspired by Linda and Laura Kemshall's book The Painted Quilt)

I have decided that this free form design looks aboriginal.
Both of them are rather hard to see, as I have not pulled a proof print yet.

I also cut a speedball rubber with a dragonfly motif.

I still love this site!

see more crazy cat pics

I get an email every day with the new posts, and some I just can't resist!

Spent the day in a workshop with my friend Pamela, and it was a very good experience. I am taking tomorrow off, as I have had some non-work function almost every day this week! A lazy day will do me good. Of course, I have some homework for the Carol Sanchez Relief Printing class, so it will not be a totally lazy day.

Great Day in Santa Fe

We are so lucky living only 67 miles from Santa Fe! Six of us took off today and went to the Roundhouse. There was a SAQA show at the Capitol, and they blew us all away! Fantastic work, and all so different. We all picked out a different favorite quilt, and enjoyed talking about techniques, etc. Three of us were quilters (two rather traditional, and ME), and three artists, but non-quilters/fabric people.

There is also an astonishing amount of fantastic art just hanging in the halls!

We went to lunch at the Pink Adobe, and had great food and an even better dessert. I highly recommend it for lunch or dinner.

On the way back to Albuquerque, we stopped at a show opening in Bernalillo, and then had dinner at the Range Cafe!

All in all, an inspiring day.

I came home and worked on the Altered Book Round Robin, and here are the pictures. The theme was Girls Gone Bad, and I used several quotes, two tags, fiber, and a library card pocket.

Micheline, here is my take on the circle quilt: