tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43093061828920141142023-11-15T23:45:26.182-08:00Mommy-gatawny SoupA pinch of this and a dash of that - like a delicious soup, my varied textile, travel and paper based art interests create a rich experience of deeply developed textures and colours. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-14076201952626234292019-01-21T13:39:00.002-08:002019-01-21T13:42:27.703-08:00Kerrisdale community art<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b3vi2" data-offset-key="2tamc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the spring of 2009, I was hired by the Kerrisdale Community Centre to work with residents to create two thousand and ten postcards.You can see all the postcards <a href="http://postcards-for-2010.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. It was my first paid gig as a community artist. It was also my first paid gig after being a full-time mum for several years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many of those postcards were made by students at Kerrisdale Elementary School. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This spring, exactly 10 years later, I'll be returning to Kerrisdale Elementary to do another community art project. This time, I'll be working with the grade 6/7 classes on a weaving project that brings attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans. Thanks to </span><a href="https://artstarts.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Artstarts in Schools</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.vancouverbiennale.com/learn/programs/register-3/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Vancouver Biennale Big Ideas in Schools</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> for grants to support this project.</span></div>
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Last summer, my daughter and I had the opportunity to participate in a <a href="https://www.vancouverbiennale.com/" target="_blank">Vancouver Biennale</a> project related to one of the artworks in their current exhibition. Paradise has Many Gates is a mosque made from chain link fencing. It is currently located at Vanier Park in Vancouver.</div>
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10 textile artists and 5 graphic designers were invited to create textiles in the form of prayer rugs. As part of the project, we had a series of field trips to the Al Salaam Mosque in Burnaby, to the Musqueam Cultural Pavilion, and to the archives of the Museum of Vancouver. The artists were paired with a designer to develop the concept for a rug. Our piece is called "Find What You Need". </div>
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There are many layers of meaning in our rug, including some hidden messages, like the peace sign drawn onto the warp threads under the circle.<br />
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The finished rug. Viewers are invited to find their own meaning in the piece.<br />
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The Weaving Our Way group meets at the Dunbar Community Centre twice a month. This fall many of the weavings that the group has created were exhibited, first at the Richmond City Hall Galleria, then at the UBC Nest, and finally at the Roundhouse community centre. Many of the group members donated a personal weaving that I assembled into a collaborative blanket.<br />
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You can see a video about the project <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uZQXKjJxJI" target="_blank">here</a>. Many thanks to the <a href="http://www.myvacs.org/" target="_blank">Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society</a> for sponsoring this project.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-47189258399875732882018-07-22T10:51:00.000-07:002018-12-21T10:52:44.321-08:00Guatemala - Embroidery workshop with Casa Flor in Antigua<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The perfect ending to the trip - an evening of crafts and cocktails courtesy of <a href="https://casaflordesigns.com/" target="_blank">Casa Flor</a> designs.</div>
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I came home with a bag full of their scrap fabrics that I later stitched together into a little jacket for myself.<br />
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The main reason for my trip to Guatemala in May was to learn about Mayan backstrap weaving techniques. (The trip was organized by <a href="http://www.threadcaravan.com/" target="_blank">Thread Caravan</a>, and I can't say enough good things about them. If you are interested in learning about the Guatemalan Mayan culture and textiles, I would wholeheartly recommend a Thread Caravan trip. They also offer trips to Oaxaca, Mexico and Panama). We spent two days weaving in San Antonio Palopo with Zenieda and her lovely family.</div>
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We spent a day with the Lema Association in San Juan La Laguna learning about dyieng with local plants. We used "chilka" to get yellow - those would be the leaves in the first photo; they smelled a lot like chamomile but they are from a large leafy shrub like plant). We used"achiote" also known as annatto for orange - this was a paste made from the seeds of a fruit; it is also used as a spice to flavour and colour food. The blue is not indigo, it is called "sacatinta" and is from the wood of a tree. It dyed the cotton yarn that they had a beautiful blue colour, but my scarf came out purple.</div>
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For the past few years, I've been working on a yearly project. In 2015 I made 52 small books - about one each week. In 2016 it was all about fabrics. Weaving, knitting, crochet, dyeing, printing, felting, stitching and embroidery all made an appearance during the year. </div>
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I started the year thinking that I would make 52 art dolls, and I started work on the first one, but I was not feeling very inspired until I realized that I had chosen the wrong theme. I actually wanted to spend the year working with fabrics in different ways. When I made the decision to change my plans, the ideas just started to tumble out of my head. The first piece that I stitched includes the art doll that I had started - it's just flat rather than stuffed. The powder pink background fabric is some corduroy that I've had since the 1980s. Yes really - it was originally a skirt that I used to wear back in the day when pastels were all the rage. I cut it into a pair of baby pants that my kids wore when they were little. I hadn't anticipated how many memories would work their way into this project, but I love all the bits of nostalgia that got stitched into this project.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-85166641728003815032017-12-13T23:17:00.002-08:002017-12-13T23:17:47.776-08:00Anvil Centre Residency Week 4I didn't actually spend any time at the studio during this last week. I had several things that I needed to work on, but all my supplies are at home, and it made more sense to stay at home to work. I managed to finish the red/pink wrap which I'm going to call Maillardville since the inspiration for the shape came from my students at Place des Arts in Maillardville. I also got a good start on two other garments - a lightweight linen poncho and a white vest. Both these pieces need more work, but I'm happy with where they are going. I had been hoping to get more garments made this month since I have so many pieces of handwoven fabric, not to mention, hand dyed fabric as well as an assortment of scarves and things that I want to make into clothing. However, I realize that I can't rush the process, and I need to spend the time to let the ideas percolate. After some reflection, I've decided to devote my 2018 annual project to making garments. Rather than a weekly entry (as I've been doing for the past few years), my intention is to make one garment each month during 2018. If I make 12 pieces by the end of the year, I should have made a considerable dent in my "stash".<br />
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My very last task for my residency was a community engagement activity. I did a community weaving that was conveniently scheduled for the same day as the annual Santa Claus parade along Columbia Street. We had a really good turn out and many children contributed to the weaving. A few of them had learned about weaving at the exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology. I think they enjoyed having another opportunity to use their new skills.<br />
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This residency is plodding along. I haven't been able to spend as much time in the studios as I had anticipated when I first considered this residency. At the time that I put in the proposal, I had no idea how much work I'd be doing just a year later. Last year my residency at Leigh Square was my major focus at the time and I was able to spend two full days on site working on my art. This year, the residency is just one of many things that I'm juggling. Although, I have studio space booked three days a week, I've only been managing to spend a few hours there on each of those days. </div>
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This week I was able to spend some time working on an actual garment. I hand stitched the red/pink fabric into a wrap. The fabric is a 1/2 twill fabric that I wove with two heddles on my rigid heddle loom. I put the warp on the loom last year at Leigh Square and finished most of the weaving at home. I finished up the fringes during the first week of this residency.</div>
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We came up with this shape when I took this fabric to show my students at Place des Arts. It's a basic ruana shape, but with the back draped rather than cut. I decided to add a gusset at the back neckline to give a bit of ease. Since I didn't have any extra fabric, or access to a sewing machine, I decided to needle weave the gusset. I like that it is a seamless finish, but it sure took a long time, and I had to repeatedly remind myself of something that I often say to students who are impatient to finish things quickly: "This isn't a race". </div>
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I've been doing a sketch each week at and around the Anvil Centre. I wasn't feeling very inspired the first week. The person I started sketching got up and walked away before I got very far along, so I ended up drawing the garbage cans. Last week I went over to the River Market to say hi to Susan from Cosy Yarns as well as Leslie and Alice who are involved with managing the Market. Leslie even ended up in my sketch for the week! This past week, I sketched the view from my studio window. </div>
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I finally finished the crow tapestry. I was quite happy to get this one off the loom. I was determined to weave this piece intuitively without using a cartoon. It is okay, but I don't think that the SAORI idea of weaving without a plan is really well suited to pictoral tapestries. </div>
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I was quite surprised to see some Salish looms in one of the offices at Anvil Centre and I barged right in and interrupted a meeting to find out about them. It turns out that the one on the left belongs to Debra Sparrow, and I think the other one is used in New West school programs. What a coincidence! Debra and I lead a weaving group that meets at the Dunbar Community Centre a couple of times each month.<br />
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Seeing these looms gave me an idea for the community engagement activity that I'll be doing as part of the residency. I'll be doing a collaborative community weaving: on December 2nd using my own Salish loom.</div>
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All the details are here: <a href="http://vancouver.carpediem.cd/events/5225656-community-weaving-with-dawn-livera-at-new-westminster-arts-services/" target="_blank">Community Weaving with Dawn Livera</a></div>
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I also came across a display of woven baskets from around the province that were being put out for a youth program. They belong to the New West museum. This is just a small sampling. I asked how the museum came to have so many First Nations baskets, and they said that they don't know the history of most of them, but some of them came from residents who purchased them from someone "who came knocking at their door". One of the weavers in the Dunbar group had recently brought in a piece that she had purchased that way. She said that people have got to know that "she buys things", so they show up at her door when they need some cash. The fellow from the museum was surprised to hear that the practice still continues today.</div>
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I was amused that the first loom that I grabbed had the warp wrapped with some recycled paper from my time as the Literacy Outreach Coordinator in New West - in a previous life it was an agenda for one of our task group meetings.<br />
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I finished the set of nine wish flags that I had been working on and I made another set of four. The hand stitching on these took much longer than I had expected (doesn't everything?) These are for a "house" themed show next month. I also wanted them to work for a couple of exhibitions that I have coming up next year. One is themed around recycled art and the other is about handstitched stories that were something else before becoming art. I think they tick all the boxes. I'm glad that they are done now, and that I can focus on some more weaving.<br />
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When I applied for this residency, I thought I would spend my time making garments from some of the hand woven fabric that I've been accumulating. I have several pieces from last year's residency at Leigh Square, as well as some other pieces that I've worked on over the year.<br />
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I've had to rethink that plan. If I want to do any garment construction, that would mean that I'd have to bring in a sewing machine, mannequin, mirror etc, etc. This residency is just one month long, and I realized that I would spend most of the first week moving in and getting stuff set up. It would likely take most of the last week to get everything packed up and taken away again. That all seems to be too much effort for what would end up being just two weeks of working time. As it turns out, I also have some other more pressing priorities.<br />
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I've somehow talked myself into being part of a group show next month with the theme of "houses" - the actual title is still under discussion. I also have a show next fall themed around hand stitched textiles. I've started work on some "wish flags" that can be used for both shows. Wish flags are like hand made prayer flags that share messages of good will when they are hung in public spaces. This group can be hung together or individually.<br />
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I did get some work done on a piece of handwoven fabric that is destined to become a garment. I spent some time twisting the fringes on this twill fabric that I started weaving last year at Leigh Square. Twisting fringe is not the most exciting thing to do, and I've obviously been putting it off for a year!. At the spinning class that I'm taking we were talking about "thigh spinning", and I realized that I could use this same technique to twist the fringe. I was quite pleased with the results.</div>
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I had taken this piece ito my weaving class at Place des Arts and we started playing around, draping it on some of the students. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, but we came up with a very elegant way to wear it that would just need a bit of hand sewing to make it into a very wearable garment.</div>
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Like I said, it was a slow start to the residency. Let's hope I get more done over the next few weeks.<br />
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Last week I started a month long residency at the Anvil Centre. This is brand new facility on Columbia Street in New Westminster. I used to work right around the corner at Purpose Society running parenting groups, and I also worked in New West as the Literacy Outreach Coordinator for the community. Being back there feels very comfortable and familiar to me.<br />
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My residency got off to a slow start. I was supposed to start last Wednesday, but I had had a very heavy workshop schedule and I just did not want to leave the house, or even open my mouth that morning. By mid afternoon, I decided that I would go and check out the space without planning on doing any work. When I arrived at the Anvil Centre, no one there even knew I was coming. They managed to find someone to give me a key to my office space - it's a bit like a windowless cupboard really, but I'll mainly use it as a private and locked storage space - something that I didn't have at the residency that I did last year at Leigh Square in Port Coquitlam.<br />
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Fortunately, I don't have to work in the office. That would have been a deal breaker for me. I cannot create in a space without natural light. There are some very nice bright studios with large windows right across the hall from my office that I can use whenever I'm there.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-46129050576372666932017-10-11T12:18:00.001-07:002017-10-11T12:31:34.427-07:00Drawing like a childI'm teaching an adult class on "art fundamentals" - things like line, colour, shape etc. It is an interesting exercise for me because my contrary nature makes me not want to follow the "rules". Last night's session was on shape. This was a particularly difficult one for me. I've actively avoided thinking about the basic shapes of objects for most of my life, and I know exactly why.<br />
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When I was a child, someone (yes, I do remember who it was) gave me a book about drawing birds. The book had step by step instructions for drawing a variety of birds. Each drawing started with a basic egg shape and built from there. I tried to follow the directions. I really did, but laying down those basic shapes sucked all the joy out of drawing for me. I tossed the book aside, and kept drawing my own way. However, somewhere deep down inside, I believed that one day, (when I became a "grown up"), I would understand how to do things in a logical, systematic way, instead of in my own random, childish, juvenile way. Well, perhaps I didn't quite use those words at the time - I was only 8 after all, but nevertheless, that's what I thought for a very long time.<br />
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In one of her books, Lynda Barry (look her up if you don't know her work) writes about how kids draw simply for the joy of making lines on a page, they don't worry about what the lines look like, or what they will become, they just draw. She says that for many of us, at some point that all changes, and we start to worry about whether or not our drawings look any good, and the "two questions" that take over. The two questions are "is it good?" and "does it suck?" I feel like teaching adults to draw is really about teaching them to forget about the two questions.<br />
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Here's some of the art that people did yesterday. I'm really excited at how they turned out.<br />
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Before the adult class, I had two children's classes. We read a book called "A Perfect Square" by Michael Hill, and then made art from a "perfect square" of origami paper. I liked the activity enough that I used it in the adult class as well. Here's a peek. The top row are by 3-4 year olds, the middle row by 5-7 year old and the bottom row by grown-ups.<br />
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I wanted to make more, so I gathered the Muckabout Kids (and a few grown ups too) to make some that we could exhibit all together.<br />
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All the bugs were exhibited at the 2017 Living Room Art in the Heights event. They were everywhere, flying from the ceiling, hanging from the walls, crawling around a cage. As a happy accident, there were several bug themed videos playing in one of the rooms where our bugs were displayed.<br />
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I managed to almost immediately break the sample bowl that she gave me, because that's what happens when you try to carry an armload of yarn, a warping board, and a little ceramic bowl all at the same time. Nonetheless, I thought the warp looked great with the shards of the bowl.<br />
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So there I was weaving along, thinking about the beach, using lots of blue/green and turquoise yarns, with some hits of putty and even pink. I was enjoying how the table runner was turning out, when suddenly, I decided that it needed to become a circle scarf. I had left lots of warp at the beginning, thinking it would become an extra long fringe, so when I got near the end of the warp, I unwound it and wove it in as weft. </div>
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At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to teach art to kids, but I've come to realize that I enjoy coming up with project ideas and making the samples for myself. Seeing the kids enjoy the creative process is an added bonus. I especially love how the art they make looks nothing like my samples.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-76080583164558125162017-06-07T09:07:00.001-07:002017-06-07T09:07:18.606-07:00Vancouver Mini Maker Faire this weekend.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I've been teaching lots of kid's art classes recently. I didn't plan to, but it just sort of fell into my lap. I really love how fearless children are with art materials. They just take whatever supplies happen to be lying around that start making things.<br />
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Drawing on the white board is very popular with one of my classes. This is the message that one of my young students decided to share.<br />
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My daughter recently did an "artist apprenticeship" for her high school work experience. The group decided to create artwork with the theme "conformity". Most of the students did drawings or paintings. One person created a welded metal dress, called "The Cage". This is the weaving my daughter did as her contribution to the exhibit. All the artwork is on display at the MacGill branch of the Burnaby Public Library until the end of May.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-170399134843588432017-04-11T19:58:00.000-07:002017-04-11T20:08:01.585-07:00Place des Arts classes<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's what we did at today's Paint, Print, Portfolio kid's class at Place des Arts. </span><br />
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The second session of the adult Exploring Acrylics class is tomorrow. In addition to the individual paintings, we are working on a collaborative canvas. I started it off with a bit of paint and some scraps of paper stuck down. I wish I had taken a "before" photo before the group started painting. </div>
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These are some of the things that people are working on at the Sustainable Weaving project at the Dunbar Community Centre. This is a project of the<a href="http://www.myvacs.org/" target="_blank"> Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society (VACS).</a> I think almost everyone is a novice weaver. We are challenging people to upcycle, or use materials that they already have. Most people are using torn strips of fabric for their weaving, but one participant uses leftover bits of sock yarn. That would be her long narrow piece in the top right.<br />
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The project started out as a "Creative Weaving Project". Musqueam weaver, Debra Sparrow showed us how to use traditional Salish looms - a tradition that she and her sister revived in their community. Historically, the weavings were made with goat hair, but these days, chunky yarn made for sheep's wool is used - usually it is the six strand wool used to make Cowichan sweaters. The problem is that you need to spin the yarn first, while maintaining the thickness. It is an overwhelming task for my little drop spindle. I started to think about using materials that are more commonly available to me - that would allow me to keep the chunky quality of this style of weaving.<br />
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This piece uses several strands of thinner yarns. I like the way that you blend the colours by combining yarns that have slightly different hues<br />
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I also experimented with using torn strips of fabric to make a "rug rag" style weaving and came up with this weaving. :<br />
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Since VACS had a stash of fabric scraps that needed a purpose, the Sustainable Weaving Project.<br />
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We are hoping that everyone who participates in the project will contribute a small weaving, perhaps with a symbol that has meaning to them. We will combine all the contributions to make a larger collaborative piece. We don't yet know what form the finished piece will take. We will let that emerge organically from the materials.When it is completed, it will be displayed at the Dunbar Community Centre.<br />
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Our Sustainable Weaving sessions are on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month 4-6pm at Dunbar Community Centre in Vancouver. They are free and open to drop-in visitors.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-72515298226699833372017-04-03T11:51:00.003-07:002017-04-03T11:51:42.479-07:00Gelli Printing Play Date<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some arty friends of mine organized a gelli printing play date. The last time we did this was about two years ago, and that was the last time that most of us had even used our gelli plates. I've never actually used mine at home. For those of you wondering what the heck a Gelli Plate is: it is a tool for making deliciously wonderful and surprising monoprints. You can use acrylic paint and all kinds of textured things to create the prints. Here's a peek. <div>
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I don't generally rush out to buy fancy art tools, but this one is definitely worth the cost. You can create lots of interesting papers to use in art projects in an afternoon. I came away from our play date afternoon with about 80 unique papers. Here are a few of my favourites:</div>
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Last week, I was asked if I could teach some kid's art classes at Place des Arts - that start this week! I haven't done much art with young children for a while, so it took some time to wrap my mind around what I would do with them. My own kids are too old to use as guinea pigs anymore, and I had to come up with a plan on my own.<br />
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One of the classes is called "Paint, Print, Portfolio". I thought we'd start by making colourful portfolios. My tools of choice:<br />
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<li>recycled heart and stick shaped wax crayons that have been made with IKEA ice cube trays (I found them at a thrift store, and they've become my new favouite tool for adding colour to my own art journals.)</li>
<li>scented markers - I recently started to clean out my studio (it's a bit like an archaeological dig) and found a very large selection of them, and what kid doesn't love smelly markers?</li>
<li>colourful duct tape.</li>
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Paint, Print, Portfolio: Tuesdays starting April 4th, 4-5 pm for 5-7 year olds</div>
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Imagine That: Fridays starting April 21, 4-4:45 pm for 3-5 year olds and 5-6 pm for 5-7 year olds.</div>
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I'll also be teaching an adult class that I'm really excited about. I've got some fun "explorations" planned:</div>
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Exploring Acrylics: Wednesdays starting April 5th, 7-9 pm.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309306182892014114.post-50622622261493207702017-03-23T16:47:00.000-07:002017-03-23T16:48:17.776-07:00All about the kidsIt's Spring Break here, but this is the first year that my own kids do not have a break at the same time. My older daughter is in her first year of university, so she had a break back in February. Since no one wanted to miss school (really!) we're staying home.<br />
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Last week, I did get to spend some time with other people's children. On Wednesday, I was at the Katzie Children's Festival. I took my Salish loom and we did a collaborative weaving.<br />
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Lots of the kids knew what they were doing since they've done this type of weaving at school, and yes, those are the ends of balloons that you can see in the finished weaving.<br />
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On Friday, I subbed for the regular instructor at the Place des Arts Spring Break Camp. I had 35 kids that morning. fortunately not all at the same time. We made felted easter eggs.<br />
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My annual project for this year is to do a sketch each week. I've been good about doing the sketches each week, but less good about posting them regularly. Here's what I did in January: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Week 2: There's a spoon here with your name on it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Week 3: A tablespoon here, a tablespoon there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Week 4: You need a cup of coffee, maybe</td></tr>
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