Showing posts with label Jazzy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazzy. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Prepping for the Summer Art Project

Drying teabags on fabric.

I spent some time in the kitchen today preparing for this summer's family art project.

Teabags waiting for the boiling water.
Black and green teabags soaking.
Why waste tea? The teabags are drying on cloth and more cloth is soaking in the tea.

Every summer, I put on my artistic thinking cap and come up with a project to share with my nieces and nephew and other family members.

In the past we've:
This summer, I was inspired by one of my Story Cloth students, Susan P. For one of her story cloths she printed designs on dried teabags. I even decided to write my upcoming Newsletter about Deconstructing Tea...using dried teabags, the little envelopes they come, the tags and string and even the boxes to create little pieces of tea art (Hope you'll sign up for Julie B Booth Surface Design News (if you haven't already) to find out more about it!)

Some of the teabag prints from the next issue of Julie B Booth Surface Design News.

My plan is for all of us to make little books using teabags for pages. We'll collect small leaves and other nature textures and print on the teabags. The covers will be made from softened and painted brown paper. As usual, I'm already getting excited to see what my nieces and nephew do. They always surprise and amaze me!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Jazzy and Friends


Today, I taught back-to-back workshops. Both ended up being mom and daughter private lessons.

First was my, Jazzy class...

Miri's doll



Carrol's doll

Miri was ready to do many more dolls to add to her growing collection.


Next was my Wrapped Wire Animal class...


Marissa' pig with rainbow hair.

We had a laugh, especially about the rooster's beret!

Jennifer's rooster

Thanks for a fun day!

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Back to Teaching

Cheryl V.

 After being down in Savannah for a week, I'm trying to get back into my life. It was so great to be with family. We spent a weekend remembering all the great times we had with Dad before he got ill. It was incredible how after all this time we could piece together the special stories and details about Dad. How he held his pipe, his incredibly squeaky office chair, all the nicknames he had for us kids. I didn't know that it would be  a funny, happy and sad experience all at the same time.

I've been thrown back into my life and I'm trying to get my bearings again. Teaching yesterday helped with that. I spent all of yesterday in the classroom teaching two short workshops, which I dubbed the messy workshop (Just Gelatin) and the un-messy workshop (Jazzy). Both classes had four students (and one student, Cheryl, stayed for the entire day). All of these students were a pleasure to teach. Such enthusiasm was just the balm I needed!

Cheryl V.
Cheryl V.
The morning workshop was all about gelatin printing. We all agreed that it needed to be a longer class as students were just getting into the flow of experimentation when we had to clean up.

Barbara G.
Barbara G.
Barbara H.
Barbara H.
Ruth C.
Ruth C.
Two moms and two daughters spent the afternoon making my wrapped wire doll, Jazzy. We played doll dress-up, creating clothes and accessories for our Jazzys using fabric strips, pipe cleaners, beads and yarn. The end of class became a fashion shoot with our Jazzys posing for the camera.

Adriana H.
Angela C-H.
Cheryl V.
Yene

Thank you to all my students for helping me get back into flow of my life.

Monday, February 11, 2013

A "Wild" Time

Dragon by Deena D.
I spent yesterday teaching two adult/child classes at G Street Fabrics. And even though each class only had one actual child, the adults came with their ready-for-anything child-like minds.

We had a wild time!

Here's what we were up to...

A Bevy of Beasts from my Wrapped Wire Animals class.

Grasshopper by Lourdis L.
Pegasus by Lauren L.
Ostrich in process by Gloria S.

A few Jazzys whooping it up from my Jazzy: A Wrapped Doll with Attitude!

Jump Roping Jazzy by Devon C.
Ready for Anything Jazzy by Allie-Blue E.
Wild Woman Jazzy by Tina T.

These classes are always fun, especially for me!