2023 was another year of trials, tribulations, teaching and creating

It's been a year since I posted. Lots going on and here are some photos from it. My first venture into illuminations. Studied with Risa Gettler.

Too much to do!

Stanford workshop as a guest teacher;

Soap Box Derby with SFMOMA

The entry was accepted. The miniture was put together by Dianne Platner and Aiko Cuneo. The group got together and we are scheduled to make derby on April 10 at McLaren Park. The big blue crayon was made by me, the chassi was made by Andry and Jim, eraser made by Monica Lee, Aiko made scissor and lots of the parts, and I made the tape measure and spool of thread and finished all the pencils, brushes and crayola box..

Creative Ladies Get Together

 This time I lead the craft that we do each time we celebrate the birthdays during that time. Usually we would have a pot luck, birthday cake and ice cream. Because of Covid, we decided, once more, to have a zoom get together.  We've been so lucky that everyone has shared a craft over the years. It has been a while since I had done it and one morning I thought of this; A patchwork card.

My first samples

Just some of the papers

 

 

 

 

Aiko's

Tomoko's

Margies

Lolly's

Heat Press Play Date

 Full day of fun with friends. We experimented with the heat press machine to do our botanical printing. It was fun trying previous known ways to print without the long waiting time. Most were of 4 minutes in the press. We were usually able to print a new set every 5-10 minutes as we got our pieces together. New toy! All these photos were taken by Dean.

 

 

 

 

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Summer Workshop for Friends of Calligraphy with Sharon Zeugin 2021

 Wonderful workshop with Sharon who gave us tons of ideas to meld sketching in Letters, Lines and Images. Here are some of my attempts to finish our papers into an accordian book.

 

Front cover made with my botanical print paper. wrapped with Amate paper strip

 

 

 

After a quick handwriting exercise, my attempt at my own letterforms.

The first page of the book with a double image attempt. First using a folded cola pen and then a sketch with a fine point marker and washed with watercolor.

One of the pages using walnut ink, acrylic orange ink, black pen and collaged with some asian wrapping papers and a web used from a grocery store potato bag....all on gesso...left is the front of the book.