Teaching at One Little House in 2013 and the Traveling Art Project (T.A.P.)

READ ALL ABOUT IT !!!!
 I've GOT NEWS ! 
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I am going to be teaching at One little House

-the newest Ning on the block-
 

Check it out, launch is 01-01-2013 
It will be filled with all kinds of Art and Craft
so exciting times ahead for expanding your creativity
join now ! Just click the link ↑
 See you there ♥

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...and I will be running this from One Little House as well, so another reason to quickly join the gang there...I have been thinking about this for quite some time now. I stumbled onto the traveling painting videos ages ago and was intrigued by this concept. Somehow I never found out what it looked like in the very end. Maybe it all took too long, or maybe not everybody posted videos. Anyway, I thought of throwing this idea onto your work benches and see what you think. There will be these guidelines and I have tried to keep it all "do-able" for everybody:  
T.A.P.2013 will start in January here at my studio in  
Middle Earth (you know.... New Zealand, but since Tolkien's books were made into films here we are all a little Hobbit-mad)  - Anyway, I will start with the first layer on an A4 size canvas board (this size is not too bad to send around) I will photograph and/or video it and blog (and Facebook/Twitter) about it and then I 'll post it to the next recipient in the last week of the month at the latest.

So the next artist will have it for February, will put her (or his) layer on and make a picture or video of that stage and send it to the 3rd artist etc. etc. The last person in December will then send it back to me :) and I will make sure to share it in an AMAZING blog with all your names and links of course :) All players will also receive a print of the finished painting at the end as a token for their time and effort in the project. If this sounds like a cool idea to you, message me, obviously there are only 11 more spots to play this game :D

Who's up for it ?

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Flying Fish Fresco - fly with me

Here's a little preview of the kind of things you could learn to make in my new workshop. They are approx 6.5 x 6.5 inch woodpanels with Fresco technique paintings. I'll show you exactly how to achieve this look. There will be videos and written instructions, supply information and PLAY PLAY PLAY ! I thought I'd show you, classroom opens on Monday 16 January, if you want to sign up click here: 

only US 55 if you sign up before 31 January ! 

After that this will be US 65 - classroom open until 1st August 2012

Crash and the Bad Dream

Ooohhhh, I had so many things I still wanted to post before the New Year and then, when editing some video material, the computer crashed and this was a MAJOR one and took FOREVER to get right. I still had the laptop (Halleluja) but all my images were on THIS computer....... so I will just make a quick post before we head into the countdown to 2012 (only 5+ hours to go here) Here I'll share a colour play I did in my journal yesterday....I had a bad dream this week that suddenly showed itself when I was doing this entry in one of my journals. So, I thought it was so fitting with the whole way I felt about the computer issue (up until this moment....yay ! the computer works again !!!! Thank heavens, I've got me such a wiz guy!) So ALL the other things ....I will post in 2012......see you then ♥

Loving thoughts

I wanted to give this technique a try after I saw some of Gritty Jane's works, it intrigued me and I have to say it is a lot of fun, I called this painting "Loving Thoughts" because of the spot the heart ended up in.
16x16 inch ( 40x40 cm) wrapped canvas

I have put in-between-photos as well, so you can see how I started this play

:)

OOHOO

another spread in my journal
Just playing around with materials and techniques
crayons, markers, some bright paints