Raging Redbows and Rainstrings

Today was the opening of the exhibit "Raging Redbows and Rainstrings" at Lightwave Gallery in Totara Street - Mount Maunganui

Jenny and I spent almost 2 days this week setting it all up , hanging about 140 pieces of artworks made during this term in the artclasses by 50 cool kids from Tauranga and Mount Maunganui. We were excited to see how they would react to seeing their work in a proper gallery setting amongst artworks by established local artists. We were blessed, they were so proud, they were so happy, there were so many that came, with parents, grandparents, siblings, family and friends. Theses kids did such a great job creating all these works of art with our encouragement. They are all such an intricate part of the whole exhibition, it made us feel proud as their teachers. Here are some shots of the exhibit, you can see more here on the Facebook page (just click)   

Raging Redbows and Rainstrings

" Well have you ever seen a rainstring before

so colourful it made you want to skip ?

Or tied a redbow on your door

and pretended to be fishing off a big ship ?

then come journey with us into that deep blue sea

where the raging monsters live wild and free

Red strings will keep you safe, draw you up to the sky

where rainbows full of colours soar and fly "

{by Joyce van der Lely and Karen Wright}

  

I haven't been on my blog for a while, just busy, busy with work, not much art time for myself. Busy in a fun way though, don't get me wrong. One large chunk of my time goes into the planned exhibit for my kids art classes arts in July :)

I am organizing this together with Jenny Grant, fellow artist and friend who also teaches kids at her daughter's primary school this term. Stay posted I will keep you updated, or follow the progress on Facebook

Alô - alô !

Started the holiday workshops for the kids today, curious what we do ? check it out here * It's winter here and today it rained and rained and rained some more, but we were warm inside with all the art supplies....lots of FUN !

This ostrich seems to be calling out : "alô, alô " !

just a bit of journaling

I have just been journaling a bit, getting some thoughts out and started some classes in the studio too.

More to post this weekend :)

Rhythm of my Art - Volume II

More music inspired paintings I did - a "Blues-y" set

The Rhythm of my Art - Sax I

The Rhythm of my Art - Strings II

The Rhythm of my Art - JazzSinger II

Rhythm of my Art - volume I

The Rhythm of my Art - Copper II

The Rhythm of my Art - Copper I

The Rhythm of my Art - Strings I

The Rhythm of my Art - Jazz Singer I

The Rhythm of my Art - La Troupe

 

♥ ♫♪♫ ♥ 

Part one of my "revelations" of finished projects I have been working on lately. I call this series "Rhythm of my Art" They are inspired by the Jazz Festival that came to the Historic Village this Easter Weekend. It was wonderful, lots of Live music in the streets, the weather was sunny, the athmosphere great and the living felt EasY ♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♪

Happy St Paddy's Day and OPEN

 SCRUMTUOUS French Macarons, mmmm sweet Angels xx made by my man

 St Patricks Day and Multicultural Day at the Historic Village today

 I managed to open the doors to the Studio, only just, you don't want to see me now or feel like I feel....but we managed to do it ! Will go to sleep before midnight tonight and try to sleep in a little tomorrow. And then it is back to painting (the NICE kind, the pictures kind :)

Oh and the sign still needs to get up, and I still need to make more for the shop, little things that make a shop look complete.....but all in all, I think we did pretty well.

Distressing a sign

So I am still working on getting the studio ready to open on Saturday this week ( only two more sleeps...) Today I finished woodburning and painting the sign that is going to hang from the front of the shop building. But I wanted it to look "vintage", so when my -almost- 11 year old son got home from school, I gave him a piece of chain and told him he could hit it.....his eyes got really big..."you mean hit your NEW sign Mum ?" ...."yes"......"really ?"..."yes"......"oh, cool !!!!!!" so here he is, hitting the board hard ! (which little boy wouldn't like to do that huh ?)

  

 For my lessons, I also picked up a wooden table and 6 chairs I thrifted (did I tell you before, this project is a "on-a-shoestring" project ? Anyway, table is wonderful, but the chairs, the covers...horrible...so I grabbed some of my fabricstash and started pulling off all the fabric and now I am recovering them....'s gonna be all good !

 

 

Better have a little sleep as well, overslept this morning, blah !

♥ Mail and all cleaned up ♥

Busy, busy day again....beautifuil sunny ☼ and nice and warm. A day with a little star again too: Firstly I received this amazing altered domino book in the mail today ♥  I was the lucky winner in a blog give-away from Laura  at Artfully Musing (go on, click here and have a look, she makes wonderful things !)

and then I went to my studio/workshop and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned ! I just can't help it, I had to take another couple of pics today :) Telephone got connected as well and tomorrow I can start bringing in stuff, YAY ! Also there are videoclips waiting to be edited for the Fresco workshop (yes dear students, we are going to finish this large project as well ;) 

 

 

w-i-p everywhere

I have W-I-P's (works in progress) everywhere now !

I have one partly on the easel and on the floor 
(for the Fresco Workshop class)

I have one where the paintwork is drying after a weekend of doing "that kind" of painting and where I still need to majorly clean and put shelves or something and hang artworks etc.etc. and get the telephone line connected -tomorrow- and the electronic payment machine connected -on Friday-

(in the Young at Art Studio)

There are still things I need to order for the studio as well, phonecalls to make, kids to take to school, ballet, TaeKwonDo, music lessons. Thank my lucky Angels for my man, who helps me out and cooks me dinners !!! At this moment he is sawing a wooden sign that I will be woodburning and painting -for the outside of the shop- :) Yes we are hammering away !

 So no time for much blogging at the moment, they will be coming soon though...just watch this spot !