One of my favorite on-line inspirations, Alisa Burke, is hosting
a sale this week for her
on-line classes. You can take $10 off any on-line course. Which means you could have a blast with spray paint, canvas, stamps and found objects for as little as $20.
Her blog and her work are so full of energy, a wonderful lift.
If you live in New England, another artist,
Linda Germain, will host a
one-day class in using gelatin prints in Essex. She achieves layered, almost photographic affects with this simple medium.
Lowell Fiber Studios will also host classes soon. Cathy Granese will show you how to make an envelope purse May 22. I teach Improvisational Screen Printing June 13. Connie Wood will lead a class is doll-making June 19. I'll have more information on these soon.
My class has left me itching to paint. My sketchbook travels with me again. It is such a liberation, to work with color and curiosity at the drop of a hat.
The new inventory so far:
The painting and the sewing - they connect somewhere in my soul. Wonder what will happen when I print?
Her blog and her work are so full of energy, a wonderful lift.
Friday I drove to Poughkeepsie, where my sister teaches at Vassar College. Saturday we slogged across NY and NJ, arriving in Bryn Mawr just in time to attend the memorial service for Mrs. Louis Goutman, who taught drama at my high school for over 40 years. She made Theater - housed then in a 100-year-old stable - into a haven, a refuge, a launching pad for countless dreamers:
Half-a-dozen of us, middle-aged all, sat and talked into the afternoon. My heart is full.