Blue striped box

Here is my most recent vessel.

The Delightful Ms. Julie Picarello

Last weekend I travelled to Vancouver with 4 other talented and delightful women. Passing the time on the ferry chatting and discussing what we might learn over the weekend. I did attempt to take a couple pictures on the ferry and over the weekend but they didn't turn out. I did get a nice shot of Julie smiling, something she did through the weekend. I really enjoyed the weekend and learned a great deal about Julie's method of mokume gane. I made a few beads on Saturday. Although what I really wanted to do was make a box or vessel with this new to me concept! So today made my mokume gane stack and started the base for my box. Thanks for the inspiration Julie. I will post more pictures as this project progress. Opps I almost forgot the link to Julie's site http://www.yhdesigns.com/

Workshop this Weekend

I am thrilled to be attending a workshop this weekend with Julie Picarello. http://www.yhdesigns.com/ Julie will be teaching her mokume gane method on Saturday and Sunday will be spent learning how she uses her extruder. I am travelling to Vancouver with 4 other talented women. I think there will lots of laughter and giggles through the weekend. There are just over 20 people attending this event, it promises to be a great time. I'm looking forward to learning some wonderful new things, meeting new friends and connecting with old friends. Check back next week some time for a review and some pictures of the weekend.

A new blog Annoucement

Some of you may already know that I have started a second blog. Go here to see what is going on. www.babybetcher.blogspot.com if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page you will see a terrific image.

Water colour painting experience

Yesterday I attended a water colour painting workshop. I had talked with a couple friends before the class one said that painting with water colours is difficult and another said the opposite. So figured that I would just go and have fun. The class was taught by a wonderful local artists based on Gabriola Island, unfortunately I did not write down her full name or other information. I did try to find her online with out success.

We did a total of 3 paintings. The teaching method used was very affective, Linda would do a brief demonstration and then we would return our work stations and copy what we were shown this was repeated through the day. I managed to take a few pictures before my card was filled up on the camera.


stage 1 of the first painting

the first stage of the second painting

my pallet, brush, rag, the tape we used to keep
the paper attached to the corrugated plastic board
and bucket of water


nearing the end of painting 3 we used a graphite
transfer to put the image on the 100% cotton rag
paper

Splish Splash

Today I went out looking for a pair of rubber boots the only criteria I had was that they couldn't be the regular plain old black gum boots. I did find these wonderfully fun and colourful boots. Now I'm ready the the next week of rain fall.

Quirky Finds

On one of my trips to Victoria over the summer I took some funny pictures. Down a small side street I spotted a jewellery shop with a wonderful name! Sadly they were closed the day I was there




The next 3 pictures are of large Terra cotta tiles that have been incorporated into a fence surrounding the patio at a restaurant that I believe was called the Red Dragon. I love the pattern and texture of the tiles.