It is just fun when a new name pops up on your e-mail and invites you to get in touch with an eye to doing a project. So it was with Elaine Frenett http://elainefrenett.com/. Turns out she is a fine illustrator and a avid art journalist and thought we would make a good tandom teaching team. I told her about my own journals and she wished to see some samples and so I threw caution to the winds and sent them to her in Ashland where she kept them for one of her retreats and then returned them unscathed. I was delighted with her response and now we have decided on a date, starting on Wednesday evening July 11th-Saturaday July 14th. We will be presenting an all day watercolor trip up the Columbia, a gathering fieldtrip to an antique shop, The Goodwill, and Cargo in the Pearl. We will develope studies and journal pages from both experiences and then spend a day messing around in studio with first Ms Frenett and then myself. The workshop will include lunch each day, plenty of show and tell, boat loads of ideas, techniques and tools, and good fellowship at the meager cost of 50.00 a day or 150.00.
Take note that next to my own journal is a wonderful tree of joy painted by my grandaughter Maggie Coleman. What an inspiration she is. You can look forward to seeing a page that Elaine and I have done together on a watercolor pad which is 10"x14". This pad will be required for the class. See Elaine postings for more details.
Wish I lived closer! That sounds like fun!
Posted by: Sue Perkins | January 25, 2012 at 01:49 PM