Monday, March 18, 2024

This Year's Live Printing Classes


There are two places to print with me in the lower 48 states this year, one is east, one west. I love both the Hudson River (peaceful, great food, work at your leisure night and day) and Lake Tahoe (lots of friends around, fabulous space, other classes for inspiration) for printing. You might too!

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Home At Last

I hopped this Saturday morning at 6:00, and unlocked my door at home Sunday at 6:00 in the evening. The day and a half was a bit of trains, planes, and automobiles, but all is here, including the to wayward bags. I'm home for a good stretch now. And gearing up for summer workshops. 
 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Painted Windows


 Near Santa Fe's train station are sets of converted Warehouses and older buildings. Most are home design stores, and a few have painted windows,  strikes my fancy.

Friday, March 15, 2024

New Tricks, Old Dogs

Wendy convinced me there was a better way to apply selective color. I'd resisted for years, then, hey, what is wrong with me? She'd got a silicone brush and it smooths the thickened dye in a painterly scraping way, so I'll be trying that method too. Old dog (that's me) and new tricks (my great class), 
 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Printing Along

Complex fabric continues to be made this week. A very serious and dedicated group is here with a firm grasp on color, motif, composition, and when it's time for cookies to be offered at 4. MISA is giving us a great space, and we're loving the room to print. 
 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

What to Do With Your Prints

Thank you, Wendy, for bringing in your dress. She made the fabric in a January workshop, and is now working out new fabric ideas this week in Santa Fe. It's different teaching in person from virtually, and I have to say I love both. And, yes, it was rather nice to see this work in person. Hands down.
 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Art All Around



 
An after dinner walk in downtown Santa Fe holds enough art for anyone. But the art I love may not be in a gallery, but a functional part of the surroundings. Built in 2011 by Jon Scarricino of the Acoma pueblo, these bollard carvings were a delight.

Monday, March 11, 2024

And So It Begins

Our first printing day at the MISA Santa Fe workshop seemed like it lasted a week. We worked hard, the techniques were figured out, got down the routine, found lots of new tips, and now we collapse, will rest, and start again tomorrow. But tomorrow afternoon is a field trip, so yea!
 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

They are Findable


The afternoon walk to Santa Fe's historic square and the New Mexico Museum of Art ended at a fabulous look at Rick Dillingham's body of work in ceramics. Titled Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake, and Make Again, it informed how to design in three dimensions with surface design. Go.
 

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Somewhere Above

It takes a day of travel to have a week of fun. I'll set up the classroom Sunday, greet the gang, and can't wait to print again Monday. We're promised a tour this week, my favorite museum. See you in Santa Fe!
 

Friday, March 8, 2024

Filled, Shipped, Arrived

I'd loaded a box with printing tools, nestling between silkscreens things I'll need in Santa Fe's workshop for Madelaine Island School of the Arts. I'm packing more, but these will be great to use again. Can't wait to dig in to the art and architecture there, and see what forms will follow in printing this coming week.