Art Classes and Workshops: January 2011

These photos are not in sequence, but they make sense to me:

taping the transparency piece onto the chipboard for the window

Linda glues up some chip board with a window, applies the cover paper to this surface

Hovering like a helicopter for placement

Burnishing using protection paper and bone folder

Cut the hole carefully, glue back the wings

be sure to glue some decorative paper onto the bookboard that will be visible through the window.

small items may be inserted into the window space.

or the transparency could be left out if some small item had dimension ....you would simply glue that into the window space.

Last night I started a new class at Pizazz Studio, Linda Vanderford's teaching space in Lake Oswego. I'm so excited to learn the structures for new books and boxes. Her studio is a visual candy store of papers, ribbons, embellishments! She has everything super organized and her teaching style is carefully thought out and practiced. Linda is a former elementary school teacher, and her methods are proven. She is a master teacher. I always learn more than just content from Linda, I learn pedagogy from the way she models her instruction. There are no superfluous words, reviews are peppered throughout the day, her patience rivals that of saints. She is the epitome of a place for everything and everything in its place...but while we are artists, working away, the mess is the norm. It's always fun to meet new people (all teachers) and get to know each other over the course of 6 workshop times. Linda has a new studio space now, on Lower Boones Ferry Road.

I'm going to write down everything I can to remember from what I've just learned in the last 10 hours of instruction! I will have two more weekends of Friday evening/Saturday day workshops. The course is spread out over 5 weekends, which is a smart thing to do. I'm wiped OUT! I need to do laundry, shop for groceries and clean house, and do I feel like doing any of it? NO!