Fabulous Felted Silk Scarves

At the Art Clinic Thursday is ART DAY and sometimes one of our arty friends wants to use us a guinea pigs to test out a technique. This past Thursday we got to make felted silk scarves. What a fantastic experience!!! I love the tactile aspect of working with wool to felt (not to mention the gorgeous new addition to my scarf collection!!!)

These woman got quite an arm work out rolling the fabric to get the wool to connect with the silk.
That's our fearless leader Barbara Carr in front, Syd and Mary Stanley are in the back.
I think we need to offer this as a class or something to do with felting because it is so much fun!!!!

Art Class for Children and Moms

Here are some pictures of the work done in the Art Clinic's Childrens Art with Mom. this is a unique class as we have a diverse age group working together. We started with a lesson on Contour drawing using Cave Art as our inspiration. Everyone enjoyed themselves and, as you can see, made some great art.

by Mom-Mary Beth Johnson
Class participants working hard.
By Benjamin Brown (13)
By Kaela Gaylord (8)
By Jonah Marmorstein (almost 6)

Mary Beth Johnson, Teresa Johnson and Theo Brown
Hannah and Jonah Marmorstein -Jonah is a regular cave painter.
Kaela Gaylord was very serious about art making
as was Jonah and Hannah.

Is it Nov. 25 already?

Okay folks it is time to make presents for all the gift giving holidays that are swiftly approaching. The Art Clinic offers two jewelry classes which are a great way to make truly unique gifts as well as having some creative fun, Mixed Media Jewelry on Dec. 1 and Metal Clay on Dec. 8th. Former students were able to make a bunch of charms from metal clay and turn them into pendants for necklaces, earrings or for bracelets (one woman made a bracelet but I think she kept it for herself). (Scroll down a bit to check out some pictures of work)
Also, if you are feeling stressed out you may want to join our Visual Journaling class. We are having a blast on Wed. nights. 5:30-7:30

New for December is a Art Class for children offer on Tuesday from 3-5 PM

Giv3e us a call at 588-0876 or email me at lifsart@verizon.net

Artist of the Week

Carol was recently interviewed by Belinda Spiwak for the "Artist of the Week" segment of her blog. You can find it at:http://www.alteredbelly.blogspot.com//You may have to scroll down to find it as she is posting to her blog weekly.

Mixed Media class

Here is some work that was done tonight in Mixed Media class. These are really rich, don't you agree?

Jeannette Scott
Meggan Said
Meggan Said
Marna Ford
Marna Ford

Mixed Media Class

Here are some prints made from erasers these woman carved in the Mixed media class.

By Marna Ford
by Meggan Said(says she isn't creative)
By Sarah

She says she didn't plan on the continuous nature of this stamp. Beginners luck I suppose.

Mixed Media Jewelry

Endless Advice

by Ilise Garvin

Mixed Media Pendant

by Ilise Garvin

Book Pendant

by Joel Helgesen

Aren't these great?!! These are a ffew of the things made in the Mixed Media Jewelry class