C.R.O.W.S.

Well it's time to pack up the personal stuff, I'm back at my room here early and watching and listening to the rain falling.  I'll be heading home today and though it's been the most awesomest time I do miss home.  I'll post more photo's later when I have a faster connection.. out in the northern woods is great but when you needing the connection to ramble about things it takes a while.

I do want to say the woman that came to the workshop shop this year some repeat creative offenders and others new really clicked...Laughter most nights went on and on...Every had a part to play as one might say.   And the group of us now has a name..heck anyone that would like to be can...it's called the CROW Society...stands for Creative Rowdy Outrageous Women's Society. We all liked that.

A suggestion by Carol M from Canada this year was to say one word for each person there.  She had wanted me to share it with them at our last big dinner together but I was all drained out of brain cells and stuck on the right brain...but when I slept on it and came back to them the next day at our closing ceremony I had a One Word for each of them as I handed out the Certificates. I thought about what each person brought.

Jan - Excitement
Cida - Sweet Bird
Mary Jo - Understanding
Adele - Grace
Carol C - Love ability
Barb - Strength
Mona - Wisdom
Jill - Peace
Carol M - Brightness
Pam - Knowledge
and our Bette - She brought Laughter to every table...

We really had a wonderful time together...
Packing up again and hitting the road...saying good bye to my home away from home and the Loon's morning and evening songs.

 

Last of day 4....and their still hanging in there with me...

 Jan is coating her canvas to prepare for the next level of collaging.

 Adele is picking her palette from the huge box of papers she's made.

 Behind the scenes..   coming from the second studio looking into our studio space...this is the grand studio space to work in.

 I added the prayer flags this year as we are working with the same materials and with just adding a layer of this and a layer of that what great flags where made. 

 I had enough hooks to have all of us hang one...but not all are finished at this time but before rain comes in today I wanted to get a picture of it all.

 My sample pieces...first one I did.. image transfers, stamping and some gesture lines.

 Here is one using all the printed papers and really having some fun with it and adding more printing on the surface.

My little 6 x 6 on panel... piece.

Moving into day Four

 Jill's sample exercise pieces.

 Pam's got a great idea with the photo of the gym shoes. 

Carol's rich fall colors pop out in this piece. 

 Barb's wonderful story telling side of life is sneaking out.

 Carol M's small sample pieces. Learning how to move into image transfer and working with pastels.

 Jill is moving right along here...we had a great time using the stencils cut outs and sanding over them.

 

Jill is working with a monochromatic color scheme. 

Day three, and four at Dillman's

 Barb...has decided to create a clear tissue paper with string.

 Jill working on the tissue papers.

 Jan is working on her string tissue papers

 Mary Jo has decided to work with the bleeding of the paints on the tissue papers.

 Jan is creating some really nice purple papers. 

 Pam's decided to just lay the strings straight across.

 Carol is creating some really great papers.

 Three top ones are Pam's exercise pieces and the bottom ones are Mona's

 Barb's small sample exercise piece are there and she is really enjoying them.

Cida has fallen for the floating collage effect.

Day 2 part 2 Dillman's

 Stamped magazine with polymer and then come back in with nevr dull.

 Papers and papers and more papers.

Jan is in her element of color.

Day 2 Dillman's Printing papers...and prayer flags

Printed deli papers.

first a base of color then print on top...

Building layers for color and printing on the prayer flags

printing....

printing.....

And more printing...my gosh what are we going to do..

Adding color to our prayer flags

Altering some of our nevr dull papers.

Everyone where we walk today we are getting color fixes...just look at some of these patches.

buzzing around working hard.

Day One of 5 at Dillman's

 Mary Jo applying the gesso to the white lunch back...some may wonder why white on white but later today everyone will see why as color will be added on top of that. Mary Jo is from Minnesota

 Carol, It's her birthday today...little celebration planned. Here Carol is getting ready I think to create a piece of coffee ground paper. Carol is from Canada.

 Pam is applying the gesso to the brown paper and might add some texture with a tile grout tool..Pam is from WI.

 Cida  is there trying to pull up a piece of paper that she coated with the polymer and then lay it down in the other room. Cida is from WI.

 Jan is enjoying the gesso on the surface of the kraft paper and white lunch bag.  Jan is from Minnesota too.

 Bette...best watch out might have more White in the hair there then she wants...She's making gesture lines it looks like in her gesso on the white paper..it will show up nicely when color is added today. Bette is from WI

 Jill is also making some gesture lines in the gesso...Oh these gal love playing in the gesso..Jill is from Ark.

 Carol is writing her name on it at the bottom just in case with all the papers we are making it might be hard to tell later. Carol is from WI.

 Jill is cleaning off the sanded magazine to reveal some great stenciled affect she created on the magazine.

 This is Mary Jo's paper I had to give everyone a limit on how main paper to make or we could be going for every.. it's such fun to create your own papers for collaging.

 Working outside with Nevr Dull and stencil a different effect happens.

Now this is the other room which at this time doesn't have a workshop so we just kind of spread out and used it for our paper drying room...works great.

On to day Two !!!