In the Name Of Love - Art Installation

In the Name of Love - Art Installation

A Collaboration of Artists

These feathers will join a host of other feathers to create a beautiful bird with a long flowing tail in the space pictured below..
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Stay tuned for more details and pictures when the installation is complete.  In the meantime follow Yanik Falardeau's- AVOXTAR' blog in the blog list to the right. Or on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/avoxtar

Happy Halloween

 

Black cut out spiders from the Martha Stewart line available from AC Moore and Michaels and probably many other places.   I lucked out and got a pkg of 12 at 60% off.

I used a white Gelly Roll pen and a white charcoal pencil.  But then borrowed a friend's new Zenstone to try out for the shading.

Zentangles, Parties, Retreat and Relaxation

AHH  Sunday afternoon - I'm unpacked and mostly put away.  So before I show you what I've been up to this week, here's a bit of relaxation for you!

 

Nothing like sailing toward a Tropical Sunset on a glassy still sea!

 

Terry's Mini Tangled Retreat

 



Had a really great time on Saturday hosting a mini tangled retreat with 7 fun ladies at the BeeHive Studio in Warner New Hampshire. 

 

We started off slowly with a refresher tile taught via DVD by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. 

Here's the completed Mosaic

 

Then it was time to get down to some serious Zentangle Inspired Art! (ZIAs)

 Here's our Zentangle Flotilla on a Purple Sea

At this point in I forgot about taking pictures, but we worked on toned tan paper  with white gel pens and white charcoal.

I almost forgot about the Fuzzy Pencil Toppers - these are meant to remind you that there are no mistakes but if you are going to use an eraser - DON'T USE THE ONE ON THE PENCIL!

 

After A visit with Sandy Steen Bartholomew, some shopping and some lunch we made mini accordion books after a design created by Terry.  (finished size is 4 x 4 inches)

 

And some Mini Boxes - after all this is a "mini" retreat.

Finished size is 1.25 x 1.25 inches - just big enough to hold 2 Dove chocolates

 

Finally it was time to learn how to use protractors and compasses.  I'm afraid I was too tired to do a good job teaching.  But everyone got at least one Zendala to tangle on.  I'm going to be scheduling a 3 to 4 hour workshop just on making and tangling Zendala's some time soon, somewhere.

 

Many thanks to all those who traveled long and short distances to attend my first ever Retreat!. 

 

As for the Parties!

You missed a great one at Pat's house.  Wine snacks talk, laughter, Zentangle etc, etc.

Here's one of your mozaics.

 

 

 



Recent Class Photos

Botanical Zentangle Class at Acton Borborough



Paper:  Strathmore Toned Tan paper (80lb)  Micron 01, White Charcoal Pencil, # 2 pencil and Gelly Roll White 

       Patterns: Cat-Kin, Ahh, Verdigogh, Poke Leaf, Moocha, Fescu, Antidots, Sanibelle, and Angel Fish.

 

Experimenting with color

 

 The tiles with Drupe are colored with Inktense pencils and water.

 Cyme was done with Tombow dual tip water color markers and white Gell pen resist 

 Sampler tiles were also done with Tombows to get a feel for mixing and blending etc. 

 The Paisley tile is done with cheap Artist Loft pencils (24 for $5 at A.C.Moore).  We ran out of time to do the paisley so the students got homework.

 

 

 

 



Here's what I did this past weekend.  Tangled an apron  and played with Gracie.  She loves to be in the way when I take pictures.

 

Here's a picture of just the Apron.   The Apron is from PayTime in Arlington.  I used a combination of Identipen's, Ultra Fine Sharpies and a Cool Grey Fabrico(#181) for shading.

Phew glad I took a closer look at this one before posting.  My toes were showing. Yuck!  I do love the bottom part and the Owl.  not as happy with the water lily.  To dark, and the water too blue.  Hopefully it will fade - eventually.

 

Close to My Heart Blog Hop

Here's something new, something old and something blue.  A Completed Mini Flip Album.

 

 

This album is constructed from a "Close to My Heart" paper set called "Victory".   To see more pages click on the Close to My Heart Tab above.

 

Something New:  I completed an album and have it filled with pictures!  yeah!  Also new is that I did this a guest Designer for Close to My Heart Consultant Kat Ancha.

 

Something Old:  Pictures from 1937 to 1944,  WWII pictures of the courtship of my Mother and Father.  Well the last picture is from 1962.  That picture is of Mom, Dad and my 4 sisters and myself.  Kind of like showing the results of the courtship. :)

 

Something Blue;  One of the papers was blue and there are blue highlights throughout.  The Victory theme was more of a manly color scheme.  But with no hunting, fishing, bowling sports etc.. to geti n the way.

 

So check out the rest of the pictures on the tab above and hop on over to the other 4 blogs to see other paper sets and designers.   And be sure to get to Kat's page and leave a comment to get in the running for some great prizes.

 

 

Fan Art Bruins Jersey - Origami

Should have thought of this earlier.  A couple of years ago I borrowed Joseph Wu's Canucks Fan Art and made a Bruins Fan Art Origami Jersey.

This is the Jersey Square.

 

 Save the picture to you computer as you may need to resize before printing.  Cut on the blue line.  Fold like the origami shirt - if you need instructions:  Google Origami Hockey jersey and look for a viedo by Joseph Wu.