Day One & Two at Art Camp

Whew! I've been working so hard this past day and a half I chose resting and sleep over blogging. This fibro chickie wears down like an old woman at the airbrush wall. The second half of the first day here was spent coming up with a plan of attack for my piece. I want to mix techniques as I problem solve and started off blocking in color at the airbrush wall. Nothing says what happens like pictures!

I found I seriously needed to block in color before airbrushing to work out the color sequence.

I now know that I furrow my brow like my grandfather when I concentrate hard!

practice

practice

practice!

to give you an idea of the scale of the final piece

first layer on

heat setting the practice pieces

My buddy Libby and I in front of the color blocking

Later on Lucky was working away in her studio adding a tag to her new piece. I love this picture.

Day 2 Patti Sly came for one day to learn to work with an airpen. She was doing great!

Still in progress, but I went into it with dyes and paint by hand. Starting to add details and other fabrics today.

Last night we went to Susan's opening and the work was beautiful. She had done a number of pieces collaboratively with her six year old granddaughter, Eva. My family came and we all went out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant afterward. It was Lucky, Jimmy, my husband Donovan, my mother in law Pat, father in law Tim, niece Sam, her friend Jenna, and Lucky & Jimmy's friend Vicki. Lots of laughs and hugs then home to collapse in bed with Otis curled up by my feet! Let's see what today brings!