Coupeville Part III

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I just finished looking at several blogs of our Coupeville art experience and have a huge smile on my face.  What a time we had and seeing the remembrances on those blogs makes me very happy! Yesterday we set the date for our next Coupeville experience at the Pacific NW Art School.....July 31 through August 4, 2017.  Can't wait!

Coupeville Part II

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Coupeville # 8

One night while in Coupeville Terry, Brian, and I wanted to play the prompt game.  It is so much fun and we always play when we get together.  Several students from our class played along as well..:-) Jacki, Jan, Irene just to name a few.  Each in turn gives out a prompt.  When we were done we had a new spread to work on.  This time we used large sheets of mat board.  We then cut them up into postcard size.  I finished the postcards when I returned home.

Coupeville 2015

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I have just returned from an amazingly wonderful experience teaching with Terry Garrett and Brian Kasstle at the Pacific NW Art School in Coupeville. We created a meander journal over three days. It was a push to get it all done but the results were totally amazing!  There were 13 terrific students in the class.  I can not stop thinking about the long weekend creating with Jan, Lisa, Cindy, Jacki, Betsy, Tina, Greg, Irene, MaryAnn, Marilyn, Elizabeth, Celeste, Wendy,  plus Terry, and Brian.  Thank you to all of you for making this a special weekend for us all.

I will show the remainder of the what I have created over the next few days.  

Rooster and Wolf Cover Signature

Rooster Cover Signature

Wolf Cover Back Signature

I have four signatures that will eventually go together into one journal.  I am not sure if this is the course I will take, but at the moment I am into completing journals.  Wrapping them up so to speak.  I work in many simultaneously so it takes a long time to have a finished one.  However, this one may just be finished ahead of the others.  Time will tell.  I am well into the second signature and so we shall see.

Spirit World

Spirit World

When I found the image of the woman leaning backward I had the impression  that she was somehow possessed.  Then I found the image of the hand with the cross.  It has to do with the spirit world according the French source.  Of course there had to be a crow or three.  Maybe a woman holding a seance should be there, too.  All of a sudden,bibbity bobbity boo and Spirit World evolved.

Hare's Adventure in Dreamland

Hare's Adventure in Dreamland

The dream series continues.  I filled one signature, all of which has dream type spreads.  In this one I just love how the cow eyes seem to be piercing right through the viewer.  For me the hare represents the Mad Hatter who is off for a different adventure, more contemporary than the 19th century adventure.  Perhaps the hare is an ancestor or since it is a dream, the actual Mad Hatter without his clothing disguise.  It is a dream after all and can be whatever the viewer decides.  That is what I like about art, interpretation can be unlimited depending on the number of viewers.

Summer

Summer

Just think of the summers long ago.  We were in such a hurry to grow up then and now the clock is racing and those long summers would be appreciated.