Friday, July 11, 2014

Class with Finnabair

  In the time since I've last posted,  I've taken some wonderful inspiring classes with Jodi Ohl, at Create NJ last July, Catt Kerr  and Andrea Matus DeMeng at Art-is-You in Stamford last October,   Seth Apter in NY at Little Bird Creations in December, and Marjie Kemper at the Ink Pad in New York in February. Whew! And, being the stinker that I am- I haven't posted about a single one.  Anyway, since I haven't blogged about any of them, and I enjoyed each one of the classes a great deal, I thought I would start with Finnabair, a.k.a. Ania Dambrowska.  I have been following her blog for many years, so when I found out she would be teaching in New York last July, at Michelle Luxemburg's studio, I jumped at the chance.
  We spent the whole day playing, making the front and back covers of a hard covered journal, and several pages inside as well. I'm just going to post some pictures of the front cover for now- but it has everything I LOVE on it- color, texture, junk and a vintage print ( General Tom Thumb and his wife, in case you were wondering) . I had made a brooch back in 1990 with some broken jewelry and that image, and since I haven't worn it in years, I thought it would make an awesome focal point to the collage. I'm going to frame and put this up on a wall, rather than using it as a journal cover. If you want to read about his take on the experience, read Seth's Apter's post here.  He proved to be an excellent table mate.  (I'm the one on the bottom left, next to Marjie, who also wrote a wonderful blog post about the workshop)






4 comments:

  1. Hey neighbor. Great to see this post. It had me reminiscing about such a wonderful workshop!

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    1. Hello to you too, Seth! It was wonderful- the techniques and the company both. :) One by one I a hoping to blog my workshops- I have a backlog of artsy adventures.

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  2. OMGosh! Laura! What a great piece! I love all of those fab elements you have used- and your colors are gorgeous!
    and speaking of classes...the line up of artists you have taken classes with is very impressive!
    I look forward to meeting you at AIY this year- and thanks so much for stopping by and leaving such a nice comment! ") see you soon! Jackie

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    1. Oh Jackie- I'm such a discombobulated blogged that I didn't even see your message until now. Thank you for the lovely comment and I will pm you about my mis-adventures at Art-Is-You! :)

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