Joyful Purpose

weekend workshop wonderment ~ part deux

Day 2 we put together our journals, printed out our photos and began constructing our pages ...

Show and Tell

Somebody is exhausted from all this work!

It was a great weekend to be sure.

Wonderment Workshop Weekend Day 1

What a wonderful art workshop weekend it was ... filled with open hearts, minds and spirits.  It is so lovely when the mix of artists are so cohesive and supportive.  Lovely ladies all!

Day One was started off by a beach walk and shoot ...

Christina Altfeld ~ amazing print maker and photographer

Hey how did he get in there?  Well, he was one of the group to be sure.

Creating background papers

Day two forthcoming ....

More Paint Puddle People, Ponies, Pups and Peeps

I have been starting out my mornings drawing Paint Puddle people and uh - pups, peeps and ponies and find that it is a relaxing way to start my day - sort of like the thoughts pour from my head and out through my pen onto the paper - like a drain

My Shadow

This is my shadow - my little love bug, snuffleluffagus, mushy, poo poo, Ben Ben - aka Bentley ;)

I love black and white photos

Father's Day Morning

Paint Puddle People

After being captured by Elizabeth Bunsen's paint puddles I decided to try my hand at some.  It is a very interesting exercise ....  I can only imagine what a Jungian would have to say!  It is very meditative to sit and search for images to appear and to left your brain draw what it conjures up. 

  I started by just puddling watercolors in a small journal (and yes it would be better if I let them dry before turning the page to paint another - hence the speckles)
Last night when it was quiet I opened up and started searching and drawing with my Pitt pens.

Interesting .... verrrry interesting

2 spots left ...

There are 2 spots left for this weekend's workshop

Finding Your Creative Voice
*see Somerset Studios May/June article for examples*

We will then be throwing color and caution to the wind while we splatter paint and dyes to create luscious papers.

Lunch on the deck to chat and breathe in the salt air.

We will edit photographs and learn techniques on photoshop, iphoto, and photobooth and print them out.

We will construct a journal with our papers and photographs while we learn painting, pencil and pen skills to integrate a photos into the pages.

We will be exploring our creative voices, sharing poems, our passions and our selves.

Join us there are a few spaces left ...

June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun)

10-5

Malibu, Ca

150.00 - includes both workshop days

email me for more info armfield@att.net

Shoot Shoot Shoot

Annie Leibovitz says if you want to become a better photographer you should just shoot, shoot, shoot - take pictures!  For me I need to take hundreds at an event to get some really good ones.

Here are a few from the cd release party of my dear friends - The Delgado Brothers

Judi is the wife and Katie is her daughter staring on ...

This is what you get

This is the beach where we will start out our day - musing, journaling, and taking photographs of things, each other, and ourselves.

We will then be throwing color and caution to the wind while we splatter paint and dyes to create luscious papers.

Lunch on the deck to chat and breathe in the salt air.

We will edit photographs and learn techniques on photoshop, iphoto, and photobooth and print them out.

We will construct a journal with our papers and photographs while we learn painting, pencil and pen skills to integrate a photos into the pages.

We will be exploring our creative voices, sharing poems, our passions and our selves.

Join us there are a few spaces left ...

June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun)

10-5

Malibu, Ca

150.00 - includes both workshop days

email me for more info armfield@att.net

A trip to Hiromi

Judi took me on a visit to Hiromi Paper Co. yesterday.  OMG its a good thing I am on a budget because I could of spent thousands I tell ya - The paper is fabulous - I was drooling - I know sad but its true!  They have the most delicious Japanese papers.  I must say I did come home with a few and can't wait to try them out.  And to top it off there was a very cute store pup who came to greet me several times.  For those of you who have seen the movie up you will get this ... "I just met you and I already love you" 

Thank God for Judi!  Otherwise I wouldn't know very much about all the fabulous places in Los Angeles ( where I have lived for 20 plus yrs btw ;)  )

Oh what one could do with those very large sheets of paper  - ahhh - sigh!

I will take one of each please - uh, no I won't unless I hit the Lotto

There is nothing finer ... a day with a great friend, incredible visual stimulation, shopping, and food -
yeah, she introduced me to another haunt - Fritto Misto - more pastas than one could ever want!

These are the kind of days that keep you going ...