Final pictures from class 10-06-16

Last of the classroom pictures from Elizabeth  Busch's class in Maine.

 

In an attempt to dry the paint we put some work on the grass weighted down with stones.

Some of us peeled the work off the table along with the tape that held it taunt.  Then we stuck them to the brick side of the building to dry.

Another of my experiments: shapes cut from Contact paper, using both the negative and positive.  These are very small the birds are an inch or so. 

The yellow is the transparent paint on canvas, the marks are made with chalk pastels.

I'm not sure about this one.  I think it is the opaque medium with scratches made with a palette knife or a credit card. 

This is what the classroom looked like.  In the left bottom corner is the table with the liquid concentrated paint where we could serve ourselves, adding the drops to either the transparent or the opaque medium.  Left to right are  Andrea Bacal, Karen Crossland, Carol Fleischer, and Shandra  Belknap.

 

Elizabeth Busch at the end of the day - I think we wore her out.

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Road Trip Maine - Class work 08-31-16

The class is over and everyone is on their way home - to California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maine, Ireland, and England. What a great, talented, fun group of people.  Memories to treasure forever.

Here are pictures from the "show & tell" the last day of class.  We were to select three of our pieces we like the best and speak about them.  Not all are identified, by their choice.  I did not take pictures of my design wall - don't know why not, just eager to get on to the next one.    The paint used is Pro-Chem transparent and opaque, applied to 6oz canvas and black Trigger cloth.

Karen Crossland

Andrea Bacal

Helen Brown

Carol Fleischer

 Shira Singer

Mary Valerie Richter

Lory Newmyer

John Cardin

  Benedicte Caneill

Jeanne Surber

Elizabeth Busch - class demos

Elizabeth Busch

 

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Road Trip Maine - Out to Lunch Lobsta Rolls 08-26-16

We went shopping for paper towels, counter cleaning liquid, Exacto knives, and a few other things for ourselves and others in the class.  Andrea Bacal, Karen Crossland and I left class a little early at lunchtime and drove to Winter Harbor to visit the grocery store and the mercantile.  Then we sought out the best lobster rolls in Maine (according to someone who does a survey every year) which are served on a wharf in Corea (pronounced Korea).  They were delicious- just a bun (sort of like a small hot dog bun), lobster and a little butter.  Mayo and mustard where served on the side.  We also shared a serving of cracked crab claws which came with a dipping sauce which wasn't necessary.  Yum. To top it all off we had ice cream.  Then we headed back to class where we had missed the teacher's afternoon talk.  But she made it up for us.  Here are some pictures from today. 

This sidewalk display at the Mercantile caught my eye.  It was the Flamingoes that stopped me.  In Maine?  It is, I think a display for people who have a summer cottage - badmiton, croquet, bird seed, and door mats made from fishing lines.  

Really low key entrance to the Lobster Roll stand- on the left. .  

Andrea Bacal and Karen Crossland ordering at the "window". 

This was the order before ours.  Lobster roll on the left. 

Here is the lobster fisherman, cracking open the lobster and crab. 

The little cardboard "boats" in the forground are for the lobster rolls. 

What did we do before  plastic? 

View of the harbor at low tide.

Here is our serving of cracked crab legs with lemon and the dipping sauce in the foreground. 

Karen Crossland

Andrea Bacal with her ice cream sandwich - "Moose Tracks" ice cream (vanilla with  mini peanut butter cups) between two chocolate chip cookies. 

My Summer Berry ice cream in a waffle cone. 

Karen Crossland with her Summer Berry in a plain cone. The cones were filled all the way to the bottom

Other guests on the wharf. 

At the end of the wharf a lifebuoy showing the name of the town. 

 

A flock of Canadian geese had been  enjoying a grassy patch on the hillside when a dog came along and chased them off.  They rose up clacking and shrieking to land in the harbor. 

 

Souveniers for the tourists.  These represent the buoys which were painted different combinations to identify the fisherman who planted the lobster pots.  I don't think they use them anymore.  These are keychains, I think. 

Looking back to the seating area on the wharf. 

It was a fun adventure and delicious lunch. 

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Elizabeth Busch class final day 03-15-16

Our final day in class - 03-13-16 - we went around the room, talked about what we had done in class and had some critique from Elizabeth.  Some of the pictures are faded out on one side because the boards were against the windows and I couldn't do enough correction. 

Viviana Lombrozo and her work.  The bottom piece is the quilt she brought to cut up and recreate.  She painted the fabrics for the top two pieces.

 

A larger image of Viviana Lombrozo's completed project - even quilted!

(Sorry about the angle I couldn't get it straight on - it is rectangular.)

 

Carol Neely, who was ill and missed two days of class,  and her work.  These are three paintings she did in class.

Del Thomas and her work.  Top left are the photo copies cut up and rearranged. The bottom left is a cut off version of "Red Fence", we'll call this one "Red Fence #2", it has only nine planks instead of 21.  The two on the right are combinations of the cuts from the original and painted pieces done in class.  "Red Fence #3" and "Red Fence #4"

 

Beth Smith with her work.  Only a sliver of the original in the piece on the right. But on the left, slices of the original stacked with borders .

 

Beth Smith in her colorful corner - even a pink sewing machine.

A larger image of Beth Smith's work.

Nadine Rutman with her work.  A photocopy of the original quilt at top left.  Below it is her completed project with the red part from the original quilt and the green from painting she did in a previous Elizabeth Busch class.

A larger image of Nadine Rutman's completed project

Karen Crossland started out with a kimono that she made some years ago.  The motifs she used are from the sleeves of the original piece.  She painted part of the blue background.

A larger image of Karen Crossland's project.

Andrea Bacal did many paintings to everyone else's few.  Her completed project is the one in the middle on the left. 

 

Andrea Bacal machine appliqueing the yellow pieces in her composition.

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