2012/365 - Day 60

a friends-filled day


This morning was a brief version of Wednesday Morning at Joan's.

This is the lovely Scout looking out the window.















Leann is working on a sewing project and Joan was finishing up some paperwork.

Leann put the hardware on my framed piece for one of my submissions to the "Where the Wild Things Art" show in Grosse Pointe.







Then Peggy came by and she and I went to Grosse Pointe Art Center to drop off our submissions for the above mentioned show. This show wanted the actual work(s) for jurying instead of a cd of jpegs.

My two pieces are at the left, farthest away...in the black frame and the little guy in front of it.

Then Peggy and I went to drop off submission cds at Detroit Artists Market for their Biannual All Media Exhibit. We also took Carla's cd so she didn't have to mail it.

Fingers crossed that we all get out stuffs in!





Then we went to the Lawrence Street Gallery to see a friend of Peggy's show...and then we had a quick lunch and coffee at Tuscan Cafe.

What a good day so far!


Yesterday Leann helped me collect the Cat-Creature and other art from the Northville Art House. I took these photos last night but didn't feel like blogging about it.

I like the "hands up" of the Cat-Creature and the Jeff Hughart painting behind her. I purchased my wonderful painting from Jeff's Etsy shop. I LOVE it!












I was a little worried to see how Twink would react to the Cat-Creature when he was face-to-face with it.

Twink often watched me through the glass in my studio door while I was working on the Cat-Creature.










Twink has been pretty good with the other larger papier mache animals in the house and also with Chime Cat. I was just a little concerned he'd try to climb the Cat-Creature as if it was a piece of cat furniture. I was careful not to place it anywhere near a spot where he could launch himself to or from.


So far he has been pretty unimpressed. Thank goodness.




I think I am going to spend some time with Twink now and slow down a bit.

Later on I will see what is the next upcoming deadline and what I need to get back to work on.

365 Day 198

arty trips on an incredibly HOT day

Geez...could we have picked a hotter, more oppressive day? It was even an ozone action day. Today it was registering 95 degrees on my car's thermometer...it was absolutely blistering. And yet, we survived...LOL. (It is supposed to reach 100 at mid-week with storms every other day -- wow, do we EVER need the rain!)

ANYway...

Today Carla and Juana and I went to Ann Arbor to go to Hollander's, a store of nearly indescribably fabulous decorative and artistic papers. They also have classes there for various bookmaking and printing techniques. And this week there are artists in residence showing demonstrations. Hollander's has open studio time for their students, as well. Just a magically marvelous place! EVER color and pattern and texture of paper you can imagine...ANYthing you could need for bookmaking, cardmaking, collage, gifts, origami...all things paper!

Here are some of the photos...I was trying to give a sense for the vast amounts of paper displays and the endless racks and stacks...but the photos don't really do it justice...this is a must-see place!







Carla outside the door at Hollander's












waaaay cool spiraling paper display

















just a sampling of some of the luscious orange papers

















these are for bookmaking















Carla looking at some textured handmade papers









The papers for printmaking are behind a table -- you need help to see them...Carla and I were both at Hollander's mainly for paper for our relief printmaking class.

Sarah is so friendly and knowledgeable and patient. She had many suggestions and enjoyed showing us so many papers for printing and told us the differences and showed us color variations within the different papers we chose.






Carla starting to make some choices while Sarah pulls more to show us.










Sarah helping Juana with a paper Juana saw in a binder


















wandering back through the never-ending racks of glorious papers












oh...and another weakness of mine...ribbon...although I managed (somehow) to stay on track and only purchase paper (and a pair of scissors) today











Juana looking at the huge array of origami papers










We were going to go to Zingerman's Delicatessen but the line was half-way around the building (pretty much) waiting to get inside...it was just too much with the heat and everything. We will definitely go back sometime soon and hit Zingerman's on a weekday!

The three of us piled into my car and headed back to Northville. We ended up at Tuscan Cafe for lunch instead and had delicious sandwiches, coffee (me), ice coffee (Juana) and iced chai (Carla) and yummy desserts (Tuscan Cafe features breads and desserts from Zingerman's). Then we stopped back at my house so Carla could take a look at some Magic: the Gathering cards/decks to see if she might want to learn to play. (Fingers crossed!)

Then Carla went home and Juana and I went to Ferndale (where Juana lives) and made a quick stop at Rust Belt Market. Here are some pics from that excursion:














































































cool black sheep doll





yikes...wild pine cones in a cage












the owls are not what they seem, you know...















neither are the penguins

















gigantic floating skulls


















THE most wonderful chandeliers!













oooh

















isn't this way wonderful???











Then we trudged back out to the car which seemed about twice as far as when we went in. On the way back we passed this intense periwinkle wall with greeeeen ivy on it. I am glad the camera caught the striking colors.















All in all a really fun day filled with so many wonderful colors and textures and things...and stellar company!