Art & Soul 2016, PDX edition, took place last week. Hard to believe it's already Thursday the week after and I have been rushing from one need-to-do activity to the next, not having time to post about my big teaching week! We had a wonderful time, teachers and students alike! Today's post: the Sunday meet and greet, and my first class, Long-Legged Lolas.
The first Sunday of Art & Soul we gather as many teachers and students as have arrived in Portland for an informal get-together where teachers can display samples from their classes, give demos and make & takes. Students come in at their leisure, and maybe find another class or two they'd like to sign up for. I was so happy this year to get a new student into my Thread Doodling class via the meet and greet - shout out to my new friend Stephanie!
Here are a few teachers who gave demos and make & takes:
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| Debbie Rijns demonstrates fusing Swarovski crystals! |
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| Erin Keck |
Erin Keck offered a make & take embossed wood tag, emblazoned with this year's theme logo, The Enchanted Forest. Wouldn't you want to make one of these? I know I had to make one! Too cool!
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| I made a tag! |
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| Liz Kettle |
On Tuesday I had my first class, Long-Legged Lolas. I had a great group of students who learned to stitch, stuff, sculpt, and paint their dolls. So much to do! We didn't quite get all the way done, but you can see the great sculpting that they all did. (What do you think, ladies - next time a 9 hour class?)
The dolls all have their base layer of paper clay, so into the dehrydrator they go for the clay to dry!
Cocoa's kewpie cutie gets some finishing touches before she goes in for more drying. I love how she was inspired to sculpt her doll from the adorable print on her fabric!
A group of dolls with their base coat of paint, ready to get their faces painted.
Lisa and Cocoa having fun working on different stages of their dolls.
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| Lisa's doll |
Susan's doll, almost all finished - I am so proud of Susan! New to sewing, she put together this totally delightful doll and continued working on it during the week. By Sunday it was almost all done, and I just love it!
I had several dolls at various points of completion that I worked on for demonstrating purposes. Here are 4 of them, now finished:
The freckle-faced cutie in the middle sold at Vendor's night. The two on the right are heading to my Etsy shop.
We had fun! I'll be teaching a similar class in May at Art & Soul Minneapolis. That one is called The Kid Inside You. It is a day and evening class to give us more time to finish the doll. Sign up now and join us!!!