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My weekend & chalk art class
Jul. 10th, 2011 07:58 pmI want to write about the chalk art class I took today, but I see I haven't written much lately.... so here is a bit of catch up first.
Yes, I am still playing lots of WoW. Thursday Roszgemma hit 85 (my fourth 85, 2nd hunter). Gem has also done most of Ulduar which was fun and Yogg-Saron is still a beast of a fight. I have another lvl 84 hunter soon to follow. And it is WSG weekend so two of my lowbies got to lvl 20 and got their first mounts. Yay.
We had a nice singing group on Thursday. I am so happy to have music in my life and friend who will sing with me. During the day I went to the second webinar of the Edumooc on distance learning I'm doing. I am not sure why I am studying distance learning but you never know when such things might be useful.
Friday I went to the mall... yes, I did. I went into all kinds of clothing stores and tried on size large items. I bought a red miniskirt for Pomba. But I ended up not wearing it to Kat's lovely Pomba dance Saturday night. I couldn't decide on what to wear as a top. I wore a more gypsy outfit. It was a wonderful dance with great music and food and company and lots of lovely Pombas.
Sunday I went over to the local branch library (which was closed but they let the Luna Park folks use a function room) and took a class on Chalk Art. Cheryl & Wayne Renshaw started us off with a history of "Madonnari", chalk painters of Madonna images in front of churchs in Italy. The Renshaws do amazing 3D perspective sidewalk art and showed a slide show of their work and talked about using the Photoshop perspective tool to make regular photos into perspective plans. They did not share the grid they use. *grin* Then we were all given Koss Artist's soft pastels and went out and made the parking lot of the library very colourful. I did sort of a picasso version of Amy Provonost's wonderful icon that I use in my Lj and heart. They are trying to get local folks to be artists at their 4th Annual Luna Park Chalk Art Festival on September 24. You can do a 4x4 or 8x8 foot piece of sidewalk. Proposals are due by August. I am tempted, but it is the same day as the Gender & Earth-based Spirtualities Conferece and is the Saturday of the Desert Dance Days weekend. Otherwise I would totally do it. Check out my photos of the class
. (Oh, and yes, my hands and arms are killing me. Not sure I could do hours of art.)
Yes, I am still playing lots of WoW. Thursday Roszgemma hit 85 (my fourth 85, 2nd hunter). Gem has also done most of Ulduar which was fun and Yogg-Saron is still a beast of a fight. I have another lvl 84 hunter soon to follow. And it is WSG weekend so two of my lowbies got to lvl 20 and got their first mounts. Yay.
We had a nice singing group on Thursday. I am so happy to have music in my life and friend who will sing with me. During the day I went to the second webinar of the Edumooc on distance learning I'm doing. I am not sure why I am studying distance learning but you never know when such things might be useful.
Friday I went to the mall... yes, I did. I went into all kinds of clothing stores and tried on size large items. I bought a red miniskirt for Pomba. But I ended up not wearing it to Kat's lovely Pomba dance Saturday night. I couldn't decide on what to wear as a top. I wore a more gypsy outfit. It was a wonderful dance with great music and food and company and lots of lovely Pombas.
Sunday I went over to the local branch library (which was closed but they let the Luna Park folks use a function room) and took a class on Chalk Art. Cheryl & Wayne Renshaw started us off with a history of "Madonnari", chalk painters of Madonna images in front of churchs in Italy. The Renshaws do amazing 3D perspective sidewalk art and showed a slide show of their work and talked about using the Photoshop perspective tool to make regular photos into perspective plans. They did not share the grid they use. *grin* Then we were all given Koss Artist's soft pastels and went out and made the parking lot of the library very colourful. I did sort of a picasso version of Amy Provonost's wonderful icon that I use in my Lj and heart. They are trying to get local folks to be artists at their 4th Annual Luna Park Chalk Art Festival on September 24. You can do a 4x4 or 8x8 foot piece of sidewalk. Proposals are due by August. I am tempted, but it is the same day as the Gender & Earth-based Spirtualities Conferece and is the Saturday of the Desert Dance Days weekend. Otherwise I would totally do it. Check out my photos of the class
. (Oh, and yes, my hands and arms are killing me. Not sure I could do hours of art.)
