Leslie Wood's Vintage Arts

Karen's Colors Book

I just love Karen Owen's green and brown book she has going around for the Colors Round Robin.  Green is my favorite color, so working in it was a pleasure.

Circus Circus

Wow, been a while since i posted.  I guess my excuse is the Art and Soul retreat that I went to a few weeks ago.  It was fun but exhausting and I'm just now getting some pictures of things I did there.  One of my favorite classes and most dreaded, was Julianna Coles Extreme Visual Jounaling class 'Circus Circus'.  I had heard people either love her cl asses or hate, hate, hate them.  And while I don't think I went into the deep areas some people go, for me it was a visual journey and a technique freeing one.  The project was a big book of postcards centered around different circus stories.  I've posted some pictures of my Big Top book here.  Since there are so many images I'm making a slide show of the rest.   Of course my other favorite part of going to Art and Soul is seeing all the other divas and friends I have made there!

Cold Connections Class

And if I wasn't busy enough with my round robins, online class, and upcoming Art and Soul Retreat, I decided to add another class to my schedule.  This time it was basic cold connections metalsmithing from a wonderful local artist Connie Ulrich, http://www.connieulrich.com/.  And the class did not disappoint.  It was a 2 day workshop in beautiful Taft, Tennessee.  Here are the pieces I made.  The round coin piece was modeled after one of Connie's samples based on a penny quilt design of one of her older friends.

Mini Calendar Round Robins

I finished my April and May mini calendar round robin this week.  It feels good to be a little ahead given my busy next few weeks. The first calendar is for Lisa's Cat Calendar and the second is Nancy's Frank Lloyd Wright.