Leslie Wood's Vintage Arts

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.

Joyce's Colors Book

I'm in several art round robins and the newest is the Colors one with a group of 8 fellow artists.  I just finished my page for Joyce's robin's egg blue 'Fragments' book.  I have to say that this shade of blue was so relaxing to work with. The page just came together almost effortless.  I hope she likes it.

Tablets & Dreams

Being left handed but having learned how to use a mouse with my right is like torture when you try and draw or trace of even sign your name with the mouse.  Tonight, I spent at least an hour, trying to get my old Wacom Digital tablet working on my laptop.  I didn't realize it until I called Wacom for help with converting the Serial port to my non-serial laptop, that I had had this tablet since about 1993 when I got my first computer.  But I did, and amazingly enough, I was able to buy a $30 serial to USB adapter and it worked.  You gotta hand it to those Wacom folks for designing a good product.  So I decided to doodle a little script and play around.  Funny how my hand got just as tired on the tablet as it does on paper.