SweetPea's Got Art-i-tude: ART and SOUL 2007, Virginia

Well, I am already following in the path of A&S, California . . . . . I got up at 2:50 am this morning! What the heck is that all about anyhow ? ? ? I read a book for a bit, and then started organizing my supplies for my class today, Clearly Visible Journal with Kathy Wasilewski, and for my class this evening, Fusion Dyed Collage with Traci Bautista. I am SO ready for this!! Maggi woke up at 5:20 (a much more respectible time!). We got ready and went down for breakfast . . . . WOW . . . . I was certainly not expecting all of this for a complimentary breakfast. Made to order omelets, any type of eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast, hash browns, fresh fruit, bagels, muffins, hot cereal, cold cereal, you name it! After we ate I called the boys and gathered my supplies. Maggi doesn't have a class until this evening so she planned on scouting around to see what we might need to know about :)

I headed over to the convention center and my FIRST class! WOOHOO . . . . Kathy is truly a delight! A very informed teacher, with clear instructions! I sat with Margaret and we had a BLAST! We made our resin boxes this morning so that they would be mostly dry by the time class was over - and then started in on our Acrylic covers! We collaged transparencies between two acrylic sheets for both the front and back covers, then put copper tape around the edges to hold them together. At this time we broke for lunch, met Maggi back in our room and ate. Maggi went to Target today and worked on her recipe box from opening night.

Back to class where we drilled holes in our covers . . . . I split the cover at one of the holes, Kathy indicated that I was the first person to do that . . . . LOL . . . . what an honor! She gave me the necessary supplies to make a new front cover at home - which I have since completed! We all worked on our pages during the afternoon, painting the water color pages with acrylic paints and adding embellishments, I didn't finish my book, but that is no surprise for me :) Class ended at 4:00 pm. Back to the room where Maggi and I ordered sandwiches for dinner and then off to our evening class.

Here is my finished cover! I have a piece of white paper behind it so you could see what it was! We made a tripe slide glass embellishment. Put a piece of collage paper behind one piece of glass, layered on a crow's head on top of that piece of glass, added another slide, added the egg, added another slide and put the words on top. This is all held together with copper tape.

Page two has another transparency layered between some thicknesses of mica. Punched some start through and added some yellow vellum in between. A coin ribbon was added between the two pages.

The blue side is painted and collaged. We melted the edges of the fortune transparency and attached to page.

We added a velum envelope with a crow transparency on both sides. I added the left-over coins on the bottom - and placed tarot cards inside.

This is the resin plastic case. We placed objects on choice in here, then covered with resin and left to set up.

Back side of same page - and the next one has a large window with the figures incased between layers of mica.

Large piece of mica with lady and crow images along with some cheese cloth.

This page also used a crow transparency in between more mica. There will be a tiny bottle wired on to the two punched holes on the right. The bottle is filled with beads and has a hand charm hanging from it. I just haven't located my wire yet . . . LOL!

Back cover is created in the same fashion as the front cover.

Pea and Kathy Wasilewski

Maggi's class was Tin Souls with Kathy W. - and she had just as much fun with Kathy as I did!

My class with Traci was FANTASTIC! I was a bit apprehensive about this one, but found out that was groundless! Traci is just a WAY COOL person! We tossed around paints, made mono-prints, using paper towels and newsprint paper - and also made two large collages for using in journals. Learned a lot and had tons of fun!