Very nice day, didn't finish the St. Nicholas of the Snows, but the end is in sight. We started and finished our "Garden Memories" metal tray. Lots of fun, easy colorful painting and then we sanded it down! Sort of reverse antiquing?? We all liked it and see lots of possibilities for it.
I forgot to mention yesterday that Phillip Zimmerman a well known icon painter and his class of about 8 people stopped in yesterday. How did I forget that? Brought in some samples. He and Jo talked a bit and the whole class enjoyed the studio. He was teaching at a studio in Ashland and they drove down. I bet they didn't realize how far that trip was!! Jo was very interested in his work and said she may invite him to come and do a class here.
She told us that we all need to go home and join the art guilds in our cities. This is interesting since I had just joined ours a couple of days before I came over. She said she is working on doing a class with a study on canvas, but wants to investigate and find Belgian canvas as we have to go top drawer. I don't know what Belgian canvas is at the moment, but will in the future. Jo said we need to start doing some canvases. In the course of the day she also said we need to perfect our liner and lettering skills because it represents professionalism in our work. So there, get busy!
The Angel Song quilt was shown to us, it is beautiful. Did I mention this already? It was a couple of days ago. They will have a DVD available for sale in Anaheim on the quilt, I assume patterns and all. It is really really nice, so buy those tickets!! It is completely hand painted and hand stitched. Totally.
Everyone said their good bys. The lady who owns the quilt shop at the end of the block came and said thank you for all the business from our class--guess the girls spent good there.... We finished the day by going to Ferndale and visiting our friends Marnie and Fred. Heading for home tomorrow morning.
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