The Gypsy on Adventure

Here is a peek at Extreme Journaling!

I am taking Juliana's class on line and this is what I hope to learn how to do!

A day of renewal and learning!

Ah...off for a day in the Los Gatos/Santa Cruz Mountains for a little art retreat!!! What a fantastic day! It was at the Presentation Center and it is truly a peaceful and beautiful spot!!! And I got to learn from Leighanna Light, her Metal Deck, which reminded me of sorts of the Tarot Deck...in concept.

This was the write up, what artist could resist?:

In this workshop we will transform ordinary metal into a fabulous thick, chunky, beautifully embellished deck of cards! Each student will receive ten flat pieces of metal, playing-card size, to transform into beautiful works of art. Each card will represent a meaningful word or theme, which will be further explored in text on the back; upon completion they will be bound together with wire and danglies. Learn several surface altering techniques using patinas, rust, gesso and wax. Join us for a fun, exciting day of creativity and inspiration! I didn't get to finish the backs in class or the dangles...mainly because I took a pretty hard fall onto my left wrist and my camera I was holding in my right...I am pretty sore and wondering if I broke it...and lucky for me my camera did not break, I was able to continue to take some pretty good photos!

Here are some photos:

    

 

OMG - Art can heal your soul!

Well what a delightful weekend!!!!!  The best part just being with easy to be around friends! Ahhhhh....sigh of relief! It was Renew-Refresh-Relax and Re-GENERATE!

Just a peak and I will write more later!

One of my fav things to remind myself and tell others is to "Duct tape the Inner Critic!!!" Well, these gals took it to heart as you can see...every time one of us said some thing negative we all screamed DUCT TAPE!!!! LOL

Collage Play with Crowabout - Week 40 in the group

This is my FIRST week playing in the Crowabout group and I  seemed to have used all the images on the sheet provided...it was a fun exercise in using what you have in front of you...and then random journaling...

Extended play on Dreams

I got to the class a little early to go over to store and buy some supplies! WOWZER do I love the store! Lots of fun things for this journal progress including some of the items that Teesha recommends! SO MUCH FUN!  The only issue I had today was how long it took for lunch...I was dying by the time it got there and I still am a little sick.

But what a GREAT day!!!

I was so happy to get a photo with Teesha and Tracy, and Tracy said "You don't want ME in the photo!" I was like "Yes I do!!! This is a dream come true for me!" It was so much fun seeing all the art going on, it was like electric waves happening in the room! AH-MAZING! And I was delighted to get some photos with Sharen, Cindy and to just see every one playing!

I am going to have to save my pennies and get to their retreats soon!

A dream came true today!

One of my dreams has been to Meet and work with Teesha and Tracy Moore! I am so excited I can't stand it...I can barely think of sleeping tonight! All the images of journaling are snug in my head! Snort! In MY area the Masters of Illustrated Journaling are here! They are lovely people and so awesome in sharing their skills and talent and enouraging us to move through their process and come out the other end with our own journals!

The class was REALLY large! So many fantastic artists in the crowd!  AND some of my friends attended!!!! Yeah for friends and even a Flickr Meet up!!!! I got to play with Coffeelatte who sat across from me!!! Yippee! Fantastic time was had! DELIGHTFUL! Loretta and Sharen were in the class too! Traci Bautista came and sat at my table too! What a great class! The last photo is one of Teesha's pages! Some thing to raise the bar to! ART HEADACHE!!!!! So exciting!

  

Studio space-art first thing this morning because we had no power. It forced me to sit in the chair and work a little! By no means is it clean! ha I cleared a little space and did a little art this morning before going off to have lunch with a friend, Dee Anna, at the Cheese Cake Factory! Never been and it was a GREAT experience! I had the Asian fushion salad and the white chocolate macadamia nut cheese cake!

I swear I just don't have motivation to sit in the chair and create. I feel so held back and stuck.  

I am grateful that no matter HOW bad the night is, when I can't sleep because anxiety and fear of death is gripping me, the morning comes and the light shines in. That I have the WGB in my life, that I have friends that will take the time to have lunch and just talk. That I can sit in my family room and just embroider. I am grateful that I woke up this morning, and I was able to enjoy the day.

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." -- Mary Hemingway

When small things do LARGE out of the realm things!

Many artists especially mixed media use ordinary scotch tape for transfering images into our work, and now...you see just how OUT of the ordinary tape is!

NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.

Who knew? Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says.

"We were very surprised," said Juan Escobar. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."

Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.

The researchers and UCLA have applied for a patent covering such devices.

In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.

That's where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.

So is this a health hazard for unsuspecting tape-peelers?

Escobar noted that no X-rays are produced in the presence of air. You need to work in a vacuum — not exactly an everyday situation.

"If you're going to peel tape in a vacuum, you should be extra careful," he said. But "I will continue to use Scotch tape during my daily life, and I think it's safe to do it in your office. No guarantees."

James Hevezi, who chairs the American College of Radiology's Commission on Medical Physics, said the notion of developing an X-ray machine from the new finding was "a very interesting idea, and I think it should be carried further in research."

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Still Lazy!

The WGB teased me to put on my step counter and get out and walk! I laughed and rolled over on the couch and pretended to snore...and then REALLY snored! More sleep...more vampire shows AND I put together my Technique book from Chrysti's class and started to finish the pages...

Some might say I wasted the weekend...I say I caught up with MUCH needed down time and laziness!

Lazy weekend!

Ha...Holiday weekend...and all I did today...Knit a little bit...worked on the ancestor canvas...and the biggest thing? Watched my vampire shows and SLEPT all day on the couch! Lazy lazy lazy! Oh I did get up and go to Michaels looking for the paste to use on the canvas...didn't find it...slept more! Giggle