Here they are below, the very latest painters of fabrics and flowers and ferns and yardage- all together on a glorious summer day and they came my way via quilt shows and art festivals ! we had a great time discovering that we all have a colorful and playful side and agreed this was a good time to let it loose. I provided the paints and atmosphere of playfulness along with odd and common materials and tools i use most everyday when i paint.
Taking the time to do so is the hardest part according to my vast research .
Here some of their pieces are drying pinned to a cork board
and belo , taking a Kodak moment in front of their wonderful and newly made art fabrics are
Sharon, Elaine, Carolyn, and Barbara,my newest painter in the pacific!
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and then in the afternoon,
we took to the shaded lawn with dampened fabric spread out and weighted down on the corners with small rocks and pinned to the grass with clothespins.... we painted some more this time with more than brushes. as the paint came squirting out of ketchup or is it cat sup ? containers thinned with water, (the paint not the condiment), we make color appear on cloth with our hands and the whole body , bending over to fold and smush the cloth around, moving the paint about and making a point that i feel is for my self at least mostly true, that we don't just paint with our hands or arm or the brush in our hand but with the whole body, our whole self . that is most likely why i can't paint sitting down .
And that's another reason why i love the Hokey Pokey ...
'cause i can put my whole self in !!
after our one yard pieces dried enough, i invite them to pick one they could part with and rip them up into fat quarters and we exchanged with each other our colorful fabrics.
and so went yet another beautiful summer day
of art play
in the shade of a friendly tree .
Hale'iwa Art Festival, 2010. the short report
i have only have one photo of the Haleiwa Arts Festival this year so far as i forgot my camera the first day and was so busy the second i did not take photos. i found one on creative grammie site that she took. It looks like i am in the process of releasing one of my gardening/guardian angels
into the world .
One of the interesting things that did happened that weekend was that the staff of the Festival did a booth contest thing and out of 120 booths i landed in the top 10 i was told by Saturday late afternoon. best designed booth was the criteria or decorated and i maintain all of my stuff and fabrics arts are for sale with the exception of some props, like the vintage Featherweight, and containers and display things. Well, i must say i did sleep well and didn't think too much of it as i usually bring all this stuff to shows , much to my DH dismay . I brought a set of chairs to sit or wait in as in "husband waiting chair"... and a table and a vintage table covering and I use vintage bark cloth and chenille spreads on my display tables because i like them .I put arrangements of flowers on the 3 corner posts of the tent. Did i mention this was outside ? and windy? we call them Trade Winds and they do cool things off. In my case i also bring a box of small rocks and clothespins to somewhat anchor things down.
Sunday morning i get the word that i was a top contender tho i had not won the contest even tho i had several folks that were cheering and debating for me to be the one who would have a large blue ribbon pinned to their booth, blowing in the brisky winds. oh well, it would have been nice to have next years booth paid in advance but i was happy enough to be in the running doing what it is i do with fabrics anyway. Thank you creative grammie for taking the photo below .
thanks to the HAF staffers that boosted my spirits !
AND what a BIG surprise i had when Kathy Lukens and Jill flew in from the Big Island and brought me lunch!
you guys rock!!
i had a great weekend !
be well,Sonja
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