HI HO come to the Fair ! HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019, one more time

With less than  three weeks away, the Haleiwa Arts Festival

 is looming largely  on the   horizon .

I have several project in the partially made stage, a few more almost ready and a few that need the final touch.  As a curious maker of ideas with cloth and color  into something perhaps 

 tangible, touchable, shareable, i get even more ideas as i work .

                                                             some coaster drying in the sun
                                 painted mostly with  what i like to call the original paint brush... finger tips!

This orchid with freckles makes me smile as i make yet more dots

Photo of one of the ladies from Yokohama paint class of 2012, in action dotting away.

We poured small amounts of paint into small recycled  plastic lids and well, play with color!

I'll be maning  booth # 88 near the front of festival near community and info tent. 

 This memorial is at the front of the 

Haleiwa Beach park, front entrance to Haleiwa Arts Festival

wonder what i'll make today with this yummy  sherbert color fabric? 

Come see what can  happens in 3 weeks! 

AND there will be some "dotty"  things including 

some little notebooks available as well

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dotty little notebooklettes

July 13/14 2019

Sat/Sun 10 am-5pm

Haleiwa beach Park=North Shore Oahu

110 Artists/Live Entertainment/ it's free

Hi Ho !

This is the 22nd  annual 

Haleiwa Arts Festival!!

end of march madness and a string theory

Well, this is a board full of coasters drying in the sun inspired by the berries that form on this palm tree in the colors of all seasons. This paint session  is Autumn and Xmas colors to me. After I sew up a batch of  fabric coasters, I  spray them with water and begin index finger painting the dots  with textile paints until i am happy with  the way colors look to me.

below is the palm tree of inspiration.

Inspiration is Everywhere all around us

  i am a nature nut and go about taking photos of what I see that moves me.

i call this tree "summer fall winter spring" as sometimes berry clusters on the tree show me  color signs of all the seasons at once. When i was a kid there was a princess Summerfall Winterspring on the Howdy Doody show with that name. That name Stuck with me.

 Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Now,  how i play sometimes  with strings of my painted fabrics is to 

first to arrange them in a pleasing manner, a strata of sorts.

Of course any fabric you have and like works . 

I happen to have a wealth of painted cloth.

Then I sew them on a base fabric and trim.

i did a bit of wavy sewing on topside  and you can see on the back of the  waffle like cloth

I will make a composition book cover later.

Then i might do some quilting and hand stitching as well.

It all depends on mood and the materials at hand.

That is my theory.

I find often the composition uses all the colors and recalls a sunset or sunrise.

 Nature is most grand!

When the notebook is full it can be refitted  with a fresh one.

Be well, SEE well, Sonja

A Painting class from Japan

My first painting class this summer came all the way from Yokohama Japan!

they have visited my booth at quilt shows for many years

 and this was the year they wanted lessons.

fortunately art is a lot like laughing to me .

 we all do it in the same language, mostly.

they wanted to paint flowers and fabric and so we did.

 for two days.

 each day they took the bus out from Waikiki and we painted up a storm.

 i did allot of demos instead of words and they did a great job, as you can see.

 now these ladies have fabric that they painted to use in their own quilt designs.

they also now have good brushes, little pots of paint, and many, many ideas to play with.

these  sessions  are  my  most  favorite  kind  of  days!

  

                                

nice palette!

Which one is yours?

Color in many forms

                                                       finger painting fabric dots


   

Aloha ! Sonja

going around in circles

During this  last year  i have become quite interested in dots and circles and round shapes. i know these shapes are everywhere in nature and man made contructs.it is just that i noice them  more  . many a song lyric ponders the ins and out of circles and what it  might mean . cycles of life .beginning and ending. these shapes  have always been  there  but lately they stand out to me . cheerios, tires, spots on the ceiling  that are patches in  a remolding restaurant as i look up, my glasses,hives, rings, sunsets, and polka dotted fabric all greet me hello .
  the banner of my blog shows painted fabric drying in the lids of dairy product containers.
these dots appear on my fabrics and papers using  paint, corks , eraser tips, and my hands.

 painting with the originals tools, hands  especially finger tips, is  a most  playful way to apply color to surfaces.

if you are wondering about the last photo of a clock with out hands

i would have to say when painting i don't notice time.
so
"Who knows where the time goes"
Fairport Convention,late 1960s

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