I am home from a visit to Randi Haper's Ranch Arts Centre in Snohomish Washington where I took Shannon Weber's three day Adventures in the Woven Vessel- When Fibre Meets Wax Workshop. It was without a doubt the best class I've ever taken and I am so excited to get my studio installed with a hot wax table. The process was so "open" to almost every material imaginable and hauled out my big box of rusty stuff, beach finds, sticks and stones and polymer beach stones and got to work. The women around the table were inspiring company and everyone brought different influences to the table from pottery to quilting and fabric collage to calligraphy, basket weaving and polymer clay.
We feasted on some of the delicious creations from some of Snohomish's very good restaurants and Shannon shared several tubs of Ice Cream from Oregon's famed Salt and Straw Ice Creamery.
It was a fabulous mixture of playing and learning and I loved every second of it!
We feasted on some of the delicious creations from some of Snohomish's very good restaurants and Shannon shared several tubs of Ice Cream from Oregon's famed Salt and Straw Ice Creamery.
It was a fabulous mixture of playing and learning and I loved every second of it!
Thanks Shannon and Randi!
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| Day One- Shannon explains the fundamentals |
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| A random weaving demo |
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| drying the first layered forms in the sun |
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| The hot wax station |
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| It was as much as it looks! |
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| Sharon Benton |
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| Melanie Ferguson & Kathie Vezzani |
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| Shannon and Gwen Maxwell Williams |
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| Randi Harper |
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| Melanie Ferguson's indicate carvings in the wax |
The Gallery!
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| Sharon Belton |
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| Kathie Vezzani |
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| Dena Ramm |
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| Karen Samdahl |
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| Gwen Maxwell-Williams |
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| Melanie Ferguson |
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| Gera Scott Chandler |
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