Caffeinated Meanderings: The Archie Bray

Just had a nice little diversion in Helena, MT.  The Archie Bray...a magical haven for clay loving ceramic artists.  

Workshop Junkies vs The Crabman

Hey everyone,

My workshop season is coming to an end for 2011.  I've been zigging and zagging and now I have one last  thing on this year's slate...Valley Ridge Art Studio.  One of my mostest favoritest of venues.  This year is especially fun.  Because not only because I am doing a duo class with the lovely Ms. Jane Wynn but also because were are having a little Grim Reaping Gala afterwords.  Complete with Bobbing for Baby Heads, Seek and Slime Find, and a Cruel and Sadistic Gift Exchange.  Bwa ha ha!

I just put the final touches for my portion of the Grey Matter Meddling class with Jane.  

May I present Crabby Maguillicuddy:

Don't be such a crab!

deMeng Workshop Junkies

Just started a little FaceBook Group called: deMeng Workshop Junkies. I'll be posting workshop and retreat info, as well as student work and class samples.   Just getting 2012 calendar figured out so will be listing the retreats on there soon. 

This will also be a place for students or potential students to connect and post about their latest flea market finds and/or latest found object creations.Hope to see you over there...and in a class...or wandering around a junkyard.

Go here to join deMeng Workshop Junkies: http://www.facebook.com/groups/176334085786328/

Caffeinated Meanderings: Scary Monsters

CAFFEINATED MEANDERINGS: 

SCARY MONSTERS

A Halloween Treat

It's Halloween time...or at least getting close, so I know everyone is out there getting ready by watching their favorite horror movies.  Here's my little tribute:


Part ONE: Intro

Part TWO: Creepy Girls

Part THREE: Zombies

Part FOUR: Vampires

Part FIVE: Nostalgia

Super Scary Bonus

Open if you dare...I'm not kidding...this is not for the mild mannered.  I'm warning you...really I am...

...you should have listened.


Happy Halloween!

Caffeinated Meanderings - Volume 1: Season of the Witch

So I am playing with a new periodic addition to the blog...a periodic video called "Caffeinated Meanderings.  This episode I chat a bit about my trip to Portugal (Part One) and then in Part Two I give a little preview to the latest soundtrack for my favorite TV show...True Blood!  Woo Hoo!

Part 1:

and

Part 2:

See you next time.

2012…get ready!

Though it seems far far away actually 2012 is lurking right around the bend.  So I thought I'd give you a bit of a preview of some of the goodies you can look forward to:

La Fantome Maison: A New Orleans Adventure

Registrations are filling up for my annual NOLA retreat.  Don't get left behind whilst everyone else has a blast. 

 Click here for the skinny on the Big Easy Workshop.

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ArtFest 

The ever amazing Art Venue in Port Townsend Washington is once again kicking it with a stellar lineup.  Registration started so get crackin' and get thee to an art-ery.  I'll be teaching  

Classes by Me

Good Brushes Gone Bad

Zoo-illogicals

Eye of Fatima

As it turns out my fiance, Andrea Matus, will be there as well doing her schtick.  Here's some of her samples:

Classes by Andrea Matus

Collaging the Translucent

Dorian Gray Portrait

Suspended Souls

For more info about ARTFEST Click Here

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End of the World Workshop

Oaxaca Mexico, Day of the Dead

Oct. 26 - Nov 3, 2012

Don't fear the reaper!  The Mayan Calendar is coming to an end so what better place to celebrate the end of the world than in the Mesoamerica…and…what better time to celebrate it than Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?   The details are getting ironed out but I can tell you that for a class project we will be making a Time Capsule.   Appropriate, don't you thing?  My organizer Colleen is taking names and email of folks who are interested.  I anticipate this will fill up fast fast fast.  So get on the info list.

Contact Colleen Darling 

at

805-688-1221

colleen950@gmail.com

To Live and Die in L.A.

So when we last spoke I was rolling down the mountain high above the Palm Dessert, and heading to the beautiful beachfront Santa Monica to teach at the Urban Craft Center.

Had a great time hangin', plus it was broken up in two night classes I got to do a bit of exploring.  First stop the beach of course.

Then a bit more sight seeing around Venice…one thing though if you're driving on Main St. don't look up if you're afraid of clowns.

Next stop over to Hollywood to check of the shows at La Luz de Jesus gallery.  If you have every read Juxtapose magazine, many of the artist in that are represented here.

Then the obvious next stop is the Hollywood Forever Cemetery…

which is filled with the bones of famous Hollywood folks.  Such as 

Johnny Ramone of the Ramones…

though, he may not actually be dead…it looks sort of like he is frozen in carbonite.

Also here is Cecil B. DeMille, Faye Wray, and the most important grave of all…VAMPIRA!

I should mention that this cemetery does some really cool things…first, they have a huge Dia de los Muertos celebration every year…and in the summer they have outdoor cinemas... projected on the mausoleum. 

 How friggin' cool is that?  

So just to whet your appetite…I'll tell you that plans are in the works…big plans for next summer with the Urban Craft Center to something FANGtastic, that will include some nifty L.A. haunts…including a trip to this joint for some night time flix.  More later…can't wait to spill the beans!

Stay tuned: 

In the next post, 

I find that Santa has been kidnapped from his beach home of Carpinteria

and

I get Dane and boogie in Solvang at the Art Clinic.

Wild and Idle in Idyllwild

So still doing my little Southern Cal thang.  Goin' on week three.  When we last met I was busy gathering squirrel feet at Necromance….

From there I wandered up the hill to Idyllwild, a high dessert town with an awesome art school.

If you ever get a chance wander up that way to teach or take classes.  Great great great group of folks.

And it is the land of the Idyllbeast.  

While I was up there I had a bit of down time so having been recently puppet inspired I started making a bunch of puppet heads…soon to be altered with found thingies.

Another cool thing at Idyllwild was this piece of art at the house they rented for me. 

Sure it just looks like the Ten Commandments at a L.A. drive in…but it is made entirely of colored duct tape. 

Awesome!