Saturday, February 28, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
More watercolour wrapping paper for my son's birthday...
I have a new found love of making my own wrapping paper with watercolors.
There is something about buying gift cards and massive rolls of wrapping paper (holidays being the most frustrating with the options out there) - and when my son's 13th birthday came up on me, I looked at my studio supplies, a big roll of white sketch paper and my hundreds of watercolors...I decided to go for something simple, but colourful. I blogged photos about other wrapping paper I painted a few weeks ago on the February 15th post.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
An incredible studio visit with Susan Hoff.
Today I had the most incredible studio visit with the talented and beautiful Susan Hoff. A few months ago I saw her work (must have been Pinterest) and I found myself pinning her bags constantly. I found her website and saw that she was not only local but also showing in a couple of my friends stores both on the West and East Coasts. So, I decided to send her a note asking if I could come to her studio and become inspired. And that's just what we did this morning. I hope by these photos below you can get a sense of her space and materials and maybe one day end up with one of her unique -one of a kind- works of art as I did today. I will treasure the bag and our new friendship always. Intuition tells me we are going to be lifelong friends with very similar sensibilities.
www.susanhoff.com
("...bags, accessories and custom design inspired by Susan's time spent at sea and her upbringing on a midwesterm horse farm...handcrafted from reclaimed sails & horse reins and dedicated to responsibility...")
Susan spent time with me teaching me how to stitch and put together a little sketchbook...see below.
the sails from which the bags are stitched...
Here is the life raft from which she made my bag below...cut from the blue part- the underside of the raft.
Of course I spotted the map of Cape Cod and New England...
My new beautiful art bag...notice the blue life raft material. This bag will hold all sketchbooks, watercolors, paints, brushes and I'm sure some driftwood along the way.
reclaimed horse reins as handles...simple and beautiful. Rustic patina-ed islet.
Thank you Susan for such a memorable day.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Back on the Cape...
I managed to dodge some East Coast blizzards and finally returned to my little cottage studio by the Bay in Barnstable for a couple days. It feels so good to be back amongst the little summer beach cottages all of which are shut down for the season except for mine. It's a shame because I miss my fellow neighbors and the usual summer banter back and forth but now I relish the quiet and calm of the landscape around me.
Cheers to being home back on the Atlantic.
(some of the other cottages "tucked in" by the snow...this one is called Little Red Schoolhouse)
(I love this whale detail on Fishermen's Cottage)
( This sweet building is the converted "Town Hall")
Sandy Neck Bay a couple hundred yards from my cottage.
Arctic ice drifts...so beautiful.
Long winter shadows...
My favorite patina-ed boat left on the sand for the winter season.
Sunset over Sandy Neck and the lighthouse.
My sunset view from my tiny Bayberry Cottage over to the Bay and lighthouse.
I am ever so grateful.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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