Altered Shabby Chic Bottles, Gail Schmidt
Doorway 1
Just a few update notes for you. I need to get back to some painting.
Liz
Jan is flying by at the studio with lots to paint, the shop to stock, and best of all, students returning from the holidays. We’re well into our Jan class schedule with enthusiasm and plenty of ideas for upcoming projects. I have the best-est students ever.
Morning ride has and is turning out awesome, each students adding their own flavor to the painting. We’re still working on the painting in Cary and I’m looking forward to their finished painting, some of them quite excitingly large.
Our Raleigh group is starting the first in our Doorway series. Some of the student are painting my design but some of them will be designing their own doorway painting. I hope more will join them in the next of our doorways.
Our Nesting mixed media turned out awesome. Lots of personal touches there. Thought you might like to see some of the student’s paintings. This design was lots of creative fun.
Nesting, students painting
CADANC, Capital Area Decorative Artists NC, meet at the studio for their first meeting of 2014. It was so nice to see everyone and share a painting experience. Susan T was our teacher and she did a wonderful job of instructing us in painting a pet. Well you all know that this is one of my favorite painting subjects and I was enthused. It took me most of the month to decide on which cat photo from which to paint. After making a couple of choices and printing them, at the last minute I changed my mind and chose another, just like choosing from the menu at a restaurant if the server gives you too much time to make up your mind. I did love my final decision, George again. He was so photogenic, a green eyed handsome fellow. Here he is. I was very pleased and am ready to paint another of my earlier choices, but class project need to come first.
What Up George?
OK I need to move over to my painting table where I have projects waiting to be started. I’m off to paint.
Liz
I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season with lots of time for family, friends, and fun. I’ve enjoyed myself this year on our holiday break. I’ve had some time with my family, attended some awesome holiday parties, and had some quiet, soothing, creative time.
Here are some of the paintings that I completed for my family for Christmas. I can show you now since I’ve given them. My family member were very pleased.
Ruth on her wedding day, 1945.
Porter
Morning Ride
Now I’m ready to see all my terrific students and get back to sharing our art.
Yesterday was our Back to Painting Party and it was exciting to see everyone, our usual crew, some who I had not see in awhile, and some who are new to our area or just haven’t paint with us before. And there are some new enthusiasts who want to get involved with art and painting. I’m always excited about introducing other to our creative ventures.
I’m now preparing myself for our 2014 painting. My Jan to-do list looks something like this:
Upcoming in Jan 2014:
We have lots of new classes planned with new techniques popping up as well as some of our usual favorites. Over the past several months we’ve acquired a list of projects that we want to paint. Here they come.
Our Wed day class and Cary evening class want to paint the Morning Ride that I painted for my brother for Christmas. Photo is above.
For Wed evening, we have a mixed media painting planned called Nesting. Our version of a Linda Lock design. Lots of fun techniques and all in one 3 hr evening!
Nesting
We have a workshop coming up on Jan 25th, Watercolor Poppies in the Rain, a Mark Polomchak design. I need to get that sample painted so you can see it.
For more class info including hrs and dates, please check the classes pages.
Let me know if you enjoyed the new web design. I’m off to be creative! Liz
On Jan 5th we’ll have our New Year’s Welcome Back To Painting Party, Sunday from 2p – 5p.
And you are invited.
We’ll have tasty treats to share, a short fun painting project to enjoy, friends to visit, one of my paintings to raffle, and registration for classes.
Bring a treat, family, and a friend or two to celebrate painting in 2014 with us.
If you plan to paint our white rabbit pin with us be sure to let me know so I can be prepared for you.
$5 covers surface, supplies, and paints. No experience needed so bring your friends and family.
We’ll start painting at 2:30p
Registration required.
Vase of Roses
Vase of Roses painted by Liz Miller CDA
Raffle
You are not required to be present to win but you’ll need to come back to pick up your painting or pay postage for mailing.
Winter on the Farm
a Ginger Edwards design
All of us are wrapping up 2013 along with our gifts and will soon look forward to 2014. We have a few paintings left to complete and lots of holiday celebrating to enjoy.
At Artful Endeavors I’m looking forward to some time for family and friends, and then some catching up time.
Our last Tue am open class is tomorrow morning if you need to finish something before the holidays.
On Wed we’ll finish our last paintings for this year in our day and evening classes.
We’ll have a 3 week break for holiday enjoyments. Classes will resume Jan 7 & 8, 2014.
Remember our Jan 5th New Year’s Back to Painting Party. I post details separately.
The students and I have worked on our Jan/Feb 2014 schedule and I’m in the process of posting it on our web site. Be sure to check out the outstanding new projects that we’ve chosen. Some from our favorite journals, some that are my own design, and some we’ll design ourselves. I’ll post photos as soon as I have the samples painted. And keep checking back because you know we always tweak the schedules a bit. Our workshops are projects that we’ve wanted to schedule for some time. Mark your calendar and plan to join us.
I’ll add more of our 3 hr workshops. Right now I’m collecting ideas and saving my favorites.
And speaking of our web site, have you see it in the last week? Our web designer, me, has been hard at work over the Thanksgiving break giving it a new look that will work on most browsers, and allow you to find everything easily. Let me know if it works easily for you.
I wish everyone of you a wonderful holiday season. Merry Christmas and I’ll look forward to seeing you in Jan.
Liz
During the month of Dec I’m gifting you with 15% off on all my on line classes.
You can check out my classes on our on-line class page right here on my web site, or you can go directly to Creative Workshops to register and take advantage of my gift to you.
Drawing Faces
Sign up for Creative Workshops’ newsletter to get the details and latest on-line class news.
Watch for my new on-line classes coming up after the first of the year. Now I’ve told you about my new classes so I had better get busy taping them.
Have a wonderful holiday season and I’ll see you back for our New Year of Painting Party on Jan 5th.
Check out the special offers at Creative Workshops going on right now!
I hope you have enjoyed your Thanksgiving days and feasting. I did. My creative juices are renewed and now I’m ready for more painting.
Santa on the Moon
We have 2 more weeks left of painting in 2013. Here’s what we have for our
2 wk classes for Dec 4 and 11.
Wed, 10a – 2p. Santa on the Moon. Here’s the delightfully popular Helan
Barrick Santa the I’ve taught many times over the years. Now is the chance for any of you who haven’t painted him yet to do so. $84
Winter Path
Wed, 5:00p – 7:30p. Winter Path. A new design for us by Angela Anderson from Paint Works.
Loose and fun. $56.
Tue am open class is still happening Dec 3 & 10, 10a – 12:30, for you to finish up those last minute projects. Let me know if you plan to join us.
Tue evening class in Cary is finishing up our Dorothy Dent, Mill design on Tue Dec 3, 10, & 17. We plan to be back at the salon next week.
Mark your calendar for Jan 5, our New Year’s Welcome Back to Painting Party, 2p – 5p. We’ll have class samples, a fun quick project to paint, food, one of my paintings raffled, and lots of fellowship. Always a good way to start the new year.
We’re working on the class schedule now and I’ll have that for you soon with lots of fun new painting ideas and some of our favorites. We have a couple of workshops already planned.
Jan 25, 10-4p. Poppies Watercolor. This is the painting that you have been waiting for.
Feb 14, 10-2p. Sodas and Sundaes. Here are my ornaments that took a ribbon at the state fair this past Oct. Just in right for Valentine’s Day.
I’ll have more of our 3 hr workshops too for those of you who appreciated finishing your painting in one class. Always fun and lively.
Join us in Dec and help pull our Jan/Feb schedule together. I’ll see you soon.
Liz
I’ve really been into painting owls this year. Fortunately so have many of our painters, so we’ve had some fun painting owls together. First there were the ornaments, then the snow owl. Here is our latest in our owl collection. This time a more realistic painting. My wonderful students created a whole flock of fluffy owls.
Barred owls by my talented students.
This beautiful design was by Sue Beckerton in Paint Works, Feb 2013.
