tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42525304669294150922024-02-07T01:57:09.685-08:00Bird's Eye View StudioSuki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-79389893536104890992017-05-10T10:44:00.000-07:002017-05-10T10:44:06.784-07:00Cooking up something new!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well the big news over here is that we are expecting a little girl this June!</div>
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So for now classes at Bird's Eye View studio are on hold</div>
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while I work on my biggest Art project ever... CREATING A HUMAN!</div>
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If all goes well I will be back in the studio teaching classes in the late Fall of 2017.</div>
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I very much look forward to seeing you all then for more creative adventures!</div>
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and to get the first jump on classes when they return.</div>
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Just head on over to the right sidebar of this website and sign up!</div>
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Until then, may creative adventures fill your summer!</div>
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Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-42329919414117459552017-03-16T09:44:00.001-07:002017-03-16T09:46:48.839-07:00Watercolor Workshop: Gifts from the Sea.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Watercolor Workshop: Gifts from the Sea is coming up on </div>
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Saturday, April 1st from 10-1pm.</div>
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There are two open spots ready for a beginning painter, </div>
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or someone wanting to increase their watercolor knowledge and abilities.</div>
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If you would like to join in the oceanic fun,</div>
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simply email me at suki (at) birdseyeviewstudio (dot) com!</div>
<br />Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-18949131961160776092017-01-06T16:46:00.002-08:002017-01-06T16:47:38.298-08:00Classes begin again!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Woo hoo! Classes are resuming at Bird's Eye View Studio!</div>
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Check out the Classes tab for all the new class info!</div>
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Looking forward to creating with all of you again.</div>
<br />Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-58563262026093644032016-04-26T19:37:00.000-07:002016-04-26T19:37:24.297-07:00FREE Floral Coloring Page.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My teaching sabbatical has begun, and so has my re-entry into blogging!</div>
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I sat very still today, did some painting, </div>
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and drew this little wonder for your coloring pleasure. </div>
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I LOVE this time of year! So many blossoms to draw, paint, photograph, and sniff!</div>
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Here's my little finished page.</div>
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Please note that it is formatted to print on a legal (8.5x14 inch) paper. </div>
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Or you can print it on smaller paper, but you may need to reformat.</div>
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I printed mine on watercolor paper, and colored it in with prismacolor colored pencils.</div>
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When you've finished yours, I'd love to see it!</div>
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Here are some little snippets of my sketchbook from our recent honeymoon.</div>
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We adventured by car, caught ferries, hopped onto islands, and explored big cities.</div>
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Highlights for me were definitely our times on islands. Orcas Island Washington</div>
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has long been a favorite of mine, and my new favorite is Salt Spring Island, BC.</div>
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Both are little havens for small sustainable farmers and Artisans, my perfect combination!</div>
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We ate our way around, walked for miles, saw amazing sights, such as dried seahorses</div>
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in Chinatown, Vancouver BC, a whole museum of miniatures in Victoria BC, </div>
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and stayed at some remarkable Air B and B rentals. Cabins, Barn lofts, </div>
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LED certified apartments, and renovation warehouse lofts. </div>
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It was a fun way to try on different lives!</div>
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It was a lot of work to paint a map of everywhere we went, but it was also </div>
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tremendously helpful! We would be looking for an intersection, and I'd say, </div>
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"Oh, I know where that is, I painted it this morning!"</div>
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We really do retain so much more when we slow down and put pen to paper.</div>
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I brought a pretty large smattering of art supplies, but found most often</div>
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I kept it simple, my small gouache set, a #6 round brush, and a micron.</div>
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If you are wanting to get in the habit of keeping a sketchbook, </div>
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might I recommend my upcoming class, Sketchbook Play, which begins in late January.</div>
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Check out the class section of this blog for more info, it's going to be a blast!</div>
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and you will see the full list of the offerings in the New Year!</div>
Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-86174658928740120112015-12-14T11:48:00.000-08:002015-12-14T11:48:08.434-08:00Class Highlight: Carve Your Own Stamp and Print Your Own Wrapping Paper.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A fun class is happening this week...</div>
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Tuesday, December 15th from 6-8:30pm. Just $35, all supplies included.</div>
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The class is geared for adults, and is happening here at Bird's Eye View Studio.</div>
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Send me a little email if you want to register:</div>
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This month I gathered a gaggle of gals and we headed over to <a href="http://penfelt.com/" target="_blank">PenFelt Studio</a>,</div>
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and learned to wet felted slippers from the effervescent LeBrie Rich!</div>
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Here are a few of our finished slippers, I wear mine obsessively.</div>
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LeBrie has mounds of beautifully colored roving,</div>
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Here we are, "working" away, truly it's more like playing away.</div>
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On the right is LeBrie, helping Charla try on her slippers.</div>
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Happy ladies with joyous slippers! Look at these bunny eared guys!</div>
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This month in Contour Drawing class we will focus on the wonders of fruit!</div>
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Half way through our printing.</div>
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One student created a whole series of moon prints.</div>
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Make a bunch of these wooly wonders!</div>
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Contour Drawing: Flowers September 16th 6-8:30pm</div>
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Parent & Child Class: Wet Felted River Rocks Wednesday, September 23rd 4-5:30pm</div>
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For our wedding, I decided I wanted to paint a lace rock for everyone who attended.</div>
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so here's what they looked like in the end!</div>
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Over 120 stones, one for each of the people we love, and who came to cheer on our love.</div>
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Here is what Lace Rocks mean to me:</div>
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The stone itself is weighty, like the commitment of marriage.</div>
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It isn't something to take lightly, </div>
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and with its weight come solidity and groundedness.</div>
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These stones are circular, but not perfectly, </div>
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like a good marriage there are a few lumps and bumps.</div>
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And the lace paintings are delicate, and must be made with care,</div>
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like the vows we made on that day and will keep for each other.</div>
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And in the end, the play of weight and delicacy,</div>
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light and dark, simpleness and complexity,</div>
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are just like we are, and how all of our lives are, a balance.</div>
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So happy to have made them, and so happy to be married to my favorite human,</div>
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who is both wonderfully simple and deeply complex.</div>
Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-70482660609976213542015-07-27T16:55:00.000-07:002015-07-27T16:56:34.268-07:00Up, Down and All Around.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Creative Friends.</div>
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It's been quite a month here on life's roller coaster.</div>
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Philip and I tied the knot on July 19th, best day EVER.</div>
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So wonderful to be encircled by our closest family and friends as we said our self written vows.</div>
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Philip turned over to me the next morning and said, "I miss our wedding ceremony."</div>
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I agreed whole heartedly. It was magic.</div>
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And then, just a week later, tragedy struck.</div>
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Our 17 year old cat became really really sick. He had been battling kidney disease,</div>
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and the struggle became too big. We made the gut wrenching decision to end his suffering.</div>
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This was by far the hardest decision either of us has ever made.</div>
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I had told Kinder (our cat) when he got diagnosed with kidney disease to tell me when it was time,</div>
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and he did, in a very quiet way. As a family of two humans who work from home, the loss of our little furry co-worker is giant. But we will slowly sew back up this hole in our hearts, together.</div>
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These two back to back events show me the ability of our heart to expand and contract, </div>
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and then re-expand. As well as the depth of our capability to feel, love, and heal, which is immense.</div>
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All of this also reminds me of our tremendous ability to create, and that LIFE IS SHORT,</div>
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so we'd better sit down to the drawing board and get something down on paper.</div>
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So today I am getting these words down on paper, and when I finish I will work up a little drawing in my sketchbook, which has been set aside for weeks now during all these turns in the road.</div>
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I urge you all to do the same. Take a pause, get out the pencil or pen, and make your mark.</div>
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If you'd like some inspiration, or a new creative adventure, check out the classes tab up top.</div>
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August's class schedule has just been released, I'd love to see you in class soon.</div>
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Wishing for you all tremendous love.</div>
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Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-18742314614325885382015-06-11T10:15:00.000-07:002015-06-11T10:15:07.138-07:00Gelli Plate Monoprinting with Acrylics.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Come learn about the newest printmaking craze!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the newest rage in the at home printmaking world. </span></div>
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Coming up at the end of this month is Linoleum Block Printmaking class.</div>
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Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-45947863986714542422015-04-24T15:50:00.001-07:002015-04-24T15:50:17.398-07:00Lace Mandala Rocks.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been back at it for a few weeks, painting lace rocks.</div>
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It's very meditative and calming to paint these guys, or maybe they're gals?</div>
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I enjoy that all of them have the same elements, and yet come out very differently.</div>
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Kind of like us humans!</div>
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I start in the center painting a single circle, and then make even-ish petals from there.</div>
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Adding scallops, dots, lines tear drops, and little antenna shapes.</div>
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I keep circling around and around, and slowly I'm so focused on these lace mandalas</div>
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that the world melts away and it's just me and some lines.</div>
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My thoughts ease, the elves come out (you know, those super creative little characters</div>
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and pretty soon I'm in an ecstatic state of mandala bliss.</div>
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Want to make some of your own? Collect some flat-ish round rocks,</div>
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I saw the most magnificent peony last week in a friends yard,</div>
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Here is a progression of a peony inside my sketchbook.</div>
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I started with this amazing <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/Kuretake-Bimoji-Felt-Tip-Brush-Pen-with-Special-Grip-Super-Fine/pd/5184" target="_blank">Kuretake Bimoji super fine brush pen</a>.</div>
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LOVE this pen!</div>
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It's easy to get lost when drawing from a reference image,</div>
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I had to do my normal pep talking, "keep going, keep going, keep going."</div>
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I was painting with my travel <a href="http://www.winsornewton.com/na/shop/water-colour/water-colour-sets/cotman-water-colours-pocket-plus-12-half-pans-set-0390373" target="_blank">Cotman watercolor set</a>,</div>
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Next I filled in my mid tones, the flower then started to come to life.</div>
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And lastly I pulled out my lightest tones,</div>
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and painted "peony time" in my new favorite painty font.</div>
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Here is the original photo I was working from, it's clearly more vibrant,</div>
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but what fun this little drawing was to make, and it took less than an hour.</div>
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And now I have a visual record of a beautiful spring moment with a friend.</div>
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Glad I sat down to work, as always. What will you draw today?</div>
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It's been a fun sketchbook play week for me. </div>
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I moved a little desk into the living room, and have been drawing and painting</div>
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Even shows that I usually love don't hold up to the pull of playing in my Sketchbook.</div>
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Here's what I have been up to this week...</div>
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Here is a very loose drawing of a arrangement of peonies.</div>
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I drew it with a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Varsity-Disposable-Fountain-turquoise/dp/B00DUGWTI2/ref=sr_1_7?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1429206084&sr=1-7&keywords=pilot+varsity+pen" target="_blank">Pilot Varsity</a> water-soluble fountain pen and painted it in with gouache.</div>
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I love the bleedy blue lines of the ink.</div>
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I've been on a roll drawing faces from my google image search of "regular people."</div>
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"This guys name is probably Bill, or Mark, or Carl.</div>
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He will laugh at your jokes. He's got a black lab named Marley,</div>
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He is kind and will wheel out your trash if you're on vacation.</div>
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Just don't ask him to water your ferns, he's not a 'plant guy.'"</div>
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I love putting diluted ink into these <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yasutomo-Niji-Water-Brush-Medium/dp/B007VTT7PW/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1429205990&sr=1-1&keywords=niji+waterbrush" target="_blank">Niji</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Aquash-Water-Assorted-FRHBFMBP3/dp/B00AX31TZO/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1429206038&sr=1-1&keywords=pentel+waterbrush" target="_blank">Pentel</a> water brushes and using them to sketch.</div>
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I drew these sheep looking at a recent piece of art from Taproot Magazine.</div>
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Then my brain got to thinking about the next page, and I drew this skein of yarn.</div>
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I like when pages relate to each other.</div>
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And of course a few birds to round out the week.</div>
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What I like most about this is the combo of bright green and red,</div>
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I'd love to see it!</div>
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If you have been interested in my Sketchbook Play class,</div>
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I am offering <span style="color: red;">one free spot</span> in my <span style="color: red;">next session of Sketchbook Play.</span></div>
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One: <a href="http://eepurl.com/6Q42b" target="_blank">Join the Bird's Eye View Mailing List here</a>.</div>
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Enter only if you can attend the 6 week class.</div>
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There is a small supply list that is not included in the free giveaway.</div>
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Winner will be drawn on Wednesday, April 8th at 10am.</div>
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Come learn to play, sketch, paint and record your daily life in a handmade book.</div>
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This class is geared for the sketch-phobic, the ultimate beginner,</div>
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the "I always meant to," the "when I retire", the imperfectly perfect Artist in all of us.</div>
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No experience needed, no magical talents requested,</div>
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In this class we will spend the first week creating our very own long stitch bound</div>
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This simple bookbinding method is delightful because our books will open flat</div>
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which includes, coaching, and creative cheerleading from Suki.</div>
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We will study and draw botanicals, vintage household curiosities, gifts from the sea</div>
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and forest, and anything else that strikes our fancy. We will embrace recording</div>
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our daily lives and objects in a visual format, which is such a treat to</div>
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look back through and treasure.</div>
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Dates: Wednesday's, April 15th-May 20th</div>
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Time: 6-8:30pm</div>
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3934 NE 16th Ave. Portland, OR 97212</div>
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Cost: $175 plus a $25 material fee. </div>
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Your material fee covers the cost of your handmade sketchbook</div>
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and an 02 micron pen. There is an additional small supply</div>
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list of a few brushes, and inexpensive set of watercolors</div>
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Suki Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838374915432945257noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252530466929415092.post-58639618977741741542015-03-25T12:45:00.000-07:002015-03-25T12:45:23.510-07:00Let Yourself Be Inspired.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's so easy in this day and age to turn off our senses. </div>
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We are all surrounded by so much noise, telephones, talking, traffic. </div>
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We are encompassed in smells, sights, sounds, tastes.</div>
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I urge you once a day to practice the art of bringing to LIFE one of your senses.</div>
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It's easy to do in spring, there is so much color to witness, blossoms to sniff,</div>
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fresh greens to munch, birds calls to listen out for, and gradual warmth to feel.</div>
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Some folks find it easier to witness and tune into their senses sitting still,</div>
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others find they are more attune during a walk.</div>
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Where ever you find your sensory inspiration, take it in!</div>
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Recently on a spring walk I came across this ravishingly beautiful tulip magnolia tree.</div>
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My great grandfather was a painter, and this was one of his constant subjects.</div>
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So I took a moment to stand beneath it, to gaze back in time to a man I never knew.</div>
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I let myself feel the intrinsic connection. And it inspired me.</div>
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So many shades of pink, golden-green tips of branch and leaf.</div>
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then later in the studio this pink pattern wonder burst from my paint brush.</div>
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What is inspiring you creative friends?</div>
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Needle Felted Succulent class is here again!</div>
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Come join in this coming Saturday, March 21st </div>
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from 10am-12:30pm here at Bird's Eye View Studio. </div>
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Make a houseplant that doesn't require water, and will never die!</div>
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Class costs $30, and all supplies are included!</div>
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Many folks have wondered, what goes on in those Sketchbook Play classes!?!</div>
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Well, here is SOME of what we do...</div>
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Sketchbook Play is a class that I teach for beginning or intermediate drawers.</div>
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The purpose is to get better at drawing as well as solidifying a sketchbook practice.</div>
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Things we study include, but are not limited to: Contour drawing, the basics</div>
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of watercolor painting, cursive alphabets, hand-drawn alphabets, </div>
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and of course hilarious inky portraits.</div>
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If you are looking to bring back some creativity into your life,</div>
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if you want to learn the fundamentals of bookmaking</div>
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come join me!</div>
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A series of six Wednesday evenings,</div>
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from April 15th - May 20th, 6-8:30pm</div>
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Bird's Eye View Studio</div>
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3934 NE 16th Ave. Portland, OR 97212</div>
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$175 w/ a $25 material fee,</div>
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and a very small supply list.</div>
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Email for more information and registration:</div>
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suki (at) birdseyeviewstudio (dot) com</div>
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