Mono-printmaking and Long Stitch Bookbinding Class.

This month I had the extreme pleasure of teaching a mono-printing

and bookbinding combo class at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

If you have taken class with me you know I love organizing supplies!

Before we began...

Half way through our printing.

One student created a whole series of moon prints.

Another played with geometric shapes.

We printed and printed and printed all morning.

And then in the afternoon we stitched together our books,

using our decorative prints for our cover paper, 

and for each signature of pages.

I had a hard time not wanting to take each and every one of these books home!

Such beautiful work.

Such a fun and creative group of students!

Student Work: Beginning Needle Felting at OCAC.

Look at these amazing animals created in my Needle Felted Friends class

at Oregon College of Art and Craft last week!

Students learned all the basics of needle felting, while creating an amazing

managerie of animal friends, and also some plant life. 

If you are interested in learning needle felting, I have three upcoming classes:

Needle Felted Chickens

THIS Saturday, March 7th from 10-12:30pm

$30 All supplies included.

Needle Felted Succulents

Saturday, March 21st 10-12:30pm

$30 All supplies included.

Needle Felted Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

Saturday, April 4th from 1-5pm

$40 All supplies included.

All classes are located at Bird's Eye View Studio

3934 NE 16th Ave. Portland, OR 97212

To register, email me at: suki(at)birdseyeviewstudio(dot)com.

Hope you'll join in the fun!

Art Camp Finale.

What a summer it was! So much teaching, so many exuberant children,

SO many books and prints. It was a whirl wind that I am just now coming out from.

Here are some pictures of what the littles and I were up to this summer.

I am sad to not share their smiling faces with you, but we will let them remain children

for a bit longer, and keep them out of the lime light. 

Together the wee ones and I glued and sewed together over 500 books.

We printed hundreds and hundreds of Artist Trading Cards.

We wrote alphabets in fancy fonts,

practiced our cursive,

and read many many stories about creative adventures.

The second best thing to being at summer camp,

is teaching summer camp.

I will be teaching with Oregon College of Arts and Crafts a bunch more this year.

If you have a child who loves to create, come join us in the adventures!

Art Camp: Drawing and Painting

Art Camp at OCAC has been a blast! 

Here are a few delayed pictures from the Drawing and Painting tent from a few weeks back.

 The kids and I worked on contour drawing and color mixing, it was FUN.

Everyone was amazed that out of three little primary colors we could

mix every color of the rainbow, including brown and gray.

We delighted in making color wheels,

I think we could have made them each and every day.

Stay tuned for more pictures from my current post in the Book Arts tent...