Even fewer words... it's 11:12 p.m.; I got to my room from the studio about 10:30 and have just resized photos to post. No more time or energy left to say much more. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words (and those thousand words, if I had them, would say this group is amazing!)
We started the day with a sharing of work by those in the class. We did this yesterday and again today--tomorrow we'll see work from others, as well.
Karen showed flame work pieces from a class she'd had at Penland a couple of weeks ago.
Andrea shared many amazing drawings. These are only a few that she finally laid out on to cover the table.
Joan had photos she wants to work from, watercolor paintings, images of completed tapestries and a copy of a travel journal with small illustrations for each day.
We've completed our fourth full class day now. Everyone is at a different point yet we're all experiencing these beautiful views around Penland. There was a quick thunderstorm this afternoon that caused some excitement since we saw a lighting strike in the near woods. Since we didn't hear later sirens perhaps the strike was at a tree in the woods and not somebody's home.
We've had rain almost every afternoon... this photos was from yesterday afternoon's storm shower.
So now here are random photos from the studio as I left tonight.
Just a few words below... lots of work done and more to come so I need to end the evening before midnight today. It's 11:25 p.m. now. The post will be made tomorrow since I don't have internet access here and am using Blogo to write the post to be published tomorow.
Audrey thinks about what's next...
Audrey shows where she is at the end of the day...
Barbara showed a few of her small pieces to the rest of the class and I think everyone was amazed as I was at the beauty of these small pieces.
Meredith demonstrates continuous warping for the class and then continues for the warp she's putting on for her next weaving. Raising the loom on boxes at the four corners is a handy way to warp by one's self.
Joan continues to work on her piece.
Karen sets up to begin a cartoon.
Karen, who's staying in a condo near here so she can have her dog with her, brought Mitzi to the studio tonight.
Kimberly works out more ideas in her sampling.
Meredith works on her hew warp. She's used the Churro wool for warp that I bought at Convergence.
And here at the third floor of Lily Loom House we'll all begin our next day together on the 19th of August.
Second day... and it feels almost like the second week! How can so much be packed into each day? This is what it feels like to be in an intense 24-7 class situation. I both love it and find it very challenging. I continue to think of the "before lunch" time as a different day than the "after lunch time" and now, already, the "after-dinner evening event" time is seeming to be a THIRD day. So I guess my sense of time here seems to be telling me that each day spent in this situation contains at least enough creative experience to fill THREE "normal" days in the real world.
Here are a few photos from this seeming "several day-day" here at Penland in my class... and at the end are links to the instructors who showed amazing slides tonight... and I'm sorry not to be able to have links right now to their studio assistants whose work was also amazing.
These photos are not in any chronological order except that they were done today.
Andrea works after the slide show.
Audrey's piece at the end of the day.
Barbara's weaving tonight. She showed me a few of her earlier tapestries today--amazing pieces!
Joan is working on curves with a circle to end the sampling. She sewed a cartoon traced on mylar onto the back of her warp threads today and began the trip up this ribbon-like shape.
Joan's cartoon, yarn snippets as samples, her scissors at the yarn table and a few balls of yarn I brought from which most students are selecting colors. The yarns I use in my own work is what I have here... Vevgarn from Norsk Fjord Fiber and a 20/2 worsted wool from Fine Fiber Press (Kathe Todd-Hooker's business). Both wools are from Norway. Students also had the option of bringing and using their own yarns or buying from the Penland supply in the weaving studio.
Karen's piece underway. She has never woven in anyway before but is quite creative.
Class hours are flexible here; all studios are open 24 hours during the sessions (except for hot glass, I think). Normally, everyone works together as a team made up of instructor/studio assistant/students between 9-ish and 5-ish (lunch time for an hour in between), and then have evening hours depending upon evening events that have campus-wide invitations (like the instructor/studio assistant slide shows almost ever evening).
For instance, this afternoon there was an opening of this session's instructors' exhibit in the Penland Gallery at 4:30 p.m. Here Meredith and I are standing in front of my tapestry in that exhibit--
Following that exhibit opening, there was an open house at Cynthia Bringle's studio just down the hill from Horner Hall where the gallery is located. Here's Edwina Bringle (Cynthia's sister) and Barbara, one of the students from my class whose also studied with Edwina.
First thing this morning was a demo of the cutting off of a finished piece when Meredith Dahle, my studio assistant, cut off. She'd woven it to have a shaped effect and so was describing how she'd planned that before she cut off.
After cutting the piece off the loom she pulled the warps to make the piece shaped. That's what's happening here.
Her shaped piece after pulling the warps looks like this before the complete finishing.
Everybody's working hard all day long and into the evenings! Great group of students.
