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Date: December 10, 2006
by Jodi Forster & Dianne Bersea
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COPPER, COPPER, COPPER! |
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Art Calendar now available!
Dianne's light-hearted Squirrel Cove Whimsy (detail above) is a winner in the Nanaimo Rotary Calendar competition! Along with the work of 12 other accomplished west coast artists, Squirrel Cove Whimsy appear in the Calendar. To buy a copy visit http://www.rotarycalendar.org. |
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Add your name to our e-mail newsletter list. About 4 times a year we send a direct e-mail newsletter to keep you up to date on shows, workshops and new developments in the studio. Click on e-mail connection below.
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How to contact us.
Manzanita Muse Studio
Note: Our studio name is changing to reflect our web domain name. Slowly we will become Isle Muse Studio at islemuse.com.
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Hello friends and art fans. This is a quick update newsletter, so not a lot of commentary this time around. Winter brings serious studio time and time for rejuvenation. Dark, stormy days are ideal for painting in the studio, or doing some research and development in the mask-making department.
COPPER, COPPER, COPPER! We're also developing ideas for jewelry. We purchased a rock polisher and have been polishing stones collected from the beach at Smelt Bay - five minute walk from the studio. We're quite amazed at the magnificence of the stones, see photo below for some of our results.
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| Copper sheet and wire is being wound into shapes to contain the stones. We'll update the newsletter with the finished product as it evolves. |
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Jodi is experimenting with ways to mold Copper sheet into mask forms. In the photo to left, Jodi has created hide and a prototype copper mask from a ceramic mask she fired some time ago. |
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| This painting has been a "long time coming!" Dianne's been working on variations on this theme since 1999 from a library of sketches and photos of a Tofino & Chesterman Beach trip. |
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| Dianne's Painting Report:
I've been painting so much lately, see paintings to left, that I'm hardly coming up for air. Really working hard to get a dozen or so paintings ready for AFCA jury in February, a group show in March and a gallery proposal. I'm mostly working in acrylic at the moment. I thought that would be faster than watercolour, but now I'm not so sure. I find myself second guessing a lot. But acrylic does support a little more experimentation, because I can always re-paint. Painting to left is from a sketch I did from my window during the last snow storm. Sketch is above the acrylic in process.
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