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local potter talk + show

17January2014by k. Leave a comment

The New London Arts Alliance hosted local potter, Bill Gossman, at our Artluck at greenwater on the third Thursday of the month. We were in a blizzard warning, but Bill […]

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the silence says

2December2013by k. 5 Comments

One side of an old, abandoned spool has become my personal mandala. It is scrubby and rough, porous and broken. Altogether perfect, actually. I am using it in a meditative practice […]

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i am amelie

19July2013by k. 3 Comments

“Mom,” he said, ” I like how you ride your bike. You don’t ride fast–you’re all relaxed…you kinda, well, it’s like….” “Do I ride like I live in Paris?” I ask. […]

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a starfighter refuels

28May2013by k. Leave a comment

I traveled southeast today to meet with my peeps at Midwest-CBK in Cannon Falls. Every starfighter needs to board the mothership on occasion to refuel and receive orders for the […]

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students + art + ice cream

24May2013by k. Leave a comment

These are the 14 Senior Studio Art Students we celebrated last Friday at the NL-S Art Social along with their teacher, Kari Weber. It was crazy-fun! The students brought their […]

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a potter with a problem

28April2013by k. Leave a comment

Bill Gossman came by the other day with a pot & a problem. He knew he needed to attach a ceramic handle to a ceramic pot with copper wire, but […]

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pizza delivery boy

23April2013by k. Leave a comment

This little gent is one of my favorite pals. He visits the shop every once in awhile just to see what is going on. Last time he came by, I gave […]

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bottling happiness

13April2013by k. 2 Comments

The Brew Club gents were here again, sorting, washing, filling and capping the three batches they brewed last month. Then they threw another pot on the flame and brewed up another batch. It was […]

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students on tour

10April2013by k. Leave a comment

  The NL-S Art Teacher, Ms. Weber, let me take four of her students on a plant tour of Printmasters in Willmar. The kids got a chance to see how […]

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here comes the grill

1April2013by k. 1 Comment

The advantages of a small town include the assembly of a new grill purchased at the local hardware store’s sale as well as the delivery of said assembled grill. Randy […]

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The focus for Drawing Club was capturing negative space. This involves seeing it first. Understanding the value of negative space is essential to an art practice, but it isn't the flashiest study. We started by warming up with white media on black, then moved to drawing the negative space only. It's a brain bender, but it is the good stuff.
On Monday we painted starscapes while learning a variety of useful techniques. We blotted, mottled, sprinkled and lifted. There was so much success-even when we doubted ourselves. Like the astronauts say, "It's a long journey to the next galaxy." This is the good stuff.
The Drawing Club fearlessly tackled the challenge of glass objects on Tuesday. We concentrated, chose our tools and stuck with it until our subject emerged from the page. Looking for dark and medium tones beyond the highlights is the hard part. But we're fearless because this is the good stuff.
We painted blues on Monday-the blues of the sea! We practiced our opacity, our mixes and our brush strokes. Though the lessons are simple, the work is hard. And yet, magic still happens! This is such good stuff, really.
What an amazing day for Porch Fest! 😎 Thank you for playing at the garage. We love to host this community event!
It was a big night for the Drawing Club! We practiced looking at landscapes and orienting ourselves to the horizon line, background and foreground. We learned a new form of perspective, then used it to depict reflections in water and ice. We are drawing environments in graphite and chalk, day and night, getting better all the time. This is the good, atmospheric stuff.
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