Sunday, July 29, 2007

Saturday in Gathersburg, MD

Wow, what a day. Monica picked me up at 5:45 am and we headed to Leslie's. Once we were settled, Monica, Leslie, me and Jane, we headed to the Rubber Chicken in Gathersburg, MD. Beautiful weather, no traffic. Jane kept us on track spouting off street names in her proper Australian accent. Reminding us to keep left or right so that we wouldn't get lost. Jane got us to the Rubber Chicken in plenty of time. For at 9 am we were to begin our first class with Tim Holtz.
We've read his books, watched his video's, bought his papers but never attempted to reproduce any of his artwork. The first class was Charmed Possessions.

It was a mixture of domino's, mica, stamps , jewelry and lots of other fun stuff. Wow it was fun and easy. After the class, the lack of sleep was catching up with us. We headed to Boston Market and for some protein.
The lunch got our juices going and we began the next class, Industrial, with gusto. This one challenged our creativity. We turned chipboard into metal art. It has so much potential, I can't wait to try it out at home. Here is what I managed to produce. Doesn't it look like metal?
The classes we signed up for were now complete. But Tim had one more class that day. Do you think there might be openings? Never hurts to ask, right? Fantastic, they found three spots for us. We had to sit at the instructors table. Almost like we were being punished, had I mentioned that Monica was with us? She brings the life to the party and our group was noticed. So sitting at the "bad girls" table was not unexpected. The third class was "Road Trip." How appropriate. This was also a blast. We took found objects and with the help of predrilled holes we were able to attach them to a necklace:

This has wonderful potential when we have "found" objects from our own trips.

What a wonderful day. Thank you Tim and the Rubber Chicken. We will be back. You throw a great party!

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Very nice Lee! Love the way your photos of projects came out. I struggled with mine this afternoon -- all of them, one of them. Overexposed pictures, blurry pictures.

It was so much fun. I am jealous of those who are still learning and getting dirty today!