Art & Soul Withdrawl

I am missing every aspect of my Art & Soul experience. Mingling with the other artist was inspiring, the classses were amazing, and the food great. The surge of creativity I came home with was fantastic, but now it's up to me to carry it on, on my own. Time - I need more time.

Beeswax Collage: "love is beautiful"

"beautiful in red" 8x8 canvas frame

Beeswax Collage: "ready"

"ready" 4x4 canvas frame

Beeswax Collage: "quiet"

"quiet" 8x8 canvas frame

Beeswax Collage

My new thing is experimenting with beeswax collage. It's a great medium because if you don't like something, just melt it right off again. I have a book by the amazing Claudine Hellmuth, callled Collage Discovery Workshop.... and I took her class recently at Art & Soul. This is what I came up with.

Computer woes

I'm going a little nuts at the studio - my computer got a nasty virus and pooped out. I have a back-up computer, that my Mom just brought down from Canada, but I'm getting some kind of blue stop screen, so I can't use it either. I think I'm sending out some kind of freaky magnetic wave - it's cursing me.
It's a little scary to think of how dependent I am on my computer. Hello my name is Tracy and I'm computer dependent - without a doubt.
Today I brought in my very favorite computer, the one from home, it never fails me.... knock on wood. Now the question is, how do I get my info off my old computer on to this one, as it never stays on/running long enough. I'm going to have a heart attack from the stress - I just can't deal with PC problems - not a bit.

Tuesday Pat and I went to Depoe Bay. I'm in love with the beach there - more so than the beach here which can be hard to access because of the dunes. I fell in love with a chipmunk that I named Kripsy Kreme beacause he was a little on the chubby side. Feeding him out of my hand was fun enough, but he also let me pet him. Of course I wanted to bring him home, but Pat played "grown up" and said no. Oh how I miss Kripsy Kreme.

This gull was a hysterical. He was wacthing us feed the chipmunks and he "lauged" when they started wrestling with eachother for food.

Fresh Start

I'm leaving my old blog behind and starting this new one because I had too much trouble with spam and such on the the other. Who knows how often I'll post, but I'm working on making it more frequent.