Last week's collage class...

"O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are drivers, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeting..."  

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(Not finished with the "fleeting" part yet.)

And below Bernie has used some wonderful papers she made at our monoprinting session.

Sandy has lots of ideas for finishing this piece...

And above is Lesley's beautiful finished fall piece; her first collage!  Below, she begins a new one.

Above is a lovely piece that Maria is working on.

Below is MaryAnn's exciting one!  She loved these ladies!

Fall Critters...

Bringing out more of my Fall critters for this time of the year and Carol and I were talking about some of these, so this post is for her...

I love how they all get along together, don't you?

Happy just to be...

A writing page...

i am going to show my journaling class this idea for making a fun and meaningful page for their journals.  This one, first using masking tape to mask out parts to save for writing, I then covered the page with stamps that went with the poem I wrote.

Or like this one was done with a doodling background.

Or a little drawing...

Makes a nice journal page!

Journaling...

Fun this morning playing with paper...

Happy Halloween

and finishing up my October pages...

a special day.

On to Journaling Session yesterday

Lois gave us a lesson in papermaking...

handmade sheets of paper for our journals!

and continuing on with October Journaling...

The bewitching month is coming to an end...

Tomorrow is our "art journaling" get-together at The Center, so hoping to finish most of my pages.

 A beautiful month along with some mixed emotions.

 Highlighting Henri and his "Baby".  Baby goes with us where ever we are in the house.

The trees peaked!

The Edgar A. Poe luncheon at The Center

And oh...that Jupiter and Venus frightened me one early morning, like two glowing eyes.

Painting class and I forgot and used a fountain pen to draw the line drawing first and it wasn't waterproof...but it was fun!

not done, but trying again with the pen I should have used.

Collage class

Collage!  The beginning of a new session ...

Marge's lovely start.

We did some warm-up minis.

Maryann

A great class; tables all over!

Marge continuing on...

Leslie, working on her colorful Autumn still life.  Adding some ink; mixed media!

Judy's interesting pieces evolving around her travels.

and me...

"From the river

I hear voices

Like souls abandoned

Curlews are calling..."

And we had a visitor!

A Woolley Bear caterpillar looking for his place to hibernate...

"Hello there"!

Pumpkins and pumpkins!

Painting pumpkins!  First one in the back, I drew the outline in art class last week using a new fountain pen that I bought.  Forgetting that it wasn't waterproof, I got lots of unexpected runs.  Was fun though!  Something different for me.  This morning, starting a new one with my old regular micron pen.  Another thing I hadn't before either, doing a pen line drawing first; also fun!