Rodrigvitz Style

Tall Order

I've looked forward to Tuesday evenings for the past month as I was taking a clay totem class with Katy.  We made clay 'beads' that we stacked on a 6 ft piece of rebar.  Mine was meant to go in the garden but I'm not sure I can let it leave the Mango Studio....

I believe I need to make more and more and more beads

Here is a peek at some of the other totems...Claire's beautiful eastern feeling totem, she has many more wonderful beads to add to this.

Susan's....the colors have a very African feel and she's incorporating glass tile mosaic work as well...

the top of her totem capped with this lovely vintage glass rooster.

Kim's big fat beautiful bird and wonderful, colorful, textural beads.

Maureen and her pod, seed like beads with their lovely soft colors.

We took turns stacking our beads...this one is a combination of our beads...it's endless fun stacking and re-stacking the beads.

 

Here's our Totem team...

Check Katy's website for a blog addition soon that will tell you when you can take a class with her.

Crack the Code at Ghost Ranch

I am excited to announce a retreat of Art, Yoga and Meditation at Ghost Ranch near Santa Fe in New Mexico with Katharine Kaufman and me. 

Join us for 4 days of exploration of how contemplative lineage based practices like Yoga and meditation touch contemplative arts.  How that touch ripens our intuition and shifts our concepts of our selfs and others and sparks deep and real intelligence.  The retreat is not until late September 2010 but registration is this month.

Click the Ghost Ranch button on the left hand side bar for all the information...or click HERE.

It's the Shape

I find myself enamored with this clothespin...

the form is calling to me as it has to others...

I have not yet tired of its lovely shape as I continue to enjoy MA's class....

Summer School is Now in Session

Stenciling and printing with found objects to create a portfolio to hold the work from Mary Ann's Pure Experimentation class...

she serves up a wealth of information...the Mango Studio is inundated with stencils and spray cans and tapes and papers. 

EDIT...more journal pages

 

hesitated...to share...ANOTHER SPELLING ERROR, oh well

btw, the H2O spray paints are working AOK for me

This That and the OTHER

she is the walrus...oh please, just tell me to stop already...

 

we have had RAIN, legendary amounts of rain, but the sun has come out....beating down for a day or so and the cucumbers are starting....little cucumbers behind those beautiful yellow flowers in the garden journal

AND, I am taking Mary Ann's next Pure Experimentation Stencilry class! I thought I was mighty smart, discovering these water based, much less toxic, spray paints....

I hear they are much inferior to plain old spray paint, but really, since I don't have much to compare them to (ignorance is bliss) I don't think they are all that bad to work with.  I'll report back.....

oh sheesh....and one more...

Shrine Making in the Mango Studio

They came with boxes, found objects to share and open minds. 

We had our first class in the Mango Studio.....some exploration with Shrine making

we got messy with paper and mod podge...

and spraying paint

Maya and her Forrest Goddess Shrine

Cath's 'Let there be (Miller) Lite'......surrogate chicken and her very big blue egg shrine

and Ginny getting loose and messy with paper collage.

Look for the first FAC in the Mango Studio, June 19th, where among art and wine we will show the classes finished shrines.

Dancing with Black and White and Gray

 

Katharine was in the studio today....showing me beauty in blacks and whites and grays...

this photograph of hers...of her...dancing at the grange

 

this from a yoga class, like dance....slowly moving and unfolding

deeply moving breath with asana

letting the mango lilly...find it's essence 

We will be doing a retreat together next year, yoga, meditation and art at the magical Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, NM, I'll share more when we know the details.

Pandora's Box

 

Wrapping up the Graffiti Chic workshop with Alisa, I've really enjoyed this online class , it's opened Pandora's Box...

Tess set me up with Pandora, I started with 'Dance me to the end of love' by Leonard Cohen...my new radio station then progressed to some Neil Young, Tom Waits, Cowboy Junkies, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Rufus Wainwright....

perfectly complimenting the hamsa hand leading me in...pulling inspiration...

 

from messy paints and graffiti text.

There's a crack in everything....it's how the light gets in; Leonard Cohen

Brushing Up

 

got my brushes out...using them with stencils, canvas, paper...house paint, acrylic paint...spray paint

 

some of the work I'm doing in Alisa's Graffiti Chic class but thought I'd share with the Crusaders too...

 

Brushing in paint to create the background, then cutting stencils to brush paint or spray paint over.

my face that fell away...

Be sure to go visit the rest of the Crusaders painting this month.

Gettin' Messy

 

Having some fun...getting loose and messy with Alisa in her on-line Graffiti Chic class,

 

already have a bit of BLUE paint on the mango wall...oh no!

You all are so sweet...and patient...waiting for more than teasers of the mango studio.  The bookshelves are going up and I will be filling them full.  Maybe I'll have photos to show you this weekend!