...and now it looks like this...

..but I am not done....

I am also working on a really big piece.....on a door... This is a close up. I have lots of work to do.

Madison had her first sleep over at my house...She woke up at 2:30 am ...she finally crashed at 11 am. But we had fun with her new glitter glue. We used it all...and in ways it was never intended...


I am trying to highgrade my collections. My lunch boxes are going away....

I am painting again...

I have been busy with deadlines. I have a little break right now so I started working on my raw canvas piece. Top images is where it is at now...fuuuuun!

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas

I dare you not to laugh!

Happy Valentine's Day

It has been an art filled week.....We celebrated at the Art Clinic our 4th anniversary with valentines making, eating, laughing, haiku hi-jinx and pin the tail on the donkey....It was a really fun night.

Snow White stopped by too.


These are our gifts.....useful to sublime...
Thanks everyone for coming and helping us celebrate!!!

Sunday we had a Sue Spargo tribute sewing section or SSTSS.....Anyway it was a really fun day that we all hated to end...so we are doing it next month too.....There was lots of fly stitching and bullion making and even some coral stitching with beads...go ahead...look it up...








Here is how we kept Madison out of our hair....

My other news is I just delivered some paintings and assemblages to the really fun shop in Santa Barbara called Punch.
Thank you Sara for seeking me out. I love your place!
...this is "The chicken whisperer"....

McCutcheon girls art day

Madison, Jill and I worked on our Valentine's this weekend.

/> Thurs. I taught a class at "C" Gallery in Los Alamos.
Here are the artists at work.
This is speed collage and complicated paper ...fun class.
Fri night Carol, Ruth and I went to San Luis Obispo to see Drew Davis' work and studio. Really great art.

Valentine's Day @ the Art Clinic

Can you believe we are celebrating

4 years at the ART CLINIC?!!
Please come help us eat, and make art

FRIDAY, FEB 11, 4 till 8ish
There will be cupcakes as well as other eatables,

Valentine making, paper flower bouquet making, a haiku contest,

ATC making and you can even make a little love shack.

So stop by and join in the fun.....
1576 Copenhagen, Solvang
Check out our blog for more info http://artclinic.blogspot.com
Carol's Email- lifsart@verizon.net phone 588 0876

why haven't you posted?...'cause I been busy having FUN!!

Last week my buddy Shelly had a birthday and we had an amazing lunch at Carlitos in Santa Ynez....Isn't she cute!

Then I had a birthday hoedown at the Art Clinic with lots of well wisher dropping by and a really nice lunch at Fresco. Thank you Jack and Sukey! Susan brought my favorite cake..white on white...from of course the famous Solvang Bakery. That night went the the fam to the Solvang Brewery for dinner. Earl snuck in the red plate ....family tradition for good grades etc. I said look they have a plate like ours...Earl says that is our plate...funny...Then Earl and I went to see True Grit....Later I got a call from LE. It was a perfect day. My brother Neale had left me a message too. I also got wonderful cards from friends and family and tons of Face Book good wishes...Really feels good. Thank you all.

Then....Pam and CharChar (Pam Garrison and Charlotte Lyons) hit town....Mary joined us and we had 2 fun packed days together. It was great. We ate and laughed and painted and laughed and thrift scrounged and laughed and laughed some more. Love you guys! We had drop ins by other artists and we did a lot of exchanging of ideas and experiences. My head is still spinning with ideas. Charlott came out from NY to teach at French General. We got to see all the class samples and her amazing sampler patterns. Pam brought her wrapping paper made out of her journal pages by Papaya. It is in a tablet form that can hang on a hook...so cool. The only thing I did not do was get very many pictures...

Sue Spargo

What an amazing artist!! Even though we were there at her workshop to learn applique and embellishing, I was blown away also by her designs. They are folk art with a splash of brut art. She does not like thing perfect. She like it to show the hand that made it. Her work is her journey....she does it for pleasure. To see her use of color and combination of materials is really awesome. I could have stayed there and stitched for days. Colleen, Barbara and I felt really lucky to be there.

I think I feel a Art Clinic challenge coming on....

I am finishing up some deadlines...yeah!

I mailed off a teaching proposal, the Brooklyn Art Museum Library sketchbook project and the Friendship House altered heart....so now I can concentrate on my Sue Spargo homework and Carla Sonheim's drawing online class: The Art of Silliness....and major cleaning....