open studio '10

so this past Sunday was our 2nd annual open studio.

Like last year, it was a beautiful, clear day, and a lot of folks came out
to spend the afternoon with us.

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to see us.
We had so much fun, and can't wait to do it all over again
next year!!

catching up

my talented friends and i got together this
afternoon to catch up and also to talk a little
about this year's open studio...

some of us hadn't seen each other in ages, so
it was super nice to catch up. we can't wait to
see all your new creations in this year's open studio!

fun with encaustic

A group of us went to visit the new studio of artist Alissa Warshaw.
She works in variety of mediums, and she was generous enough to
show us the process for one of them, encaustic.

Her pretty birds.

Beautiful & colorful blocks of wax for encaustic. Just looking at them
makes one happy!

melting wax on a hot plate

put a paper on it, and..
voila.

They're good first attempts I thought!!

Thanks so much Alissa for having us over.
We had so much fun!!!

Also check out her jewelry here: