LavenderSage Retreat DAY FOUR

In the morning we had a fun messy time doing Gelli prints with our small 3x5 Gelli Plates.

Gelli print using a real leaf.

Foam stamp printed over a Gelli plate print.

In the afternoon, Jane demonstrated using freezer paper to cut stencils and mask to use on the Gelli
Plates.

I stayed in the Frank Waters room, #4 in Juniper house. On the wall was a quote by frank Waters.

Life is a Great White Stone

Entiende, Muchacha? I will say it again for you simple ears. 

Life is a great white stone. You, a child, stare at it and see only one side. you walk slowly around it. You see other sides, each different in shape and pattern, rough or smooth. You are confused you forge that it is the same great white stone. Gut finally you have walked all around it, stare at all of it at once from the hillside above. Verdad! Now you see it: how it has many different sides and shapes and patterns, some smooth, some rough, but still the one great white stone: how all these sides merge into one another in distinguishable: the past into the present, the present into the future, the future again into the past. Hold! They are all the same. With wisdom who knows one from the other? There is no time, which is but an illusion for imperfect eyes. There is only the complete, rounded moment,which contains all.

––Frank Waters

People of the Valley

1941

LavenderSage Retreat DAY THREE

Tuesday morning we had the option of starting off the day with Yoga Class before breakfast. I went and the instructor was very good. But sadly the altitude sickness was taking a toll on my energy so I didn't go back Thursday or Saturday.

In the morning we made stamps from soap erasers and fun foam. I had carved stamps before but never used Fun Foam before.

I carved a seed pod on one side of my eraser and two square to paint inside.

 landscape with colored pencils



















I printed my foam stamp the the adobe archway in front of the studio. I cut it out and hinged it at the bottom of the colored pencil landscape.




















Tuesday afternoon we took a 2:00 tour of the
Harwood Museum. Then spent a couple of hours
sketching in the museum. We all like this framed
quote on the wall by Mabel Dodge Luhan.

The museum provided some educational handout 

on the life of Mabel Dodge Luhan which

 we all incorporated into our books.

Below is one of my large Gelli Plate prints I sewed into one signature of my book.