Wanda Anderson
Wanda enjoys doing art, particularly drawing and making things with clay. She has been creating art since she was in school and continues to do so for fun. When she is not creating art, she is meeting with the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow group, which she is a proud member of.
Sarah's Flower Garden
Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper
This painting is bordered along the top and sides by strips of light brown decorated with green vines and colorful flowers. The vines zigzag up both sides of the piece. A red, blue or yellow flower with petals that radiate outwards sits where the vines come to a point. The flowers are covered with salt, which has mostly absorbed the color of the flowers and crystallized on top of them. Along the bottom of the piece is a strip of light green. Two more flowers grow from this strip. One is blue and one is yellow. Each has a stem and two long leaves. The center of the piece is white and features the words “Sarah I miss you and loved you,” as well as a few splatters of blue paint.
Caroline Doty
Caroline has enjoyed making art since she was a child. She began by painting rainbows. Since then, painting has been one of her favorite mediums. She enjoys art because it makes her happy even after having a bad day. Caroline likes to hang out with her friends, to watch her beloved Oregon Ducks, and to spend time with family. She has been working at Hodgins for almost 15 years! She is also a member of the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow group.
Camp Fire
Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire
This piece is a collaboration between Caroline and Hannah Jehn. It's a sculpture made of strips of wood woven together with wire. The main body of the sculpture is made of nine strips of birch wood. Each is about seven inches tall and mostly white with dark brown speckles. They are leaned up against each other to resemble a campfire or a tipi, meeting in a point at the top and flaring out at the bottom of the piece. The whole piece leans quite dramatically, as its base is more elliptical than circular. The wood strips are secured by two strands of silver wire. One is slightly thicker than the other. They wrap around each strip once or twice and encircle the whole piece several times. The wire also secures another piece of smooth, light tan wood to the top of the sculpture, which sticks out at an angle.
SS Pippa
Workshop: Canoe Planters
Birch bark, red willow and sinew
To make this canoe-shaped planter, participants sewed two pieces of birch bark together with sinew and lined the top with red willow branches. The two pieces of birch used in this piece are both trapezoidal, with the shorter ends on the bottom. One side of the canoe is white with prominent dark brown speckling, and the other is light brown with a distinct dark brown knot in its center. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating diagonal lines along the bottom edge of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches that are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which again creates diagonal lines along the top edge of both sides.
Aurora
Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper
This piece is covered with vertical bands of vibrant, contrasting colors. Most of the columns are very distinct, but the colors have run together in a couple places, creating blurred edges. From left to right, the colors are light pink, icy blue, light green, orange, hot pink, orange, yellow, orange, icy blue, light green, yellow, orange and hot pink. There are some white gaps between the colors and along the top and bottom edges. The stripes are fairly consistent in width, and several of them have distinct brushstrokes. A handful of the color bands are textured with jagged, light-colored blooms, which make the piece appear crackly.
Kibbie Dome
Workshop: Oil Paint
Oil paints on canvas
This oil painting has a sky blue background. Along the bottom left third of the canvas is a patch of brown ground depicted by a thick brushstroke. On top of this ground are three thin trees that reach about halfway up the canvas, with thin brown trunks and branches. The leaves of these trees are depicted by green circular shapes on the ends of the branches. Taking up about a quarter of the canvas on the bottom right is a tan and cream-colored quarter circle. The outer edge of this round, dome-like structure is lighter in color, while the middle and the base are darker.
Tawny Espy
Tawny has been making art for over 20 years. She enjoys crafting and learning new mediums. She also enjoys sports and has been involved in basketball, bowling, swimming and track. Tawny is also a member of the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow. She also enjoys attending her class in Partners and Policy Making.
Tule Art
Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Tule reeds and thread
For this project, participants weaved together tule reeds with thread to create mats. This mat is made of twenty tule reeds, each about a half inch in diameter. The reeds are pale green and light brown and are sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by thick purple thread three times across the middle of the mat. The thread is tied off after each reed, creating a weave so tight that the reeds overlap each other. Several inches of purple thread hangs off the mat.
Out in Wilderness
Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper
This painting uses very dark colors to create a nature scene. The top half of the painting is blue-violet. Over top are three circular shapes with wavy edges. Each one is about the same size and evenly spaced across the piece and are painted with a thick layer of green. The bottom half of the painting has a yellow-green background. In the foreground are three flowers and two trees that each start at the bottom of the piece and stretch up across the height of the yellow-green area. The flowers have pink and red petals and dark green stems with two leaves each. The trees have short, brown trunks, and their branches and leaves are created by a line of green, inverted-V shapes stacked on top of each other.
Rainbow Oceans
Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper
This painting has a light pink background that gets darker as it gets to the bottom of the painting. Blotted throughout is a nice reddish color forming various rounded and spotted shapes. Those blotches are then filled with a dark blue that is finished off with some yellow spots in the center. Surrounding the center piece of the artwork, there are smaller blue dots outside and sprinkled throughout.
Spring
Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas
This oil painting has a solid strip of green grass painted on the bottom half of the canvas. There are many individual small green sprouts painted throughout the grass. On the left, there is a large tree with a brown trunk and green leaves, with purple dots scattered throughout the leaves. On the right, there are two flowers with purple petals. There's a solid blue sky in the top half of the painting. There are three large white clouds towards the top as well as a large yellow sun to the left. There's also a white wavy line painted horizontally across the sky, above the tree top and a purple butterfly on the right in the sky.
Angie Estick
Angie is new to artAbility.
Baby Angie
Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Tule reeds and thread
For this project, participants weaved together tule reeds with thread to create mats. This mat is made of six tule reeds, each about one half inch in diameter and about six inches long. The reeds are pale green, almost light brown, and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by two pieces of thin purple thread about a half inch from the top and the bottom. The thread along the bottom is uniform, circling each reed twice, and tied off on the left side with a couple inches of extra thread hanging off. The thread along the top is more varied, circling some reeds several times and others only once, and does not stick to a strict weaving pattern.