artAbility artists F-K

• Drummer Boy
• Ocean
• Sunrise Over the Ocean
• Tent Tree
• The Sun
• Untitled

Drummer Boy

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is white with grey polka dots. It is patterned with several vintage-style women sipping coffee and a couple of black and white coffee cups. It also has segments of the phrase “Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept those that I cannot.” In the top left, bottom left, and center of the piece are yellow squares covered with red hearts and small brown dots. Above and below the center square are yellow rectangles patterned with red and blue toy soldiers and drums. In the top right corner is a tall, blue trapezoid covered with light blue circles with dark blue lines radiating from their centers.

Ocean

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

The piece is made of a layer of white plaster over a rectangle canvas. It's a creation of a ruffled pattern in the plaster that depicts oceanic waves. Closer to the center there are thicker waves that have steeper edges and harder ridges. The center pattern is very smooth, which draws the eye to the middle. Towards the perimeter of the piece the pattern is fainter. The lines are less deep but still hold the same wave pattern.

Sunrise Over the Ocean

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

The top of this piece is covered with smudged red splotches of ink. Directly below the smudges are two red stamps made by looping string up, down and around itself on the stamping block. The one on the left looks like it was pressed hard, as the background of the stamp around the string lines is on the bag as well. To the far left are two more red blotches – one very smudgy and oblong, and one rectangular. Throughout the design are highlights of green ink. In the center, between the two string designs, are three neon patches. They almost look like they were scribbled in with a pen. One is bright green. Below that is bright yellow and to the right is bright orange.

Tent Tree

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This sparse composition utilizes only red ink. In the middle is a thick red print, well defined rings on the top and bottom, with a large red swath diagonally running through it. To the right of this is a thinner print, made up of many small dots that outline the shape of the tree rings, without filling them in too deeply. The middle of the piece is left blank, with one final light red print on the far right side of the paper. It's made up of a very light, long print, with ink only on the rings of the stamp. At the top there are some circular blotches, and on the bottom, there claw like strokes of red ink.

The Sun

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

The primary color of this piece is orange. It's blended to make different shades throughout the piece. At one corner there's a section of grey blue in a loose circular shape. At the center of the piece there is a mixture of pink, yellow and red. The strips running through the piece at the center are mostly yellow and pink. In the very center there is a loose circular shape of red. On the right side of the piece are two strips of pink that run the length of the piece. Finally, below the grey space on the left corner, there is a splash of red.

Untitled

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape, flared at the top and bottom. One area along the bottom has caved in, but the piece still stands on its own. The rim is jagged, making the whole piece look like a chess rook or a castle turret. The clay appears to have been poked in horizontal stripes, leaving six subtle rings of texture. Green glaze runs around the rim, getting thicker on the left side. Overall, the piece is cut diagonally by its glaze. The section across the bottom is a mixture of dark and light green, and the section above is dusty pink. The piece features obvious brushstrokes and varying opacity.

• Awesome
• Evil Tiger
• Japan Mountain
• Lego Vase
• The Venom
• War Hawk
• Wicked Evil

Awesome

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print uses gold, silver and red ink. In the middle of the pattern are two identical red stamps with the same ink distribution. They have good definition and show all the tree rings with some cracking. The upper print is rotated to be diagonal rather than horizontal. Above the two red prints is one of three dark silver prints that are horizontal, vertical and horizontal again in a staircase pattern. All three have dark silver ink with a slight red undertone that shines through the middle. On the righthand side of the piece is a tall golden rectangle that towers over the other pieces.

Evil Tiger

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece is made up of white plaster layered on a rectangular canvas. The majority of the canvas features a complex design of wavy lines, running the width of the canvas. At the top right corner, there's a shape that looks like an eye. It's an oval in a diagonal direction with a circle in the center. Around the eye, there is a box before the wavy lines start. These waves are deeply engraved and very clear. As you move towards the bottom of the piece there are fainter waves. There are several, fainter straight lines that run up and down, spaced almost evenly across the width of the piece.

Japan Mountain

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The fabric is arranged to resembles a mountain and its reflection into a body of water. The background is light blue. A skinny brown rectangle dotted with small yellow flowers creates the horizon line across the center. Directly above and below the horizon is splotchy purple fabric with white stars, also cut into a rectangle with jagged sides. Above and below that are triangles of blue with pink, yellow and white flowers, stretching to the top and bottom of the background. On top of each of those triangles is a smaller white triangle, also reaching the top and bottom. In the sky on either side of the mountain are two orange blotches, and in the bottom right of the reflection is a light green rectangle with two light pink stripes.

Lego Vase

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape with a slight bulge at the bottom and a near straight, smooth rim. Carved in and covering most of the piece are outlines of flowers. A strip running nearly the length of the piece features the words “LEGO VASE” carved in all capital letters stacked on top of each other. There's an oval outlining them. The oval is painted a deep red with the impressions of the letters showing through. The same goes for the floral design, which is painted dark green, starting from the bottom and ending about two inches from the rim. A band of dark blue starts and ends at the rim.

The Venom

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece is dominated by red, orange and yellow ombre rectangles. They almost look like a fire across the bag. There are several patches of green rectangles breaking up the red, with the heaviest concentration in the bottom left. There are other groupings across the top, down the middle and on the far right side. Most of the stamping on the right side and down the middle is patchy. The back of the bag is stamped, too, though not visible in the picture.

War Hawk

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece utilizes red and silver ink. Starting in the upper left corner and moving to the right middle, there are three large triangular prints. The saturation on the first two is more intense, while the third is lighter. The first is silver, with red peeking through. The second is all silver and the third is red. Below the first triangle, there's a large, solid red rectangle that his vertically oriented. There's a long, slender, black rectangle adjoining the bottom corner of the red rectangle, running horizontally to the right. There are a series of lighter triangle and rectangle stamps scattered over the top of the main shapes in red and silver ink.

Wicked Evil

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This piece uses primarily black, grey, orange and red. On the left side you see mostly black squares in between white squares with occasional coloring of orange and red. On this same side toward the border there is a small orange face that seems to be representing evil. The right side is mostly grey squares in between spaces of white. On the border of this side, there is a strip of black. At the top is a row of red mountain peaks. They are all in a line next to each other. Some lettering is showing through toward the middle, while across the bottom, there are three portions of orange jack-o-lanterns.

• 007
• Brise de l'Ocean
• La Monde Tourne Autour des Diamants
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Le Bois Au Travail
• Pandoras Box
• Rêve d'obscurité

007

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece uses silver, gold, bronze, red and black ink, with a creative use of blended inks. The focus of the piece is the large quarter-circle in the center. It uses a blend of black, gold and red ink, starting dark in the center of the rings, and getting brighter as it extends outwards. A small black print overlaps a part of the lefthand side of the quarter-circle. Off the top, a long straight silver cut rests at the top of the larger print. This silver print is connected to another silver piece on the left. In the middle of the silver line emerges a golden blob. On the righthand side of the paper is a series of lighter prints. In the upper area, a light but large golden print cascades down the page, meeting with a darker yet smaller red print that points downwards to the right towards a small golden print in the righthand corner.

Brise de l'Ocean

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece is made with white plaster layered on a rectangular canvas. It is defined by plaster mounds and distinctive wave patterns. From the bottom left runs a diagonal pattern of deep waves, moving to the top right of the canvas. On the left side, above the waves, is a small arc of waves that runs perpendicular to the large central wave. Above this is a flattened river-like area. This area has small mounds in it with a spiral line running up them and coming to a fine point at the top. The mounds start off small on the left and grow larger moving to the right. They eventually intersect with central wave.

To the right of the river on the top is a shallow grouping of waves. These run perpendicular to the central wave, but get smaller and lighter moving to the right until they disappear. The image of a cross is carved into the plaster. The bottom of the canvas is less defined. On the left is a very light and small wave pattern. Moving right is a series of deep carvings. On the right bottom is thin plaster that has been scraped over with several different pieces, with two squares carved into the plaster. In the middle right edge of the page is one final, large pinched mound.

La Monde Tourne Autour des Diamants

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is striped with a lighter and darker grid – like the rind of a watermelon. It's scattered with slices of watermelon. The following fabric designs have been cut into diamonds and layered in a pinwheel pattern: light pink covered with dark pink and purple squiggles, light green with white polka dots, blue with PAW Patrol characters, splotchy dark purple with white stars, very dark navy blue with white anchors, white with grey polka dots and black and white coffee cups and a lady, and brown with white cross-stitching and bunches of blue, orange, pink and green floral designs. In the center of the pinwheel is a blue circle with a white cloud in the middle.

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is tilted at an angle and is cylinder shaped. It flares out at the top and has jagged edges that jut out like the peaks and valleys of a mountain range. The body of the piece has impressions that give it a swirling, cloudy texture. One section is covered in tiny divots. The piece is segmented into three distinct colors. A sky blue takes up most of one side, with smaller sections of a deep crimson and forest green taking up smaller portions of the piece. Spots of yellow are visible at the top of the flared edge.

Le Bois Au Travail

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece uses gold, red, silver and bronze ink to create a unique gradient design among a few prints. The defining feature of the print is a large, quarter circle print using all the colors to make a gradient. It is black in the middle, turning to bronze, then gold, and finally red on the outside of the print. A black, rectangular print overlaps a small section of the main piece on the right. Above are three silver prints that fit together like a puzzle. Two pieces join to create a large silver square and a long straight stamp shoots off the side, making a dark silver stamp resembling a music note. To the left are two lighter black and red stamps. To the right of the main piece is a collection of larger, square, gold and red stamps that overlap each other a few times. In the bottom right is a gold print and to its left is a unique, small, blobby print that resembles a hand with the pointer finger raised in exclamation.

Pandoras Box

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is shaped like an open box with a prominent triangular structure on the lid. It has several markings on it that look like hieroglyphics carved on the interior wall of a pyramid. Some could be letters or numbers. There's a distinct angular hourglass shaped carving on the front of the piece. There is a long, leaf-like edge that is folded over one corner. Most of the piece is covered in a light, earthy green with light red swirled throughout. There are also spots of pale blue that center around the numbers on the front side. The pyramid on the lid is bright gold.

Rêve d'obscurité

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This pieces is made up of two distinct color mixes weaved together to form a somewhat abstract checkboard pattern. The first color mix is dominated by orange, red and yellow. The second color mix is dominated by purple, blue and green. When they are woven together, it creates an alternating pattern that goes from light to dark. Across the lower-middle right side of the piece, a dark green cloud runs from the edge to the middle.

• Dale the Dog
• Leaves and Swirls
• Untitled

Dale the Dog

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is pale yellow. In the top right and bottom left corners are squares of light yellow patterned with dark golden lambs and small flowers. In the top left and bottom rights corners are green hexagons patterned with a light blue, pink and white floral design. Between each square and hexagon is a cloud shape made from fabric with rosy-pink and white stripes behind blue and red flowers. In the center is a blue heart with a shaggy yellow dog in a patriotic hat surrounded by fireworks and an American flag.

Leaves and Swirls

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece is patterned with leaf and swirl stamps, almost forming rows across the front of the bag. From left to right, the top row has a red swirl, a green leaf and a red swirl. The middle row has a green leaf, a red swirl and a red leaf. The bottom row has two very faint red leaves, a faint green leaf and a red leaf. The stamps are each about three inches across. The back of the bag is also stamped; however, it is not visible in the picture.

Untitled

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This piece is made up of two pieces weaved together. The first piece is a drawing of a house, with four windows. Each window is 'lit' up with bright yellow, with a white figure in the middle. Each figure is doing something different. The house is painted with scribbles of purple, but is mostly white. There is also a moon visible in the upper left corner against a black night sky. There is green grass across the bottom. The second piece is a color blend, using light reds, greens and purples. Squares of these colors weave through the picture of the house, with red across the top, green through the middle and purple across the bottom.

• Bed of Roses
• Decendents Mel & Eve’s Friendship
• Fairy House
• Flowers and Candy
• Hawaiian Barbie

Bed of Roses

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This unique plaster creation is made up of eight thick heaps of plaster spread across the canvas, creating many flower-like features. The top left of the piece has the heaviest smear of plaster. The very top left corner has a massive mound of plaster that has a steep drop into a circular pattern. There is a deep valley cut around the center of the mound. The circle gets shallower as it nears its center, like the previous but smaller circles on the piece. The plaster resembles waves crashing in this area. Underneath this large flower is its stem, swooping off the page to the left. In the bottom left a much smaller circle is present. Down the middle of the canvas are three similar circles to the first. All have deep valleys and swirls, with the bottom being the smallest in diameter. Along the right edge of the canvas are three more of these with the center one touching the middle, creating a figure-eight look to the design.

Decendents Mel & Eve's Friendship

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

On the left side of the piece there is a blend of different shades of green. This section runs through about half of the page meeting in the middle with a blue side. On the right side of the page there is a mixture of different shades of blue. In the center of the piece there is a large purple shape representing a heart. The strips of paper running through the piece are a mixture of pink, orange and yellow. On the green half they are more orange. Whereas on the blue side they are more a shade of yellow. The spaces in the heart are more the shade of pink.

Fairy House

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape, bulging out a bit at the bottom. The opening at the top is surrounded by a wavy rim of flower petals that stick out. The piece is painted to look like a fairy house. A ring around the bottom is painted with dark and light green, like grass. Most of the cylinder is painted a bright rosy color and dotted with large white spots. Above that is a thin ring of yellow, and at the very top is a band of deep purple red. The floral rim and the inside of the vase are light blue, and each petal shape on the rim has a dark navy spot in the center. A door and a circular window, both black and outlined in light brown, complete the fairy house look. The door sits along the bottom of the cylinder, stretching up into the rosy section, and the window is situated diagonally up and to the left of the door.

Flowers and Candy

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is light pink behind scattered assorted sweets, including blue and pink cotton candy and vibrant, multicolored lollipops, cupcakes, and other hard candies. In each of the corners and in the center is a flower with seven petals. Each flower is purple. All but the top left flower feature a unique floral pattern.

Hawaiian Barbie

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece has a repeating pattern creating three rows across it. Each motif is composed of a bright green leaf with three vibrant purple hearts around it (two small ones to the top left and bottom right, and one larger one to the bottom left). The figures are outlined in black marker. The top row and middle row have four motifs each, and the bottom row has three. Between each motif are thin, light blue lines and the faint outlines of purple circles.

• Arches Mountains
• Life on a Farm
• Mountain Streams
• Napoleon Candy Dish
• Winter in the Forest

Arches Mountains

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

Starting with the top of this piece the main color of the background is a mixture of different shades of blue. Intertwined are shades of a dark blue/black coming from the strips going through the piece. On the right side of the piece, there's a round yellow shape. About halfway down the page there's a dome-like shape making up most of the piece. This is made up of different shades of orange, yellow and red. In the middle of the dome there's a space with more different shades of blue inside. At the bottom of the piece there are sections of green that come through. The sections of green are on the strips of paper going through the piece and intermix with the rest of the piece.

Life on a Farm

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is pale yellow with a dusty pink floral pattern. In the top left, there's a yellow sun made from fabric that looks like straw. In the top right is a strip of light blue. In the bottom left is a green car with a leafy pattern and two yellow wheels made from rose-patterned fabric. The back wheel is bigger than the front. In the center is a light blue house with a light and dark green striped triangle roof, dotted with a few watermelon slices. It has two red gingham windows on either side of a dark purple door. To the right is a red silo patterned with dainty pale blue and yellow flowers. On top is a yellow dome with a straw-like pattern. The silo has a brown and white cross-stitch patterned window toward the top. In front of the silo and the house are two sets of people, a blue woman in a puffy, round skirt and a light brown man with a top hat, bushy beard and long overcoat.

Mountain Streams

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

Plaster clumps at the top, and wide stretches of textured plaster define this piece. Running diagonally from the top right down through the middle of the piece is a valley carved with a finger. Halfway down the piece, this valley splits off into multiple branches, meeting and splitting until hitting the bottom. In between the splitting valleys at the bottom, as well as on either side of the valley in the middle, is a beautiful field of textured plaster. Using a v-notch tool, the artist used multi-directional scraping to create a contrast between the smooth valleys and intermixed textured fields. The top is defined by its small mountains and smooth plaster. There are two mountains, one in the top middle, and the other in the top left of the piece. These mountains are surrounded by a smaller area of smoothed plaster, without texturing.

Napoleon Candy Dish

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a short, cylindrical jar with a lid. There is a round knob handle at the center of the lid. The body of the piece slopes inward towards the middle. The color is divided into three distinct sections: forest green, bright yellow and crimson. In the center of the yellow section the word “candy” is painted in black, capital letters. The lid is painted a dark charcoal with the central knob the same shade of crimson used for the body of the piece. It is bordered by a ring of off-white.

Winter in the Forest

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece displays a scene of snow falling onto a line of pine trees. Across the top are seven snowflakes, each roughly two inches in diameter. They are light blue and composed of a large central circle with clusters of three thick, stubby lines sticking out all around. Below the big snowflakes are smaller dots of snow. They are white and light blue circles in large clusters pretty well covering the center of the bag. Across the bottom are seven trees. They were stamped as rectangular blocks, with green on the top two thirds and black on the bottom. Then, branches were added with black marker as V shapes with the points facing up.

• Fall
• Fall
• For Penelope
• Halloween
• Halloween
• Lollipop
• Water

Fall

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This composition uses red, gold, black, bronze and silver ink. On the bottom of the piece is a small bronze stamp with heavy ink. On both the right and left edges of the print is a mirror of a short red stamp. The left side is slightly lower than its mirror on the right. Towards the center left, on top, is a large silver print. Underneath it is a smaller golden print with heavy ink in the middle and lighter on the edges. In the middle of the piece is a dark black stamp. To its upper right, is a lighter red stamp that is quite large. Under that is a very light but large black stamp. And in the middle center of the piece is a long bronze print with lots of congealed ink.

Fall

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This is made up of two pieces weaved together. The first is largely white with random scribbles of different colors, including orange, red, green, blue, black and purple. The second piece is solidly colored with a mixture of dark green and black, with a bit of red and black through the middle. When weaved together, it made a checkboard pattern with the darker squares alternating through the white/multi-color squares.

For Penelope

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece uses gold, bronze and red ink. Dominating the piece is large golden prints that are set adjacent to each other. They create a small corridor of white between them like a hallway that leads to a double print of a golden rectangle with a triangular shape jutting from the top. This piece is printed twice on top of itself, creating a shadow effect. To the right is a very light printing of red. The stamp was used a few times with very light ink applied, giving the stamp a washed out look with a few dark spots sprinkled throughout.

Halloween

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece is made up of a thick layer of white plaster over a rectangle canvas. Across the top and moving down toward the middle, a wavy texture has been made that looks almost like a very large leaf. Below that, a tool was used to scrape through the plaster to create slanted scratches that go in different directions. Overall, the plaster was thick enough to show the distinct textures; however, it was not so thick as to create deep cuts and waves.

Halloween

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

This piece is minimalist in its stamping. There are two shapes that look like ovals with triangular cutouts on both long sides. One is black and situated at the center. The other is half black and half orange and sitting in the bottom right. Next to each of those shapes is a heart. The central one is black. The corner one is bright pink. Surrounding the two shapes in the bottom right are several small rectangles. They are all green at their center and fade to hot pink and dark purple on the edges. To the right of the shapes in the center is a very long, bright yellow outline of an oval. Dotted around the right side of the bag are also a couple dots of green and blue ink.

Lollipop

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is light pink behind scattered assorted sweets, including blue and pink cotton candy and vibrant, multicolored lollipops, cupcakes and other hard candies. Across the bottom of the foreground at a slight diagonal are two long rectangular pieces of fabric overtop one another. The one behind has thin vertical stripes of red, yellow, blue and white. The one on top has splotches of light pink. Above those strips, there are two trapezoids, one with a red, purple, and orange quilt-like design. The other with white hearts, dots and sparkles on a blue background. To the far right of the piece is a yellow rectangle dotted with red and blue toy soldiers and drums.

Water

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape with a very jagged rim. It has been cut into with a knife repeatedly, starting from the bottom and radiating up and out across the piece. The result is a beautiful, and sharp, cacophony of texture. The main colors on this piece are blue, yellow, green and red. They almost alternate in vertical stripes around the piece but they are not well defined. They instead blend into each other and overlap in splotches. In some places, one color fills in the deep canyons where the knife cut while another highlights the jagged peaks left behind.

• Forest Adventure
• Halloween
• Underwater

Forest Adventure

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print utilizes gold, red and black ink sparsely on the page. The tree ring stamps have been placed in a rough circle. There are eight stamps in total, with varying heaviness in ink distribution. At the top, a medium square-like shape sits atop a very light red square-like stamp. To the left, a longer black stamp intersects with a mirror image red stamp. Below that in a small arch are three gold stamps that progressively get bigger. Finally, there is a black stamp to complete the circle. All of them have visible ring patterns through them.

Halloween

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink in canvas bag

The main design on this bag is the profile of a black cat with its tail in the air facing an orange circle at its feet. The orange circle resembles a pumpkin. This stamp is repeated seven times across the bag, almost creating three columns running diagonally from left to right. There are three stamps in the leftmost column and two in the others. In the top right corner, the artist’s name is stamped in black uppercase letters. Directly below that is the same name stamped backwards in faint yellow letters.

Underwater

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This is made up of two pieces weaved together. The primary piece is solidly colored yellow, which starts light and gets darker toward the bottom. The second piece is solidly colored blue, with sea creatures randomly placed across it. This includes three red fish and a sea turtle. When weaved together, it creates an abstract checkboard pattern where the blue water peeks through the yellow, glimpsing the sea creatures below.

• Baby Coyote Pup
• Flowers
• Halloween
• The Sun
• Tired Yawning Baby

Baby Coyote Pup

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This piece uses red, gold and black ink to create a series of patterns using the same print. On the bottom of the piece, there's a long row of red and black prints that overlap. The cone-shaped black print is always vertical, with the same stamp but with red ink printed over it. The tip of the cone faces down to the left to create a sideways V-shape. This starts on the left of the page and stops on the right. From there the pattern changes direction to go upwards to the left diagonally, ending at the to left corner. The pattern also changes at this junction, with the red print flipping completely upside down, making the black and red cones nearly attach at the base. There are also several light prints of gold interspersed throughout.

Flowers

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is light green with white polka dots. Across the top is a band of quilt-like fabric made of bold primary-colored floral and checkered squares. Across the bottom is a band of red fabric with a wispy pink, blue and white floral pattern. Scattered across the center are four shapes. A trapezoid covered with teal, light blue and golden butterflies and flowers sits at the top. A pink triangle with dark pink and white flowers sits to the bottom left. To the right are a pink and white gingham square and a yellow circle with red, yellow, blue and green polka dots. Up both sides of the piece are squares cut from the quilt-like fabric (three up the left and four down the right), as well as a blue gingham rectangle on the left and a pink gingham square on the right.

Halloween

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

The author’s name is written in black marker across the top of the front of the bag. Overall, the bag is themed around Halloween. Six brown wolf-shaped stamps run across the bag: three at the top, two in the middle, and one in the bottom right corner. The wolf further right in the middle row has its eye, nose, and claws colored in with black marker. Six orange pumpkins are situated near and around the center. Five of them circle around one. The three pumpkins on the right side of the outer circle have faces drawn on with black marker. Finally, four witches each with a bat above their head are stamped in black: two toward the bottom left and two toward the top right. The back of the bag is printed too, but is not visible in the picture.

The Sun

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors on paper

This is made up of two pieces weaved together. Both pieces are a mixture of different colors. The first features red, orange, green and brown. The second features pink, purple and yellow. When weaved together, they create a checkboard pattern that alternates all of the different colors in a beautiful ways, where each color is broken up with other, vibrant colors.

Tired Yawning Baby

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print uses red, black, gold and silver to create a concentrated and well-defined grouping of prints. This piece primarily consists of a large group of overlapping prints in the center of the page. On the outer edges, the ink is black and gold on the bottom, top and righthand sides. The ink here is lighter, but creates well defined rings that get less defined towards the center. The middle of the piece is mostly red, with a little gold and black. The gold and black are heavily inked prints, whereas the red is much lighter. This creates a dotlike texture while still showing good ring definition. On the left side of the piece, from the top, much of the ink looks like blobs of ink were dropped from the stamp onto the page, with thick dark circles. Underneath is a collection of red, gold and silver prints that look as though the ink was flicked onto the paper.

• Disneyland
• Frozen 2
• Idaho
• Music Notes
• Pet Shop Farm
• Rapunzel's Tower

Disneyland

Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Watercolors and crayon on paper

This artist primarily used crayons for their color, which creates a more textured look. The primary color used for the background is purple. The strips of color going through the piece are mostly colored pink. At the center of the piece there are different colored peaks that represent a castle. On the left side, the piece is colored orange with blue circled tops. In the center it's colored green. On the right side it's colored blue. In the very center there's a purple peak.

Frozen 2

Workshop: Relief Block Printing
Ink on canvas bag

One of the designs features three figures. To the left, a snowman. To the right, a ladybug. Below the ladybug, a square figure with blurred detailing. This trio is stamped three times down the left side of the bag. The top iteration has a light purple snowman, a blended pink, purple and blue ladybug, and a blue square. The other two iterations are solid purple. Starting in the center and moving to the right side of the piece are a couple dozen purple rectangular stamps. Most of them are not fully filled in as if pressure was not evenly applied during stamping. Most of them don't touch each other. They are oriented in different ways.

Idaho

Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper

This print uses golden and red ink applied to a tree round and pressed onto paper. In the bottom right there is a large circle of golden ink, with a small arc of missing ink. Along the bottom middle there's a thick rectangular golden print above a dark red vase-shaped pressing of ink. Along the lefthand side of the paper, a thinner pressing of ink runs the page, showing the rings of the cross-section used to print it. In the middle of the page is an assortment of red ink-pressings with the tree rings showing. In the top right is a thick pressing of gold ink in the shape of Idaho.

Music Notes

Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas

This piece is made up of a thick layer of white plaster over a rectangular canvas. At the middle of the canvas, two straight lines move from the bottom up, ending an inch or two before the top edge. On either side of these lines, the plaster is smoothed, with slight texture from smoothing with a tool. Across the top, overlapping the straight lines are random lines and swirls. There is also a rough textured background, moving across the entire top of the canvas. It looks very similar to a large tree, with a leafy top. Overall, the layer of plaster is thick enough to show the distinct textures created from drawing the pattern; however, it is not so thick as to show deep cuts or patterns.

Pet Shop Farm

Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper

This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is light blue and thoroughly covered in clusters of pink and purple flowers. There are 16 shapes cut out of fabric, each with a different pattern. They are all different shapes and are positioned in almost straight lines across the paper. From the top left: a red oval with two black and white cows; A black heart with a brown dog at the forefront; two light grey diamonds; a long rectangle with a yellow background and darker yellow lambs with flowers; a large diamond with a green background overlayed with wedges of watermelon; a pink diamond overlayed with a portion of a lollipop and candy cane; a dark blue circle featuring a grey and brown chicken; a white square with three cats; two yellow triangles; another navy blue circle featuring a chicken; a square with a brown puppy face; another white square with four cats; a green rectangle featuring a watermelon wedge; and a square with two brown puppy faces.

Rapunzel's Tower

Workshop: Clay
Ceramic

This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape, topped with a circle that overhangs on all sides and a lopsided cone that ends in a point. The cylinder is intricately textured. A two-inch band around the bottom is lined with four rows of connected loop-de-loops. That section is painted dark purple. The very top is lined with two overlapping waves, and the rest is covered in a pattern of five-petal flowers and fleur-de-lis motifs. This section is color-blocked with dark purple, dusty pink, light blue, dark navy, cream, and bright green. A skinny rectangular window is cut out just above the middle on one side. The circle and cone that create the tower’s roof are also color-blocked, this time with dark navy, green, red, and dusty pink.