artAbility artists F-K

• Coffee Table
• Tent House
• Tree Boat
• Fall
• Wild Art
• Grass
• Ocean

Coffee Table

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-one tule reeds. Each one is about a centimeter or less in diameter and six inches long. The reeds are pale green, almost light brown, and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by periwinkle yarn about a half inch from the top and by thin orange thread about an inch from the bottom. The weaving on both ends is uniform and quite loose, creating small spaces between each reed. The mat is approximately square, though the heights of the reeds are not aligned, creating jagged edges on the top and bottom.

Tent House

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of eight strips of birch bark. Each one is about five to seven inches tall. They're all mostly white with dark brown speckles, but they vary dramatically in shape, having very few straight edges. The wood pieces are loosely woven together with two thin strands of silver wire that wrap once or twice around each piece about an inch from the top and bottom. The weaving leaves nearly an inch of space between each wood piece. The whole planter is encircled by a ring of thicker silver wire. A loop of the thicker wire also hangs off the planter on one side near the bottom.

Tree Boat

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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. One side of the canoe is light tan and speckled with diamond-shaped brown divots, and the other side is light tan with dark brown striping and a prominent knot in its center that opens to the inside. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating dashed lines along 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 creates diagonal lines along the top centimeter of both sides of the canoe.

Fall

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting is dominated by short red and orange brushstrokes. A band of orange strokes create a wide U shape that sits along the bottom of the piece and runs up both sides, leaving white paper showing through in the two bottom corners. The rest of the piece above this orange U is painted with red strokes. In many places, the paint is spotty, exposing the slight texture of the paper behind it. Toward the top of the painting in the center there is an oval-shaped area where the red paint is slightly lighter with a couple yellow streaks running through it. This area is coated in coarse salt flakes that are bright white against the fiery background.

Wild Art

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink and charcoal painting has a bright white background. Speckles of yellow, green and blue ink sparsely cover the painting. Blue is the most prominent ink color, and the green and yellow stay within the upper right side of the painting. Marks of charcoal sit over the ink, taking two major shapes on each side. On the right, the lines hop up and down to create a series of mini curves as they jump to the middle of the canvas. On the left, vertical charcoal lines travel from the top of the piece to the bottom.

Grass

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This painting has a light sky-blue background. Painted right in the center is a green section. It's almost cone shaped and takes up most of the space on the painting. Towards the center, the green is darker in color and as it moves out, becomes lighter. The artist has paint strokes in all directions giving the green a lot of texture.

Ocean

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This painting is a sea of color. Much of the painting is a bright violet mostly around the center and right side of the painting. As you move closer to the center, the color gets darker and turns into a deeper purple. On the far left and creeping slightly out in the middle, white, light purple and turquoise colors all neatly blend together. The bottom of the painting is a lighter brown color, with brush stokes going in many directions giving a unique texture. Just above the light brown is a small streak of yellowish brown, an almost gold color. There are also hints of darker blue throughout the purple section of the painting.

• Raft of the Wave
• Plant of Lucky
• God of War
• Batman Flag
• Crazy Art
• Prehistoric Volcano

Raft of the Wave

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Rule reeds and thread

For this project, participants weaved together tule reeds with thread to create mats. This mat is made of 11 tule reeds. Each one is about a centimeter or less in diameter and six inches long. The reeds are pale green and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by two pieces of thread about an inch from the top and the bottom. The thread woven around the top is navy blue, and along the bottom, it is white. The weaving along the top and bottom is quite varied, with each reed being circled between two and five times. The weaving is loose in the middle of the mat, creating a space of a couple centimeters wide down its center. The mat is about twice as tall as it is wide, and the heights of the reeds are not aligned, creating jagged edges on the top and bottom.

Plant of Lucky

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of five wood blocks. Each one is five inches tall and uniform in their light tan color. There's also four pieces of birch wood. Each one is about eight inches tall and white with dark brown speckles. The two different types of wood alternate around the planter. Many of the wood pieces lean quite dramatically, making the planter look like it is on an angle. The wood pieces are encircled by two strands of silver wire. One  is slightly thicker than the other. Each wood piece is wrapped a couple times about an inch from the top and bottom, and there is great variation in the weaving. This creates both soft curves in the wire and jagged edges.

God of War

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 end on the bottom. They are light brown with large brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating diagonal lines along the bottom inch of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, bright burgundy in color. The willow is loosely sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which again creates diagonal lines along the top inch of both sides.

Batman Flag

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting is covered in eight horizontal stripes that alternate between black and yellow, starting with black along the top. Also at the top in the right corner is a block of red. All the stripes are slightly wavy and separated by rough edges. The whole piece is very painterly with clear brushstrokes. The paint has small grains of salt embedded in it all over, which appear as small white speckles. Behind the paint, some Sharpie drawings peek through. In the middle, the words “Ghost Face” and “Batman” are written in highly stylized lettering, at once curvy and jagged. Small jack-o-lantern drawings line the left and right edges behind the paint. Two are visible on the left side, and four poke through on the right.

Crazy Art

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink painting is speckled with cool-toned splatters. The colors range from different earthy tones of green, brown, yellow and blue. The original white paper is barely visible, with so much ink plastered on the page to create a muted and cohesive piece. Many of the splatters are a variation of circular, but many also look like horizontally dripping trails of ink running towards the right side of the painting. The one exception to the muted tones is a singular streak of bold black charcoal creating a curve in the upper right corner of the piece. The colors grow a bit bolder and layered in the middle of the paper, while the outer edges represent lots of singular blobs of independent color.

Prehistoric Volcano

Workshop: Plen Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This painting features a landscape orientation with the artist making the top section of the painting a dark blue color for the sky. The bottom third is a dark green and the middle is a yellow-peach color. In the foreground there are three main figures. On the right is an erupting volcano. The volcano is a brownish red color, and the smoke and explosion are brown, red and yellow. The middle section has an all-red figure with green eyes, arms and a smile. The far-left figure is reptilian and colored brown with pink and yellow accent marks. Behind the left figure is a tree with dark green leaves and a brown tree trunk.

• Taches de Rousseur Tachetées Tombent Grandes
• Un Million de Dollars de Pêche Bien
• Ocean Galley
• Changements Saisonniers Vus du Ciel
• La Natura Selvaggia Deve Essere Esplorata
• De Nouvelles Commencent Dans L’ombre XII

Taches de Rousseur Tachetées Tombent Grandes

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 30 tule reeds. Each one is about six inches tall. The reeds on the edges are about a half inch in diameter, and the rest are much skinnier. The reeds are pale green, almost light brown, and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by light pink thread about an inch from the top, purple thread about an inch from the bottom, and orange thread down the middle. Each thread follows a distinct over-under pattern that crosses the whole mat twice. The two passes diverge from each other at a couple points in each row, creating a wavelike pattern across the mat. The mat is slightly wider than it is tall.

Un Million de Dollars de Pêche Bien

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of 21 wooden blocks woven together with wire. 20 of the blocks are each five inches tall, an inch wide, and quite thin, while the other one is four inches tall, twice as wide, and three times as thick as the others. Each block is the same light tan color. They are all woven together with thin silver wire, which wraps around the center of each block at least three times. The weaving is quite loose, so none of the blocks stand perfectly upright. Instead, they all lean slightly to the right.

Ocean Galley

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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. Both sides of the canoe are light brown and textured with darker brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating horizontal dashed lines along both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which creates diagonal lines along the top half inch of both sides of the canoe.

Changements Saisonniers Vus du Ciel

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting is divided down the middle into two distinct scenes. On the right, the top half is painted light blue and heavily sprinkled with fine salt. The bottom half features three evergreen trees, painted with diagonal brushstrokes and also sprinkled with fine salt. The top third of the left side is painted magenta, sprinkled with fine salt, and dotted with milky white tempera paint. The bottom two thirds mostly consists of blue, gold, and magenta diagonal lines that slope down toward the bottom and left edges of the paper. In the middle of the left side is a light pink flower with four petals and an orange center. The bottom left corner features another yellow flower.

La Natura Selvaggia Deve Essere Esplorata

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink painting depicts a landscape. The background is white but mainly covered up with blotches of blue and green ink at the top of the painting. These appear to be leaves for a tree whose branches and trunk are present on the left of the canvas with a lighter brown. The leaves almost swirl. This creates a fantastical approach to movement as they travel from the tree’s branches across the canvas to its right border. There's a gap in between mountain-like structures and the leaves on the right side of the canvas where tiny trails and circles of ink take an opportunity to be in the spotlight. The bottom right mountain structures are brown at the top and faded blue at the bottom, creating layers with their colors.

De Nouvelles Commencent Dans L’ombre XII

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting has a teal background. The bottom inch or two of the painting is covered with green dots. Coming out of the ground are two trees. They are thin and cone-shaped with brown trunks. The tree on the left has light green leaves and the tree on the right has dark green leaves. There's a small tree painted on the far right with green and brown leaves. There's a wide tan and white semi-circle painted about halfway up the canvas on the far right. In the sky there are circular white textured clouds and a pale-yellow circle on the left for a sun. Scattered throughout the sky near the trees are several round and V-shaped small black brushstrokes.

• Fancy Bird House
• Future Canoe Purse
• Early 2000s Barbie Movie Clouds
• Fire
• The Tops of Trees
• U of I Holidays

Fancy Bird House

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of 21 thin wood blocks, each five inches long and uniform in their light tan color. Some blocks are more upright than others, but the variation in the degrees of leaning is slight. The blocks are encircled by two strands of silver wire. One is slightly thicker than the other. An inch from the top of the planter, the wire wraps around each piece of wood once or twice. An inch from the bottom, it wraps each piece twice or three times. The two different strands of wire are looped and knotted around each other in some places.

Future Canoe Purse

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, and very light brown, almost gray, with large brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating a zigzag pattern along the bottom centimeter of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which again creates a zigzag pattern along the top edge of both sides.

Early 2000s Barbie Movie Clouds

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting is covered with vertical bands of color blended together to create a soft gradient. The left edge is very light purple with hints of blue peeking through in some spots. Moving to the right, there's first a band of hot pink, then purple, then reddish pink and finally purplish pink. Each band is roughly the same width, but the final two are difficult to distinguish from each other. Around the edges of the painting, primarily along the bottom and up the right edge, there are small blooms light in color dotting the piece.

Fire

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink painting is dominated by yellow splatters. Throughout the bottom half of the piece, the splatters are quite large and close together. A layer of bright yellow covers almost the entire bottom half, leaving small spots of white peeking through around the painting’s edges. Light brown splatters are layered over top of the bright yellow, mostly concentrated in an oval-shaped area in the bottom left quadrant of the piece. Moving up into the top half of the painting, the splatters get smaller and more spread apart. The top half is mostly white, speckled with bright yellow and light brown.

The Tops of Trees

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting features a landscape orientation. The background in the top half is a peach-colored sky that's covered in large textured white clouds. On the bottom half of the painting, there are two rows of trees. The back row has about 13 large, dark brown trees that span the width of the painting. The front row has trees that are lighter in color, with tan white, and brown colors giving them texture and dimension. They also span the width of the painting and touch the bottom of the canvas.

U of I Holidays

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This painting depicts various holidays all over the canvas. The background is a soft blue color with thick clouds with blue accents, which blend nicely in with the sky. In the center is a Christmas Tree with a gold University of Idaho “I” logo as the star. The tree is dark green and has yellow, red, white and green ornaments throughout. To the left of the tree is a small Easter bunny and Thanksgiving Turkey. Both are a light brown color. On the right side of the painting is a pumpkin with a Jack o’ Lantern face. Behind these decorative pieces is a grey fence and a waving American Flag attached to a pole. On the fence is a green clover with a decorated sun hat. Above the flag is a red and blue firework surrounded by two red hearts. To finish the painting off, there is a white banner in the sky with the words, “Mom + Dad.” Mom is written in red, and dad is written in green.

• Great Owl Nest
• Water Way
• Fall Garden Gnomes
• Bonsai Tree
• Saddle in the Tree
• On Campus

Great Owl Nest

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of 13 strips of birch bark. Each one is about seven inches tall. The strips are arranged in a pattern of facing out and facing in, so the outside of the planter appears white with dark brown speckles in some places and solid light brown in others. The wood strips are woven together with two thin strands of silver wire that encircle each wood strip two or three times very near the top and the bottom. The wire around the top also secures a ring of thicker silver wire that traces the circumference of the planter. A light brown fiber mat sits at the bottom of the planter and fills it one-third full.

Water Way

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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. Both sides of the canoe are gray with brown spots and textured with small speckles. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating diagonal lines along both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which creates diagonal lines along the top centimeter of both sides of the canoe.

Fall Garden Gnomes

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

The background of this painting is divided into three horizontal bands of color: a skinny strip of purple on top, icy blue in the middle, and bright orange to the bottom. The background has been sprinkled with salt, which has created light-colored, jagged blooms in the paint. Along the bottom of the painting, red, yellow, brown and green dots sit like fall leaves. Standing amid these leaves, a couple inches apart from each other and splitting the center of the painting, are two small figures outlined in Sharpie. They are each only a couple inches tall, with quite simplistic bodies and dotted eyes and noses on their faces, and they are wearing tall, pointed hats and holding gardening tools.

Bonsai Tree

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This painting is a depiction of a scenic view with a bonsai tree atop a rounded hill in the center and a yellow sun in the top right corner. The hill comes up only a slight part of the page and is bluish grey. Sitting on top of this hill is the yellow-green trunk of the bonsai tree that curves left then sways back towards the center. The bonsai’s branches are outlined with charcoal then filled in with yellow, green, blue and red dots and strokes. Surrounding the tree, there are more colors splattered all around.

Saddle in the Tree

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This painting has a greyish blue background across the top. The color gives the sky a darker appearance but is immediately filled with color from the trees. The foreground of the painting is composed of a thick forest with many trees of different heights and shades of green. They all have a darker brown, umber color for the tree trunks and branches. In the very center of all the trees is a saddle shape in a lighter yellow-peach color. This outlines a smaller tree in the middle of this break in the trees.

On Campus

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting is a depiction of the University of Idaho water tower with a section of the Vandal Healing Garden in front of it. A thin blue section at the top of the painting resembles the sky. The painting features tall trees in different shades of green with downward sloping branches. A light brown tree sits in the middle. In between the peaks of the trees, is the rounded gray water tower with the gold University of Idaho “I” logo on it. In the foreground are two rectangular structures painted grey and black.

• The Koozi
• Peterbilt
• The Desert

The Koozi

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 12 reeds. Each one is about a half inch in diameter. The reeds are pale green and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by purple thread along both ends. The weaving is quite consistent on both ends, with each reed circled twice and the thread tied off at the bottom of the mat. The mat is slightly taller than it is wide. A large loop of purple thread extends off the top so the mat can be hung up.

Peterbilt

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

The background of this painting is dark green and features brushstrokes with distinct watercolor texture. In the foreground, the front half of a Peterbilt truck is outlined in Sharpie. The cab is divided into several blocks, which are painted dark blue, light green, and bright pink. The inside of the cab is visible, showcasing a driver’s seat and steering wheel. This area is left white, as is the front tire. Behind the cab is half a flatbed trailer, made of one skinny brown rectangle that stretches off the left edge of the page and two more little brown rectangles stacked on top of it. Two white wheels sit below the trailer. A plume of black smoke billows off the cab toward the left each of the paper.

The Desert

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This painting is very simple but still beautiful with its light pastel color choice. The painting is composed of four main colors, a darker blue, yellow, red, and brown. It is broken into quarters with each section of the page being a horizontal stripe. There is some slight blotching from the yellow quarter into the blue quarter, but for the most part, the watercolors stay within their section. From top to bottom, the sections are blue, yellow, red, then brown.

• Matt's Mat
• Kibby Dome

Matt's Mat

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 eleven tule reeds. Each one is less than a centimeter 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 navy blue thread about a half inch from the left and right. The weaving on both ends is quite consistent and very tight. The tight weaving causes the bottom five reeds to overlap each other. Since the weaving on the right side is tighter, the bottom of the mat slopes upward from left to right. The mat is about twice as wide as it is tall.

Kibby Dome

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting has a light green background with a large solid brown structure in the middle-right of the canvas. This structure has a tan square shape on one side and is filled in using tan, brown and dark brown horizontal brushstrokes. Sitting on top of the entire brown structure, there is a cream-colored, dome-shaped structure. In front of the dome, and on top of the brown shape, is a small, short row of green and brown trees that are depicted by thick brushstrokes. These trees extend about halfway up the dome. To the left of the large brown shape, sitting within the green background, is a large, green-leafed tree with a brown trunk. There are dark brown dots scattered throughout the branches of the tree.

• Fall
• Fall
• Fall
• Fall Autumn
• Fall
• Spring

Fall

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 eight tule reeds. Each one is about a half inch to an inch in diameter and 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 light pink thread about an inch from the top and bottom. The weaving along the top is mostly uniform, wrapping around each reed once and the two end reeds twice. Along the bottom, the weaving is also quite uniform. This time the thread wraps around each reed twice, making the bottom slightly tighter than the top. The mat is slightly taller than it is wide.

Fall

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of ten strips of birch bark. Some are mostly white with small dark brown speckles and some are light tan with big brown spots. They are all about six inches tall. The wood pieces are woven together with two strands of thin silver wire, which circle each wood strip once about an inch from the top and bottom. A couple inches of the ends of the wire stick out at the top and the bottom of the planter. Overall, the weaving is quite wavy and does not follow a consistent pattern. The planter flares out slightly at the top and has a bit of a lean to it. The inside is filled about halfway with a light brown fiber mat.

Fall

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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. Both sides of the canoe are white, but one has small dark brown speckles. The other has larger light brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating horizontal dashed lines along both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which mostly creates diagonal lines along the top half inch of both sides of the canoe. The sinew wraps around the sides of the canoe in a couple places.

Fall Autumn

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting is covered with brushstrokes of different colors that cover the piece evenly but leave considerable white spaces peeking through. Most of the brushstrokes in this piece move horizontally. In the background are two clusters of big, light blue brushstrokes. The following types of brushstrokes are scattered over top: thin, dark green strokes; short strokes dotted with yellow, blue and green; longer and shorter strokes divided into stripes of orange, purple and pink; short, dark blue wisps, dots and thin strokes; dark red wisps, splotches and thin strokes; and short, thin strokes divided into stripes of dark green and yellow. Some of the darker brushstrokes are sprinkled with fine salt, which creates small white dots on top of the color.

Fall

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This painting has a white background with spots of brilliant yellow across the top half. These spots blend together into one mass on the top left, and they become more separate and circular moving to the right. In the foreground, there are charcoal pencil accent marks throughout the painting. On the bottom left there are vertical lines that go inward towards the center of the painting. Above that are darker, more closely spaced lines that move up and to the right. Finally, in the right corner, there are more black charcoal lines that are horizontally angled and circled. To finish off the painting, there are various letters written around the streaks of charcoal.

Spring

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

The entire canvas is painted with bright red with visible brush strokes taht go in all directions. The artist used a thick brush to paint over most of the red with green to create a greenish-brown over the majority of the canvas. The thick brush strokes are visible and move in all directions. The bright red still peeks through along the bottom edge of the painting. There are yellow brush strokes over the top of the green toward the top of the painting. The color is faint as it mixes in with the greenish-brown; however, the thick, zig-zag brush strokes make it visible. 

• Pretty in Pink
• Planter of the Earth
• Once Upon a Tree
• Don't Taste the Rainbow
• Palouse Hills

Pretty in Pink

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 seventeen tule reeds. Each one is about a centimeter in diameter and six inches long. The reeds are pale green, almost light brown, and speckled with brown spots. The reeds are woven together by three pieces of light pink thread about an inch and a half from the top and the bottom and across the middle. The weaving is very uniform with some zigzagging in alignment across the middle and at the bottom. The top and bottom threads are tied off at the left side of the mat with a bow. The middle thread is tied into a bow on the right side of the mat. The mat is approximately square.

Planter of the Earth

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This circular planter is made of 11 strips of birch bark. Each one is about six inches tall and mostly white with dark brown speckles. The strips are all quite jagged on their edges, and they vary in width. They're woven together with two strands of thin silver wire, which wrap uniformly around each piece of wood once or twice about an inch from the top and from the bottom. The inside of the planter is lined with clear plastic. Sitting along the bottom of the liner is a light brown fiber mat.

Once Upon a Tree

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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. One side of the canoe is white with small dark brown speckles. The other is gray with larger brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating horizontal dashed lines along the bottom of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which creates a pattern of vertical and horizontal dashed lines along one top edge and a zigzag pattern along the other.

Don't Taste the Rainbow

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

This painting features rainbow-colored stripes that run diagonally across the paper. The rainbow starts with a large red arc in the bottom right corner and moves through orange, yellow, green and blue before ending with purple in the top left corner. The stripes are all roughly the same width, except the red, which is triple the size of the others. The colors are bright and distinctly separated from each other. The whole piece is sprinkled with coarse salt, which has created a speckle-effect of lighter color in the red, orange, green and purple stripes.

Palouse Hills

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

A light blue sky takes up the top two thirds of the canvas. Along the top, moving down toward the middle of the canvas, are white, whispy clouds. They are thicker and more distinct toward the edges, getting whispier toward the middle to let the blue sky peek through. The bottom third of the canvas is painted green, with visible speckled brush strokes that move to brown toward the top to give the impression of tall grass. The right and left sizes of the canvas feature leafy trees, with small speckled leaves of orange and dark red. They have thin, brown trunks peeking through the leaves. There are two trees on the right and one on the left. 

• Camp Fire
• Hannah's Canoe
• Coyote Family
• My Family and Friends
• Grass

Camp Fire

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This piece is a collaboration between Hannah and Caroline Doty. It's is 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 one 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 teepee. 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, which 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 off at an angle.

Hannah's Canoe

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 end on the bottom. One side of the canoe is white with dark brown speckling. The other is light brown and heavily textured with brown spots. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating diagonal lines along the bottom half inch of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which creates diagonal lines along the top half inch of both sides.

Coyote Family

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

The bottom two-thirds of this painting is primarily light green with some white spots, brown streaks and prominent brushstrokes. The field of green is dotted with red and blue spots, and one orange smudge sits near the bottom middle. This section of the painting also features some Sharpie squiggles, which almost look like cursive writing. They start near the center of the piece and arc toward the bottom right. The top third of the painting is made of strokes of bright blue paint that radiate out from the center toward the edges. There's ample white space where the strokes approach the edges of the paper, and the blue bleeds slightly where it borders the green. The whole piece is sprinkled with coarse salt, which is embedded into the paint.

My Family and Friends

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink painting features splatters of various colors. Bright yellow splatters are concentrated in the center, with smaller dots of yellow radiating toward the edges. A couple spots of green sit in the bottom right corner. Across the top are splatters of blue-gray and dusty pink with jagged edges. Over top of the yellow ink in the center are circular scribbles of black charcoal.

Grass

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting features two large light green trees against a rich blue background. These trees are cone shaped with individual branches sticking out and layered on with the brush. Within each tree, there are multiple red dots scattered throughout. The trees are sitting on a gold ground that blends in with the blue background in some places. Above and in between the trees in the upper half of the painting are three large white clouds that vary in size, thickness and texture from thick brush strokes to smaller dots.

• Periwinkle
• Jack Skellington
• Elsa Boat
• Princess Red's Logo
• Fiery Heart
• Kibbie Dome
• Lilac

Periwinkle

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 fourteen tule reeds. Each one is about one half inch in diameter and seven inches long. The reeds are pale green and sparsely speckled with brown spots. They are woven together by two pieces of periwinkle yarn about a half inch from the top and an inch from the bottom. The weaving along the bottom is quite uniform. Each reed is circled once. The yarn is tied off on the right side of that mat, leaving very little extra sticking off. The weaving along the top is tighter and more varied. Each reed is wrapped at least twice. The yarn is tied off in several spots along the line. The mat is approximately square, flaring a bit at the bottom.

Jack Skellington

Workshop: Tule Weaving and Natural Planters
Wood strips and wire

This planter has an elliptical shape and is made of 15 strips of birch wood. Each one is about three or four inches tall and mostly white with dark brown speckles. Some of the strips lean quite dramatically to the side, but most of them stand upright. The pieces of wood are each encircled four or five times by two strands of thin silver wire. On one half of the planter, the wire wraps around each wood strip in two distinct places, about an inch from the top and the bottom. On the other half, the wire wraps around the middle. The inside of the planter is lined with clear plastic. Sitting along the bottom of the liner is a light brown fiber mat.

Elsa Boat

Workshop: Canoe Planters
Birch, 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 trapezoidal, with the shorter end on the bottom. One side of the canoe is white with small dark brown speckles, and the other is a warm tan with small white speckling. The bottoms of both wood pieces are sewn together with light tan sinew, creating diagonal lines along the bottom half inch of both sides of the canoe. The top edges of both birch pieces are lined with thin red willow branches, which are bright burgundy in color. The willow is sewn onto the inside of the canoe with more sinew, which creates diagonal lines along the top half inch of both sides of the canoe.

Princess Red's Logo

Workshop: Special Effect Watercolor
Watercolor and salt on paper

The background of this painting is bright blue. In the foreground, there are three hearts, each one a different size. The largest heart sits near the center of the piece. A smaller heart sits down and to the left, and the smallest heart sits in the bottom left corner. Each heart is outlined and filled with red. They are decorated with a black stripe and a pink stripe along their right sides. The whole piece is covered with a heavy layer of both coarse and fine salt. The salt is more concentrated on the top left corner of the piece, making the blue background appear lighter there than toward the bottom right.

Fiery Heart

Workshop: Ink Painting with Nature
Natural inks and charcoal on paper

This ink painting features a pale red, blue and yellow background. The watercolors are distinct yet blend together in splotches. At the center of the paper is a distinct heart shape. it is outlined in a thing deep red line. The left side of the heart is colored deep red. The left side of the heart is colored blue and yellow. The blue and yellow bleed together and bleed into the red toward the bottom of the left side. There are splashes of red extending off the top of the heart, creating a 'firey' effect behind it. 

Kibbie Dome

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting has a blue background. Taking up the majority of the space is an outline of a large grey half circle (flat part on the bottom) with a white line painted through the middle horizontally. Underneath this line, within the half-circle, are two large, maroon hearts with two smaller white hearts in between them. One is above the other. Above this white line, still within the half-circle, are two large, maroon oval shapes spaced apart from each other. Outside and above the half-circle are five large light blue circles that span the full width of the painting.

Lilac

Workshop: Plein Air Oil Painting
Oil paints on canvas

This oil painting has a light blue, almost lavender background covering the top third of the painting. The bottom third of the painting consists of a deep emerald green resembling a grassy field. The middle section is white and features twelve lilac flowers. Their stems are a light brown color and are very straight and short. The flowers are painted in lilac purple, with three v-shaped brush strokes moving down each stem. The flowers are all touching. The painting is finished off with some light blue green clouds painted onto the sky.