Art
Last weekend's Fall Fair
Catching up on recent events, last weekend was decidedly fall. On Saturday, Rodstol Lane Farm hosted the Kitsap Co-op Fall Fair and welcomed over 700 people for pony rides, chickens, shopping and crumpets.
The Farm table featured new produce bags, screen printed by ACRE and hand sewn with reclaimed materials by Cynthia Mora. Cynthia also makes these lovely Oswald & Miss Cleo Catnip Birds that every cat owner should have. If they don’t make your furry friends get high, I am pretty sure
you will be.
Farm Produce Bags for your fruits and vegetables, snacks or lunches:
For sale soon on the Farm website…
Oswald & Miss Cleo Catnip Birds. Get yours here.
I need this book:
I went to the Puyallup Fair today and besides the delicious scones (the best fair snack for only $1.50, with butter and jam), the best surprise of the day was the Charley Harper exhibit on display at the pavilion. The show featured a number of original paintings and serigraphs that I have never seen before in person. And although I feel like I should have known this, or I must have forgotten this information like I do with most things, Harper also did illustrations for Betty Crocker’s Dinner for Two Cookbook printed in 1958. Please don’t judge this book by the cover shown above! I’m not sure if the following image is a title page in the first edition (most likely) or perhaps an alternate book cover or jacket, but this is why I NEED this book:
My first oil painting
Sadly, Saturday was my last painting class with Milo. I am hoping to continue working in this medium, since this was a first. The class was short, only five weeks long, so I’m surprised I even got this far. The painting still needs some finishing touches (glazing and scrubbing?), but knowing me, this will be as good as it gets. I was quite disappointed with final proportions of the creamer and if I was motivated, I would repaint it. Milo was quite impressed with my pine cone even though I really had no idea what I was doing. But overall it was a good experience. It was nice being back in the studio again making stuff and learning about color and light all over again.
