Workshop Wednesday Round Up: Getting your grove on, prescription drugs and spiders--What?

My fabulous workshop attendees.  What a fun group, we even managed to learn some things in all the fun:)  It was a great day!

 Thought I would recap my workshop from last week.  We had a great time and I had some fabulous students.  This was a 1 day workshop and we focused on painting glass.  I did 2 demos one of the 3 bottles which I will share on this blog when it is completed and I did a demo on painting raised lettering in glass, a cropped version of "Retro Pop" that I shared on Monday.

In addition to demoing I shared 2 videos one was a compilation of my works and the other was a step by step video of "Retro Pop".  I also talked about my favorite tools and paints.

Check out these bottles:)

The ladies did a fabulous job!

Here is my supply list for my workshops.  

Group shot of one side of the room

The other side of the room.  We had a great studio that we were painting in.

I also learned some new things from the ladies in my workshop.  I think that is one of the favorite parts for me I always ending up learning so much.

One of the ladies uses old prescription bottle lids to hold he paints on her palette.  She puts a little masking tape on the bottom to hold them in place on the palette, genius.


And Diane Ziemski told me about Groove Book.  You can get 100 photos from your i pad , iPhone or Facebook printed for $2.99 a month.  They even bind them in a cute little book, the pages are even perforated if you want to take them out and share them with your friends and family.  Awesome!!!!


I also learned about the Spider iPad holder from Diane.  I paint from my iPad as my reference photo and this would come in so handy.  It's also good for holding it in place in the car and other places.

 

Work In Progress Wednesday: "Retro Pop"

"Retro Pop" work in progress  11" x 12" watercolor by Carrie Waller

Today I'm sharing my progress with you:))  Can't wait to share the finished painting with you on Monday!  I absolutely love the colors in this painting and I can't wait to do some more in this series.  I do have to take a break in there and get ready for a workshop I'm teaching on Friday.  I'm trying a new painting with this workshop and I'll tell you all about it next week.

I do hava couple spots available in my "All That Shines:  The Art of Painting Glass in Watercolor" May 15-17th workshop in Baton Rouge, LA.  That will probably be my last workshop in the United States for a while since we are packing up and moving to Japan.

Carrie

Christmas Specials, workshops and Cabin Fever

Hi Everyone,

We have some serious cabin fever at our house.  The kids have not been in school since last Thursday and this Mommy is hoping for some ice melting today so that the kids don't go crazy.  You can't even go out and play in the snow because it's just ice:(

I'm offering a couple of Christmas specials.  If purchased by the 18th they will get there by Christmas:)
Both of these paintings are from the Macy's Christmas display in NYC.

Special Price $850. 00
Regularly priced $1450.00
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Special Price $450.00
Regularly priced $750.00
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They do come framed!  Here is what they look like

 I'm currently working on my newest painting.  Hopefully this will be one of the paintings that we work on in my workshop in February in Covington, LA.  The workshop is almost sold out if you're interested act quickly:)

 I also worked on my supply list today.  I thought I would share both the brochure for my workshop that I created and my supply list.  Since artists are visual I made it all in pictures:))

Carrie

Great Balls of Fire

"Great Balls of Fire" or "Celebration" original watercolor on paper 6x6 SOLD

Hi Everyone,

I feel a huge weight has lifted:)  My workshop is over and it was fabulous!!!!  I had the best group of ladies to instruct.  It could not have gone better:)  And right after that Crystal Cook and I were featured guests on Artists Helping Artists blog radio show, we survived and didn't sound too crazy:)  I was so happy to be interviewed with my friend Crystal, I couldn't have asked for a better experience.  Leslie Saeta and Kelley MacDonald asked us fabulous questions and made us sound good!  If you missed it here is the link it's the broadcast on 4/26, click here.

My first 3 day workshop, fabulous group of ladies:))

And ta da I finally finished my ball jars!!!!  So my not so "pc" title is "Great Balls of Fire" my alternate more conservative title is "Celebration".  This painting was a lot of fun and I'm anxious to paint a larger version, but before I can do that I have several commissions to work my way through.  That is a great problem to have:)

And to top off an absolutely fabulous week I sold 4 paintings.  What a week--I'll take a few more like that!

"Tall Drink of Water" SOLD

"The Night Before Christmas" SOLD

"Can It Too" SOLD

Hope you had a fabulous weekend:)

Carrie