REGISTER NOW! We have just a couple doubles + still plenty of group room spots ($50 discount!)
Summertime at Cupcake Ranch
Fall Fiber School Registration Open–Register Now!
Register here!
September 29 – October 4
As usual, fall means Fiber School, where we hold Yarn School and Felt School back-to-back, with a nice helping of Dye Lab in between.
You can enroll in just Yarn School, just Felt School, or take them both and get a FREE (!) Dye Lab session, huzzah!
Yarn School (9/29 – 10/2)
Dye Lab Extension (10/2) FREE when you enroll in both Yarn School and Felt School!
Felt School (10/3-10/4)
Deposit is 50%. Fiber School students (taking both Yarn School and Felt School) get first grab at private rooms, but use the waiting list option if you’re doing just Yarn School and would prefer a private room. If any are available at the end of August, I’ll contact you by registration order.
Cheryl Toh’s GET WAXY Encaustic Painting Workshop Returns!
Artist Cheryl Toh is returning this fall for her GET WAXY Encaustic Painting Workshop October 20 – 23, Thursday – Sunday (with check-in Wednesday night). Cheryl is the organizer as well as the teacher, so see the workshop page for the class syllabus, details, and registration information.
Discover the infinite applications of this ancient art form for painting with pigmented wax. This intensive workshop offers a comprehensive approach for working both traditionally and experimentally with encaustic.Become proficient with the key elements of the medium; paint application, manipulation and fusing methods. Work with a variety of techniques including layering, scraping, scraffito, texturing, stencils, pouring, dipping, collage, the incorporation of mixed media and found objects to define your unique style. Work on various substrates (paper, board, fabric, etc) as you become adept in working with this versatile medium. Encaustic formulas, color mixing, supports and grounds, studio safety and the use of various tools will also be covered.
Personalized instruction, encaustic supplies, tools and equipment, room & board at the Harveyville Project are included in the workshop fees.
This workshop is an excellent opportunity to discover new techniques and applications with wax. Artists working in most any medium (drawing, painting, mixed media, fiber, clay, sculpture, etc) benefit from the exploratory, hands-on nature of this workshop. Beginning participants as well as those who have experience working in the medium, gain skills and techniques from the personalized instruction.
See pictures from the 2010 GET WAXY.
Spring Yarn School Photos!
Check out the Yarn School Spring 2011 Photo Pool on flickr. Gorgeous fiber, lovely spinsters, and adorable critters, including THE AMAZING RINGO, from Jepson Pottery!
Just a few spots left!
There are just a few spots left for Spring 2011 Yarn School. Register now!
Sunflower Journeys
Here’s a segment from last year that featured The Harveyville Project & Felt School!
(You may have seen our matinee idol. Uncle Honeybunch, in last year’s opening credits.)
SPRING YARN SCHOOL!
Spring Yarn School runs April 28 – May 1. Registration and links to all the info here!
Snow Day!
We got our first real snow of the winter yesterday–quite late this year!–and it was definitely heavier than the forecast, but it was that powdery loveliness, without much wind whipping up drifts or scalding noses.
Everyone loves the first snow of the year–everything’s so shiny and pretty and sugar-coated. Eventually you get sick of the slush and the cold and getting bundled up just to get the mail. But that first day’s delightful.
In contrast, today is gloriously sunny, but in the single-digits and windy, so I’m enjoying the snow from inside today.
Mitten School! (+ Get Waxy images)
We have just a couple last-minute spots for Mitten School, so REGISTER NOW!
Cheryl Toh’s Encaustic workshop was excellent! I wish I’d gotten a few “before” shots of the work space and blank panels for contrast! Everything was covered in brown paper, with pristine little wax stations, bare plywood panels and tidy little rows of tools and supplies. By the end of the weekend, it was a marvelous chaos of color and texture, with sample panels and works-in-progress cooling and curing on every surface! Some of the students focused on pure experimentation, while others concentrated in creating works. I was completely unfamiliar with the process, so it was fun to peek in and watch everyone at work.