A Sneak Peek....

This IS the life...(somewhere in the South Pacific).

Gone fishin'...

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Can you guess where?

I'll update in a few days

(I think)

if I decide

to actually come home.

Dia de los Muertos, oh my!

"Manos y Ojos", COPYRIGHT 2009 JonesMoore

I am just bursting with excitement! Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is happening in less than one month! This is a major holiday in Mexico, during which families celebrate their ancestors and departed loved ones. The collage shown above was based on images and my feelings about Dia de los Muertos. "Manos y Ojos" (the handwritten text in the background) means hands and eyes...with the Virgin of Guadalupe floating above.

Dia le los Muertos is one of the most profound and beautiful cultural holidays I have ever experienced. So much love and sharing happens during the festivities. The streets, homes businesses and cemeteries of Mexico are just alive with music and pageantry. Check out my photos taken during this amazing holiday in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2007!

www.flickr.com/photos/jonesmoore

and more photos here

AND here!!

"Proper Station", in the works...

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This is an encaustic collage piece that is almost finished. I'm still trying to decide where to place the tiny bottle with the red label. The photos in this collage are from my father's collection of photos he and his buddies took during Word War II. You guessed it! That's my dad in the hula skirt. If you click on the photo, you'll see much more detail!

This will be a featured piece in my upcoming show at the Oasis Art Gallery, in Seattle, Washington, which opens October 25 (my birthday!).

Doodads and rusty stuff for my kid...

My Favorite Things, originally uploaded by jomoma58.

My daughter, who is attending her first year of art school in Vancouver B.C., called me the other day requesting some interesting things. Rusty stuff and found objects...ahhh, I have trained her well. I guess they don't have much of that stuff in downtown Vancouver. She is in great need of these items for her first science (really!?) project. The assignment? Create a "Cabinet of Curiosity" (in box form) of natural objects–basically, an assemblage piece. Joseph Cornell was one of the first artists to actually do this in box form. Check it out–they are fabulous!

http://www.josephcornellbox.com/

I am feeling fairly excited to put together a "care" package of rusty things for my daughter, and so glad her love of using mixed media and found objects has stayed with her. I can't wait to see the finished product!

Experimental College classes now "live" and open for registration!

I am offering two fabulous workshops at the ASUW Experimental College (Seattle, Wa), and online registration opened today! Just go to Exco.org, click on "Catalog", and then "Arts and Crafts". My workshops are: The Painted Page and Altered Book Shadow Box. I hope to see you in class!

Questions? contact me at jomoma58@yahoo.com

For my other workshops being offered this fall, see sidebar under "Upcoming 2009 Workshops" Remember: "the early sign-ups get the worm". In otherwords, the earlier you sign up, the more likely it is that the class will actually take place! Yes, we depend on YOU, the student, to make the class happen...