Beeswax Valentines workshop: there's still room for you!

"Kisses", Collage and beeswax, COPYRIGHT 2010 JonesMoore

Spend the afternoon creating fabulous valentines (with me!) while learning the basics of collage, and how to use beeswax with various items such as lace, rice paper, oil pastels, found text and images. Your friends and family will truly appreciate your small works of art for Valentine’s Day!

When: Saturday, February 6, 12:30-4:30pm
Class fee: $40., materials fee: $12
Where: Class will be held in downtown Everett, Washington. To register, call the Arts Council of Snohomish County at 425-257-8380.

Encaustic experiment...

Beach Walk #1, encaustic, Copyright 2010 JonesMoore

Inspired by sea glass I recently found on the beach...carving into the wax and rubbing in pigment was especially fun. It's much more "luminous" in person. View it large (click on the photo)!

Magic on the beach...

Sea glass from North Beach State Park, Copyright 2010 JonesMoore

"Magical" finds from my beach walk at North Beach State Park, near Port Townsend, Washington. The quality of the sea glass here is extraordinary, all of them worn down to perfect "pebble-sized" pieces. Rare colors too: yellow, dark blue, light blue, pink and so on. I had heard (and read) that there was a fabulous sea glass beach near Port Townsend. I don't think I made it the THE beach, but, nevertheless, the "finds" were amazing. These little gems are inspiring me to do some encaustic art based on the colors and luminosity of the glass...

Just do it...for Haiti, especially for the children.

Haiti earthquake relief:

www.hopeforhaitinow.com
1-877-99-HAITI

Just do it...you know you want to.

Note to Self:

Do not paint with white gesso while wearing favorite black sweater...

Need a creative lift? Go on a road trip to Edison!

All photos COPYRIGHT Jonesmoore 2010

My W.B. (wonderful boyfriend) forced me out of the house last Saturday to take a much needed road trip up to one of my absolute FAVE places in the state of Washington: the tiny town of Edison. If there were a contest for tiny, unique and funky towns, Edison would certainly win first place year after year, in my book. It's located just north of the Skagit Valley, nestled between potato farms, the Puget Sound and Highway 20. It's a jewel, and contains (amazingly) the following in its handful of streets: bakeries, galleries, biker bars, local "watering holes", a cheese shop and MUCH more! Be sure to visit the gallery called "Curator", you will NOT be disappointed. On our way out of Edison, we were treated to some amazing landscapes and wildlife, including a bald eagle and some very large long-necked birds, perhaps wild geese or swans, and hundreds of white snow geese in the fields.

(PSST! My favorite junk store–yes, the kind you can hardly find any more–is just outside of town on Hwy. 11). More photos on my Flickr site! If you don't live in Washington, there is probably an "undiscovered jewel" of a town in your area...explore!