Layered Imagery Workshop

I just downloaded to my new video about my workshops to my YouTube page. I had to delete the old ones I put on YouTube 2 years ago because they could not compare to this one. This year I purchased a Mac computer and a Flip video camera. I love Apple. I have been taking classes at the Apple store to teach me how to edit and make my own movies. It has been a long process but I have loved ever minute of it and the video looks sort of professional.

The next video I am going to create is a time lapse of a portrait I just finished that took me over 150 hours to complete which will show the process from start to finish in less then 2 minutes! I have wanted to do this for years and now I have the ability to do it on my own! Look for it in a few weeks on my my blog.

To see a the video of my workshop please visit my YouTube page
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarjoriePesekFineArt

Layered Imagery

These are photos from my last two shows. One was at Pure Design in Naples where the setting was picturesque among the yachts in the marina and the sun shining bright on a spring afternoon. Right next door is Bonefish restaurant which brought even more festivity to the art show and they also catered it--yum! Thanks to all who came and made it a fun event.

The other show was at Big Arts on Sanibel in the courtyard. Also a beautiful setting because Sanibel has so much of the feeling of shells and beach you can't help but feel like you are on vacation even though you may not be! The only downside was the constant fight of the wind! You can see my sign never really made it up! I am very grateful that my art is so durable having fallen about 10 times throughout the show. But it was a great success and many people came to admire the eight different artists exhibiting there that day before they all proceeded to other artists' studios on the island. I met some wonderful people. I look forward to next season where I plan on holding another workshop and seeing the snowbirds I met there again.

The top photo is a bunch of us shelling on Sanibel. You can get an idea of what I mean by the feel of Sanibel and the beach vacation.

I forgot to let you know that I am going to be showing my work in a group show at Big Arts on Sanibel along side the Annual Artists' Studio Tour this Friday April 16, 9AM-12PM. Please come by, bring friends, and see my original artwork and learn about my workshops. I look forward to seeing you there! The address is Big Arts, 900 Dunlop Rd, Sanibel. FL 33957, 239-395-0900.

Layered Imagery

I held a workshop at Big Arts on Sanibel Island a few weeks ago. I live in Naples and it takes me about an hour and a half to get to Sanibel in good weather but, as luck would have it, there were torrential rains that morning on my drive up. I am a slow driver as it is but that morning I drove like a turtle and it took me 2 hours +. At times I could not see out my front windshield!
By the time I got on the island I felt as if it was sinking into the ocean.

I had never been to Big Arts before but I soon realized that not only was my car's tires underwater in the unpaved and muddy driveway, but the building has no loading zone that is covered. And I needed to carry in my "paper" artwork and all the "paper" for the class from my car! I was panicked. The rain kept coming down in buckets!

But I was saved by the nice women there who helped me carry in everything under umbrellas. Everyone managed to show up to the class, all of us dripping wet. But it was a perfect day for doing a workshop since no one was going to play golf! We all had such a great time and everyone got deeply into creating their layered imagery, paper mosaic artwork. They were all so proud of what they created (as was I proud of them) that day as you can see from there big smiles. And I got a few emails of the photos of the pieces they finished once they got home. It was well worth the long and hair raising drive!