Salt of the Earth

YEAH!! i am back in the blogging world. So much has happened since I’ve been ‘off’ line. I don’t even know where to begin with out writing a book. I have several entries in my personal journal that i might take out excerpts and include them in my next few entries.

As far as the present- Christmas has come and gone again. It was a very nice, mellow one this year. Just what we needed. We have no plans for New Years- by choice. At this point I am doubting that I will even stay up until midnight to ring in the new year. Graham was very sick for the first 2 weeks of December and Mick was working crazy hours at work so I feel like I’m still trying to catch up on sleep and everything else that got neglected during that time.

My art class ended but I was offered an amazing opportunity for this next term. I’ll be taking the second part of the Life Drawing series as well as a new class-printmaking. My teacher has also offered me the chance to work one on one with her this term- which is a chance of a lifetime. She is an amazing artist and person and I am greatly looking forward to taking full advantage of this opportunity. This whole art experience has been such an awaking for me. Like food for the soul. During one of our drawing sessions my teacher took us to the printmaking studio to show us how to print one of our drawings. (we had to etch one of our charcoal drawings onto a copper plate then put it through the printing press). My love for art began in a printmaking studio 18 years ago. I haven’t been in one in about 14 years- nor have I done any printmaking. It was like love at first sight when my original teacher at ASU demonstrated monotype techniques. I took to it like a duck to water and was even offered a scholarship for the next 3 years. I ended up leaving ASU after that term but taught printmaking while I took a few terms off of college. There was a point in my life when I stopped doing all art- which was very sad now, looking back. SO when my teacher here took me into the printmaking studio i was greeted by the familiar printing presses, paint smells and wonderful prints. It was like finding an old friend whom I’ve missed greatly in my life. I have a lot of catching up to do with my old friend- and I am very excited to do so.

enough for now
T

Thanks Mick, for fixing my blog