I have begun offering Art Birthday Parties this year and so far it's been nothing but fun. We started off with a Sleepover Themed birthday where the girls all designed and decorated their own SleepMasks. Our second project was Watercolour/Yarn Unicorns which have been such a huge hit that we had double classes of them over our Spring Break Art Club. Unless my Mom Brain is betraying me, I am certain that this was the next one in line and what an awesome and easy and colourful and visually fun project it is. Mini Wall Tassle Hangings!
I am a million percent mega into providing these Art Birthday Party services so please hit me up with your party theme and I will do my best to create something for you! These parties are not exclusively for children either, they are fully open to all ages looking to get their art on!
Indigo Workshop with School House Farm
My heart is singing. This is the beginning of many more workshops to come! Emily and I joined forces to offer an Indigo Dyeing Workshop to take place at School House Farm that included a phenomenal spread of appetizers, dessert and a Fall Inspired Cocktail for all our guests! In typical Emily fashion, she decked out the area with bouquets of sunflowers and dahlias and a few of her first pumpkins of the season! The majority of the food was produce she had sown, grown, and harvested this year: pickled garlic scapes, beans, and cucumbers, a kale and yellow zucchini quiche, roasted garlic paired with select cheeses and freshly baked baguettes were just a few of the appetizers. Vodka was infused with farm pears over the week leading up to the event and then mixed with a homemade rosemary syrup and soda. Dessert included an apple galette, homemade whipping cream, chocolate zucchini loaf, and fresh strawberries. I know. Amazing.
We gathered in a circle where I went through the indigo process and ladies got straight to work creating their designs with elastics, clothespins, string, and tongue depressers. Patiently, we worked in two groups taking turns to dip and expose their pieces until it was time for the final reveal. Just like snowflakes, no two are ever the same, each one so unique and magical in its creation. The scarves were hung to dry across a makeshift clothesline that Kevin helped set up using twine and the easels he had designed for Paint Night.
I couldn't have been happier with the attendees for this first Adult Workshop! So many familiar faces who have been so kind in supporting my passion to make creativity an accessible priority in life over the last 2 years. I can not tell you how much it means to have this support and to know that I am able to provide a service to others. Thank you to everyone who participated, I am still reeling with joy from this first successful experience! Thank you!!!
Art Club | Summer Edition: Week 2
Week 2's projects included Windchimes and Indigo! The windchimes were a new project that we brought on board. In choosing our materials, the aim is to use pre-existing materials that can be recycled or natural materials that will leave a smaller footprint. We used a variety of wood in addition to bamboo from the bamboo grove here at School House Farm. The kids painted the top piece white and chose from a variety of patterns (including splatter painting) painted in black. A colour pattern of Beads were added to their centre string before the task of tying began. It was definitely more labourious than I had expected, but everyone was very proud and pleased with their final product!
Indigo, as usual, was anticipatory, then really boring and smelly, and ended with sweet victory, excitement, and pride.
Art Club | Summer Edition: Week 1
We are in the second half of summer and filling our weeks up with Art Club sessions! Emily has been so kind as to host these fun creative adventures at School House Farm, providing a beautifully inspiring and open space for our energetic artists. The week kicked off with Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvasses, followed by our Gift Wrap session, and ending with Indigo. I was really excited for the new Gift Wrapping session (I'm probably going to renamed it That's A Wrap because I'm just into fun names for things...) which turned out super fantastic!!! I will definitely have to get my hands on a few more Pom Pom makers as those were definitely a favourite by far. The Acrylic Painting always puts me on edge because of the permanence and all the accidental squeezing too much paint or possible end game of BROWN FROM MIXING ALL THE COLOURS, but as you will see, they all turned out uniquely awesome in every way. Indigo was indigo, a lot of impatience and aversion to the smell, but inevitably always worth the end product!
Art Club 2017 Wrap Up!
I can't tell you how crazy it is to direct these classes and try to get some good shots at the same time! I managed to get a few here and there, mostly the second week when I was feeling a little more comfortable and in my groove. Will try to create a larger gallery under our Art Club section, but in the meantime, here are some snippets from Art Club 2017!
A massive thank you to everyone who participated and my sincerest apologies to those I had to turn away for lack of space! I am definitely planning to host more classes in the coming months including some for adults as well. I am so thrilled with the amount of response I received this year and equally stoked on how all the projects turned out. I love love love observing the unique perspectives and talents from young creatives and it is such a gift to see how proud they are of their work in the end. Thank You to everyone! I look forward to seeing your faces and many new ones with the warmer weather!
xo Phanie