“He is doing a new thing” (in me) That is my inspiration for this season. Isaiah 43:19. The other day a friend mentioned on Facebook that she was selling her house and had to put away all her art supplies for a while. I shutter at the thought. But it got me thinking about how we get used to having many things at our fingertips but then there is a shift and we have limited resources. We can get frustrated, stomp our feet, curse the air, and ask ‘why me, ‘why now?’. But eventually the disrupt forces us to think…
Category: Classes
Make a Canister or Vase class
Make a canister or Vase! Pottery hand building class, beginning Thursday, April 5th from 5-8. thru April 19th. Join me at the Blue Raven Art School for a fun class in pottery. I will teach you to make a functional container with a lid or a simple vase for utensils or flowers. Learn how to work with clay slab, hand build miniature critters, glaze techniques and surface decoration. No experience required. A fun class with no pressure. Everything is included, clay, glazes, tools, firing for one low price, $155.00 Email me to reserve your space. Groups of 6 or more receive…
Something to do, see and touch.
We are almost half way through August and that means I need to get serious about building inventory for the upcoming fall shows. I will be offering one more month of classes for September, then change gears and will focus on fall and holiday sales. My September Classes will begin Tuesday,Sept. 2 for 4 weeks. I will be teaching something seasonal. Sculpted Pumpkins! Who doesn’t love a cute pumpkin in time for the harvest/Halloween/ Day of the Dead holidays. The cost will be $125.00, includes semi private instructions, use of tools, clay and glazes. I will be posting a…
Stamp out Homelessness!
Check out my page, we are up to something good! https://robinchladdesigns.com/stamp-out-homelessness-how-by-making-clay-stamps/ If you can’t make it please consider donating on line.
Planning Your Summer Staycations
Another couple weeks and school will be let out for the summer. The weather is heating up (in Tucson) and ya’ll are preparing to make a list of places you want to go and things you want to do for fun. Yes, fun! It’s supposed to be fun in the summer. May I make a suggestion? How about take an art class. Get the family together and have a family art reunion, where everyone gets to make something. If you have never done such a thing, you could call it the 1st Annual Family Art Reunion! Do you have…
February Fabs
I am loving this time of year….Spring! And this week we are having the best weather in the country! I have been playing around with functional wares the past several weeks. Experimenting with styles and glazes. My latest designs are influenced by East Indian textiles and designs. I love the vibrant colors and stamped designs they have in thier saris and bed coverings. The exotic images of tassles, slipppers and billowy folds of drapery, piles of satan pillows. Those are the images I love of the Indian culture. I thought I would let you see the beginnings of design. I…
3D Workshop at Santa Theresa Tile Works
I feel honored to be invited to teach a workshop at Santa Theresa Tile Works in the month of February! A 2 day workshop on Thursdays, February 20 & 27. 3 hours each. It will be a 3 dimensional clay class on how to build a flower shadow box. My ceramic shadow boxes look like this; As you can see, some are more complicate than others but I will be teaching beginning and intermediate levels so not to worry. I take you step by step and you will come away learning a new technique and a piece that will beautify…
November is full of Art Shows and Awesomeness!
November is full of Art Shows and Awesomeness!.
Being Busy, Fall Fun and Show Schedule
I have been really focused. Pushing myself to get inventory built up, marketing, writing a business plan (or I keep thinking about that one, haven’t quite got to it yet), relearning how to follow a budget, while juggling small jobs here and there until the holiday buying season kicks in. But I have managed to mix business with pleasure and took a jaunt to Sedona a couple weeks ago with a friend. I just love it up there. It’s so inspiring. The rocks, the sunsets, the art! I am so grateful to be able to take it all in….
Rewarding
Tuesday’s mosaic class has come and gone way too fast. I am teaching a new 6 week session of clay tile mosaics to 4 inspiring and fun loving women. The class goes by so quickly that I am almost sad to see it end. And ya know what? They inspire me. After they all left tonight, I sat thinking about how these gals come to be taught and be inspired by my creations and their ideas inspire me too. It’s a win/win situation. I am delighted at the ideas that are beginning to stir inside of them as they birth new and…
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