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…
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Weekend Warrior Grout Workshop!
We had a blast on Saturday and Sunday. My Tuesday Mosaic class finished making thier tiles. So they ordered frames and I taught a grout class this past weekend, Here are some pics of the girls making/ painting thier tiles. This is Dee Jay. Painting his 3-d turtle on a tile. Heather, painting away, trying to beat the clock! Grouting and wiping! More wiping! And more wiping…by now they were beginning to grumble. But as you can see it was worth it. Here are their beautiful masterpieces! Ta da! If you are interested in taking a mosaic class email me…
New Classes, New Work and The Newness of a New Year.
Happy New Year! I am so glad 2013 is O.V.E.R. The New Year brings a new chance to start over. To dress yourself in a new attitude, with new ideas, new hopes, new dreams, new love, new promises, a new skip in your step. 2014 here I come. I am looking forward to new things. I am looking forward to bright changes and overcoming some really bad habits. I started it off by doing a juice fast! I am still fasting and I’m on my 5th day. I am obsessed with living healthy. I’m sure my friends are sick…
November is full of Art Shows and Awesomeness!
The first week of November is a time where we begin to look back and say ‘where did this year go?’, ‘Man, this year flew by.’ or ‘Stop the bus, I want to get off!’ But really, November is a time to reflect, be thankful and count the many blessings the Lord has bestowed on all of us in America. After all Thanksgiving is an American holiday and an official time to be thankful. Personally, I have received many joys, answered prayers and blessings, ( grand kids, family and friends). He has blessed me abundantly and I have been able to…
Sweet September
Sweet September.
Sweet September
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…
A New Direction- 4 Tucson
My new direction is that I am now leading an arts support group through an organization called 4Tucson. I mentioned 4Tucson in one of my blogs a few months back. But to refresh your memory, 4 Tucson is a grass roots, Christian organization with the focus on making Tucson a great city to live in, to do business in and to be a fabulous destination for the whole family. A few ways we are accomplishing that is to pray for Tucson corporately and individually and to bring awareness to everyone that Tucson can be a place to raise families, work, worship, retire, and create…
A Big Thank You!
A Big Thank You!.
A Big Thank You!
It’s been a week since the Tucson Open Studio Tour. And I am just starting to feel normal again. I needed the whole week just to do nothing but flop on the couch after work or go play with my grandkids or have tea with me girl friends. It aint easy working 3 jobs (technically 2 but my studio work always feels like full time plus overtime). I felt honored for those of you that came to my studio/ garden to view and purchase stuff. It was a real success! So thanks again for taking the time to come. And now…
Robin Chlad Designs 