Thursday, January 30, 2014

ART AT CORAL COTTAGE


'Art Camp' was invented by my friends son, and has entertained many visitors to  'Coral Cottage', the name she has given her Florida home, whose mascot-guardian is this amusing coral-painted, stylized wooden-head of a flamingo.
(I should have photographed from the side to show the full form)
The way it works is that several people over-paint what they wish on the divided surface of thrift-store-bought canvases.
Some friends were artists, while others never painted or drew anything, but loved the communal, freeing nature of the sessions.
 I wish I had more long-shot photos to show the whole rooms so you might see that the space is not cluttered, and the overall effect in these light-filled rooms is pure cheerfulness.
 The next two are the very first ones,
(by 'AD13')
 done on cut-cardboard boxes.
Unfortunately, we didn't have a session because time got shortened by my illness.  This was the canvas I was going to work on, keeping the beautiful head painted by an unknown artist.  My plan was to have him looking out from a dark cave into a bright landscape with a sun-dog rainbow formation  prominent in the sky.
I drew a few thank-you cards for friends there:
(For AD13)
(For Carol)
(For Mary)
I added a crocodile and Florida landscape to the left of a Northern landscape with cottage, but neglected to photograph it.

 This pencil drawing for my friend:
represents the two of us,
a hint of the 'Pink Panther' hidden in the reeds
for the delicious laughter we shared while watching the Steve Martin remake,
and. three grackles for 'Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva', to remind us of how our precious friendship began at Jivan-Mukti yoga center seventeen years ago.
 
More adventures in Florida next post.

Still to come, Merritt Island Wild Life Sanctuary, the Beach, and a satellite launch from Cape Canaveral...Stay tuned.

 

3 comments:

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

i would like to hear more about
Art Camp...who comes, how it
works....all the time?
casually? like people just show up
or ?????

i got such an unexpected STRONG
sense of it...

Ms. said...

Hey grace...it's casual...a large sunny room with lots of windows...my friend, her son, neighbors, and visitors....spontaneous and anywhere from 3 to 8 people can fit comfortably. Like I said, we didn't really have one couse her son was sick and so was I, but she and I did our own things there, sometimes together.

Ms. said...

Oh, and I forgot to say...lots of supplies. I brought my own stuff but only did the cards and that one drawing. She did a rag rug repair.