Spring and Summer 2014 classes are posted!
2014 Spring Vacation: April 22-23: Loom Beading– For ages 8 and up. Native American crafts are astounding and the beadworks created are exceptional. In this workshop students explore the many symbols...
View ArticleRobots
Spring vacation has come and gone:( At Hayloft Studio, we had a buzzing day of robot building, starting with a bit of reverse engineering. Sounds like I had a studio full of MIT protégés, huh?...
View ArticleThe forgotten pleasures of oil paint
My students’ enthusiasm to learn oil paints has forced me to dig deep in my dark closet of past passions. It’s been nearly 18 years since I touched a brush to oils. I have to thank him. I had...
View ArticleSummer of the old maple
This summer at the hayloft started with a crack! And then a tree fell on our house. Well, okay, it was just a limb but that limb was as big as a tree. Gremlins peeking out of the hole in the tree....
View ArticleFirst Day of Homeschool Art Group
We started off a little shy (myself included) but as the paint started rolling, so did our minds. A simple beginning of playful mono prints, to allow us time to get to know each other. We spread out...
View ArticleFairy dust, carcasses and clay!
Carcasses? Yes, machine carcasses, that is. One of my private students and I have embarked on a journey of destruction. We are like vultures picking apart dead machines and we will use the parts to...
View ArticleWicked fun wicker repair
Pre/early 1900’s Heywood Wakefield wicker chair set. These chairs so easily could have ended up in the dumpster. I’m thankful my customer saw that there was something special about them. It was a...
View ArticleSurrealism, Foxes and Motors.
Hayloft Studio has been buzzing and breathing and oozing creative juices. So much so, that I have trouble leaving. Who wants to sit at a computer and write posts when there are paintings emerging? ,...
View ArticleFootstool
Let the reparations begin: I’d like to say the same of our country post primary season. Taking the greatest care with this sweet little mission style footstool I grew more and more curious of its...
View ArticleInterview
Just had a lovely interview with Andy from the local paper, the Greenfield Recorder. Very sweet man and he told me about an artist friend, Danny Quirk, who’s an anatomy freak like myself. Awesome...
View ArticleChairs, caskets and the eye.
This is the second child’s chair I’ve done this year with this pattern. Seems to be the go to for small rush seats. It looks as if it would weave faster than the traditional rush pattern, but it’s not...
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