So many activities happening around these parts this weekend. I’m planning on visiting a few artist’s studios as part of the Vermont Craft Councils Foliage Open Studio Weekend. There’s a map on their website that locates participating artists and craftspeople. Pick an artist you’d like to meet or the area you’re in, and drop by. Or just follow the yellow Open Studio signs. You’d be surprised at how much artistic talent is nestled in Vermont’s hills!
And then there’s the 23rd Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival being held Saturday and Sunday at the Tunbridge Fairgrounds. There will be shearing and border collie herding exhibitions, knitting and felting workshops, spinning contests and plenty of cozy sheepy products for sale.
And don’t forget to check out the variety of artwork on the block at Highwater heARTS on-line auction that is raising flood relief money for the Vermont Foodbank. The bidding ends Saturday at noon.
This is one of my original and signed monoprints that I donated for the cause, called “Rebirth”.
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Wanting to play off the black and white Holsteins that dot the Vermont landscape, I gave her a clean graphic look by substituting the Holsteins black blotches with lace motifs. This turned out to be a good idea, as painting the detailed lace was very time consuming; if she were covered entirely with lace – my first concept idea – I’d be cross-eyed and still seeing black and white! I finished her beautifcation program with a shiny red hooficure!
