Creative Tips

I have taken on a new project and have started a free tip website called Creative Inspirations. I have always been interested in all books that talk about Creativity and Creative Coaches like Eric Masiel. If you have a creative tip you would like to share with my readers please email me at sorrell@creativechick.com. You will get full credit, so include your first name and where you live.

The whole purpose for this site is to help others when they have been boxed in and don't know how to start a project and need that creative spark. I know I have need prompts in helping me in my artwork and I am always getting asked "how did you do that?" or "where did you get the idea for that piece?". This is my solution is to creative a place to post creative ideas and hopefully get readers to participate too.

I hope you will join me!!!

cheers

susan

http://creativeinspirations.tipzu.com/

Little House-April news

Happy Spring Chicken!!

Little House Art Studios will be taking a vacation from teaching until later in the summer.

I will be teaching the Fiber Collage Workshop in August. I have two workshops set up.
The first one will be August 11th and 18th (Mondays) or you can take it on Saturdays August 16th and 23rd. I am trying to offer it at two different times this summer session.

My online classes will start its Spring/Summer Session in May.

Creative Chick Studios Online Classes

My classes are going to start in May after I come home from my teaching gig at Haystack in Maine. To read up on the descriptions on the classes follow this link to the class page.

Personal Symbols-Fiber Art

Student Example by Jane LaFazio

May 20th-24th

6 weeks/6 Lessons

$60.00 US

To sign up click here!

Fertile Earth-Mixed Media/Embroidery

Student Example by Caroline Commins

June 30- August 4th

6 weeks/6 Lessons

$60.00 US

This is my newest class I ran on Joggles this past Winter 2008 Session!!

To sign up click here!

Monoprinting on Fabric

Student Example by Connie Jenkins

July 17th-August 21

6 weeks/6 Lessons

$60.00 US

To sign up click here!

Just a reminder that I will be in Maine at Haystack School for Arts and Crafts, May 15-18.

I will be teaching a mini Personal Symbols class through the Maine Crafts Association.

There are a few more spots open for anyone interested in hanging out with me in the woods....Hopefully the Blair Witch won't be sneaking around out in the forest! And if she is, she better bring her own art stash or a good bottle of wine!

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My show at the Beet gallery is scheduled for May 2nd- May 31st. The reception is May 2nd from 6:30-9ish during the NoDa (North Davidson) First Fridays Art Stroll in Charlotte,NC. Click on the Beet logo for directions.

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Fiber Day at Folk Art Center-Asheville, NC

I will be participating in Fiber Day, May 10th at the Southern Highlands Craft Guilds Fiber Day. If you live close, this is a great way to meet a lot of cool fiber artists. I participated last year and was honored to be included in this group of talented artists. The hours are 10-4 and we will be in the auditorium of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Come out and meet my mother!! She loves coming to these shows with me and doing some shopping.

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That is it for this month's newsletter. I will post anymore class listings and information that pops up this month on the Yahoo site and my blog.

Have a great month!!!

cheers,

susan ;>

Fiber Collage Workshop At Little House Art Studios
August 16th and 23th (2 Saturdays)
Sign up by August 11th
or
August 11th and 18th (2 Mondays)
Sign up by August 7th

Time: 10-4 both days
Limit: 10 students

Cost: 120.00 plus supplies
(I will email you a list of the supplies once I receive your payment)

Fiber Collage Workshop

Susan Sorrell's Fabric Collage workshop is developed from the tradition of quilting and adding the creativity of art.

Taking scraps of fabric, appliqué, threads, beads and embellishments to open up a whole new world of possibilities for self-expression. Fabric collage can lend itself to be abstract, naive, complex or childlike. Designs can come from popular culture, sayings, songs, or stories.

This workshop is for all levels, and no sewing machine is required. Fabrics can be used clothing or bought from a store. Needle and thread are used like drawing tools to add details and color to a piece of fabric. Beads and embellishments make the piece glimmer and three-dimensional. There is no right or wrong way to do it, be experimental and make it as complex or easy as you wish. Think of it as a miniature quilt that has had “glamor" make over!!! The funkier...the better! You don't need any sewing skills; this is about expressing yourself with cloth!!!

Student Examples

Spring/Summer 2008 Events

Art Classes for Spring/Summer Session-2008



Funky Felt Pins-Susan Sorrell
$40.00 includes supplies
Date: June 14, 2008
Deadline to sign up is June 11th
Class limit is 10
Time 1-4ish

Info Contact Susan at sorrell@creativechick.com
or call (864) 233-8934

All payments are due one week before classes begin. :)

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Mosaic Bird Bath with Laura Aiken

May 24th 10-5ish
May 25th 1-5ish
Details to be announced
Contact Laura at 360-3811 or
laura@simplemosaics.com
www.simplemosaics.com

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Worry Doll Pins-Deane Johnston
Dates TBA
10-1 and 2-5
$30.00 included supplies

Deane with her students during a felt making workshop.

Beginning Felting 101-Deane Johnston
Dates TBA

The Children's classes are held Saturdays from 10-12.

50.00 plus supplies ($30.00 for supplies and book)

Call Deane Johnston for more details at (864) 294-8538

All payments are due one week before classes begin. :)

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A Time To Dye-Lynne Harrill
(Fabric Dyeing)
Date TBA 10-4:30
$50.00 plus 10.00 for supplies

Info contact: Lynn at lgharrill@charter.net

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PMC Silver Charms & Earrings Workshop-Anna Caddell
(Precious Metal Clay Beginners class)
Date TBA (one hour for lunch)
(4 students min.)
135.00 includes supplies

For more info call Anna at 864.346.9258

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Keep checking back for new dates for all of these classes and I will be adding new classes this Spring. Also, please sign up for my newsletter at www.creativechick.com

Photos from Open House

I took some photos of the rooms where the artists had their work displayed. We had a good crowd for the weekend and hope that we have more great shows in the future. :)

Susan Sorrell's artwork

Deane Johnston's felt making supplies

Deane's felt purses

Deane's jewelry

Another view of Deane's jewelry

Anne Taylor and Michelle Petty's artwork

Inside the Little House Studios

I wanted to post photos of a couple of the rooms, to give you an idea of that the inside looks like.

3 of the main rooms are painted Lavender. You can see Whoopi Doodle the Studio poodle guarding one of my art tables. :)

I have taken different angles of my painting room and design room. This is a view of the front of the room. The front door is on the right hand side of the window. My new windows came in last week, but haven't been put in yet.





I have 2 small fireplaces that have been bricked up,but you can still see them. So I am going to cover the opening with Black board to help keep the drafts out during the winter. This view is going into my kitchen studio.

My kitchen studio is painted a light teal blue
color. It has a wonderful old sink that is really deep. I pulled the old linoleum off of the floor and now it is use bare wood. I will paint the floors later on this fall with some funky designs. ;)

Also, I have a special place to the coffee pot!! It is a new one my mother bought for me as a "studio warming gift". I love this coffee favor call "Blueberry Cobbler". It smells so good!!

Here is a view of my easel with the beginnings of a painting. I started this painting about a year ago and I hope to get it done this year. ;)