Monday 30 January 2017

After School Art Classes


With the new year well under way, I'm now accepting enrollments for my 2017 term one art classes.

I'm really looking forward to the classes this term, with an exciting range of activities planned. The theme is nature, using botanical drawing as a starting point. We'll be sketching, using oil pastels and working with wool - dyeing it and then wet felting.

Things are happening a bit differently to normal because I currently have renovations under way at my house. Instead of teaching in a building site, I've been offered a space in Korokoro Wednesday afternoons. The classes are staying small, and the space is lovely (Thanks Libby!).

The class is for children aged 7 and up. The cost is $200 per child for the whole 10 week term. All materials are provided. The classes run from 3.30-5 p.m.

If you'd like to enroll your child please email me at dorapapersart@gmail.com or call 027 407 5098

If you'd like to know a little more about my teaching, read this post or email/call me.

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Literature for you ears




My book earrings are real mini books, with readable text (mostly poetry) inside. I get a lot on questions about the range of book earrings I make. This page has a few of the answers, but do get in contact if you have more questions, or would like to purchase some.

These earrings are my own design, the covers are my own marbling, and I also hand stitch the books in a simple book binding. 


Covers
Because the covers are hand marbled the range of colours I have available is constantly changing but I do always have a wide range of colours available - just ask for details, or tell me a few colours and I'll let you know what I have on hand! I also am happy to make custom colours, but do allow a month to get the marbling done.  

Text
I can make custom poems, but like the custom marbling, it does add a bit of time (normally a week). Below is a list of poems I have ready to make. Ordering from this list with an already marbled cover means your order will take no more than 10 working days to complete. If you want a pair in a hurry I do have a range made up already for immediate postage.



Shakespeare Sonnets 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 56, 104, 105, 116, 129, 130
Emily Dickenson - Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Lewis Carroll - The Jabberwocky
Rudyard Kipling - The Thousandth Man
Song of Solomon 4:1-7
William Ernest Henley - Invictus
Catullus - Viviamus mea Lesbia
Robert Frost - The Road not Taken