I’m residing on Madeline Island this week where I’m teaching “How to Paint Your Own Batiks”. The studios here are wonderfully creative places, and to top it off they keep our chocolate chip cookie jar filled to the brim. We attack that thing every day, but I sorta feel sorry for this little guy. He seems to be saying, “P-p-please don’t eat me”. Yes, it will truly make me pause for a second or two just before I swallow him.
WELL, HERE I AM AT MISA (Madeline Island School of the Arts). What a peaceful, creative atmosphere. I love coming here to teach my “How to Paint Your Own Batiks” workshop. It is for the entire week. No, I don’t just make it an entire week so I can spend a week on the Island! I love to send everyone home with a working knowledge of how to paint a batik from their own photographs. And so, although I don’t usually use a projector, this week we are more concerned with painting than we are with drawing. So, we use a really cool tool.
COOL TOOL
When I have a tight deadline – or when I have a class like this one where we want to concentrate on the painting and not the drawing – I love this projector. It’s not cheap. It costs around $600, I believe, but it is very cool indeed.
First off, look at how small this thing is. It fits in the palm of your hand!
Better yet, it weighs only 1 lb. You could take it anywhere. Stuff it in your purse, or the voluptuous could even put it in their bra!
You can access your photos several ways: Get them off a flash drive, or get them directly from your computer or camera. It is super convenient, but the best thing of all is that it projects an image that is crystal clear and color correct! You can go really big, too. For example, if you are wanting to do a mural on your grandson’s wall, this projector fits the bill.
The LED light will last a lifetime, so no other expense is involved once you purchase it.
The name of this projector is an Artograph LED500. You can find them at Jerry’s Artarama, or Dick Blick or
Amazon
I have a slightly older model, the Artograph LED300 which works beautifully, too. You may still be able to find one of these on Ebay or elsewhere. Here’s what it looks like close up. It’s slightly larger and heavier than the LED500, but it projects a wonderful image.
SO, EVERYONE HERE SAYS to say hello to all of you out there. As I peek out my bedroom window in the farm house, I see that some are still working in the studio. They turned out some beautiful batiks today, so you’d think they’d be ready for bed. But you know how it is when you are excited about what you are doing. I think I’ll go out there and join them.
Thanks so much for reading!
Kathie
So glad you are enjoying the island again. It was such a restful place to create. Brings back fond memories of a year ago. Wish I was there! Enjoy, relax, create!
Great place to do your workshop! Wish I would’ve been able to join you! Have fun!
Islands are wonderful! You get on that boat and leave all your worries behind. A perfect spot for you Kathie ,fresh air ,water and creative art with beautiful people. Have fun.
So glad that you are back to teaching. Batik has added much to my painting !
Is this in the U.S.? If so, what state. Maybe I missed that info in the article. Sorry to repeat if I did. Wherever it is, it looks and sounds like a fabulous place to relax and paint. What fun.
My LOVE to you, Debbie, and Sue!!! Wish I were there with you.
HUGS and hoping you are feeling GREAT!
There is a video on line of the model 500. Amazing.
Would love to attend be of those MISA batik work shops with you Kathie some day!!!!! Great to see you enjoying some fun stuff have a great time and I give you my permission to eat my share of cookies !!!!
So happy to hear you are up for a week of teaching what you love. Enjoy
Thanks Kathie for sharing your painting adventure with us. It sounds like a beautiful place to be. Also, the projectors sound like a great thing to have, especially if you’re on a short deadline. Hope the rest of your trip is a great one.
Me again, I have taken a number of your classes where we use a pattern, but I hope someday to get to take this class that walks us through using our own photos.☺
Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful batiks. Glad you are having so much fun – very relaxing. Love and hugs. 🙂
Looks like a beautiful place and a way to escape for a little while. Do you ferry over. How do you get there. Do take pictures and send us some. Like hearing from you. pk
Wish I was there ! Would love to learn how to do batiks from my photos. Have fun!
Great memories being at MISA with you! It has it’s own aura there on the Island and it’s very conducive to creativity. I bought myself a 500 for Christmas last year! Great tool. Hope everyone is relaxed and inspired!
Hi Kathie! I wish I was there, I had such a fun time last summer. But, I am having to pick and choose where I spend my fun money and am so looking forward to Tuscany. I am so glad that you are back in the driver’s seat an able to teach again! October is not that far away.
Beth
I am up here with Kathie having a blast doing batiks every day!!! For those who don’t know we are in WI, at Madeline Island School of the Arts, or MISA as everyone up here calls it. You need to take a ferry from Bayfield along with your car across to the island, then it’s just 11/2miles out of town to a wonderful place of retreat. We have internet but NO TV ! so paint all day long, go out for a nice dinner and paint until you drop if you want to,but you need some rest so you can paint all day again for a whole week! This is my second year here and I have loved it both years, just the ticket if the other trips are a little to much for you and you don’t need a passport we are still in the USA, but it feels a little like you are not. Make plans now for next August Kathie usually comes the same week. Christie
The yearning is turning me green!
I, too, am turning green with in you!! Hopefully I can make this trip next year! It’s on my bucket list, Kathie!!!
So glad you are enjoying your week!!