The charm of John C Campbell Folks School

Keith House

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Keith House is also a dorm. Upstairs two large bedrooms that are so cozy reminding me of the Waltons tv show with single beds and dormer windows...SIX beds in one room for the ladies!! Another large room for the guys.

Hubbel House - My dorm

An interesting round two story building...the window on the right was my room the left my house mate Cindy's. The rooms were not square...even the hallway ran at an angle...as my friend Rebe would have said the house is slatendicular...that means slightly OFF in Charlestonian! We slept like the proverbial rock! Having fun, doing art and eating is hard work!

The view from my dorm Hubbel House

...this is the Woodturning Studio with the green roof and the red building is the Art Studio where my class was

Another dorm - Mill House

Our view from the dining hall

Yet another dorm near the Blacksmith Studio

Spring House

I think this is a very small studio...

such a charming building

I think this is the Maintenance Building.

The JCCFS campus is so large part of the time you are wandering around wondering WHERE that building is that you just visited. Thank goodness for the handy maps they gave us!!

Orchard House Dorm

Wonderful fence

from the Dining Hall down to the Craft shop

Each Section is different

A wooden bowl

Dawn near Keith House...

we had to be early risers so we didnt miss those delicious breakfasts....JCCFS is famous for its granola.

Rainy Day at JCCFS

Lots of yahd (yard) art

No doubt made by the blacksmithing classes

which are nationally reknown for their teaching

Art studio Sign

I need one!!

The mouse wall

Near the ceramic and woodcarving studios..

.a collections of bits that people leave for the mice..

added to from time to time...such fun

View towards the Blacksmith shop from Orchard House

The awesome quilt studio...

dont we wish we had this room?!

A close up of the snake!

I think i have to make one of these for over the den sliding doors...a shorter version?! Or it could wrap around the kitchen and den?!

The new Blacksmith Studio.

Very cool

LOVE the hammer suspended from the arch

and the anvils supporting the columns...throughout the building there were many blacksmith extras like huge beams carved on the ends with anvils, a wrought iron staircase made up of work of many different blacksmiths...each balaster was different.

The old barn and blacksmith studio

Eagle under the eave of Keith House

Made by the blacksmiths i am sure...

there were hand wrought iron touches all over the campus

Enameling and Ceramic Studios...

also where glass mask class was

Friday nite Concert

The last nite there is a concert with a live band. This is a Blue Grass band and of course I can NOT remember the name of it. Before they were done a huge storm hit turning the lights out...we spent the rest of the evening out on the back porch of Keith House rocking and laffing and watching the storms blow over the mountains...GREAT evening!

Chocolate and good company with an awesome view...what else can a girl ask for?!

John C Campbell Folks School - Warm and Cool Class

Keith House

Just back from a most wonderful week at John C Campbell Folks School in Brasstown NC near Murphy. Fun times with several new BFFs...my dear Lorraine and Joann and funny Steve and dear Cindy and so many other wonderful people from all over the country and Canada....

Best food...we ate alot but I actually lost weight...hmm portion control and healthy food...Music and nite or paint your heart out...

A great class with such knowledgeable teachers

Ken and Bobbi Umbach

Mixed Media Painting and glass...warm and cool...I am now plotting return trip for his watercolor class...he reminds me of my favorite professor Freeman Schoolcraft. So knowledgeable and skilled at all things painting and collaging. His wife Bobbi the queen of glass!

Opening Doors

Ken got us off to a great start. They had five easels set up with a different color canvas on each one. Each of us rotated painting something different on each of the five canvases. Two diagonals one time, a cross another time, whatever we wanted for example. This was mine. It looked like doors so I enhanced it. I thought doors were kind of an appropriate symbol for the week that followed...odd how things happen.

I still want to go back and add some words to it but so far not quite done!

Spring on the River

Next we folded crumpled and glued down tissue paper on canvas and then had to paint it...this is what i came up playing with the transparency of my golden paints.

Blue Ridge I

Around lunch time I got the bright idea to fold the paper as mountains...this was my first attempt...still playing with the transparency of the Golden acrylics Thalo Blue, Hansa Yellow, Pyrrole Red, Quin Magenta and Quin Nickel Azo Gold.

Blue Ridge II

My second attempt at the mountains. I like this one better because they dont line up vertically. I think i took off more paint while doing these than i left on...mopping with a paper towel the whole time.

Moon Over the Blue Ridge

My next bright idea...we were supposed to be combining the glass with the pictures which i was not getting...then i realized i could add a moon to a nite scene and I was off down the adding glass trail. Bobbi was sweet enough to make the moon for me at home with some silver on the back. It really glows.

Spring trees II

If you know me you know that I have an ongoing romance with all the all oaks in my neighborhood...and spring is blooming along the rivah...I just love the leafless tree skeletons...and the soft reds and greens of early spring.

Coral Reef

Next on tap was citrasolve...spraying national geographics with citrasolve...WHAT fun and WHAT fantastic papers it produces....Mine had a lot of triple and double spreads. This is one of the doubles with another page attached as the reef...I lightly painted it with Golden iridescent gold and some micaceous iron oxide...and of course painted the reef quin magenta mixed with the gold for more underwater glimmer.

Next i added the jellies to it..and a school of fish. The jellies are strings of glass that Bobbi kindly provided with a little help from our class glass queen Martha Vann who had the pile of light purple ones...hours of gluing with E 6000 later...it was done.

Angel

The angel was made from another citrasolve double spread. The pages had stuck together and when i pulled them apart...it looked like angel wings...even had a space for the angel in the middle...I lifted color for the hair in the middle with more citrasolve...enhanced it with iridescent gold and purple some pit pens and then some gorgeous deep purple by golden. Next came the drips...LOVE those drips ...iridescent gold, micaceous iron oxide...Golden of course!!

I had squirreled away a lovely piece of glass nugget that was pale purple iridescent...just the thing for my angel to hold.

My favorite piece of glass...actually about 2" square!

Fish

You will never guess what the water is made from. I had been saving all my paint rags aka old paper towels all week...my table was a wreck with bits of saved papers and towels and tea bags...but as i was cleaning up I found this fabulous paper towel. I glued it down just as i found it...added a couple of extr

a fish leftover from the coral reef...VOILA a great fusion of paint and glass!

Oak Leaves from Keith House Parking Lot

I picked up 6 oak leaves one rainy morning and flattened them in a JCC class listing book. When old dried leaves are wet they can be reflattened to glue onto things. I have a whole telephone book of leaves that i collage on to art work. The background of this is on a wood cradle. I glued two sheets of citrasolved National Geo down...then added some more citrasolved Geo to make the cruciform. Then added 6 leaves...a nice remembrance of a wonderful place!

Hmm more leftover glass bits ...love the big squares and the smaller dicroic glass on black and clear glass...I do have some ideas on what to do with some of them...stay tuned!!

Our class Show N Tell on Friday

Bobbi and Ken

Blue Ridge III

More tissue paper glued down to form mountains. OOPS I forgot to use the transparent golden paints...i may have to veil this one

with more tissue paper and have another go at it...