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Monday, June 18, 2012
The Next Craft Cafe - THIS Sunday, June 24th, 7 - 9 PM
Hi Everyone!! It is time for the next Craft Cafe...
Calling all green thumbs…the next Craft Cafe project is a small indoor/outdoor herb garden. Herbs are easy and fun to grow, good for your body (aid in digestion) and give all of your meals that extra pizzazz. This is an awesome project for those of us in the Rockies that find a hard time growing herbs outside with our limited growing season. Herb gardens are perfect for small spaces too, and are a lot of fun to create, so bring your kids. Any old pots, vintage milk cans, tin cans or interesting glassware would be great options to recycle into cute herb garden containers.
This workshop is on Sunday, June 24th, 7 - 9 PM, Wild Flour Cafe in Banff (211 Bear Street in the Bison Courtyard)
Cost: For $30 you can pick a clay pot, stones, organic soil & fertilizer, 3 organic herb choices (options will include mint, thyme, parsley, sage, basil, oregano, rosemary) and a few items to make unique herb markers and decorate your pot.
Please sign up and PAY at the Wild Flour prior to the class. Advanced registration only. Please contact Tiffany if you would rather register using Paypal or Interact E-transfer.
We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!
Contact:
Tiffany oldesage@hotmail.com
Sheena sheenz6@hotmail.com
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
It is Almost Time for CREATE Mixed Media Retreat
I am thrilled to be one of 30 instructors at the CREATE Mixed Media Retreat in Irvine, California, May 30th - June 3rd, 2012! This weekend, 23 of the instructors are participating in a blog hop. Their blog addresses are at the bottom of this post and I encourage you to visit their websites to see what they will be teaching at CREATE.
I am excited to embark on this California adventure, in the company of my amazing friend, Dea Fischer, who will be teaching two book art courses and also co-teaching photo transfer processes with me. If you love mixed media and are in the area, or if you would like to take a little vacation in Orange County, check out the 60 courses offered at this amazing retreat. There are courses in book making and art journaling, print making and surface design, mixed media stitch, collage and assemblage, mixed media jewellery... wow! The available workshops can be seen here. I will be teaching Fuji transfers, Fuji emulsion lifts, and Creating the Vision; Printing and Transferring Your Images. If you would like to know more please see examples and course descriptions below.
Fuji Emulsion Lifts
Ha Ling By Tiffany Teske
Ha Ling By Tiffany Teske
Fuji Emulsion Lifts (3-Hour)
Date: Saturday, June 2
Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
Instructor: Tiffany Teske
Price: $85.00
Materials Fee: $20.00
Looking for a new way to add your images to your art? Let Tiffany teach you how to make Fuji Emulsion Lifts using Daylabs & Polaroid cameras. Whether you are a skilled photographer or a novice you will learn how to turn your images into one-of-a-kind emulsion lifts that can be displayed on their own or used to enhance your mixed-media pieces. If you have experience with Polaroid emulsion lifts, this class shows you a similar way to work with a more readily available film. Participants will leave with up to 20 Fuji images, on watercolor paper, glass, and metal, to use in other workshops.
Students Should Bring: 90 or 140 lb hot press (smooth) watercolor paper in 4x5” pieces (up to 20), 4x6” prints of photographs to work with and/or 35mm slides, Acrylic gel medium (matte or gloss), a 1" brush for applying medium, any porous or non porous surfaces you would like to put an emulsion lift on (examples: shell, metal, mirror, glass, wood, fabric
Fuji transfer
By Tiffany Teske
Fuji Image Transfers (3-Hour)
Date: Sunday, June 3
Time: 9:00am-12noon
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
Instructor: Tiffany Teske
Price: $85.00
Materials Fee: $10.00
Do you use your own images in your art? Join Tiffany for an introduction to Fuji image transfers using Daylabs and Polaroid cameras. Whether you are a skilled photographer or a novice you will learn how to turn your images into one-of-a-kind transfers that can be displayed on their own or used to enhance your mixed media pieces. If you have experience with Polaroid transfers this class shows you a new (and different) way to work with a more readily available film. Participants will leave with up to 10 finished transfers on watercolor paper which can be used in other workshops.
Students Should Bring: 10 pieces of 90 or 140 lb hot press (smooth) watercolor paper cut into 4x5” pieces, 4x6” prints of personal photographs to work with and/or 35mm slides
Gel medium skin on glass
Maine by Tiffany Teske
Creating the Vision: Printing and Transferring Your Images (6-Hour)
Date: Friday, June 1
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
Instructor: Tiffany Teske & Dea Fischer
Price: $149.00
Materials Fee: $25.00
You've mastered the photography and you've created images you love. Deepen your layers of creative engagement by learning to incorporate images of your own creation into your mixed-media artwork. Join Tiffany Teske and Dea Fischer to explore fascinating image printing and transfer techniques that can be tricky to master effectively. You will create cyanotype or "sun" prints from negatives, and practice making gel medium skins and transfers, blender pen transfers, encaustic and heat transfers. You will produce several pieces during this workshop that you can take away to use in your work
Students Should Bring: Negatives (large format if you have them or know how to make them, but we will teach you); photocopies (not prints) of non-copyrighted or self-created material; soft gel acrylic medium; 1" soft-bristle paint brush, blender pen (a solvent-based art marker like Copic with no pigment, available from your art supplier); an old spoon.
If you would like to sign up for any of these courses, or would like to know more about CREATE, please go to the CREATE website.
The Create Mixed Media Retreat’s Meet the Instructors Blog Celebration Weekend:- Dawn DeVries Sokol: dawndsokol.c
- Helen Shafer Garcia: agavelatte.blogspot.com
- Jacqueline Newbold: djnewbold.blogspot.com
- Jane LaFazio: janeville.blogspot.com
- Jeannie P. Moore: Jeanniemooresblog.blogspot.com
- Jen Cushman: jencushman.wordpress.com
- Joanne Sharpe: joannezsharpe.blogspot.com
- Jodi Ohl: sweetrepeats.blogspot.com
- Leighanna Light: Thingmakerstudio.blogspot.com
- Lisa Engelbrecht: lisaletters.blogspot.ca
- Orly Avineri: oneartistjournal.wordpress.com
- Pam Carriker: pamcarriker.com
- Robin Dudley-Howes: robindudleyhowes.blogspot.com
- Sandra Duran Wilson: sandraduranwilson.blogspot.com
- Sherrie Drummond: sherriejd.com
- Sue Pelletier: suepelletierlaughpaint.com
- Tiffany Teske: tiffanyteske.com
- Kari McKnight-Holbrook: backporchartessa.blogspot.com
- Laura Mika: mikaarts.com
- Thomas G. Ashman: blacksheepartist.com/blog
- Bianca Mandity: Biancandm.blogspot.com
- Clarissa Callesen clarissacallesen.blogspot.com
- Kristen Robinson: KristenRobinson.net
Friday, March 23, 2012
Whyte Museum Photography Show - March 24th - May 22nd, 2012
Chateau Dreams
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
2 Exit
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
Deer Sky
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
Recycled Flowers
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
From the series Seeing Double: Reflections on Human/Nature in Banff
Original Polaroid Spectra Image (Double Exposure)
4x4" matted and framed 8x10"
$125
Friday, March 9, 2012
The Next Craft Cafe - Wire Jewellery with Kari Woo
Craft Cafe is pleased to announce an opportunity to make wire jewellery with Canmore, Alberta, artist, Kari Woo. You have the choice of making a necklace or bracelet or pair of earrings.
The cost is $25, which includes all supplies, instruction, coffee and cookies. Please sign up and PRE-PAY for this workshop at the Wild Flour Bakery in Banff (211 Bear Street in The Bison Courtyard) or request a Paypal invoice from me in a comment below or emailing oldesage@hotmail.com. By preregistering you help us to ensure we have enough supplies. It also insures your spot in this amazing workshop that is sure to fill up.
Wire necklace by Kari Woo
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CLASS IS ONE HALF HOUR LONGER THAN NORMAL AND MEETS FROM 6:30 TO 9 PM.
This workshop is being subsidized through the support of a Banff Community Grant, so it is being offered at a special price. Additionally, if you know of someone who would like to come to this workshop but who cannot afford to, please let me know.
Bracelet by Kari Woo
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Annual Homegrown Art Show in Banff
"Give Up All Preconceived Notions"
Collage
12x12"
By Tiffany Teske
SOLD
This is the fifth year I participated in Homegrown Art Show at the Banff Town Hall. It is a fun evening of food, drink, friends, art, and fun, in this amazing little community we call home. My piece sold to a very good friend of mine, which makes me very, very happy!
Food
More food...
Family...
Friends!
Monday, February 20, 2012
A Few Photos from the Opening of Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske: A Mixed Media Collaboration
Jenny Shea with her babe, Myself, and Jo-Annie with her babe
I am so behind on this but here they are; a couple of photos from the February 3rd opening of my current show at the Banff Public Library. There was a great turn out, considering there were four other major events happening that night in the Bow Valley. Jenny & I were so happy to welcome our friends to see our latest work. We received lots of great feedback and we sold four pieces at the opening. Jenny brought her new little boy, Luka, who was able to meet my friend, Jo-Annie's little girl, Olive. Fun was had by all! If you would still like to see the show, it will hang at the library through February 29th.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Mixed Media - Article in the Banff Crag & Canyon
A Fine Catch
By Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske
Mixed Media
12 x 9"
$125
I would like to thank Camara Miller for the awesome article that follows...
Mixed Media
By Camara Miller
As local artist Tiffany Teske walks around her
newly opened collaborative show at the Banff Public Library, she
contemplates aloud about the possibility of wax and photo transfers on
metals — techniques she has never tried before.
“(Jenny and I) are really just scratching the surface,” Teske said.
The two met a couple of years ago and immediately decided to collaborate.
“I’m drawn to metal,” Teske said, describing the inspiration that comes from working with another artist in unfamiliar territory, and in this case, developing a curiosity about working with metal.
Although the show has many solo pieces, the collaborative works had each artist making the background for a few compositions, then swapping to add onto the backdrop. Teske, specializing in photography, would then switch canvases with Shea who was creating a copper-work foundation. The pieces might have made another trip back to the original artist before each was complete.
For Shea, the process was a new experience.
“It was fun because I would see a story in one of Tiffany’s photographs and try to finish the story in my own way,” Shea said.
Teske emphasized that it really came down to trust. Both admit it wasn’t ideal to work in separate workspaces, but was the best way to work since both have young families.
While no initial themes were discussed, the show exhibits nature with a modern take on the classic subject. However, another theme that stands out is one of community. The library is an accessible venue and Shea commented that the opening last Friday led to some fantastic conversations about the works.
“Everyone will see something different in the pieces,” Shea said
The feeling must come naturally when you
think about how the images were made. While the workspace arrangements
may not have felt ideal, it developed some interesting art under the
circumstances. One would begin the story, the other would interpret the
beginnings and it would be passed back and forth. Instead of one uniform
intention behind the show, it was a collage compiled by moods if the
artist or stories from their own life.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Article in the Rocky Mountain Outlook about My Current Show at the Banff Public Library about Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske: A Mixed Media Collaboration
Blame It On The Rain
By Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske
Mixed Media Assemblage
12x9"
$125
The following article appears in this week's Rocky Mountain Outlook.
Metal Meets Photography
By Michelle Macullo
Pick-up
lines—we’ve all heard them.
And when they’re not rude, they’re usually
lame. ‘Don’t you know me from somewhere? Did we go to different schools
together? Can I have your phone number? I seem to have lost mine.’
But what’s the
line when a self-taught metal artist Jenny Shea and a professional
photographer Tiffany Teske repeatedly run into one another at art and
craft fairs?
‘Hey baby, wanna make art?’
That’s exactly what they did.
And during February at the Banff Public Library Art Gallery, everyone’s invited to see Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske: A Mixed Media Collaboration. An opening reception with both artists in attendance takes place tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 3) from 7 to 9 p.m.
The exhibit
features both individual and joint pieces. At its core is Teske’s
ephemeral photography and Shea’s patina-kissed, landscape-inspired
copper sheet work. The result is an unexpected flow and ease to it—like
to people sitting down, discussing the state of the world, while
finishing each other’s sentences.
“I like learning new things and not always doing my own thing in isolation,” Teske says. “Collaborating...pushes you to try other things.”
The joint works
suggest the two sat side-by-side as the pieces came to life, but such
was not the case. Juggling young families and life in general, the pair
decided to hand their respective portions off without instructions.
Instead, they relied on “trust and mutual respect,” to guide the
process.
“Here’s my stuff,” Shea asserts. “Decide what you want to do with it. Let’s do this and see what happens.
“And I knew she (Teske) was going to create something amazing.”
Shea says art
has taught her to go with how she feels—allowing the linear part of her
brain to come up with a rough plan, but listening to the metal and being
comfortable with what it offers.
“I’ll have an
idea in my head, but by the time I start working on a piece, it can
change,” she explains. “I have to let it go naturally.
“Sometimes after
I’m done, I’ll go to bed and decide I’m not happy with it. But I’ll
wake up the next day and know that it’s beautiful. I love the surprise.”
So now that their first collaboration out in the public domain, will there be a second for the artistic power couple?
“Absolutely,”
Teske smiles. “Jenny and I are only just getting to know each other and
what is possible together. I can foresee more than one other date in the
future.”
Shea couldn’t agree more.
“It’s nice to work with other people’s art,” Shea echoes. “I hope I get to do it again.”
For more information or to purchase a piece, please contact the artists directly at Jenny@themagpieroom.ca (Shea) and Oldesage@hotmail.com (Teske).
Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske: A Mixed Media Collaboration is on display until February 29.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
365 Days With Kiddos - #37 - Make "Stained Glass" Hearts Using Crayon Shaving
The first time my daughter used a crayon sharpener she got so into it that we decided to sharpen every crayon we own. This, of course, produced a large pile of crayon shavings. I seemed to remember using these in a craft when I was a child, and after thinking on it a bit, I remembered putting them between pieces of wax paper, ironing, and making "stained glass". This is a great way to recycle and upcycle your crayon shavings.
How to Make a Stained Glass Heart (or any other shape) With Crayon Shavings
By Tiffany Teske
For all ages (children will need adult supervision when using the iron)
You will need:
- crayons that need to be sharpened
- a crayon or pencil sharpener
- wax paper
- a cereal box cardboard for making a template
- an iron
- a dish towel
Optional - a table top or standing ironing board to iron on (we just ironed on the counter on top of the dish towel)
Optional - foil ribbon, glitter, confetti, or anything else you would like to add.
Instructions:
1) Create a template in the shape that you want the wax paper to be. We used a heart we saved from a box of chocolates from several years ago. You can preheat the iron now. We used it on a medium high setting since we ironed through the dish towel.
2) Cut two pieces of wax paper to a size that the template will fit onto.
3) Put the template on top of the wax paper and trace. Repeat on the other sheet.
4) Cut out the shapes along the traced lines.
5) Cut out pieces of ribbon to sandwich into your heart.
6) Place one of the wax paper pieces on top of half of the dish towel. Place ribbon snippets, crayon shavings, and any other optional items on top of the wax paper.
7) Place the other wax paper piece on top of the other. Fold the empty side of the dish towel over on top of the wax paper sandwich.
8) Iron, with the steam setting off, on top of the towel, checking from time to time to see if the crayon shaving are melting in the sandwich.
Iron....
Iron a bit more...
9) When the shaving have melted, remove the dish towel and admire your art work! Tape it to the window using clear tape.
Do you know a variation on this craft? If so, please leave it in the comment below. You could make these smaller, put them on a string, and hand them out as Valentines...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske: A Mixed Media Collaboration - Art Exhibition at the Banff Public Library, February 2012
Head/Heart
by Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske
Mixed Media Collage
12 x 12"
$150
Ocean Romance
by Jenny Shea & Tiffany Teske
Mixed Media Collage
12 x 12"
$150
I met Jenny Shea just over a year ago, at the Whyte Museum. We were both participating in a holiday art sale. I was instantly drawn to her beautiful pieces made with metal. Take a look for yourself at her website, The Magpie Room. She also liked my Polaroid transfers and we traded our art. I even bought one more piece of Jenny's work the next day. I had only just met her, but I was excited about somehow trying to combine our styles, for me to somehow use my images on her metal collages.
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