April Gavin Art

I have a few different projects to share this time. As you can tell by the title, I'm super excited about sharing my first project. ...

Greetings, For those of you who couldn't be there, I wanted to share last weekend's adventure with you. It was a very mellow and nice...

https://flaxart.com/stores/workshops-events/ The link above proves that it's real. I'm really doing this next weekend from noon to four....

Greetings, Weird of me to have two posts so close together, but I wanted to share with everyone the event I did this past Thursday at...

Just in case you forgot the song - here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VH6yD8zobM It's been such a long time since I've posted...

Greetings, Now that all the audits for my non-profit clients are complete and before I go into summer camp mode, I wanted to update...

Greetings, Yesterday was the last meeting of the drawing class I shared with y'all last time. I'm going to miss participating in this...

Drawing - I hear a massive shudder among artists and non-artist alike. This winter I took a drawing class in order to improve my ability to

Greetings, I've been getting ready for Camp 510 this summer. They asked me to teach 3 weeks this summer. I will be sending out an...

Greetings, Sometimes, Scout relaxes long enough for me to make some art. He's up to 4 hours in the studio with a 30 minute walk...

Greetings, Last weekend I tried a new technique called Beeswax Collage. Beeswax acts as both the adhesive and the finish on a piece. I...

Greetings, It's been forever since I posted. I've had one of those times where crap just kept piling up. When I thought it couldn't...

Greetings, I know that many of you wonder what happens during a week of teaching at a summer camp. My vocabulary and jokes revert to...

Greetings, Over the weekend I took a fantastic class at Kala with instructor Elaine Chu. Elaine is a super enthusiastic teacher who...

Greetings, I taught sewing last week at Camp 510 to children 6-10 years old. I met some super enthusiastic sewists who keep me inspired...

Greetings all, I just recovered from teaching last week from teaching at Camp 510. I taught 12 students all female how to design,...

Greetings, It's been a month since I've posted anything. Mainly because I've been getting some new projects ready for my summer...

With each gourd, I try a new medium. This time I attempted oil paint sticks, inktense pencils, and Golden heavy-body acrylic paint. Too...

This was the most fun thing I think I've ever done in a long time. In my box of practice gourds was this large bottle gourd. I covered...

I'm very process oriented which might be another term for stubborn, but I'm not sure. If you tell me the stove is hot, I'm compelled to...