This year’s Educator's ArtLab at KCAI did not disappoint! I think I worked *even harder* this year (physically, at least) than I have in previous years… definitely feeling the labor in my hands and wrists now! Before this week, I essentially knew how to make a basic piece of felt (and attach the pieces with needle felting), but now I know all kinds of techniques. Deep gratitude to Marie Bannerot McInerney for the excellent instruction!

Paddling out on Lady Bird Lake to see the bats' exodus from the Congress Avenue Bridge

Waiting in line for Leroy and Lewis BBQ in Austin

I can't resist catching people on their phones... as I photograph them with mine

It's raining men

South Congress in Ausin

The Blanton Museum of Art

I love these works by Eliza Naranjo Morse.

We ate at Kemuri Tatsu-Ya in Austin

A Texas Spiny Lizard we saw at the Zilker Botanical Garden

Mi Tierra Cafe y Panaderia in San Antonio - the most beautiful restaurant I've ever seen, anywhere

Corpus Christi

Pelicans

Mustang Island, Port Aransas

Graffiti in Dallas

 

We drove across Texas and saw so much in just a week - we spent time in Waxahachie, Austin, San Antonio, and Port Aransas. It's been a lot to digest. It all feels like a blur now that it's over.

 Framed some of my wet cyanotypes. I love them.

Salt and Stars. Watercolor and Ink on Arches paper.

The prairie really feels like the ocean sometimes in all its expansiveness. As above, so below.

No ticks! How do I do it? Honestly, I have no idea. I saturate myself with bug spray, of course, but just a couple of weeks ago I was hiking with my husband and he got several dozen while I got zero. I like to joke that the prairie protects me.

Goat's Rue

I observed this mushroom daily for about a week (until we couldn't put off mowing the lawn any longer, haha). It was so interesting to see it transform through growth and decay.