Anne Shulenberger has created another little book using an old leather checkbook cover with collaged pages inside. The title is "Waves / Motion / Emotion" and two different sorts of waves are featured in it. The section of tan pages shows people waving their hands (including 2 children wearing surgical masks). The section of blue pages has photos of ocean waves. There are also words in each section: some phrases and some verses.

Carol Medina's pictures are below - some photographs taken on her rambles around Rossmoor and one artwork (bottom right). She says about the artwork: "it is simply  crayon scratch board.   I am sure many of you have done it in grade school.   I gave it as an assignment many a time in my classes with the little ones.  Also think I gave it to the adolescents and even once in a while to my adult classes .  I always thought it was kinda fun and the kids liked it......."

FYI - here's how you do it: Put layers of various different colors of crayons onto a piece of paper, then a layer of black crayon over everything. Scratch a design with a sharp instrument through it, to reveal the colors. (It will have a black background, of course.)

Terri Snyder has been making a large cylindrical vase, as well as experimenting with watercolors and rubber stamps on  cards. Nice work!

And Albert Goldreich has been making more of his colorful & highly textured vases, in his studio in Texas. Inspiring!

Theresa Kuo has spent a lot of time sewing masks recently (below left are a few of them). She asked us to tell you that any CAC members who do not have a mask can contact her to request one.

And Pat Hanscom's photo of "my most recent bread effort" is below on the right. Looks good enough to eat!

Fred Chen reports "I hope many of our ceramic artists saw the super moon on 4/7.  If you missed it, here a couple of pictures for your perusal." Wow - almost as good as being there.

Below are 2 views of “Pastel,” Patty Taylor's latest beautiful sculpture, which she created at home during the shutdown  It is 13" in height, and sits on a base that's another 6" tall (the base was fired in last year's Pit Fire). The clay is B-mix with grog, and she applied terra sigliatta and stain colors to the surface when the piece was leather hard. Now it's ready to be bisque fired. Patty says "I may either Pit fire or Raku the sculpture."

Anne Shulenberger has used her tablet & several different apps to make a some digital "prints" from photos of flowers taken around Rossmoor. On the left is a clump of narcissus; on the right are poppies.

Darryla Green says "My patio is now a dyeing workshop. Here is a testing sample - I used local plants over madder root on the fabric." (left photo below)

Maggie Michelitch made a wonderful long scarf (shown below on the right) with the help of YouTube videos. There's no end to what you can learn while sheltered at home!

Barbara Wightman reports, "I have a lot in Rossmoor’s garden and I wanted to start seeds at home. I didn’t have any pots, so I made them out of my neighbor’s newspapers. I eventually made 70 pots (shown below on the left) - and all the seeds sprouted!

"The photo on the right shows what I did with some of my scrapbooking paper. I decided to clean out a closet and saw my stacks and stacks of scrapbook paper and wondered what to do with them. So I made some envelopes and then matching cards (unfortunately,  I still have stacks and stacks)!"

Sandy Walker sent us these two "pictures of my quilts that I've been working on during this stay-at-home time." Wow - they're wonderful.

Albert Goldreich (still in Texas, alas), has been making some lovely textured vases, 3 of which are shown below.

Phil Kramer has been constructing a small totem pole with individual pieces that go together, all mounted on a pole (below left). It was started before our closure and he's been adding more to it at home. Can hardly wait to see it once everything is colorfully glazed and high fired!

Meanwhile we can see how Drue Kramer has been "filling time waiting to return to the studio (photo on the right).  I made the ceramic hat bases in the studio, then decorated them at home with a bunch of craft dough flowers that I made several years ago, and hot glued them all together. These are tiny tiny (and don’t fit my model, sadly)."
No matter - they are terribly cute, aren't they?

Barbara Wightman has been very creative during this time - very inspiring, and all done while recuperating from surgery. Have to say it again: you can't keep a good woman down!

In Barbara's words, "In the first photo (below on the left, with hand painted envelope), I did a watercolor seahorse for my granddaughter’s birthday.  She graduated from UC San Marcos (about 30 miles north of SD) and has decided to make her life around that most beautiful part of our state. She’s into everything and anything that has to do with the beach and sea critters.  I chose a seahorse because the males do the pregnancy thing and have the babies. I’m not sure, but it may be the only species where the females get a break from bearing the kids."
And on the right: "I made a wreath for my front door. I go walking on our 18-hole golf course every day for about 2 miles (yes, the hip has healed nicely!). I came across a huge eucalyptus limb that had crashed to the ground right next to the path. So for the next day’s walk, I took my clippers and a basket and helped myself to loads of branches. I made quite a mess of my dining room table and carpet, but I did manage to come up with a wreath for my front door. The leaves will eventually dry and curl, giving another effect."

Darryla Green has been sketching with sumi ink and brushes lately. The picture on the left below is of a landscape near her home, done with a brush she bought in Japan last summer. On the right are some of her own hand-made brushes with local gathered seeds.

Below are some ceramic pieces made BEFORE the shutdown. On the left are a selection of Theresa Kuo's wonderful hand-painted bowls, and on the right is a stack of colorful bowls by Nancy Meaden. Just below the bowls are four of Nancy's lovely hand-painted cups.

Albert Goldreich sent us a photo of one of his beautiful vases (left photo). He's currently at work in his studio in Texas, but hopes to be able to come back to California soon, which is good because we really miss him!

[NOTE: on the right is Lucia's book - see below for more information about it]

Lucia Tsang has made an amazing hand-bound book while sheltering at home (see photos above). It has a Coptic binding (her favorite kind), which allows it to lie flat when opened. She used a curved needle and waxed thread to bind it.
 
Lucia says "The book's title is 'WE' - inside I will write down some simple stories about my husband and me.  The shadows on the front cover are mine and my husband's. It will be kind of like a simple 'family tree' book." She wrote the title (in both Chinese and English) on separate clear acetate sheets that protect the front and back covers, which are mono-prints. The covers are made of printmaking paper; the 44 interior pages of drawing paper.

Bella sent some pictures of her tulips and one of the masks she's been sewing. Beautiful!

Fred Chen says "No wheel to turn, no pot to throw, so I turn to bird watching. Keeping the feeder well stocked becomes my daily chore."

Look at those wings - what a great sense of motion!

And from Mel Bricker: "I'm enjoying the creativity of nature interfacing with the pots I created in the studio.  It is wonderful to be greeted by both the plants and pots, although the pots are a little hard to see through the foliage. Here are photos of two of our favorite plants that are really blooming right now."

(They look great - but it's too bad we can't see the pots better. They looked really good before anything was planted in them!)

On the left, Terri Snyder with some more of her ceramic works-in-progress - looks like she's having fun! And on the right is a new sculpture that Gaby Miller has started at home. She said it's the first time she's tried making a head, which is quite impressive!

Below are two acrylic paintings by John Rose. On the left are the Hills of Rossmoor. The landscape on the right was done while watching a demo on YouTube  - he said that he used a palette knife on the tree. Very nice work!

Chrissie & Hank Fabian each have made some lovely and unique garden ceramics - Hank's is the one on the left, while Chrissie's sculptural pot is on the right.