Two great views, and another great way to keep on creating even when I’m away from home.  I am beyond blessed to be able to spend November in this beautiful place, and this year the weather couldn’t have been more perfect.  The atmosphere is certainly a bit less fraught than it was this time last year, though to be honest, “isolating” in an oceanfront condo isn’t much of a hardship.

As the last post showed, I packed quite a variety of playthings to bring with me, but I had another plan in mind as well.  A couple of month ago I enrolled in the Process and Possibilities e-course by Cordula Kagemann (@cordula.kagemann).  She is a collage/mixed media artist from Germany that I have been following for a while.  Her work is layered but feels calm,  elegant and almost spare.  It was quite a treat to sit on the beautiful patio by the beach and watch these well-crafted lessons.  You might be able to see from the title card that her surroundings couldn’t be more different – the rural German countryside, which serves as her inspiration.  The large oak trees frequently appear as image transfers in her work.

The course is a relatively new offering from Fiber Arts Take Two (@fiberartstaketwo), one of many platforms to emerge and join with more established on-line portals over the past couple of years.  I do love an in-person workshop, but I’m so grateful for this upside to the whole pandemic downside – teachers and inspiration I would otherwise never be able to learn from.