Roseburg Oregon Bliss

I'm finally getting around to blogging about my adventures! I must say I  had the best of times when I taught at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association last weekend-I taught Watercolor Florals and Words and wow-the work produced was amazing-why am I still amazed at the incredible quality of work thats produced? I am so so lucky to be there when I see artists get that AHA! moment and gain confidence to take leaps of creativity! I drove down from Seattle where I visited my daughter and the Incredible Sarah. I was so lucky too to have Sarah take care of my hair at the Gary Manuel Salon-she is so talented a stylist-anyone in the Seattle area who needs a wonderful hair person she's the one for you! ( Email me or leave a comment for info on that!) 

 I stayed at Diana Brown's BEAUTIFUL House with her and her hubby Steve -the LA transplants live on a river with huge views of paradise only feet away from their back door. Diana is the ultimate hostess and so organized! You should see her studio! I have tons of pictures on the flickr account( at right) -you'll have to scroll back a bit for Oregon,-without Diana the class would not have happened and I am so grateful to her for all her hard work-I hope to return someday soon! ( Ive put up my local class first which I will be blogging about tomorrow!) 

My dads funeral was yesterday at Riverside National Cemetery and I think he would be proud-he got a 21 gun salute and full military honors finally! Rest in Peace Capt. Engelbrecht-yours was not a perfect life and I think you did the best you could as a father that was at sea half the time

So my life has been as they say cray cray an I m hoping to get back to normal soon-whatever that could mean!

What I did on my Summer Vacation!

KATHERINE AND RYAN ARE MARRIED!

KRISTIN AND I CELEBRATE OUR BIRTHDAYS AT BOLSA CHICA!


DONALD JACKSON WRITES AT THE GETTY!

TOO much to list-but highlights include-New Mexico/ Ghost Ranch trip. Reunion committee, Kristin and Lisas birthday at the beach!, My Niece Katherines beautiful wedding-aaaaand also Donald Jackson at the Getty writing on camera!! Tomorrow I'm off to Colorado to Fort Collins to teach at Scrap2It! I betcha you could still sign up if you're feeling super spontaneous! ( Teaching a one day Letterista Class) Next week to Seattle and Roseburg Oregon for Watercolor Flower Journal at the Umpqua Arts Center ( sorry this one IS sold out!) I hope to be better on blogging this month-so much happening!

ARTISTS GIVE BACK!

Hello! I know its been awhile-but cray cray summer is happening-getting ready to hit the road soon but I wanted to let you know about this cool deal. ( thats me in the corner....)

This is ripped from my friend Jenn Mason's blog-I am so happy to be included in this fundraiser-so I thought you might want to check it out!

The September/October issue of CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS which features our “We Made This” article is already arriving at reader’s homes. The article is filled with art donated by our 2012 contributing artists and CREATE Art Retreat Instructors (and there are even more pieces on line) to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

The Magazine is very excited to open our Etsy shop! We will officially open on August 28th for your art-shopping pleasure.

Now in the NEW Cloth Paper Scissors!Besides the 41 lovely pieces of art, we will also have a very special collection of Cloth Paper Scissors Pretty In Pink Peerless Watercolors available for $10 a set.

If you’ve never been lucky enough to try these watercolors before, let me tell you about them. They were developed by Charles F. Nicholson in 1885 (aka they stand the test of time!). After a lot of research, he developed a color film, or paper leaflet (now called DrySheets)—essentially watercolor paint on paper. 122 years later, the process remains the same. And Chris Mode, only the 4th person to obtain the original formulas, has put together this fantastic set of pinks just for us. The pinks range from purplish pink and magenta to a deep reddish pink hue.

Again, the store officially opens on August 28th. If you stop by now, you’ll see a vacation sign, but you can leave your email so that you receive a message as soon as the store opens. Thanks for your support!

FALL PREVIEW PART DEUX!

For some reason blogger will not let me post my entire schedule-so her we go agin-will try to add links-oh and SORRY for the stupid banner ads-Im trying to stop them-Im sure if I pay some premium rate I can get them gone

so.... this is

WHERE I LIST ALL MY NEAT FALL CLASSES IN HUGE HOPES
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN ME!
I have so many fun fun classes planned for this fall-I am so excited to teach every one of them and I get to go to exotic places to do it! ALSO a local SoCAl class too!
I hope I can cover this all-and give you all the links to sign up ! Please email me at lengelbrecht@earthlink.net if you have any questions-most classes are excellent for any skill level-the only hindrance would be if the class were full-Oh NO! dont let that happen to you!

SEPTEMBER 8 & 9 -SCRAP2IT, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
Saturday Sept. 8- Letterista Style Lettering
Sunday Sept.9- Watercolor Flowers-Simplified!
Contact Ranea now at www.scrap2itstore.com

SEPTEMBER 15 &16- UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS CENTER , ROSEBURG, OREGON
Sign up here at www.uvarts.com
Watercolors and Words
An Umpqua Valley Floral journal

In this class you'll learn easy and fun techniques to create beautiful watercolor florals mixed with calligraphic journal hand lettering.. Learn new techniques to render Umqua Valley flowers and leaves while you give voice to the experience by writing your impressions, thoughts and feelings using easy calligraphic writing.


SEPTEMBER 23 SOCIETY FOR CALLIGRAPHY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REGIONAL PLAYDAY
MEETING & PRESENTATION: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. • PLAYDAY (registration required): 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. San Fernando Valley meeting location TO BE ANNOUNCED
Here you’ll discover innovative styles of calligraphic lettering using hand-made tools. Try new calligraphy pens and discover how to make cool letters with tools you already have! We’ll explore scratchy, scrawled, and built-up extreme lettering with influences of traditional calligraphy, urban calligraphy and street art. We’ll explore graffiti influences with non-toxic, no-smell spray tools. No lettering experience necessary; beginners more than welcome! Sample book provided for further play.
Contact Jann Marks at callijann@aol.com



OCTOBER 13 & 14- MYSTICALLIGRAPHERS-MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT
www.calligraphyconnecticut.org or contact Barb at blrpen@comcast.net

THOROUGHLY MODERN SCRIPT LETTERING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Lisa Engelbrecht
Date: October 13-14, 2012 , Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Coastal Lodge/Grange building, Pequot Trail, Stonington.
Lisa is an enthusiastic and inspiring calligrapher from Long Beach, California who is interested in all types of letters arts from the traditional calligraphy to lettering on fabric, and new styles of funky letters.


NOVEMBER 3 &;4 HOUSTON TEXAS Houston Calligraphy Guild
www.houstoncalligraphyguild.org

CLASS SUBJECT STILL TO BE DETERMINED
contact Lynn Ayres at lynnayres49@gmail.com


NOVEMBER 9,10 & 11 SAN DIEGO FELLOW CALLIGRAPHERS
SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA
Brush Lettering
CONTACT Rose Smutko at roses_in_sd@fastmail.fm.
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Rancho Bernardo Swim & Tennis Club 16955 Bernardo Oaks Drive

You won’t want to miss stretching your imagination in this upcoming workshop, where Lisa will teach Brush Lettering. But, don’t be surprised if the workshop is so much more than that.


NOVEMBER 17-20 BOW VALLEY CALLIGRAPHERS
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA!
Two days of Lettterista Romans and Gothic
Two days of Bali Lanterns Lettering on Fabric
Workshops are held at St. Andrew's Heights Community Hall, 2504 - 13th Avenue NW, Calgary,
Contact http://www.bvcg.ca/p/workshops.html

IT"S THE FALL PREVIEW!

WHERE I LIST ALL MY NEAT FALL CLASSES IN HUGE HOPES
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN ME!

I have so many fun fun classes planned for this fall-I am so excited to teach every one of them and I get to go to exotic places to do it! ALSO a local SoCAl class too!
I hope I can cover this all-and give you all the links to sign up ! Please email me if you have any questions-most classes are excellent for any skill level-the only hindrance would be if the class were full-Oh NO! dont let that happen to you!



SEPTEMBER 8 & 9 -SCRAP2IT, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
Saturday Sept. 8- Letterista Style Lettering
Sunday Sept.9- Watercolor Flowers-Simplified!
Contact Ranea now at www.scrap2itstore.com

SEPTEMBER 15 &16- UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS CENTER , ROSEBURG, OREGON
Sign up here at www.uvarts.com
Watercolors and Words
An Umpqua Valley Floral journal

In this class you'll learn easy and fun techniques to create beautiful watercolor florals mixed with calligraphic journal hand lettering.. Learn new techniques to render Umqua Valley flowers and leaves while you give voice to the experience by writing your impressions, thoughts and feelings using easy calligraphic writing.


SEPTEMBER 23 SOCIETY FOR CALLIGRAPHY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REGIONAL PLAYDAY
MEETING & PRESENTATION: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. • PLAYDAY (registration required): 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. San Fernando Valley meeting location TO BE ANNOUNCED
Here you’ll discover innovative styles of calligraphic lettering using hand-made tools. Try new calligraphy pens and discover how to make cool letters with tools you already have! We’ll explore scratchy, scrawled, and built-up extreme lettering with influences of traditional calligraphy, urban calligraphy and street art. We’ll explore graffiti influences with non-toxic, no-smell spray tools. No lettering experience necessary; beginners more than welcome! Sample book provided for further play.
Contact Jann Marks at callijann@aol.com



OCTOBER 13 & 14- MYSTICALLIGRAPHERS-MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT
www.calligraphyconnecticut.org or contact Barb at blrpen@comcast.net

THOROUGHLY MODERN SCRIPT LETTERING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Lisa Engelbrecht
Date: October 13-14, 2012 , Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Coastal Lodge/Grange building, Pequot Trail, Stonington.
Lisa is an enthusiastic and inspiring calligrapher from Long Beach, California who is interested in all types of letters arts from the traditional calligraphy to lettering on fabric, and new styles of funky letters.

BIG DAY IN THE OC!

MUZEO CLASS, BIKE NATION AND BLACK BOOK SESSIONS!


A wonderful day of brush lettering at the new Muzeo museum in Anaheim-a beautiful place!


( By the way a great exhibit on the WORD , Ink and Blood is there-no not tattoos but the origin of the bible)

Students created Intention plaques and at lunch I enjoyed the street fair outside featuring Bike Nation-a very cool project that lets you rent a bike for a day or a month-and return it wherever there's a kiosk and there are hundreds across the nation!

Then off to Black Book sessions to marvel at create lettering types and chalk a little! So GO to my flickr page and check out the plaques, bikes and graff!

IT"S ME ON THE COVER OF SOMERSET STUDIOS!

Its here now!!
-on your newsstands and at JoAnns fabrics-the latest issue of Somerset features me on the cover and many pages of my work inside!
The great Rice Freeman Zachery did a super job of interviewing me and interpreting my answers to her questions-here's an little preview of the pages and the cover-I love that they used so many of my new works-my newest scribbly stuff! I am re-acclimated to LBC and starting to get my act together on fall classes-look for an announcement of a very special LOCAL class on the 22nd of July-here in Anaheim

Oh and please check out my new friend, Victoria from Sedona's blog on the Right-( Sedona artist) Shes just falling into this blog stuff and you'll like her work!

GHOST RANCH!

It was a wonderful 8 day trip with my daughter to Abiquiu New Mexico and the beautiful retreat center known as Ghost Ranch-there I taught Thoroughly Modern Script to my 8 wonderful new colleagues. What an experience and what a setting! I have tons of pictures up now on my Flickr Site ( on the right of this entry)-interspersed among the outstanding art work by the students is our side trips to Historic Route 66 sites like Seligman and Williams Arizona and the famous Here it Is Jackrabbit! We also visited Christ of the Desert Monastery and the Dar al Islam Mosque. This is Georgia O'Keefe country and you can see everywhere the mountains she painted. It was quite  hot week but the sunsets- oh my! I taught in the very same area as Nancy Culmone, Sherrie Lovler and Carol Pallesen-my new besties! I will label the pictures as soon as I come down from this trip high!

IT'S ME IN THE NEW ART QUILTING STUDIO MAGAZINE!

YES! It's here and in your bookstores-you can also order online at www.stampington.com I have an article in the On the Surface section showing neat ways to create texture with text and mark making. Here 's a pic of the magazine on the newstands-I still get such a rush when I see my name in print!

Currently rushing around getting ready for 9 beautiful days traveling to New Mexico for the Literally Letters retreat at Ghost Ranch! ROAD TRIP with my lovely daughter Kristin at the wheel! Look for tons of pics soon!

CREATE! Retreat in Irvine from Interweave

Shimmer and Bling Necklace!

Letterista Style!






SUCH A WONDERFUL CONFERENCE here close by in Irvine-I met the nicest people!
The first ( Long !) day was Letterista and also Modern Script! PLEASE go visit the flickr-site-Link on the right to see some of the wonderful work produced. I am so gratified to be doing what I do-It is the Best Job Ever-and I think I will always teach-somehow some way-oh and I have an idea percolating in my head for a Garden Studio day-a day of play, art, good food and wine! Yes?

On Sunday it was Shimmer and Bling Neclace and gold techniques -almost cancelled when I forgot the supplies necessary-Thanks so much to the intrepid Kristin ( my amazing daughter) for her early morning freeway dash and bailed me out big time! I don't think I'll do that again soon!!