I'm just back from a crazy busy week at
Artfest in
Port Townsend, Washington. What an incredible event
- I am already counting the days till I can return to my own version of heaven. Just a few quick snippets of day one here. The above picture is on the Bainbridge Island ferry, on our way to the Fort - really quite pretty weather, and that was a preview of the glorious days of sunshine to come. I was very lucky to carpool with some wonderful new friends to the event - you meet just the nicest people at Teesha and Tracy's events.
Two hours of ferry riding and navigating later - here's the
Fort Worden Commons! Time to get checked in and pick up our adorable goodie bags - these were very useful tote bags (for your grocery shopping) and water mugs that were incredibly handy for making sure you remembered to hydrate with all the swirl of gypsy art madness going on.
Ok, there was one hitch in the proceedings. The US postal service apparently sat on my box of paints that I shipped - with an explosion of gesso as a result. Yes, that was me cleaning gesso of of EVERYTHING in the bathroom of dorm 225 for an hour or so. I did have lots of tea and sympathy from my fellow artists though, and the use of a scrubby sponge. Everything pretty much got cleaned up, and I learned a valuable lesson about the powers of ziplock bags. Lesson: use bags for paint! And,
Akamai Art Supply to the rescue - one tub o' gesso later, I was all set again. Yay Akamai!
After the opening meeting, I went for a quick walk on the beach - this is what the
real Twilight in Washington State looks like. Nary a vampire in sight... More of the story soon!
