Today thought I’d share some reflections and photos with you from last week’s Vision Board workshop held at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre (CCCC).
It was an absolutely freezing cold winter day (-32 degrees Celsius! brrrrrr) when five brave students made it out early Sunday morning to take my half-day workshop. I was glad to have a huge, bright, warm classroom for the day! I always carry tons of supplies, with me so my hubby Kevin helped me set up and assemble everything. Going up and down three flights of stairs with boxes is no joke – we got our exercise for the day! As a bonus, one of my students, Monika Seidenbusch and her husband Michael, came early and gave us a hand too. Everyone arrived, eagerly awaiting the class as well as a hot cup of coffee! We had a good time together and learned much from each other. Here are the pics…
Kevin relaxing after helping me set up.
Kevin my dear assistant – relaxing after carting supply boxes, setting up my laptop for various demos/music, running down to the Tim Horton’s for a coffee for me as well as sharing some thoughts about creating his own vision board with students. What a sweetie!
Monika working on her vision board.
Monika Seidenbusch, a talented mixed media painter (do check out her website), tries her hand at collaging a vision board. She had so many images and phrases gathered to form her dream of constructing an ideal studio/gallery/home space, I didn’t know how she was going to pull it all together! But she did – with amazing results… you’ll have to wait a bit to see it though… (!)
A student's vision board in progress.
Another student’s vision board in progress reveals a sense of humour… after some reflection they decided, as well as magazine images; they’d add other precious elements such as greeting cards from friends and photos – great ways to personalize a vision board.
Olive working on her vision board.
Olive Jones knew exactly what she wanted to do with her second vision board; she brought all kinds of extra supplies and tools to personalize it. In a previous class with me her first vision board, composed mainly of images, focused on diverse areas of her life; now she wanted her board to be more project-oriented.
Olive, always the rebel, mixing things up!
Olive’s first vision board was total collage. This time she mixed things up by adding rubber stamping and drawing elements – I love the way she’s expanded the project to include her own favourite techniques.
Detail of Olive Jones' vision board.
A glimpse of Olive’s final vision board with lists of the projects she’d like to focus on. Everything is nicely organized and compartmentalized: that’s her library and research side making its appearance! I’ll be posting more thoughts on her unique “list-related” vision board in the near future.
Detail of Monika Seidenbusch's vision board.
Wow!!! – A tantalizing detail of Monika’s vision board. She’ll be sharing some thoughts with us about creating this one in the near future.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope these little glimpses into our workshop inspires your own vision board dreams. If you’d like to share any of your thoughts or reflections on these boards or your own, please drop me a line.
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