Clarissa Callesen Creator of Strange and Wonderful Things

SUMMER CLASSES! COME MAKE ART IN A SAFE FUN ENVIROMENT  View this email in your browser Hello Beautiful Humans, I know many of you have inquired about classes this year. I have spent the ...

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I am going to be teaching at ADAA for the first time this year. I have never taught at or even been to a conference that specialized strictly in dolls.  I am not quite sure what to expect but I...

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I will be teaching at the new Create retreat in Seattle Oct 22-26th.  I have several students that have inquired about when I will be teaching in Seattle. Well now is you chance!  I will...

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I had the best students at Art and Soul Portland 2014!  So much fun, laughs, and really good work done.  I love my Art and Soul family! Classes are up for Art and Soul Portland 2015 with early...

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I LOVE the look of peeling paint and worn out objects. One of my artistic objectives is to find the beauty amid the ugly.   Real life is not airbrushed models and perfectly photographed art stu...

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Sometimes commission work is the bane of the working artist’s existence, But this time I GOT TO MAKE A DREAM MIXED MEDIA ASSEMBLAGE AS A COMMISSION.  I remember the days of being a functional ...

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A grey cold day in the Pacific NW brightened by the unbelievable colors of the tulips in full bloom.  I have lived in this area for a long time and seeing the Skagit valley tulips is a very tour...

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My adventure in creating a giant art journal page the size of a mural in the inhospitable environment of Burning Man .  One of my art goals in this last year has been to start to work larger. I...

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Had a great group of people out to the studio to build bird out of junk. I love to see the great diversity of creations that happen.  Same instructions and same basic materials and such a creat...

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In the last weeks before blanket of snow we are currently covered with the weather was quite lovely and I enjoyed walking to work. My mom joined me a couple of days which made it extra nice ...

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> I am preparing samples for my upcoming class this weekend working > with the Art Doll format but incorporating sausage casings or gut. > Totally strange and fabulous ...

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Last spring I was approached by some wonderful people, Lisa Cooper and Dan McComb of Visual Contact to see if I would be interested in being a part of their Maker series of videos. I get a lot o...

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During the Christmas season I am just head down making art and selling art!  which I am super grateful for.  I even enjoy the kind of feverish pace at least for awhile. But with that said,  ...

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I am so happy with the spread of my art journal and article  published in Art Journaling Magazine Winter 2014.  Its on the stands now. Art Journaling is not my primary medium as you know...

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You know how to beat the cold dreary wish it was spring feeling? Come make art and learn new crazy fun techniques with me, Clarissa Callesen THE NEW YEAR CLASS SCHEDULE FOR 2014 All classes h...

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  Continuing on with sharing the finished pieces from my “Odd Birds” show in May.  Survivor was the largest piece in the show. She is a moth/ bird/ goddess creature.  She is surreal and ...

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Why do I go to Burning Man? Why do I return to that inhospitable, crowded (61,000 people this year), loud, dirty place? This year was my fifth time. My lungs, nose and eyes burn from the dust...

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So this is my first blogroll. Hope I do it “right”.  We are all teachers teaching at this falls Art and Soul in Portland, OR Sept 30th- Oct 6th. Visit each persons blog for more info, fun ...

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I want to share the good “official” photos of the big pieces I built this spring for the “Odd Birds” show.   I usually refer to this piece as “The Giant Bunny”.  However a lot of p...

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  This is a brand new class this year and it’s debut will be at Art Unraveled Bricologe : construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to...

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I want to share the good “official” photos of the big pieces I built this spring for the “Odd Birds” show.   This piece is affectionately called Junk in her Trunk   Junk ...

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  Somewhere in the craziness of the last month of traveling to VA and setting up a gallery show and window, I received this is the mail. One of my Steampunk Dolls was featured in the bri...

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It was such a pleasure to teach at Art and Soul in Virginia Beach , and now that I have slowed down and caught my breathe I want to share some of the fun and beauty. Lets start with the fact ...

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  So I have been working on some artistic fabric dying to make packets for the upcoming Art and Soul in Virginia Beach.   I really like the muted tones mixed with coffee stain to create an ...

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I will be teaching HAPPY HARPIES  in just a few weeks at Art and Soul in Virginia Beach  and there is still spots left in the class!!  Come play and make your own Harpy or maybe we should s...

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