Amazing Class-Donna Downey

       I wanted to share my amazing class I took last week with Donna Downey mixed media artist and international teacher.

       This is what we made...it's pan pastel on canvas board.  I took the class with my youngest
 daughter.  My oldest daughter is the studio manager for Donna and set me up for the class. 
 I have to say Donna and her husband Bill are the most fun and friendly people!!

Me, Donna and M, who is really that tall.....6 foot!!  

My canvas looks more like the original and M did her own artistic thing....I like hers better of course!!!  

Here is Donna's  bio....and her blog is great too.  She does Inspiration Wednesday video every week and 
they are amazing...you have to check it out.  

Donna Downey is a bestselling author, instructor and all-around creative force as a mixed-media artist. In 2000, she got into scrapbooking as an extension of her paper product and photography addiction. This was only the beginning. From working as a popular columnist for Simple Scrapbooks magazine, to traveling the world inspiring women to push the boundaries of their own creativity, to developing her first mixed-media scrapbooking line with Prima in the Spring of ‘09, Donna is consistently on the leading edge of taking creative risks the push the creative envelope and empowering others to do the same with their art.

As a mixed-media artist, Donna is a born experimenter, blending and transforming both traditional and unexpected items into meaningful pieces of self expression. A former elementary school teacher, she has synthesized her first love of teaching with her passion for craft and brings this to women via workshops at scrapbook stores and events, writing books, and through her popular blog and website.

Donna lives in North Carolina with her husband, and is a mother of three exceptionally blonde children, a chihuahua and one blonde dog.

"All things material can be creatively transformed into a personal piece of artistic interpretation. That creativity is not a measure of skill, but a passion. That art comes from within and is a visual extension of ones self. That everyone is perfect just the way they create. That art cannot be defined, but rather is defining."

Now back to my long weekend and sewing projects....Happy Weekend, K