I'm getting ready for my ALZ walk craft-a-thon next month and my class for the seniors here at work. It's always a challenge to design cards that people will like but still easy to make. The first craft-a-thon (Saturday June 27th)will be an Asian inspired theme, which is always popular. The second craft-a-thon (Saturday, August 29th) will be a holiday theme or at least that is what I'm thinking. I've been having a lot of fun doing alter art on canvas but it's really too hard to teach in a short period of time. I love making backgrounds too but again people want to see a finished product so it's never a popular class.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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