Creating Spring Fancies With our Eastside Art Gang

Welcome.  I am so happy that you stopped by.  My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you some fun and fanciful Spring and Easter creations that our Eastside Art Gang created at our monthly gathering.

We spent a lovely day in Jody's beautiful garden learning to make concrete Easter eggs, nests and embellishing flower pots to hold the eggs and nests.

                                    Her walled garden is lovely and the perfect place to create.

                                             Jody demonstrated making concrete Easter eggs . 

                                      We choose to use rapid set concrete rather than plaster.

First we mixed the rapid set concrete with water until it was a thin enough consistency to pour into the emptied eggs and set them aside to harden - about 3 hours.

                               When the concrete was hard we peeled off the shells to reveal the eggs.

Jody shared a number of amazing techniques to use on our pots and taught us how to make nests from grape vines, twigs and various kinds of moss. Some of the artists embellished their pots with plaster and painted and distressed them.  

Libby covered a pine cone with concrete for a very interesting effect and some of us tried making concrete leaves.

                              I borrowed Jacki's photo to show you her lovely turquoise pot.

Jacki also took the photo of  my pot and Linda's - you can see that everyone created something a little different!

Let's leave Jody's garden and head back over to my garden where Bentley, my Studio Assistant is waiting to show you more of the eggs and nests that I created for our garden.

                                                   
                                                           Concrete eggs in a nest. 

                                                                       Nest in distressed pot.

                                                              Concrete eggs in nest!

C

Thank you for stopping by.  I sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those of you following my blog - welcome to my new followers.  I will be taking a blog break for a few weeks to work on new art for the Balboa Island Art Walk in May and will be back with a Spring garden tour after Easter.

                            Wishing you and your family Blessings and a very Happy Easter.  Erin

"This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it."  Psalm  118:24