Comments on: Secret Language – Combining Two Ideas and Two Styles into One Image

By: Susana König

Susana König — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:52:10 +0000

Hi! I follow your blog regularly and I am always overwhelmed with your thoughts about a drawing. I also make quilts and have embroidered some cussions, so it is very interesting to combine these features in a painting class. A self paced class would be my option, because it´s difficult as a mother and working person to make my art at time.
Thank you to involve us in your decisios!

By: Sandy Guderyon

Sandy Guderyon — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:53:12 +0000

Yes, I would love to take the class-deliver it in the way that’s easiest for you (which means-I don’t know!). The first reason I want to take this is to visit your studio, for a whole day! The next reason is that I have facilitated a monthly collage workshop in may home for 10 years now. Sounds like ti would all tie in together.
Will wait to hear more!

By: Kathy G

Kathy G — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:31:39 +0000

I love the idea of sewing and embroidering with pen. I missed your original class so your updated version sounds absolutely intriguing. Either format would suit me -although I quite enjoy access to a private Facebook community, to which I would hope you would visit occasionally. Thanks, Paivi
Kathy (Canada)

By: Betty Visotski

Betty Visotski — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:03:50 +0000

Your journal page is amazing. I am very slow with your lessons in the class I am taking but feel like I am starting to understand what you are teaching. I would love another class and collage land sounds intreging. Looking forward to it.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 03:38:08 +0000

I’m interested because doodling is what I do everyday!

By: Barbara Loyd

Barbara Loyd — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 02:48:13 +0000

Lovey peony photos. Too hot where I live now. I had a few in Oklahoma. I learned that ants love their necture. Your posts are special.

By: Amy Allen

Amy Allen — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:02:01 +0000

Thank you, Paivi, for sharing all your thoughts and creative process about peonies! I also have a love of flowers and plants and feel I have relationships with them. It’s so fascinating to think about their language! And I like the way you joined 2 apparently different ideas and found a connection! Beautiful!
Re. reviving your class on embroidery with pen and expanding it to include collage and your day in your studio, it sounds wonderful! I’d prefer self study, but I also enjoyed the Facebook group when I did a time-structured “live” class. Maybe combine those 2 ideas? ?

By: Virginia Clinton

Virginia Clinton — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:35:26 +0000

I missed your original class the first time around, so I would absolutely take it. I love the idea of a day in Finland at your studio. I like the idea of the class being live and then followed by a self-paced version. I like the idea of the content: using fabric and embroidery as inspiration for doodling. I think doodling is an important form of expression, because it is not intimidating and is an almost intuitive way to begin to let go and work more intuitively. Anything that opens a door to self expression, that gives people who might not otherwise attempt art, is good – and if that is one of the objectives, I think live gives more of that nudge…but would hate to see it not be avalable to those can’t participate at a specific time.

By: Mackie

Mackie — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:49:01 +0000

Your thoughts are as wonder-filled as your paintings…dearest Paivi
, I’ve already flown in imagination to your nest in Finland….

By: Nancy Kvorka

Nancy Kvorka — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:36:30 +0000

HI Paivi, I would be interested too although I did take the first one, I think I got stalled. Maybe a painting for me for the Explorer class. I would rather have self study. Thank you!

By: Isabel d

Isabel d — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:52:43 +0000

I would be very interested… your work is inspiring on so many levels. A class that is delivered as self-paced, self-study works best for me. I have unreliable internet access that makes committing to a set time less attractive to me. Thank you so much. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.

By: Mary W

Mary W — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:18:12 +0000

YES, I’m interested. I have always enjoyed your classes as you have previously presented them, but don’t share much anymore. Collage has always been a mystery to me so learning anything would be a good thing. Your painting above is an underwater scene to me. I see the sharp images as man made – divers, sunken ship parts, a tangle of wire/chords. The more cloudy images are the natural things like fish swimming by, glorious living corals, and sea snakes. The contrasts are between harsher man-made objects and the natural waving/flowing living things. There is one man-made detailed image that is certainly a sponge divers helmet. LOL We can all enjoy your art through different brains. Thanks for the in-depth thought process you used.