More projects in the books

Stencil painting

Encaustic painting

Gesso board painting

Photo transfer painting

Propaganda piece

Charles wrapped up work today on an assignment in painting for four pieces, each done in a different style.

Stencil painting - an Ikebana-inspired piece. The white vase is a ceramic tile on which he painted "Akebono" (Akebono was the first foreigner to ever reach the rank of Yokozuna in sumo), the other mark is "Iwakuni" (where he learned about Ikebana)

Encaustic painting - basically wax and paint. Charles collected all the scraps/leftover wax from the other student's projects and made a 3-D piece.

Gesso board, sanded by hand - spray painted fourteen colors on eight geometric stencils.

Photo transfer - the figure on a horse is from the Crazy Horse monument with oil pastel, gobs of oil paint and marker.  

The propaganda piece is from his printmaking class. Charles thinks he's come a long way in such a short time in this class!!

The end of Indian Summer

Morning sun on St. Mary's with mist rising from the river

A golden morning on College Street

The eve of homecoming at UM

With the National Weather Service saying this is the last day in the 80s for the year, we are enjoying the changing of the leaves and the rustle of the trees in the early autumn breeze.

It's a cat's life

Monty catches an early morning nap

Patch and BB enjoy an afternoon snack

The indoor cats (Wesley & Monty) and outdoor cats (Patch and BB) are enjoying the Indian Summer we're enjoying this week. Lots of sun and opportunity to soak up the afternoon sun without the summer heat!

Keeping up with the bustle

Next printing project underway

Monty paces his day

Autumn arrives on campus

Charles doing his thing

Mary and Belinda enjoy post-worship time

Autumn has arrived in the Bitterroot Valley and with it much-welcomed cooler weather and even some rain! The trees in town are in full-blown color changing and every day seems more amazing than the day before.

Founder's Day, pt. 2

Belinda and Lynn enjoy the afternoon sun

Rainbow over the valley

Getting our stool branded

 A wonderful time was had at the celebration today!

Founder's Day at the Mission

Saturday marked the 175th anniversary of the founding of St. Mary's Mission (later to be known as Stevensville). We were happy to be part of the throngs taking part in the festivities at the Mission.

Last Sunday of summer

Rain clouds and south-bound geese on Saturday

Charles readies for preaching

Belinda chats with friends during fellowship time

Wesley hunkers down on Sunday afternoon

We had a wonderful conclusion to our summer - rain! It was so nice to be able to have a weekend that while busy, was cooler and wetter than we've had in recent weeks!

Historic event in Bozeman

Out to lunch in Bozeman

A welcome for our bishop

Our bishop with her wife

the sanctuary was rocking!

Bishop Oliveto and Charles

While Belinda and Sheila were in Salmon, Idaho on Saturday for a United Methodist Women's event, Charles was in Bozeman for the installation of Karen Oliveto as bishop of the Yellowstone Conference.

It was an exciting gathering, the first time Charles has attended an installation service.

A good week in the books

Camera Lucida project in art history

First painting project

Class critique in printmaking class

Charles had a good week at the university, successfully completing three project, one in each class.  

Last week in a nutshell

Rain clouds on Monday

Worship on Wednesday

Printing project on Saturday

Sunday sunrise

Finding "Para-dice" on Sunday

With a hint of autumn in the air, we enjoyed a busy and productive week!

Charles continues to enjoy the early weeks of classes at the University of Montana. He's finding the studio classes, relief printmaking and painting II to be a lot of fun!

On Saturday Belinda and Sheila made an exploratory drive to Salmon, Idaho in order to scout out the facilities that will be used for next Saturday's UMW gathering. It was quite an interesting drive over the mountains!

The week that was

Discussion at the church on Monday

Shakespeare on the Oval (at the university) on Tuesday

Sheila helps with the newsletter on Wednesday

Charles' first painting project ready to begin on Thursday

First Friday in Stevensville at the library

There is a hint of fall weather in the air, school has resumed (for Charles), and Wesley and Monty are beginning to get along more after a summer of discontent.

We're ready to be done with summer heat and embrace the possibility of cooler weather, snow on the mountains, and lots of stuff with pumpkin spice!