Mixed Media with Julie Haymaker Thompson

Day  4 at  Art and Soul.  (I will get back to Day 3 in another post.)  I decided to extend my visit by an extra day and randomly chose a class, whose teacher was recommended to me by Lisa Kaus.  I think the title was "Learning to Fly"  or something like that.  I read up on the teacher, Julie Haymaker Thompson and something about her seemed familiar.  She had worked at Hallmark years before but I still did not recognize her face.  Eventually, I discovered she was the same Julie, who was my first art advisor when I started out in re-design at Hallmark.  She had changed somewhat from the corporate employee I remembered, to a bohemian artist. Well, her class was gangbusters.  I learned so much in that one day, it was truly inspiring.  She works with a multitude of materials; paper clay, sheetrock compound, resin, foam core, iron paint, rusting solution.......it was a new world to me.  Check out her website, she is always creating new techniques.