Traveling with Art Tools and Supplies

I have two major art workshops this year. One in Oregon and one in Omaha. With living in Florida the one in Oregon, especially, is a very long distance to travel for an Art Workshop. I have never traveled with all these airline restrictions on baggage so I thought..."why not google it". So I Googled Travel Regulations with art tools and supplies and guess what kinds of things came up? And I'm not kidding on this: "Folica beauty supply", "chainsaw supply", "the lost art of bodging/Energy Bulletin". What's with me and Google? We do not have a love affair going on!

Google LOVES my husband on the other hand. Oh wait, I digress, I never did find out anything on traveling with my art tools or supplies. Well, I suppose David can Google for me and then maybe I can get him to help me pack too!

My First Fatbook Page Was Mailed Today

I'm attending the Art & Soul Workshop in Portland, Oregon in October this year. I decided to do something called a "fatbook" for the first time as a way to get to know a few people before I went since I'm going alone for a whole week. 

It turns out a fatbook is just that, it's fat, but boy is it little! That made the design of it all the more difficult. Imagine trying to design with proper composition, etc. on a 4 X 4 (yes, that's 4 inches x 4 inches). 

It also was just a few more than just a few people I'm getting to know. We had to turn in 24 pages of original artwork! It seemed exciting, and it was, but also a bit daunting.  Daunting because of the level of artisans that are participating. I am so excited about receiving my own completed fatbook at the workshop. It will be full of samplings of 20 different artists, all of them amazing. And hopefully, the start of something wonderful, my fatbook career!