Student's LIbro de Ofrendas

Our project for Libro de Ofrendas, in San Miguel de Allende, included 4 days of workshops. One from each of us, Laurie Mika taught the polymer clay tiles for the cover, Lynn Leahy taught reverse glass painting and collage, for inside the altar cover, Helen Shafer Garcia taught paste papers and book binding to create the book, and Jane LaFazio taught Sketching and Watercolor to create small paintings to paste within the book. Here are photos of the students completed project covers.

The altar cover, opens to painted glass and collage

  

  

everyone created small watercolors to include in their book

  

admiring the finished Libro de Ofrendas

Our next retreat will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April. Details here and registration is open now.
If you're interested in going to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with us in October 2013, email to be put on the interest list.

photos from our retreat ~ October 2012

orientation in the courtyard of our B&B

orientation in the courtyard of our B&B

There's a Starbucks in San Miguel!

one of our classrooms

shopping from local artist Marisa

Divine dinners (this one at Posadito)

one of our classrooms

sketching and watercolor on the upstairs patio

visiting a home/gallery

one of our classrooms

Lunch and a tour of a beautiful Rancho

more meals (this one at Fabrico Auroura) 

Laurie Mika and her sister, our fabulous organizer , Leslie Harris.

Our next retreat takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. All the details are here. Email with questions, or to receive a registration form. It's filling fast!

our group

Students and teachers at our Libro de Ofrendas retreat. San Miguel de Allende, 2012

San Miguel de Allende 2012 ~ a great group!

What a great group! We had 30 students at our Libro de Offrenda retreat for Dia de los Muertos in San Miguel de Allende 2012. These photos are of our farewell dinner. Throughout the week, we'll be posting many more photos of the mixed media art retreat, but wanted you to see the wonderful group first.

LIbro de Offrendas

photo by Cindy Mersky

At our recent retreat in San Miguel de Allende, the students had 4 days of workshops, one with each of the instructors. Each student created their own Libro de Ofrendas ~The Offering Book. Here are all the gorgeous books at once. We'll feature more photos in the coming days... 

We're home!

Lynn Leahy, Jane LaFazio, Laurie Mika, Helen Shafer Garcia
with our fabulous organizer, Leslie Harris.

We had a grand time in San Miguel de Allende at our mixed media retreat during dia de los Muertos! We'll be posting photos over the next few weeks....stay tuned.
And, we'll be working on the plans for our next retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

more preparations for our San Miguel retreat!

Helen Shafer Garcia's addition to our student goodie bags!

Helen Shafer Garcia used these great new spray paints by Liquitex and these stencils. 

to create these little envelopes for our students for our retreat starting this Sunday! 

Additional stencils from cool scrapbook paper pack with
cutouts that had a Mexican theme 

Laurie Mika added envelopes to her Libro de Ofrenda too!

new postcards

We got new postcards!

Dia Halloween...

Katrina meets Halloween! love it!

Dia de los Muertos ~ in Jane's sketchbook

 detail from Jane's sketchbook 

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

We are so ready for our mixed media retreat in San Miguel de Allende! 

 detail from Jane's sketchbook 

 detail from Jane's sketchbook 

  detail from Jane's sketchbook 

  detail from Jane's sketchbook 

more preparations for our San Miguel de Allende trip

Our trip to San Miguel de Allende is this month! We're so excited to spend Dia de los Muertos with our student/friends and to teach them to create their own Libro de Ofrendas.

Jane LaFazio here, and I'm decorating the goodie bags for our students.
   

I'm using these new Liquitex spray paints and they are terrific!

Halloween in San Miguel de Allende

Halloween in San Miguel de Allende ~ photo by Jan Davis

Jan Davis, is a wonderful photographer and friend of Tesoro del Corazon. She went to San Miguel de Allende with us last year, and created this beautiful book of photos from her experience. 

She wrote to tell us this, about our upcoming trip for Dia de los Muertos:

"You may already know this, but one very fun and sweet thing to do in San Miguel de Allende on Halloween is sit in the jardin and hand out candy to the trick or treaters. The jardin is PACKED with lots of activity, The majority of folks that hand out candy are expats...and the locals bring their children all dressed up with their trick or treat bags. The past three years my brother and I have brought our father down to San Miguel and this is his favorite activity during the day of the dead."

Halloween in San Miguel de Allende ~ photo by Jan Davis

Halloween in San Miguel de Allende ~ photo by Jan Davis

Beautiful San Miguel de Allende

Here's a beautiful VIDEO of San Miguel. We'll be there next month!