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A Video: How to Pick Elderflowers to Make an Elderflower Cordial

Mary Palmer is featured here — showing us how to pick just the right flower for making an elderflower cordial.

The video was filmed at Dovecote Porch & Garden — a garden center in Cashiers, NC that is the North Carolina mountain headquarters for Dargan Landscape Associates, a landscaping architecture firm.

For more information about Dovecote — and to follow the place on Google plus: Click here. 

 

 

Transforming a So-So Painting to One You Love: July 17

What Now? To Wow Now! Transforming a So-so Painting to One You Love.
 
By Miriam “Mir” Eve Tidwell 
July 17th  2014 
10 AM  to 3:00 PM
An optional fee of $35 per person
limit to 20 students  
 
This class is for  beginners and intermediates who paint in Acrylic. This class is not for water color or oil.
 
I have been painting for about 15 years. What I know is not taught in books and most likely will show you that anyone can paint and everyone is an artist.
 
I paint both acrylic and wax. I sell and I donate my work. 
 
We all have a canvas that we just don’t like. We are not sure why its not our favorite. 
I will teach you how to take a “What Now” into a “Now Wow”.
 
What you will need to bring to eat and drink:
 
We will take two 10 minute breaks and one 30 minute break.
  1. bottle of water to drink (or what ever you drink)
  2. Snack for break 
  3. Sack lunch
  4. Snack to enjoy while we have show and tell.
Supplies you will need:
  1. one painted canvas that will come one way and leave another. ( around two feet by three feet framed if you can) can be a board or even foam board).  Must already  be painted !    (If you have never painted go to the thrift store and buy a cheap canvas that is something you don’t like. You will have your own painting by the end of the day.)
  2. large black magic marker
  3. small black magic marker
  4. gold magic marker
  5. ruler
  6. blue painters tape,two to four inch to protect the frames and if they are not framed to protect the face of you painting when we paint the sides.
  7. At least 8 brushes at least one 2 inch
  8. brush holder 
  9. bucket for water (Large enough to paint for an hour before cleaning)
  10. roll of paper towels
 
Paint                        
 
If you are a person that likes bright colors bring them if you are a person that likes dull colors this class is designed to teach you to love bright colors, So bring bright colors…..please bring your own easel, this type of class works best if you can paint standing and look at it from about 6 feet back.
  1. At  least 10 colors of acrylic paint. (you can have more, but please have these.)
  2. Brown 
  3. black 
  4. white 
  5. yellow 
  6. orange
  7. red 
  8. sky blue
  9. lavender 
  10. greens

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Join us for Cashiers Plein Air Festival, July 15

July 15 “Watch Art Happen! ” In the Garden at Dovecote to benefit the Cashiers Plein Air Festival. 30 artists converge on the Cornucopia and Dovecote vicinity to paint en plein air at the first light of dawn. 

Dargan Landscape Architects sponsors the early am breakfast, tea and coffee at the event.

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Meet Sculptor Peverall

Meet sculptor and speaker, Carl Peverall, on Friday, June 27th at 10 am.  What does it take to create a fine sculpture from raw materials like stone, pebbles, metal?  Join us as we unveil 3 new works of art by Carl Peverall. 

The event is part of  Dovecote’s Grand Opening weekend.

NO FEE.

LOCATION: Dovecote Porch & Gardens  McKinney Way (35 Flash Point Drive, Cashiers, NC 28717) off Cashiers School Road next to Cornucopia. Please follow the signs to park. 

About Carl Peverall

If you haven’t met Carl Peverall, you are in for a treat! 

During my life as an artist, there has been a balance of time devoted to working three and two dimensionally. Over the years, these two approaches have evolved into complimentary endeavors that are mutually supportive energetically.

“Having first trained in ceramics, I began and still use clay, fired in the raku technique, as a medium to express a very personal language that draws upon eclectic influences like quantum physics, the architecture of Antoni Gaudi and the sublime, elemental sculpture of Isamu Noguchi. My intent in these works is to follow my own creative muse without inhibition and make pieces that represent the unique character and awareness of our time.

“Contrasting this labor intensive studio work, I continue to be seduced by a love for the landscape which I consummate by painting on location, primarily in pastel. In so doing, there is opportunity to recharge by stepping outside the studio and my “self” through a direct connection with nature. I intend for my paintings to have a fresh, spontaneous quality while still honoring the character of the place and moment of their origin.

“Most recently, I have begun to work not just “from” nature but “with” nature by making stone sculpture. These new works materialize dreams that began over twenty years ago while living in New York where I spent many hours hiking through Rockland County by the Hudson River, visiting Storm King and Isamu Noguchi’s studio and museum.  For the knowledge and inspiration to take this step forward, I owe much gratitude to sculptor Chris Booth of New Zealand, his remarkable work and friendship.

136 Heron Cove, Celo NC, 28714

 [email protected]

 828-675-0731

http://www.carlpeverall.com/

 

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