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DeMeng Workshop


We made crazy vehicles in Michael DeMeng's workshop. Here are a selection of some of the works in progress:



Here we had a critique with Michael discussing everyone's progress.


I loved this steampunked up critter!


This is the cool studio by the harbor that we worked in for four days, pretty cool view!





Later in the day we had a project with Tracy and Teesha Moore with a bunch of artists from different workshops.



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  1. LisaOctober 16, 2013 at 11:57 AM

    Loved your work, your costumes and your spirit!! And thank you for the Tree of Life print. Hope to see you again next year!

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  2. crickettsOctober 20, 2013 at 9:36 PM

    Thank you Lisa, I hope that you enjoy the print. I always love putting on a costume, maybe next year you might fancy doing the same???

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    1. LisaOctober 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM

      There's a challenge I'd never considered! I'll see what I can conjure up. I'm sure you have something swell planned for Halloween!

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