I finished the collage for the Lynnwood Library show and got it submitted. Whew! Now we’ll see if it’s accepted. You can see a larger version here and on my Portfolio page (click on the pic twice from that page). For reference, I used a beautiful photo by Heather Thompson of Belle Etoile Designs, with [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2010’
Deadline
Discovery: It is extremely difficult to cut and control long strips of tissue paper while there is an oscillating fan in the room. I am racing to get a piece finished in time to make the July 31 submission deadline to the Lynnwood Library Gallery Themed Exhibit and the weather is hot. So I’m in [...]
Coolest thing I’ve seen this week
ArtTrader Magazine- Free PDF of a quarterly magazine full of articles, how-tos, art, reviews, workshop notices, and more (because I haven’t yet had time to go all the way through it). Also, the site offers online fee-based art workshops. ArtTrader seems predominantly focused on ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and mail art, but a cursory glance [...]
I wish it would rain
I am having an olfactory hallucination of how the desert smells on a hot day when it starts to rain. I don’t love being in the desert, but I love that smell.
One degree of Facebook, and the subjectivity of art
There are so many, many interesting people in the world; it’s too bad we won’t have time to meet most of them. Just track back a few “likes” on your Facebook page and you’ll find fascinating profiles of people who are intelligent and/or clever and/or downright brilliant. I wish they were my friends. It also [...]
Love that long weekend!
I will be heading for the studio this weekend and will, hopefully, have something to show for it by Tuesday! I’m going to be working on my submission for the Lynnwood Library Gallery show using a photo by Heather Thompson of Belle Etoile Designs as inspiration– with her kind permission, of course. I hope it [...]
