I got accepted into the Lynnwood Library show! I’m so excited! I’m also a little blown away (is that possible? It really seems a contradiction in terms) that I’ve entered three times (2007, 2008, 2010) and was accepted all three. I wanted to enter in 2009, but I was, sadly, too busy buying a house [...]
Posts under ‘New Work’
Studio time that’s NOT fun
I spent the morning taking photos of my jewelry– I’ll be selling that later on when I have more pieces. I discovered that I really don’t like photographing my own work. I love my camera, I love getting a great nature shot or interesting scene, and I love editing photos I’ve taken. But staging, lighting, [...]
I did it!
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 [...]
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 [...]
And then a year went by
For those of you keeping track, it has been about a year and a half since I posted anything here. Several reasons: I’ve been busy, I didn’t want to take the time to update, I’ve been depressed, and I wasn’t sure I was even going to keep this going. Looks like I am. Backtracking: June [...]
Quick update
I am current on my October Art Month commitment to an ATC-a-day. This is a wonderful project on a lot of levels. I’m getting to experiment with different media without worrying about wasting materials, since the format is so small. If I mess up a painting, I’ll just collage or paint over it. And, several [...]
New art etc.
Currently, I’m working out the details on a new collage tentatively titled “L’Ecole des Mystères”. I’m taking the advice of my betters and doing several preliminary drawings to block out composition, color, and values before choosing my papers. I think it’s going to be cool. I had to cut down “Where Did I Go Wrong?” from 11″x14″, [...]
August is the cruellest month
Everyone who knows me knows that October is my favorite month. My least favorite month is August, coming up soon. August is always Too Damn Hot (northern hemisphere, of course), no exceptions, it’s nearly always sunny (too freakin’ bright), and there are no holidays. August just plain rots. I took a week’s vacation over my [...]
Artistic integrity vs. needing to eat
I just successfully wrestled with an artistic dilemma. I want to make a second piece for the upcoming Mukilteo art show, and I asked K what she thought about the colors. I was thinking about changing the palette entirely to cool blues and silvers because I would like to work with those colors for awhile. [...]
Mandala #1 completed
So, finally, I finished the collage Mandala #1 over the weekend. It was fairly labor-intensive, and is one I’m planning to enter in the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival juried art show in September. Now I have to find out where to buy (and develop) slide film, and hope I can take decent slides of my work, [...]
