I finally have a couple of the Plein Air pieces to show. This first one is the one that won Third Place in the show.
Sometimes our personal life bleeds into every aspect of our lives, despite our best efforts to stop it. For me I've had a bad case of "Artist's Block" the last several months, and that has recently changed. You see, we have been trying to conceive a child for the last three years, undergoing infertility treatments for half of that. It has been a long and arduous journey, that has taken it's Read More
I'm happy to report that the Oak Leaf Artist Guild website is in the completion stage. Translated: means that pending some very minor changes and any audits that the guild may have, it's finished! Again I want to thank my wonderful husband for all his hard work in building the site for us! This means that from here on out most of the work will be from the other guild Read More
OLAG Website: I've been working on it and it's coming along nicely. Jesse hopes to have the gallery basics by the end of the week, and I've been working on adding content and getting the pages all put together. I should have something that resembles a real website to show the group this Thursday at the meeting. Children's Book: I haven't had much time to work on it, but I did Read More
I spent most of the weekend at Framations for the Spring Art Walk. There was a ton of wonderful artwork; particularly Suzanne Lowry's photography series of wooden figures. I think they would make a wonderful children's book! It was interesting to watch and see how other artists work their magic with potential customers. It'll be a while before I'm comfortable on my own, but I'm making Read More
I found inspiration for a new project in an email, if you can believe that! A friend and her daughters tried to rescue a baby squirrel, they named Tiny Tim. Attached to the email were several pictures she had taken of him with the family (see below).
“…we fed him a banana last night, and he fell asleep in the palm of my hand. We put him in his
Read MoreThe Locks of Love Event/Look of Love Art Show went really well! We had a great turnout, and lots of people came to donate their hair; including my husband! My piece won an honorable mention, and I won a raffle for a gift card to a local book store! The judge, Eric Shultis, wasn't able to attend the reception, but he did write up notes for each artist. Read More
I finished and turned in "Look of Love" on time and you can see the finished piece below, and a larger version in the painting gallery. I wish I had a little more time on this one.
Here are the latest images from "Look of Love." I still have a quite a bit to do, hopefully sometime tomorrow I'll be able to find time to do a working critique, then get around to the parts that I haven't touched since the underpainting. If I keep a tight schedule I should be able to finish on time. Unfortunately, since I'm cutting the deadline so close I'm Read More