Another typewriter :) part of my typewriter collection. This one I got for $4 dollars and my husband said after this one I was not allowed to bring home any more. This one came with a fancy carrying case. 8X8 oil on wood. Information about the show: The Big 100 is 100 artists doing 15 paintings each all for the set price of $50. Cash and Carry Show. December 2-4th 4pm-2 am at the Goodfoot ....
I just finished up this painting of the ever beautiful Sauvie's Island during fall. Fall is always so beautiful there because of the changing trees and the quietness of the countryside. It was a perfect October day but very cold. 2009 has moved by so fast and I can't believe we are already approaching the new year and I have lots of things in the works and lots of painting. I do have a first Thursday opening at Equilibrium next week from 6-8. Happy Holidays Everyone!...
100 Artists. 2000 pieces. $30/each. (Cash and Carry) – ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!! OLYMPIC MILLS GALLERY - First Floor of Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE WASHINGTON Friday, Dec 11th. 6-11PM IMPORTANT: Bring a can of food for Oregon Food Bank! Donations are down, we really appreciate all of your help. Benefit for KBOO Community Radio, Oregon Food Bank and Portland City Art – arts non profit. Event sponsored by BEAM Development/Brad Malsin, PARR Lumber, Red Slate Wine Company, Pyramid/Portland Brewing, PDX Pipeline , PoBoy Art Framing, Hungry Eyeball and Olympic Provisions (the brand new restaurant at Oly Mills!!!) Event presented by Portland City Art – arts non profit (“Artists for Artists”) and Po Boy Art. Music provided by DJ Non Prophet. Curated by Portland City Art (Chris Haberman, John Graeter) and our guest host, Jason Brown of the Goodfoot and Po Boy Art. Artist List: Adam Ciresi, Ashley Costa, Adam Sheppard, Amy Stoner, Andy Kennedy , Angela Gay , Anawanitia Petty , Anna Magruder/......
I am in the Family Show at the Launch Pad Gallery and I just did a small painting of a church. I went to a small private Catholic School for all 12 years of school. I know.. pretty painful. Yes I wore a uniform.. Yes there were nuns with large rulers.. Thinking back . Now feeling old.. we used to write the answers of our spelling tests on our upper legs under our skirt to cheat, to this day I am still a horrible speller. Thank god for spell check. :) So this is a little church out in the middle of no where in Helvetia, Oregon . Helvetia is best known for their burger joint, Helvetia Tavern . I have gone out and eaten there a few times because the burgers are so monstrous and fresh. I did a lot of thinking about what I wanted to do for this show since lately I have been mainly working on landscapes and I thought I would go with something a little bit more from my back ground....
So here are some pictures from the artist a day that I just finished at the Muse Art and Design. I started out with an undertone of yellow Cad Medium and then spent the whole day painting quickly! The opening is on May 15th and there is really a mix of artists of a lot of different mediums and experience. So this week I am back in my studio working on a painting that seems like it will never be finished. What's the old saying? Work is never truly done. I mean Leonardo carried the Mona Lisa around with him and worked on it until he died....
Another beautiful day! It truly has been so gorgeous here. Here is the husband and my sweet little angels at the park by our house. All the beautiful weather really inspires me to think about growth and nature. This type of weather really makes me want to stop and smell the roses and be inspired by the movement around me. This next Sunday, I will be at Muse doing an artist a day. I am pretty nervous I will be painting in front of people. Maybe I should imagine all the people in the store in their underwear? :) I was featured on a blog this last week and it's pretty darn adorable. Melinda's etsy shop is Vivid Texture and she's from Western Massachusetts. Have a good Monday!...
So here is my little painting currently at the Love show at the Olympic Mills. I went over there today to look at all the paintings because it was so hard to look at the opening because there were so many people. My friend Lisa baked me some delicious cupcakes which was my inspiration because who doesn't love cupcakes? I think everyone loves cupcakes. After I finished all of the sketching- I totally ate them all in one sitting. MMMMM! I have been painting like a crazy person this week for the SE art walk fast approaching and a few little things for my etsy shop. Hopefully everything will dry soon so that I can put up some pictures....
The love show is upon us and opening night was this last Friday. The show will be up until the end of March. There are over 250 artists that participated and the opening was a complete zoo of people. Honestly it is one of the most interesting shows I have participated in and have been in. There is such a wide array of art in the show from paintings to installations. I have started planning my next piece in my Oregon landscape series. I have been taking Sunday drives around NW industrial parts of Portland. So hopefully I will start the painting this week. In class this week we are starting to paint people which I am DEATHLY afraid of since all my people look like cartoons....
This weekend has been a very busy weekend for me! Lots of painting and being creative. My homework for class this week was to paint a shoe. I decided to paint my favorite shoe- my black converse hanging over a chair in my kitchen. We could use whatever color palette we wanted but had to paint a shoe. I have been wearing converses since high school- which basically means FOREVER! So I knew instantly I had to paint my beloved converse. I used oil paint on wood with a number 4 Filbert brush. I am still working on my cupcake painting for the love show and I hoping and praying that it's all done by this next week. I am probably am about 65-70% done but I really need to get focused and be productive. I always seem to reach a point in a painting that I get caught up in all the details when instead I need to just move forward... and that's were I am at with my cupcake painting. Everyone have a great creative week. Can you believe it's already February!...
I have been so busy with painting.. school... work.. my life is a Hurricane! Work is extremely busy! They are pushing us to work at 48-56 hours per person. Then I have class 2 nights a week. Then I also have my paintings to work on. Here is one my homework assignments starring my super model little angel Winston. The assignment was to paint something in my house using 2 colors other than black and white. I used yellow ochre, raw umber, black, and white. He is sleeping on a pillow on my couch and he is pretty adorable. Over the weekend I had the orientation for the SE art walk and there is going to be over 100 artists participating.. so the room was quite packed! It was great to see so many passionate people. I am also going to have a piece of art in a group show at the New Deal Cafe for the month of February. I am also working on my piece for the Love Show at the Launch Pad Gallery/Olympic Mills annual Love event. :).... so hopefully I can finish everything in time. Have a go......
Christmas is in the air. Thanksgiving gone! Black Friday is Gone! The month of November gone! Working hard on Christmas gifts which they are all little mini paintings of still life. So thankfully my mother doesn't know how to use the computer very well and won't be able to check my blog with out assistance. I am trying to paint them fast because I am such a slow painter. So quick quick quick.. like a cheetah. I am also continuing working on my series of landscape paintings of places around Oregon- which are coming a long slowly but surely because I am such a slow painter- I think it's because I like to get the balance of details. ..at least that's what I tell myself ;) This week I have to go hang at US Bank on NW 23rd for first Thursday in the pearl. So I am totally excited about it and of course a little nervous. There are also a ton of art shows this week that I need to decide what to go to like first Thursday in the pearl and first Friday over in SE. Have......
My painting will be up for another week at the Launch pad gallery. Mine is the little painting with the tree right above the girl with the hat. Today I went to Good Will and got a few items for some still life which I am going to be working on over the next few weeks. I also joined a new creative group which it's first meeting was today and we are going to be doing the Artist Way. I have heard a lot of great things about the book but I have always wanted to do the book with a group and I finally found one. There are a lot of passionate and creative people in the group and I have a great feeling about it. Still waiting for my paintings to dry. Damn you oil paint!...
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