BiRD! New Papercutting Designed for a New Rural Pearl Product
A new product which will soon be debuted here!
Save the Dates! Art Fairs!
Be on the lookout for the Rural Pearl booth at these 2 upcoming Art Fairs:
***Lawrence Fall Arts & Crafts Festival***
Sunday, September 13, 2009 (begins at 10am)
South Park at 11th and Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, KS
***Cider Days Fall Festival***
Saturday, September 26, 2009 (10am – 6pm)
Sunday, September 27, 2009 (10am – 5pm)
Kansas Expocentre
17th and Topeka Blvd.
Topeka, KS
I’ll post more about these as the dates approach. Hope to see you there!
Perseid Meteor Shower – Aug. 12, 2009
Shot at 1600 ISO, f/3.5, 30s exposure at 18mm. I was basically hitting the shutter button every minute – 30 seconds exposure, 30 seconds processing time… Much better show than last night in this part of the world. I captured 6 on camera – this was the best shot – the others were pretty faint. And of course, my battery died about 10 minutes before seeing the longest prettiest one of the night which would have been right in the middle of my camera viewing field. Go figure.
Rocky Mountain National Park Magnified
Cut paper. Influenced by a few things I saw during my recent trip to Rocky Mountain National Park.
My First Evidence of a Papercutting Habit
Looks as though it began years and years ago, around the age of 6? I’ve been rummaging through a box of papers that my mom saved from my childhood and found several things that indicate an early interest in cut paper art.
Long Highway
Head On Hummingbird
My First Greeting Card at Age 7
In 2nd grade, and I remember this pretty well, we had occasional art classes with Sister Helen Buessing who was a pretty renowned artist in the area. I made this picture of a caterpillar out of cut construction paper (the dark stripes) and crayon. The original work was more colorful than this. The lighter colored stripes consisted of multiple layers of crayon colors covered with black crayon which was later scratched off to reveal the smooth mixture of colors that lay underneath. Sr. Helen chose some of the works to make into greeting cards, including mine, and this is the only copy I have left. It was pretty neat seeing my work in print back then, and I think I still feel the same excitement seeing it today.
New Things
Some new greeting cards rolling out as we speak.
Strong for Illustration Friday – Cut Paper Art
Cut paper mounted on gessoed wood panel.
UPDATE: Strong Kitty for Illustration Friday.