My workday started off very, very early as I prepare for my next three art fairs in hopes that I’ll be ready for them before I leave town this weekend.. I gotta admit, I love working from home. I’m thankful for that everyday. It’s nice to be able to move my work out of my workroom and into my living room for a change of scenery and a comfier seat..
I sent off shipments of prints and greeting cards yesterday to Dundee Gallery in Omaha and The Eclective, a new vendor, in Topeka. I’ll be re-stocking Bella Luz in Wichita and Collective Art Gallery in Berkley, CA, in the coming weeks. I’ll be ramping up my greeting card distribution after the new year — if you know any stores that you think would like to carry them, send them my way or let me know!
Under the trees light
has dropped from the top of the sky,
light
like a green
latticework of branches,
shining
on every leaf,
drifting down like clean
white sand.
A cicada sends
its sawing song
high into the empty air.
Sunlight on frosted grass, turning it into a bed of crystal
Brisk air making every breath heavy
Deer tracks next to my tracks
The rattling of a woodpecker’s beak on cold trees
Frozen limbs and sticks crackling in the breeze
Redbirds and bluebirds and blackbirds and farm cats tracking them
Geese flying in the direction their arrows point
Silly sounds of seagulls hovering above the river
And a stare-down with a fox to make my morning (my month, really) complete.
(I’d been looking for him for a long time.)
Busy days ahead, busy days behind.. Last Thursday & Friday I taught a workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center titled “Evolution Revolution.” Thursday, we visited the Natural History Museum on the KU campus to see the evolution exhibit and panorama (pic above is from the panorama). Then we looked at how math can be used to create art and patterns and made tessellations (The Lawrence Journal World visited my class — look for an article and photos in the newspaper soon). Friday we studied traditional animation techniques and made flipbooks and built zoetropes. The evolution part was tied into the animation and pattern subjects by looking at the patterns and changes made over time. It was lots of fun. I love (maybe obviously) using geometric patterns in art. I also love old methods of animation.. I was even proud of my own zoetrope — it actually worked (don’t know what a zoetrope is? Read HERE.).
This week I’ll be gearing up for the Bizarre Bazaar that takes place the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. I’ll be heading out to San Diego this Saturday through Wednesday to see what there is to see, so all online orders from Friday, Nov. 16, through Sunday, Nov. 25, will ship out Monday, Nov. 26 because of the travel, the holiday and the art fair.. Also, that Monday, I’ll be hanging my exhibit at the Lawrence Community Theater. Their holiday show, The Sound of Music, opens on Nov. 30. Maybe I’ll see you there?
I’ll also be at the Holiday Art Fair put on by the Lawrence Art Guild at the Lawrence Arts Center on Dec. 1 as well as at the LOLA (Ladies of Lawrence Artwork) Giant Holiday Show on Dec. 8 – 9 at VanGo Mobile Arts. And except for online orders, that’ll wrap up my year. I’ll follow up with more later.
I went to the Sea Life Aquarium in Kansas City yesterday and had trouble prying myself away from the jellyfish. So amazing and simple and beautiful (like all of nature — I think it was their luminescence that really pulled me in).
I stayed the night at my brother’s house and found myself awake in the dark hours before dawn (as usual..) flipping through infomercials on tv. I very rarely watch tv and I was reminded why.. so many messages telling me what I need or how I should look or ideas that I should live with… I hit the road shortly after dawn and have been purging my house since. The infomercials had the opposite effect on me, forcing me to think about how much I have that I don’t need. The jellyfish reminded me how important it is to remain simple and transparent. Less really is more.
I got these tote bags from across the pond from Bizarr Verlag, the company that published some of my artwork on postcards awhile back. These are now available to the public in Germany and around Europe. I also have a new round of images coming out with them on postcards soon, so look out for those if you’re over there.
In other licensing news, I’ve got some things coming up with Hallmark as well as Imagine Goods, a company described on their facebook page as this: “Vintage – Inspired Apparel and Home Decor which provide employment opportunity for previously exploited and at risk women in Cambodia”. It’s nice to be working with a good cause. More on all of this soon.
“’One never reaches home,’ she said. ‘But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.’” -Hermann Hesse, Demian
My workday started off very, very early as I prepare for my next three art fairs in hopes that I’ll be ready for them before I leave town this weekend.. I gotta admit, I love working from home. I’m thankful for that everyday. It’s nice to be able to move my work out of my workroom and into my living room for a change of scenery and a comfier seat..
