We are doing a special topic and event this week over at Illustration Friday.com — The very first Illustration Friday Gallery show! All the info you need to participate is right here… should be so much fun. Special thanks to Open Books in Long Beach, California for making this happen. :)
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Here are some close ups and buying info for the solo show pieces, if you are interested. I’ll try to take more later (busy this week!):
This one is quite large… I realize I should have put something in the picture for scale. oops…

and some close ups:

This one is the same size as the blue one…

Here’s [...]

Some people have emailed inquiring about these paintings, so I thought I’d direct you to the place to buy if you’d like: these four pieces will be available through the Sq Ft Gallery, and are $450 each. Show opens Sept 1st, but they will be for sale on line starting Sept 3rd. (I think if [...]

I am DONE (!) with all the artwork for this solo show. In the end, I decided to reuse one older piece and two oversized prints from a previous show. So in all I have ended up creating 21 pieces of art in the last month. More than exhausting. But I feel really good about [...]

just a quick entry today to show you another piece I’ve been working on… I worked on a painting yesterday that just WOULD NOT TURN OUT… I got so frustrated that I smeared black paint all over it and yelled at it and pulled its hair (cat fight!). Then I started tearing it to shreds. [...]

(11×15, mixed medium)
14 paintings finished (two are being re-used from other shows), 6 more to go. I finally caught up with myself over this week. Painting this much has been a bit crazy (read: major ups and downs in outlook), but fun… yesterday I really played with some new techniques and came up with the [...]

August this time around seems to be all about work. I am beginning to think that artists who do a lot of shows tend to have work laying around that they can ship off if called upon. I don’t. So this weekend was more painting. This time for the show in Nashville (also opening in [...]

This piece was inspired by last week’s Illustration Friday topic: Moon.

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)
This is the 6th piece. 14 more to go for the solo show. (And about 4 to create also for the show opening in Nashville, TN). I’m a paintin’ fool, I tell ya.
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I have been SO inspired lately. It’s like little ideas come floating by [...]

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I eat… what I put into my body, how much time I spend cooking versus going out to dinner, what I enjoy making, etc. Many nights i work late and then by the time I look up it’s getting dark, I’m starving and [...]

I dropped the first four paintings off at the frame shop this morning. Handing them over to the capable hands of my friend there, who convinced me to do a new technique this time: framing so the torn edges of my paper show with all the imperfect paint blobs and uneven warps in the paper. [...]

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Happy Friday everyone! Above is the 4th painting for the show in September. I am not sure why she looks so sad… but I have been staring at her from across the room and every time I look at her I imagine a different story that leads up to this [...]

Here’s the third piece I just finished for the show. Still unsure about titles… so for now, it’s temporarily called “pink”.

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Show details: Opening September 7th (the day after my birthday!) in Indianapolis Indiana at the Harrison Center. The show is part of the Curious City event sponsored by my old [...]

You guys uplift me so much! Thank you for all your kind responses to painting #1.
Here is the second in the series…

(approx 19″x29″, mixed media on paper)
So much going on right now. I’ll keep it short, but I have so much bubbling I’d like to share with you… soon I hope!
xo

I have been really trying to limit the number of gallery shows I take on each year because they are so time consuming… I have to fight my tendency to say yes to everything because I’m so excited about the possibilities. But I know it’s not good for me because I think that the good [...]

This afternoon I sent off all my work to Susan at Art Stream Studios for a gallery show that is opening May 4th to the public. The work shown above is what is included… 11 pieces in all. And I tried to get a good range in pricing by mixing in some inexpensive (but quality! [...]