Last Thursday ArtWalk on ALBERTA!!!

Last Thursday was a great time! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and checked out my work! Any many more thanks to those of you that bought something! Come back next month for some new work. I have been hard at work, heavy with ideas and so little time! Summer is almost upon us, and the festival season is beginning... I will be pulling more prints this month. I am concentrating on getting as many prints in a series printed using photo lithography and silkscreen. I am working at going back into them with a brush before they appear in my trunks for sale.

It is my dream to get a "Duchampian" suitcase to fit all my art. I am selling originals for really cheap, as a way to make art that everyone can afford. The dilemma is for me as the maker to get what they are worth, without spending too much time on any one piece to make it worth too much. But how do you do this without sacrificing quality? That is my job. To make truly unique prints that are beautiful, creative, and original, reproduced by hand through a press. During times of Recession, art should be cheaper, enabling everyone to look at original artworks for creative and intellectual stimulation. And hopefully when the Recession is over there will be many works of art acquired inexpensively that will be worth quite a bit more.

New Work

I have been steadily printing my drawings that were new in January. I have almost sold out of my original silk-screened octopus design on music paper! Thank you to all my customers!! So I am now starting a new series of silk screens on dictionary pages. The designs are the octopus, deer, and bear. I will continue to hand paint around them, because it adds such a lovely touch. Check out my items for sale in my etsy store to buy one of these!

Hand Embroidery

Anyone interested in embroidery that was done by hand?
Jessie Newberry was an amazing artist from the turn of the last century. She was educated at the Glasgow school of art in Scotland. At that time, there was almost nowhere in the world where women were taken serious as artists. Scotland was an exception. Here she excelled in making amazing designs by hand.



Embroidery has often times been associated as a womens craft. However men embroider as well. Check out the work of Orly Cogan. He has been really successful as an artist, embroidering pieces that are really interesting as you can tell. His contemporary, thoughtful designs have influenced a roster of young emerging artists.




What about embroidery artists no one has heard of? If you have been to Eugene Oregon, perhaps to a show at the MacDonald Theater or the Wow Hall, perhaps you have seen Cameron Greer. He embroiders constantly, and sells his works for pennies an hour, as you will hear if you were to meet him. Cameron is a character, no formal art training but dedicated. He is a true folk artist, and if you look closely at his stitches, perhaps the best embroiderer you will meet. You can buy his work online, although he stays away from computers. His friends market his stuff, because as he says it, "I touch a computer, the lights go off."

Book Page Art

I recently came across this blog:
Dark Roasted Blend that features altered book art. Aren't these amazing?

Installation

This is a bunch of pictures, of my suspended photographs, with my new lithography prints behind them. The wall in the background wasn't ideal, but it wasn't installed in a gallery! We had our final critic this week in school, I have been busy...

Featured Artist

This artist, Samonberry, has beautiful, original designs that he silk-screens himself, and sells on his Etsy Store, and other festivals around the west coast. You can check out his store and buy these fabulous t-shirts here: Samonberry's Etsy Store or you may run into him selling his wares in your city...you might even catch a glimpse of his much loved bus Amethyst streaking by!



Check out these shirts!

New Drawings

Ok, so I am going to post my progress. These here are my drawings I have been working on. These were done by hand, but I digitally arranged my compositions. I have been doing photolitho prints of them, and plan on doing a series of silkscreens of them, before I begin another series of drawings.