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Monday
How was your weekend? I have a love/hate relationship with Monday. On one hand, the weekend is over, enough said. On the other hand, the house is quiet and MINE for a whole six hours or so.
I added a few new paintings to the floodline, if you are interested and more will be going in as the week moves forward!
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Big News!
I am so excited to announce that I will be hosting a ‘Girl Crush Art Workshop and Tea Party’ in my studio along with the lovely lady behind the amazing blog The Jealous Curator. The idea for these workshops came out of a post she did for sfgirlbybay here and a ‘post about how fun it would be to have an artsy “girl crush tea party”. The day in my studio will be on Saturday, June 9th.
The why of it:
To walk away from our computers, and actually meet in person for a glorious, creative, pastry-filled day. To figure out a way to break through artist blocks. To get inspired, and recharged. To celebrate being women artists… and obviously, to have a reason to eat lots of pretty little cakes & tarts in the middle of the day!
The artists she has lined up are pretty amazing (Allyson Fox, Lisa Congdon and Samantha French) and I feel pretty honored to be chosen as the Portland artist to host.
You can go here to sign up and see more about what we will be doing that day, I can’t wait. I hope you can make i!
inspiration for your Tuesday
I just came across this artist working with soot on pinterest, which led me to this video on design milk. You must watch. Even though the method I use in my floodline series is very different, I find myself inspired to continue pushing my work, always a good thing.
so yeah…
I’m having quite the love affair/obsession/fascination with creating these pieces. Here are a few more…
new floodlines
and another…
New Year
Happy New Year! I took the last week or so to just completely unwind with no expectations on myself. It felt good. Now, I’m ready to look forward again and be inspired and make new work. Here are a few pieces I just completed in my floodline series.
PSSST
I have a little sale going on in my etsy store, 20% off all purchases! This will be good through Sunday. Just enter FRIDAYNOIR at checkout! Also a few new prints have made their way to the shop, happy shopping!
some new paintings
with prints coming soon…
and one still in progress…
favorite part
My favorite moment when starting a new painting is after I’ve put some undercoats on the canvas and have roughly sketched out what I want to paint. I love to look at a painting like this and sometimes find it hard to move on to the next step. At that moment, there are so many possibilities before the work begins. Here is a large painting at that perfect point. (kinda hard to see the sketches though, sorry) Tomorrow I’ll starting messing it up so I can work it back to a point I like again!
NEW!
I have been wanting to offer these for quite some time now and just finally got around to it! I am now doing little framed portraits, in the same vein as my ‘little paintings.’ The paintings themselves measure 4″x4″ or 3.5″x5″ and come framed in a frame hand painted to complement the piece. Go here to order!
little originals
I just put a bunch of original little paintings in my etsy shop! I am going to be adding new ones over the coming weeks as they are so fun to do and I think make the perfect little gift of art for the upcoming holidays.
I mean…just…wow
Faber Castell from eric yeo on Vimeo.
via Design mom
in the details
some quick shots of some new paintings that are in the works…
so fun
I was thrilled to see my print in the beautiful nursery of Matt and Megan last week via a cup of jo! It so fun to see where my art ends up after it is sent off, especially when it ends up in a lovely space amongst such good company.
coming along
some new paintings I’ve been working on…
Giveaway!
Head on over to A Cup of Jo for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to my etsy shop! Just leave a comment there.
Good luck!
newbie
find it here!
late to the party
Ok, so I am a bit late to the party here, but I am just in love with Bon Iver. It has been the soundtrack to my day lately, so beautiful…