March 21, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Exquisite collages by Alexis Anne Mackenzie. I saw them on dear ada severel weeks ago and of course they ended up in the Inspiration bookmark folder. What fun she must have piecing them so carefully together.
March 20, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Has anyone ever seen light bulbs like these? Can’t seem to dig up where they came from. I don’t have any sockets the right size so I couldn’t test them out. Evidence of my collecting problem. . . the stash you see came with my searching for frames.
Betty! Scored this perfect condition cook book for two dollars. . . I love it! 1950 first edition, it is so much better than the one they make now. Look at those illustrations! And on every page throngs of dancing food with smiling faces, literally, they all have flailing arms and legs. And poems, their are no poems in my 2000 era Betty Crocker. This baby is not getting cut up for collages, I am preserving it for posterity.
March 19, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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This came in the mail a few days ago. Chris scurried it into the bedroom and swaddled it in old Christmas wrapping paper and proudly presented it to me. Beyond the Christmas paper it was an absolute pleasure to open, neatly twisted gold raffia, cream tissue, gold wax sealed vellum around this white square that bears a Gray Owl. The elegant work of Richard Skelton and Autumn Grieve, published by Skelton’s private press in the UK, Sustain-Release ( I think that Chris now has all of their releases). Autumn’s voice is lovely and so is the poetry they wrote that came along in a little folio. An amazing presentation and work, thank you my dear Christopher for your gift and thank you Richard and Autumn for the beautiful product.
March 18, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Haven’t drawn a bird in a while. . . I know I haven’t posted many art update photos. I have been hunting and gathering more little frames for paintings rather successfully, I’ve found lots of great ones, after all, I sold nearly all the little ones at my last show (yay!). I am preparing a batch for the next show in May, and I’m getting some more frames from the fabulous artist Susan Young tomorrow. But I actually think hers are on the bigger side which is awesome. So I’ll let you know how they’re progressing. . . if you end up wanting one, let me know. . . they were claimed fast!
March 18, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
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If you’ve been sleeping, click the fancy titles to hear and/or download the sample tracks, courtesy of Digitalis.
P.S. The art edition is almost sold out. If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time to acquire!
March 18, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I’ve just been turned away from Vacuum World who supposedly fixes sewing machines. . . well, at least not mine. (sigh) Its been broken for a year now. The pom-poms on the site of designer Beattie reminded me I wanted to sew some on pillows for Marshall’s boring play-nook at the studio. Speaking of studios, have you seen the latest one on The Selby? Artist Hunt Slonem, his studio seems straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. And the fabulous stalactites all over his easel and utensils! I wish there was a time laps camera witnessing the growths. Can I have a tropical bird on my shoulder while I paint please? I suppose if I didn’t have cats. . . or cares about whether it was poached .
March 17, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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My desk rarely looks like this, which I am sure you are aware of, it usually is background of clutter to a lot of my photos. Other peoples’ clutter actually. Mail, the contents of male pockets, coloring books, dried out crayola markers, old coffee mugs, an arugula incubator. . . that is the usual occupants. Right now our studio is a little bit crazy again, it awaits the end of yet another prolonged project before we can reorganize. I think I have given up hope of that day ever coming, so I decided to lay down the law for at least one part of my life (if I don’t, I start going crazy in a very bad way). Now there is only clutter in the corner on the shelf by my desk, instead of on it. And I tried to keep the pretty clutter more towards the front. Here’s to keeping it that way! (yeah right. . .)
March 16, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Today we came home to find our orange cat Charlie waiting by an outside brick wall of our house. The fury reason for his patience was clinging very pathetically to the bricks about six feet above. The mouse was as darling as a Richard Scary illustration, he let me rescue him in a ceramic pitcher but didn’t seem very pleased that I had relocated him to the grass. Eventually he made his way back to climbing the walls, evidently he was determined to get in our house, which might explain why he wasn’t very scared of me. In fact he seemed to recognize me, which can only mean one thing. . .
This book above is a recent find at a thriftstore, titled simply Animal Babies. I got it for Marshall but I suspect it will make its way into my reference library. The photos are fabulous, the animals all bring back different memories from my childhood. The bunnies are my favorite, despite the fact that they evoke the motherless ones we rescued as children. . . we couldn’t couldn’t feed them properly and they all eventually died as we cradled them in our hands. Goodness that was a sad sentence. Anyways, I like the book, but I am a little afraid of that cuteness ending up in my paintings.