June 1, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I am honored to be on the jury for Indie Craft Parade, coming to Greenville this fall. Its going to be great! Please come and please apply if you are an artisan. Apply right here!
May 16, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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So of course the week after we go crazy preparing for the White Whale show I have a wedding to arrange flowers for. Have I ever posted any of my arrangements? I’m cutting back on my flower arranging, I can’t quite handle everything on my plate, though I love it all, family, art, flowers. . . art and family won. It is sooooooo much work, but the flowers are amazing. Look at them, perfection with a stem. Magenta peonies, good pick bride, the prettiest bouquet flower ever. Thank you mother, and Erin, and Julia for all your help.
By the way, the Art Bomb show was great, I am invigorated to work. Yes, I should have taken pictures, I brought my camera, but it rode in the stroller. I couldn’t put my eye behind a lens and keep track of Marshall at the same time. . .
Ok, I going on vacation this week. . . you may or may not see anything new for a while. . . at least for a week.
May 14, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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The exquisite culprits who have been munching my herbs. Why do they have to be so pretty?
My ridiculous brain miscalculated dates for the best art show of the year in Greenville at the Art Bomb and so, I came a night early. And they graciously let me in and Paul showed me around and of course I am still blown away, every time I recall what I saw. The most talented, innovative group of artists in the area, you must go see the results of all their hard work, Saturday, that is. 6pm-9:30pm.
May 10, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Here, some more photos of all those little ones I worked on for ages. It seemed as though they should take up so much more space. So excited that they found really fabulous homes, one in the soon-to-be nursery of Marco and his wife, one with the terrific Diane and one with her neighbor, one with darling Barb, two to dear friend Gwen, and another went with a gentleman named Clearance. Oh goodness! and my favorite Luna moth is traveling through states to live with Tim. Hurray! and The Hawk , is definitely coming home with me. I really am in quite taken with him, I’m not sure he’ll ever see a price tag again.
May 10, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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My husband and I both agreed, the week before was bursting with a month’s worth of work. And then bang sizzle sizzle, the night was like through like a sparkler. A quick beautiful one. The gallery and studios, perfect and quiet and then suddenly bursting with people, a line of cars that stretched far down the street. Every new face and every familiar face made all our toiling so worth it. Many little paintings and I parted ways I am happy to say. The rest will soon end up in the much neglected etsy shop.
This happens every time, I wish I had gotten ore photos. . . more of the wonderful porch, of everyone’s work on the walls, of the people, the bounty of food. . .
The top two by a well-prepared friend, Jenny, so glad she brought her camera. The very top one, the wonderful cozy porch and the kind, eloquent Dr. Raff. The great big house in the dark, my desk and the growing stack of inspiration binders. I wish I had gotten more of Mollie’s birds she frantically finished for us. I am in love with them, yes, Mollie you will be missing two when I return the rest to you, I must buy them for my own, they were just way too fabulous above my desk.
April 23, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Annie, Art Shows, For Sale, Our Artwork
I know that I may have promised certain people more owls for the WW May show. . . but the proliferation of botanical specimens in my yard distracted me. More owls for the fall show and Indie Craft Parade, thats a promise.
This newly finished one, Luna, Mystery Weed and tribute to the Schiele Girl in the Striped Dress? Ok, so maybe that’s not the real title, I hate picking titles. I’ll just say that this is another milestone for me, a return to my former true art self. (weeeeeirdo. . .) What I mean is, I realized, that as I was finishing this one that it looked so much like my oil work in college ( I had been oil painting at least six years by then, I’ve been in acrylic about five now). The thick loose brushieness over glazes. And the color palette (yes, the obsession again) I can’t tell you how familiar it feels, I think perhaps these colors were in nearly every painting I produced from that time period, tubes and tubes or cerulean and the siennas. And I don’t mind actually. I guess returning to old techniques can be a good thing sometimes. We’ll see what the public thinks about it.
Below, another painting of the mystery weed, and a thank you to Paul Flint for tipping me off about this gray/blue paint was in the oops stack at paint store. A gallon of it for pocket change, yay.
April 22, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Art Shows, Artist Love, Like + Love
The intricate and lovely work of Mary Jo Watson, a fellow artist at White Whale Studio. Her grandmother taught her pine needle basket weaving, and she is taking it to a new level of creativity. I love, love, the little woven circles, they are so beautiful hanging in bundles. I wish I had gotten more, better photos of her work, I need to get some more good ones. Come to our WW show in May and see for yourself! And meet her, she’s very sweet.
April 21, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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This has been one of sister Erin and my friend Libby’s most recent project, Indie Craft Parade. We’ve wanted a good quality craft fair for awhile here in Greenville and now we’ve got one! Check out the awesome site that just went up, apply if you are an artist or crafter in the Southeast, or mark it on your calendars if you love buying and being amongst handmade goods. I’m so excited!!!