March 5, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I think today I’ll post these photos of a commission I had done for a friend, because they finally have them now, and to remind me that this was part of the work I did the past few months when I look at the walls of my art show and wonder why it seems there should be more to show for my hours of sketching and glazing. I was so happy to see them in the home they belonged to, for the wall that was ready for them and the lovely people they would live with.
Tonight is the opening of my show. I have a large roll of the best butter from Happy Cow creamery and some jars of jam from NC that really is the same price as you could get in a store. I hope I have enough bread! I am a very social person, but I do get nervous at shows, art is so personal and its hanging there for everyone to see.
February 12, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Sitting in bed after pizza, waiting for the winter olympics ceremony to begin. I love knowing the grass outside is covered with new snow (it doesn’t happen very often here). Spent the first part of the day at the studio. . . snatched a few photos of Christopher’s experimenting in charcoal. The Great Horned is glazed in shades of gray, waiting for opaqueness around it. Its little Saw-whet brother is almost ready too, you’ll see them soon, I’m sure.
February 11, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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The brilliant naturalist and artist, Maria Sibylla Merian did them first. Not used to drawing from old botanical figures, so dependent on photos for those shadow subtleties I love. . . the creatures that are coming out are a little bit more whimsical. . . perhaps a bit Baskinish. . . which I don’t mind. . . now if only I can attack the color in a good way.
February 8, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Not sure what to call it. . . “Alice Billow” ? “Wonderland Steam”? “Tea Party Rising”? I hate attaching specific words to images, but at the same time I dread that term Untitled. . .
Here are some before color photos which you probably already saw. . .
I actually like the colors I ventured to use! And red at that! Egon Schiele influenced, can you tell? The background is actually a very pale green, though here it appears to be white.
When to see Kent and Peg’s amazing house and studio. . . so amazing. A fabulous collection of folk art. Very encouraging experience overall.
February 3, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Stayed up late and watched LOST with the Greenes. Inevitably I woke up with a headache (I’m a wuss, I have to got to bed by 11 or my body mutinies). Lots of cups of caffeine later, a hot shower and magical blue pills and I am cured. And the day so bright and warmish! That helps.
My foresty yard has a bounty of fungus every fall, so many varieties, I really need to get a field guide. . . though I don’t eat them, only in select circumstances that involve lots of cheese. These are reference photos I used for my Alice piece. I loved seeing them again and drawing all those subtleties in their skin. I think I need to draw them more often. . .
February 2, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Scrambling to finish this painting to send to Gallery Nucleus for the Curious and Curiouser show. . .must be done by the end of the week! Still needs some more graphite and then some glazes. I have twenty-two pieces in the works at various stages of completion. . .that’s better than last week, it was up to twenty-four on Thursday!
I’m sure it will in no way compare to Sir John Tenniel’s fabulous original pieces for the stories.
January 27, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Watching Hope for Haiti as I type this out and send it to post in the future, so so hard to see those babies alone. I wonder if I should change the channel when seeing them doesn’t allow me to hold them, only makes me terribly sad.
I have strayed far from colors lately. I suppose its my devoted affection for graphite, gray is my comfort zone, art and clothes (sans neon nails and lips). I confess I really have never been satisfied with my color choices in the past, I feel like someone else chose them, not me. I am ready to try again though. Since having a child somehow I am certain of so much more now, the clothes that I like, the decor that I like, the art that I like, the food and I think maybe the colors. . . See the paint palette? Crayola! I got one for Marsh (which is now a collection of muddied ovals) and I couldn’t believe how wonderful the colors were. The watercolor palettes I remember as a child were so chalky. Oh its so fun! the blue! the red! the yellow!
January 18, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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For now these two branches wait until studio wednesday, they will get many thin coats of wax then. And the chickadees will get little garlands. And a sprawling mismatched set of little frames will get more paint. And I just now returned from breaking up a screaming cat fight. Literally.
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