http://blog.koelleart.com Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:23:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big thanks to Olivier and Marc for reaching out and highlighting some Sweet Ride art in the new issue of Steel magazine! BEAUTIFUL publication. I could thumb through it all day if I didn't have to draw so much. Cheers! http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/09/steel-magazine-02/ As many of you probably know by now, I'm a pretty big fan of Scott Tuma, whose music has filled the Koelle family headquarters for years. If you've ever spent any decent amount of time at our house or studio, the chances are you heard Mr. Tuma's music playing in ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/08/not-for-nobody/ Been buried in Revelation App work, so a post is long overdue! So, wow, I'm so excited to share this...! Four of my History of Redemption illustrations were selected to appear in FRESH Volume 3! a whopping 352-page anthology of contemporary illustration from artists around the world, created by the designers of ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/08/fresh-cutting-edge-illustration/ Chapter 4 coming this Friday! @RevelationApp available now in the App Store! http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/07/a-day-in-the-life/ ... or at least the beginning of my most recent labor of love, blood, sweat, and tears, coming very soon to an iPad / iPhone / iPod near you: The Book of Revelation. Stay tuned.  Follow @RevelationApp. Meanwhile: http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/06/the-dawn-of-a-new-era/ http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/04/death-has-died-because-jesus-is-alive/ . . . for neglecting the blog for so long. Suffice it to say we've been working nonstop, me on a ridiculously insane graphic novel, and Annie on whatever awesomeness she sets her mind to, and Narshall on saving the world, oh, AND the laptop was dead for a ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2011/02/sorry/ This weekend is Greenville Open Studios 2010, joy!  Annie and I are getting our studio and gallery all nice and pretty for the public, along with Jason Waggoner here at White Whale Studios. Things are crazy busy but we're so excited to all be in Open Studios this year! Check out ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/11/open-doors-open-studios/ Finally, we have documented the Solo Andata Ritual Edition of One, an utterly unique hand-made box set created in honor of the inaugural release from Desire Path Recordings. Beautifully photographed by my good friend and Desire Path collaborator Aaron Greene, the Ritual Edition of One includes: - The Ritual 12" LP Art ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/10/ritual-the-edition-of-one/ Well, the reason it's been so quiet around here is because our Macbook charger died and so Annie hasn't really set foot on the internet lately, except for the occasional email check on my computer here at the studio. Still waiting on a replacement charger. Rest assured, ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/10/solo-andata-ritual/ He turned 3 about a week and a half ago. He is creative and imaginative, he tells me about rabbits sleeping in nests in a tree on a mountain, about his rock band consisting completely of trumpets and horns, he loves to help me cook. I love you a million, ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/09/oh-little-boy/ So, Indie Craft Parade was amazing, thousands of people came and gathered all the pretty things, pretty things that I didn't get to see. I loved talking to people about my paintings, but oi! I wished so badly to be wandering around to see the overflowing tables and booths. One ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/09/stars-are-round/ I should be posting photos, shouldn't I? Photos of some of the prettiest flowers I've ever arranged for a wedding, photos of the brilliantly successful Indie Craft Parade, photos of my son's 3rd birthday party, photos of the fragile black swallowtail butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis I've kept on ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/09/sorting-through-pockets/ A wedding of flowers to do this weekend, next week Indie Craft Parade! Oi! Today watched my weekly batch of little boys for a kid-watch swap I do with another mom from church. . . we made these little boats inspired by the Jonah story and prop a smart teacher did ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/staying-afloat/ Watercolors brought out after a long repose. He seems to have more patience with them now. I love how he gravitated towards my own favorite colors and put them in little swatches. I watch him walk to the fridge and touch the papers, "look at all my colors, i painted ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/as-if-it-was-all-we-ever-do/ The world is a beautiful place, especially where people are very poor. Interesting. By Steve McCurry, always good at what he does. and more, beautiful Russians, and more beautiful Russians, old Russians. Both from wonderful TeenAngster http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/he-found-them/ Here's to hoping these are around when Marshall is a bit older and reading Kipling stories. . .  I don't suppose these lovely paper puppets would withstand the ferocious impulses of a toddler. Animal Poetry by Furze Chan. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/no-strings-attatched/ Farmers Market flowers for the kid show, I forgot to include this one. The marigolds were so stinky at first, but they were so perfect I had to get them anyways. And look at that Cock's Comb! Actually it should be called Cock's Brain I think, it was a bunch ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/one-more/ KID ART SHOW @ White Whale Studios & Gallery from Chris Koelle on Vimeo. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/kid-art-show-video-recap/ The kid show. I am terribly exhausted, but, it was the best show I have ever hung. The walls of this old house have never been so refreshed I think.  What a night, downpour of rain that made a river through the walk, Dan swooping in like a hero, the ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/08/the-year-of-the-butterfly/