http://blog.koelleart.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little bit late for this, but mainly posting this for Teresa, curator of Art & Light (where we had the show) who was gone the weekend of the show on a much deserved cruise. . . and for all the people who couldn't come so they know what they ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/the-crumbs/ One of the latest deliveries to our door step. Walton Ford's Pancha Tantra, a huge volume, a tome! I first found him, interestingly enough, in the pages of Vogue, I think in the Index section. . . I read as much on online as I could find and watched the Art ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/walton/ I got this last Saturday for nearly nothing at an antique store that was going out of business. Hot pink! South American the tag presumed. Its quite large actually, about the size of throw for a couch, though it is rather scratchy. I love the patterns and I love the ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/for-girls/ Annalsia's farm square, I wish I had gotten a shot from afar. I am in love with that white bull, Chris likes those spotted cows, and everyone seemed partial to the pigs.  Her honey butter for the New Year's bread was quite a hit too. . . I think they ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/here/ 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 ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/commission/ Today Annalisa and I made this lovely bread for our show opening tomorrow. It is a Swiss New Year's bread that my mother and grandmother (and so on back down the line) always make around Christmas and sometimes Easter. It was quite time consuming but well worth the effort. It ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/gold-woven/ Tuesday, spent the day tying up lose ends for my show. . . The snow fell all day long, but mysteriously did not accumulate hardly at all. The view from ancient wavy glass in our studio windows. Below, the view of my desk, a stack ready to be sprayed with fixative ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/03/close/ Here is another reason I haven't been on the internet here on my blog home or anywhere else for that matter. . .I love how this one turned out! But, I discovered that in taking it home to work on the drawing step I skipped the part where I trace ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/shows-and-the-big-bird/ Took this photo in Annalisa's kitchen, I like her kitchen. Its very cozy and there is always tea and now there are fabulous orange chairs around her table. She is my art show partner this weekend, her paintings of quite domestic animals and mine of wild ones. All of hers ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/thick-strokes/ ...one framed for Scott. More images coming soon.  If you missed it, the cover art is here. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/twenty-nine-unframed-for-the-world/ This is why I haven't been around the internet very much. Some of what you see are finished, others are nearly there, I'm not going to mention which ones are in progress just to keep you guessing. . . The hawk, I love, he will be in a huge ornate frame, powdery ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/brief-return/ I won't say too much about this for now, except: I've listened to Scott Tuma's music more than anything else in the past 5 years. Just ask Annie. Creating the artwork for his upcoming release Dandelion is a total dream job. The record will be released on 12" vinyl on Digitalis. A special limited ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/scott-tuma-dandelion-cover-art-sneak-peek/ Sunny today, my son manages to start playing in the sludgy green pond of the sand box. Regrets for both parties involved. Amazing bistro chinese for lunch leftover from a nice date last night. A date where we acquired a set of moleskines to hopefully create serious sketchbooks as creative as ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/bill-on-a-rock/ Frida Kahlo image from new favorite blog, Feasting on Art! About the painting, its bursting with life, I feel as though the squash is about to explode and plaster the moth with seeds. In a good way. And about the blog, haven't made any of the food, but I must. ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/pile/ This grass is dead and pretty. So are these paintings by Jolie Holland on But Does It Float. The bone ones mostly, I can almost hear them clattering against the cardboard sides of the box. You'll only know what I mean if you look at them. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/weeds/ A cake for a dear friend, she and I are having that show together, the one that all those works in progress are aiming for. I like how pretty she is blowing out those candles, at the time I thought I missed the shot, but here it be. I like ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/celebrating/ 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 ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/black-then-white/ Whimsy spotted on my favorite Fine Little Day, Nina Lindgren. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/nina/ 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. . ... http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/from-old-lines/ Garland from Mollie! That last word is 'splendid' in case you are wondering. . .hangs above my kitchen doorway. Get a one saying this truth, or a custom one here at her shop. http://blog.koelleart.com/2010/02/message/