I am rarely lured out of the house to table with my books at a live craft fair, but my good pal Meredith has organized a lovely holiday season Handmade Bazaar event, and so I had to join the fun! I'll be there selling my books. If you're in Portland, it would be lovely if you'd come by and say hello!
Handmade Bazaar @ Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi
Portland, Oregon
Saturday, December 12,
11am - 4pm
www.handmadebazaar.org
The Corvallis Arts Center is putting on a holiday art sale/show invitational, with the theme of "Shrines & Reliquaries" this season. They gave me a box with which to make something shriney. This project is a little outside my own "box," but I still managed to make an oil painting. Here's the result:
The show will run from November 13-December 12, 2009. For more information, check out the Arts Center.
At long last, the smaller of the two murals is up at Good Samaritan Hospital, Corvallis. (!)
At long last, I have finished painting the second mural painting I began in September/October last year.
Final varnishing remains, and renovations must be completed at the hospital before installation can be done. Stay tuned for updates.
This photo is not quite true to the colors of the painting. Better images will follow when I have a chance to take some photos with better light.
Sorry to have left everyone in the dark for so long! A painting of this size is harder to photograph than my usual work. It's best to get a photo during the day when daylight is available. Also, last time I was going to do this, my camera's batteries were run down.
The far left panel is basically finished. The other three have various things to be attended to, but I am in a finishing sort of mode now! The handful of cows, some of the shadows cast by the trees, and fence posts are coming up on my agenda. (Click on the pic to see it much more close-up.)
I am currently prioritizing the mural project... so that I can get it finished! I'm closing in, but your patience is still needed! The mural #2 I'm working on is 16x4 feet of surface area, basically. (That's 64 square feet of painting). I will try to post another progress photo soon!
I continue to work on the second mural as much as possible - this is an update from 1/17. More progress has been made since last week, which I will post later. As you can see from the furniture in front, this is a very large painting! By the way, you'll need to click on the image to see the whole photo.
December is going well! 50+ sales on Etsy.com already this month, and it's only the 11th! The shop is keeping me quite busy with holiday shoppers, plus I'm still working on the second mural painting and trying to get in my own holiday shopping (all around my day job during the week!).
My books are out there in a few retail locations for the holidays, but I haven't made time for any craft fairs. If you're lucky, they might make an appearance at my friend Meredith's table at the Handmade Bazaar at P:ear in Portland on Sunday - but I'm not promising!
A selection of Beth Bee Books are on sale at the Corvallis Art Center in downtown Corvallis for their Winterlight Art and Craft event. The sale takes over the whole gallery through Christmas Eve! I was excited to see a few things for sale from both Satsumalyn (a local etsy seller) and Appetite (from Portland Sat. Market and Etsy), two fellow artists/craftswomen whose work I really like.
I am also really excited to have books selling up north in Moscow, Idaho at the Prichard Art Gallery store (part of the University of Idaho, Moscow) starting this month!
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