Artwork on Display

Oops! I forgot to mention one of my paintings is making a public appearance in the annual Howland Community Open Exhibit, which will be up through March 2. The piece in the show is View from Parking Garage, Chattanooga, TN.

Beth Bee Books will be at Handmade Bazaar 12/12/09

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

Corvallis Arts Center - piece on display & for sale starting 11/13

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.

Mural Installation!

At long last, the smaller of the two murals is up at Good Samaritan Hospital, Corvallis. (!)

Mural #2 Update - Painting Completed!

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.

Mural #2 update

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.)

This and that

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'm keeping up with Beth Bee Books as well as I can, but trying not to boost sales until I can turn my attention back to more production after the mural commission is out of the way. Despite this, Occasionally my books are finding themselves being mentioned...



on Apartment Therapy Chicago!
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/organizing/do-you-keep-an-address-book-073994



in Italian!
http://www.pinkblog.it/post/2583/ricettari-e-tastebook-ricette-online-o-scritte-a-mano



on random people's blogs!
http://food.pinkhairedgirl.com/?cat=39
http://jdorganizer.blogspot.com/2009/02/organizing-recipes-easy-to-elaborate.html



splendid!

Mural #2 Update

More progress...



(click to view a larger version)

Mural 2 progress

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.

Keeping Busy!

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!