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!

New Retailers Update

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!

Mural Project update

Making some more progress...

Artwork on display through 10/30

The month is already half over, but it's not too late to go by the Corvallis Arts Center in downtown Corvallis to see the Around Oregon Annual exhibit. My EconoDryer painting is on display and priced for sale (1400).

Second Mural of two

I've been working on the prep work (sanding, gesso, gesso, gesso, base drawing) for the second mural commission. Finally I have put down some oil paint. This piece is larger than the first. There are 4 panels, each 46" square with a 6" space separating them.

More work from the weekend on the mural - it is basically finished! I feel like I need to do another once-over to be sure, but I may decide to go ahead with varnishing. Some detail views:
Click to enlarge and view details.

Blog Interview

So, I did this little interview with some nice N. Carolina folks with the Etsy NC Triangle Street Team. They're fellow etsy users/sellers. The interview is about Beth Bee Books stuff. It can be found on their collaborative blog, here:
http://nctriangle.blogspot.com/ ! Now you know!

Mural Update

Yet another update - Not finished yet, but getting closer!

Mural Update....again!

More progress: