This is how I do selfies.
I am making hay, so to speak, since I can’t be outside working on art in the pouring rain. This is my selfie during production today in my apron that I produce art in. Look for me wearing it when you come to visit me at my booth during Stampede this year.
#100 Pendants from 100 Year Old Barn Wood
Just put the first coat of resin on the Prairie Fossil necklaces that I started this am.
Today is Necklace Day
In the foreground of this image are 100 year old shingles that I will be chopping into pieces that will be made into pendants for this years Stampede. Behind them is a couple of finished pieces on the display board that they will hang on. Less than a month before #firstfriday !
Ready for a Rainy Day
The last few days I have been at my chop saw madly producing my wood canvases. Today I did some mudding and now I literally have piles of frames ready to go. Pictured here are six foot long wood canvases with plaster treatment and on the back table are piles of large shingles on float mount ready for mixed media too.
Stampede 2014
Saws are out and production of frames and mixed media pieces are well on their way. I had some butterflies thinking about everything that will be coming off the production lines in the next couple of weeks.
Plaster
Just returned from a wonderful time relaxing in Sedona. Working on some more floral plaster relief pieces.
Tomorrow the saw comes out!!!! ! Can’t wait.
Guess the Pattern
Part of my Stampede collection and a continuation of a study of agriculture patterning can you guess what this one is inspired from?
Watercolour #101
Just an FYI about creating watercolour images from my perspective… It has literally been years since I cleaned of my paint tray. I add more primary paint as needed and a bit of burnt umber too. On my small little pallette I literally have hundreds of colors set up from continual mixing. AND when I am finished for the day I just let my tray dry and I have all of those colours to work with again because they simply activate with a touch of water.
The Pattern
I have been lucky enough to connect with some interesting things that have been very artistically inspiring in life over the past couple of years. I think they are bringing me full circle, so to speak. Just last month I presented with Amy Dryer at The Women’s Resource Center in the University of Calgary. Our work was a study of patterning both conscious and subliminal and how and why it affects us. It was called Tattooed Ladies and will continue its run till April 8. The experience of creating the presentation around this topic sent me on an eye opening journey that I was not expecting and now has burst open a bubble that needed to break. This image is my official start of my work for Stampede 2014. Can you guess the name of this collection?
