Otherworldly Art
This year marks the 10th year I’ve done a painting for Master Lu’s Health Center! Hard to believe it, but I’m only 2 years from having all the animals done for them. This year’s painting was the horse, and I was nervous. The horse is very special to me, so I wanted it to come out just right. I really like the look and feel of it, please enjoy!
One big thing I’ve neglected to share with many people outside of Master Lu’s Kung Fu Studio is my Chinese New Year Animals that I paint for the Studio each year. This year is the Year of the Snake, so that is what the painting was of. I’ve got all of the paintings, including the sketches and ink work before the watercolor goes on, for most of the animals I’ve done thus far. Enjoy!
I had a wonderful art show at The Granite Gallery this past summer with Bill Larsen. His pieces were the paintings, while I brought in pottery and hand-built ceramics. They looked really good together, and thanks to Tamara Burnside, the arrangement in the gallery really complimented all of the work. It was great fun to be able to have a show with my former High School Art teacher!
For my second year of helping with the Thorne Miniature Holiday Exhibit, I was asked to create some paper lanterns for the New Mexico room. Wow! These turned out to be a lot more challenging than I expected them to be. It is very tricky working with paper on that scale… particularly when you want to hand color the paper and get it to bend into those tiny round lanterns. After a lot of experimentation (mostly failures) I was finally pointed in the direction of using rolling papers. It’s pretty funny going into a head shop, describing what type of paper you want to get, and telling them it’s for an “art project.” Gotta give a shout out to the guys at Knuckleheads in Salt Lake City, they were awesome and got all excited about helping me find just the right papers that would work for what I was doing… and loaded me up on a bunch more with fun patterns on them just to help out and be part of the whole creative process. You guys were wonderful!
Okay, so I haven’t done any blog post in forever! I could give lots of excuses as to why… like I’ve been in a total funk with my art for the past year, but we wont get into that. I’ve been working on a commission piece for a while (too long) and have pictures of the miniatures I did for the Chicago exhibit again this last holiday season. I LOVE doing those miniatures!!! I’m going to do a post or two to show what I did for the miniatures in just a sec. Also, I think that the template I’ve been using here for my blog isn’t being updated anymore, so I may be changing it. The designer has another one that I might be switching to… so there might be a revamp and overhaul of my site coming up. We’ll see…
Hi all! It’s been far too long since I’ve given an update on things I’m doing… so here’s a start:
I’ve got some of my single goddess tiles for sale a Crone’s Hollow, a local shop here in Salt Lake City.
I’m working with my sister again for this year’s holiday exhibit of the Thorne Miniatures in Chicago.
I’ve got a couple of private commissions going… more info to come there.
All in all, I’ve been super busy. I’ll be trying to get more images and info uploaded!
On Christmas, the Today Show featured a story about the Holiday Miniature exhibit. My sister is wonderful in the interview, and you even get a couple of glimpses at the menorah! Enjoy everybody.
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/mini-museum-gets-big-makeover/66cmu4a?from=
Here’s yet another article on the Miniatures Exhibit. I got word from my sister that the exhibit is getting some special celebrity attention as well. I’ll update more on that later. <g>
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/2844826,thorne-rooms-holidays-103110.article
Hi all!
I have a table at a boutique tomorrow, Saturday the 23rd, at South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society 6876 South Highland Drive (2000 East)
Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
Click here for directions!
I’ll be selling my tile work, some fused glass, and other work. The boutique starts at 1pm. For more details, check out the SVUUS Facebook page. Can’t wait to see you there!
I thought I’d post up the stories as I catch them. The New York Times interviewed my sister.
Great pictures on this one!
http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/decking-out-in-miniature-for-the-holidays/