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So excited to be included in a group show next month in Manhattan! I was lucky enough to meet Cami Ledy in Miami, and I am privileged to have a chance to work with her. If you are in Manhattan, please check "M.O. Layered" out!
I had a pony named "Hot Shot" that was nearly the same color. Then I graduated to a spiteful Appaloosa, and finally to a Quarter horse. My mom now has a mother/daughter donkey duo that I have yet to meet. They just have the greatest ears and kindest eyes.
In my studio along with some other little critters. Sometimes I think my animals can get a little too similar in body shape to my sewing ladies. I am so glad this guy is a meaty no neck. And I am just noticing that all my animals lean to the left....maybe because I am right handed?
I just adore sloths. Do you know they do a dance to poop? Sometimes I feel like a little boogie is needed to get things moving.
His left eye can move in the socket, and sometimes he just looks so confused. Or high. I can't decide if I should let it be. It might be a good look for a sloth.
Hi there for anyone who has been reading...I have been to Miami, been back, had shingles, given my husband chicken pox, fought with my son's asthma, been making some screen prints and trying to get a lot of my own work done. So much to report on Miami and all the work I saw, but that will have to be a different post. Right now, I am just quick trying to get back at this so I am posting one of my new figures. I have a show in June in Northern Minnesota, and I hope to have a whole family to share.
This is my new woodpecker. And I am so in love with him. I am working on wings and limbs now. Somehow I need to start planning for these little critters tails though....it would make things so much easier. I tend to forget they have them.
So I just posted the progress pics from this last big piece I was working on, but they are from several weeks ago. I just spent the last eight hours finishing it while watching Stranger Things. I loved it, but why is Winona Ryder not aging? Anyway, my husband spent much of my birthday documenting works in frames for Superfine! All works will be for sale!
All of the pieces above are 8x8 inches in a 10x10 inch frame.
This piece is 18x18 inches in a 20.5x20.5 inch frame. It is my favorite and I am afraid it is not going! Not enough wall space.
So I have one piece I am trying to finish for Superfine! in Miami in December. I have been nervous to open up my color palette on the sewing pattern paper, but finally decided to do it. I like how the violets, blues and greens are more bruise like. I am also getting more brave in my thread color mixing which is making for some fabulous opportunities. Here are some quick pics:
While baking some birthday goodies this week, I started listening to Elizabeth Gilbert's podcast "Magic Lessons" which is an extension of sorts of her book "Big Magic" which was published in 2015. She has two seasons of episodes, and I just picked the last episode of this last season. It was a sort of post mortem on the whole season of guests, and there was so much good stuff. I had never heard of Glennen Doyle Melton, but she is a blog writer (Momastery.com), an author, a recovering addict and a truth teller. WHAT A TRUTH TELLER. I have got to see if I can find a transcript of their conversation. Elizabeth Gilbert mentioned a quote by John Steinbeck, "and now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." Elizabeth said that Glennen went one step further with the thought, "but if you don't have to be good, then you can be free." Isn't that the most beautiful idea? Isn't that what we all want, to be free?