Spring is here in Minnesota...

and I am feeling lucky. The sun is shining. Birds are singing. The grass is peaking through. Just that can change my attitude so much. I feel like professional changes and growth is around the corner. I am thinking about the resources I need to gather in order to make this shift and the ways in which it is going to make me really uncomfortable to change. But I need to. I want to draw more. Drawing is so joyful. I made this one in January and was so thankful that a dear friend wanted to take it home.

Let it be a spring of more drawing.

Skeleton hand drawing finished just in time....

So I have work going up in this beautiful local, Rochester, Minnesota restaurant called Forager this weekend.  I finished the text on the drawing yesterday and got it cleaned up in photoshop just now.  I will be selling this image as a framed print, along with prints of the rest of this anatomical series.  I can't wait to see them in the space.

The reception for the exhibition will be 10/23/16 from 4-6 pm.  Hope to see you there!

a little more drawing...

was done this week.  I have had more than a handful of images of 1950's ladies in a folder, just waiting to come out.  I thought one of these little ladies would be lovely as a deer, so that is how this came about.  I like how she is looking at you, but being waited on by someone else off stage. I, of course, see all the awkwardness of a leg, the hands, the value....but I am letting that go and enjoying the process of seeing what comes. 

a little bit of drawing...

was done this week.  I would like to have a new drawing/print for my Etsy.com shop at least once a week until I reach 100 listings.  I know.  But it can't hurt to draw and I am curious to see what comes.  This is the first!

"undone"

Is a two-person exhibit I am in with Nicole Simpkins at the Larson Art gallery at the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus.  The show opens on Thursday 1/28 from 6-8 pm.  And it is catered by  Holy Land middle eastern restaurant.  Hope to see you there!

NIcole Sara Simpkins

demos....

for Drawing.  Whenever I have to do a demo for the class, there is always this moment, of "Please, just let me draw good."  It is not always good, but it is often what it needs to be.  

september, seriously?

Things have been nuts.  There has been no time.  My classes started, my son's school hasn't.  I made a trip to my mom's in California with my son and mules were ridden.  I installed my piece "Ligatures" at Artistry in Bloomington, and a week later I attended the reception.  The exhibition is titled "It's Personal" and I am showing with Paula Barkmeier.  The city of Bloomington's communication specialist produced this short video on the exhibition if you would like to take a look: "It's Personal."

"Corded 2" by Paula Barkmeier

and another....

the last of the series so far. 

I have a friend who is a doctor of Hematology and Oncology at the Mayo Clinic and she has asked that I make her a drawing of a blood vessel.  I'm not yet sure of the words to accompany it.  Thoughts?