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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.
and I am going! I had been looking at Emerging Fair venues during some of the major art weeks across the US to see if one might be accessible to me. In my research, I discovered Superfine! and was really excited about the possibility. Then comes real life in the form of basement water and mold, possible job status changes and coming cat dental bills, and I figured I better hold off. But with the sale of my grid last week, I decided to go for it. I applied, have been accepted and am starting to prepare my curatorial plan for the fair. I am really excited about it! I know many of the dolls will go, and I have some small framed stitched pieces I would like to include as well. I am thinking about two bigger stitched pieces, but I don't know that I can get that done. I am so excited for five days in Miami in December and ALL THE ART!
I finished this drawing recently as well. You can find it as a print at Forager, or shortly on my etsy site...I am a little behind in getting things listed. And cleaning. All the cleaning.
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!
So I have either been teaching, prepping to teach, stitching, sleeping or exercising. Occasionally I have made a nice dinner or a batch of cookies. There has been no cleaning. My house is filthy. But, I have gotten some artwork done. I have work going into a local restaurant, Forager, at the beginning of October and I am desperately trying to finish two stitched pieces and two drawings. And then I hope to make one more drawing; I don't know that that is going to happen. I have watched the first season of Fargo on Hulu.com while I was working on this piece:
And it was fabulous. Like I would watch it again fabulous. It was a ten hour miniseries, and I finished stitching on all the little eyes right as it ended. Now I need to cover it some with massed thread clumps. Might have to buy myself season 2 for that work.
for a week with my son to visit a friend, this came in the mail.
there are over 6000 little eyes in here...all without the hooks. I am just about ready to start sewing.