6.23.2006

Open Studio June 24.

I'm out of town, but please come by and check out my stuff! Sean and I set up our artwork last Sunday before we jumped on the plane. I'm super behind on sending e.mails and checking out blogs from here because connections are pretty slow, but I'm hoping to post some pictures soon! Thank you everyone for coming by and for all of your awesome comments!

Back to Open Studio details...Whats the occasion? Its the Artist Resource Fair and 5th Anniversary Party for the Washington Glass School. This annual event means lots of great deals on glass art and sculpture, music, food...The Fair is free and open to all...

Scenic Artisans and Washington Glass School location:
3708 Wells Ave, MT Rainier, MD 20712

And of course, a mapquest link.

For more details on the event, check out this link on Sean's blog for more details about the event and directions!

6.22.2006

Illustration Friday: Dance

I'm barely making this post in time, just landed in Beirut a few nights ago and its been busy busy busy! Two illustrations for today! Here they are:

Meet Harvey. Harvey was a little mouse. Unfortunately, Harvey didn't live to a ripe old age. Why? Well, his favorite thing to do was sneak up on little girls, then look up their skirts as they danced in the air. Yes, Harvey was cute, but not very bright.



Hope you soon get Mr. Harvey and his family out of your house, Heather!

Meet Ramone. Ramone didn't find humor in many things. He walked around with a very very straight face. One of the only things he found enjoyable was to sit on the sidewalk and watch the tall ladies in thin high heels walked by. What could be funny about that? Every once in a while, a heel would get caught in the sidewalk grate and he would closely watch the little dance they did to pull their heels out. That made him laugh every time.



Harvey and Ramone were painted in watercolor on
2.75"x3.75" amalfi cotton rag paper.

Previous Illustration Friday entries ::
jungle : portrait : cake : sorry : angels and devils : fat : under the sea : robot : spotted robot : speed : spring again : more spring : spring : monster : tattoo [one page tale painted gocco print] : tattoo : insect : tea : song : simple : chair : glamour [color gocco print] : glamour : cats : e is for : sea : flavor : holiday : imagine

6.18.2006

knit signing.

Here is some new work in progress:


I like how my ladies look before the knitting is sewn in. The way their fingers are positioned looks like they're trying to tell us something. But what?



:: update : i just posted pictures of my lateset Beirut exhibit at this link! thanks for visiting! ::

Previously::
:: some more connections.
:: open studio fun.
:: about connectedness.
:: knitting dreams.
:: kite watcher.
:: imagining ouselves.

6.13.2006

Illustration Friday: Jungle at HonFest

Yes, I went to HonFest in Hampden this past weekend. No, I didn't dress up like the ladies in this HonFest link, but it was fun to watch the Hampden Charm School cheerleaders with their puffy pink dos! I did score a super awesome pair of shoes, but first, I must tell you the story of Maude:

Meet Maude. Maude does not go out looking like this every day. Maude actually has a day job where she works quality control at the cheese puff factory. But once a year for HonFest she goes wild and piles her pink hair high, high, high up on her head and dresses up in her leopard print tights, bright orange boa, and blue eyeshadow. How does it all stay in place? Its glued tight with aquanet, of course. So much junk on her head, shes a walking jungle.



And now the shoes. Yes, I got me a pair of Fluevogs. Meet Jennifer. No, I haven't been sleeping in them, promise. But I have been wearing them around the house! The heels are heart-shaped and the sole of the shoe says "To love or to hate, the Choice is yours." Yes, I let Maude try them on for this illustration.



The contrast stitching around the edges makes me think of my latest set of paintings currently on exhibit in Beirut. Three have already sold (yay!) and I believe the exhibit will be up for another two weeks.

Maude and her HonFest beehive were painted in watercolor on
2.75"x3.75" amalfi cotton rag paper.

Previous Illustration Friday entries ::
portrait : cake : sorry : angels and devils : fat : under the sea : robot : spotted robot : speed : spring again : more spring : spring : monster : tattoo [one page tale painted gocco print] : tattoo : insect : tea : song : simple : chair : glamour [color gocco print] : glamour : cats : e is for : sea : flavor : holiday : imagine

6.07.2006

the (un)finished object

At the beginning of May, the fabulous ellia of green bean baby started the unfinished object initiative, and I joined in! I was able to finish a bunch of deadlines, but was so immersed in these different projects I barely had time left to blog!

Here is a list of projects I managed to finish ::
:: Paintings for Imagining Ourselves exhibit in Beirut
:: Embellished Kitty Square for Wall of Yarn exhibit in Australia
:: 1,000 wedding invitations designed, printed, scored, and cut. phew!
:: and I kept up with Illustration Friday every week!

My unfinished objects for last month are complete! But in this goshdarnknit world, there is no time for nothing! Here is a small sampling of whats next on my plate:
:: Finish a portrait commission
:: Develop a university lecture I'll be giving about design
:: Creative exchange with flossy-p
:: Illustrations for a friend's business
:: Get ready for my trip to Lebanon in a few weeks!
(going on a trip means lots of time to knit!)

Is there anything else I've forgotten?

6.06.2006

Illustration Friday: Portrait

Meet Noah. When Noah was teeny his left arm took hold of a mopey monkey-bear his great aunt Josephine made him. He never let go. This really irked his mom. Every single picture of Noah had mopey monkey-bear in it. So one day they made an agreement. From then on, Noah held his favorite toy in the whole wide world out of the frame every time his picture was taken.



Noah was painted in watercolor on
2.75"x3.75" amalfi cotton rag paper.

Previous Illustration Friday entries ::
cake : sorry : angels and devils : fat : under the sea : robot : spotted robot : speed : spring again : more spring : spring : monster : tattoo [one page tale painted gocco print] : tattoo : insect : tea : song : simple : chair : glamour [color gocco print] : glamour : cats : e is for : sea : flavor : holiday : imagine

6.05.2006

my wall of yarn square.



Another project I finished and mailed away last week was my square for the wall of yarn exhibit at nectar gallery in Australia. Another completed project! hooray!

Before felting, the original knit square was huge. It was knit on some super clunky, super stumpy, size 17 needles with Araucania nature wool. Once complete, I felted it down to the 15cm x 15cm size it is now. The stitch used was the cluster 5 from the daisy scarf I made earlier this year. After felting its really hard to tell what stitch it is, but its nice and airy, and I like that!

One of the requirements was to embellish the square in some way. I knit a bobble with some tencel/wool yarn and used that to attach one of my painted kitty tags to the square.


6.02.2006

Some more connections.

After weeks and weeks of work, two nights ago I finally completed four more connectedness paintings for my exhibit that opens this Saturday! Here they are:


Knit V. mixed media. 14" x 11"


Knit VI. mixed media. 14" x 11"



Knit VII. mixed media. 14" x 11"


Knit VIII. mixed media. 14" x 11"

Here is my current artist statement:
I am fascinated by the connections we find in our everyday experiences: from the isolation of communities on the subway, to the solitary experience of introspection, to the feelings of deep communion. How do we think of our place in this world? How do we fit in it?
My work is about the levels of connectedness we feel. I paint, draw, and knit to represent moments of these feelings.


I wish I could be there at the opening this Saturday, but its thousands of miles away. I will be travelling there in a few weeks, so the good news is that I will be at the closing night party!

Click here to see some of the work of the other artists I'll be exhibiting with.

Previously::
:: open studio fun
:: about connectedness.
:: knitting dreams.
:: kite watcher.
:: imagining ouselves.

6.01.2006

Illustration Friday: Cake

Meet Priscilla. Priscilla is a master baker and pastry chef who makes the most scrumptious cakes in the whole wide world. People say "gosh" after every bite of her ganache.

How does she do it? As a scientist is her early days, she developed the most fabulous bakers hat and an extendable arm. Stand mixer? Who needs a stand mixer when you have an arm like that? duh.



How do I know this? She was my neighbor and I got to sample all of her delicacies!

Priscilla painted in watercolor on
2.75"x3.75" amalfi cotton rag paper.

Previous Illustration Friday entries ::
sorry : angels and devils : fat : under the sea : robot : spotted robot : speed : spring again : more spring : spring : monster : tattoo [one page tale painted gocco print] : tattoo : insect : tea : song : simple : chair : glamour [color gocco print] : glamour : cats : e is for : sea : flavor : holiday : imagine