Birthday Drawing

I am working on this delightful, over the top, drawing for my daughter's third birthday. She loves everything in the drawing: rainbows, whales, dolphins, sea horses, and horses. I have enjoyed making something that might be desirable to a three year old and her active imagination.

Materials used: ink, graphite, watercolor pencils, 8 X 10 " on rag paper

Wolves

This drawing I worked on today. I think it may need a little more tinkering. I wanted to take a break from my Drawing for ARDS project to clear my head. Media used: graphite and lazertran collage on digital print.

Shrouded Sheep

I began this drawing to accompany a drawing in my fundraising project. I never felt like it was finished. I did a little bit more work on it today and I think it is done.

Blood Bath City at the Anton Art Center

Come to the party on Friday, October 24th for some music, scary artwork, and fun!

Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: The Work of Tara Donovan

I have always loved Tara Donovan's artwork, they way she makes such breathtaking work with such simple materials. She received the 2008 MacArthur “Genius” grant, and an exhibition just opened in Boston to spanning a decade of her work.
This is an abridged version of an interview between Lawrence Weschler and Tara Donavan that appears in the monograph, Tara Donovan. (Via Design Observer)

Lawrence Weschler:
So you graduated from the Corcoran. Then what happened?
Tara Donovan:
I waited tables for six years.
Then I started making this sculpture where I was filling balloons with sand. And, God, it’s really funny actually. They were these natural-color balloons. I realized that if you exposed them to sunlight, they would kind of turn these pinkish hues and you could get all this subtle variation in color. And I would sit at night watching TV with a funnel and a bucket of sand and I would fill these balloons with sand, knot them, and pin them to my wall. So I covered this entire wall in these sand-filled balloons. It was kind of the first big thing I’d ever made.
To conitnue reading the interview click here.

Amy Sacksteder

Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Amy Sacksteder for coffee. We have a few mutual friends and I have heard of her many times. I am thrilled to have finally met her and to continue our friendship. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University and was recently featured in New American Paintings. We share many similar ideas and aesthetics in our work and it is great that she only lives a few miles away!

No more shopping for me.....

Because I just bought this amazing painting, Veil, by my dear friend Kathryn. I have been pining for this painting since I saw it over a year ago. I am happy she put it on her etsy shop and soon it will be on my wall! Yippee!

Blood Bath City, 2nd Annual Art Execution

Two of my new drawings will be included in the second annual Halloween event, Blood Bath City at the Anton Art Center. This juried exhibition will be on display from Friday, October 10- Nov. 2nd. Opening Reception and costume party with live music will be on Oct. 24, 9PM-2AM.

It should be a blood curling good party and exhibition!