I’ve been working on new paintings for the Salem Art Fair and getting them framed this week. The painting above is larger than my usual work, which means it is more difficult to frame. I feel like I’ve made a breakthrough though, in that I finally figured out how to cut mat that is oversized on [...]
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Summer is in full swing here… and with it I have become highly distractible. I feel like I’m running in many different directions at top speed. This post is titled in homage to one of the books I’m currently reading: Why I Wake Early, poems by Mary Oliver. Her work focuses on the small daily [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
I wanted to share with you one of the best compliments I received at the art festival last weekend, from Annika, age 6 I can’t believe it is already Friday! This week has flown by…. First of all, thank you to everyone who came by the Salem Art Fair last weekend. It was great to see [...]
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Ahhhhhh Summer! Time to get yourself to Salem to take in the Art Fair! Why? 1. To see all the new art I’ve created in the past 2 years (Booth 10- say hi!) 2. Art from other artists from across the region 3.It’s the largest and oldest art festival in Oregon 4. To enjoy the [...]
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I’m mailing out postcards tomorrow! Everyone likes to get real mail, right? I ordered some postcards to get people excited for the art fair coming up in just one week…. Hopefully everyone is planning to be there or be square! This year I decided to provide a little extra incentive for people to purchase… a [...]
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I’m starting to feel the panic, and that is a good thing. I’ve been steadily working toward getting paintings ready for the Salem Art Fair, but today I am officially 2 weeks away, and feeling the need to crank it up a notch. This past week I have only finished one painting >:( because of [...]
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It has been a busy weekend… our last two kids came home from college… I just about wrote ‘teenagers’, but our oldest just turned 21! How did that happen? Seems like just yesterday I was driving her to pre-school! She and I share the studio space for the summer, so I had to do a [...]
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