Art Every Day

I spent yesterday in the company of 3 other women artists working on a project call ‘The Exquisite Corpse’. Let me say in advance that I’m inspired and humbled by all of our combined talents–can’t wait to do this again!

The basis of the project is you start something (could be a painting, a poem, a short story–anything creative) and then you hand it off to someone else who adds to it. There’s almost no rules (like if you paint something, the next person can paint over it, around it, through it…), but when a ‘theme’ is started, the next artist tends to be inspired by it and carries it on, modifying and taking it to new places.

Here is my ’start’ for the project–I’ve been studying the tarot card ‘Death’ (it’s all about transformation and metamorphosis, not necessarily physical death), so I started with a typical symbol of that card–a skeleton. This is 14 x 18 inches, the skeleton is troweled on modeling paste, dried, sanded, and with several acrylic washes over the top.

And here is the final product, the ideas of each artist added in and around the starting image. Pretty impressive, no?

To see all the other projects along with pictures of us all, please visit Marianne’s oh-so-active blog–here’s the entry for The Exquisite Corpse.

Part of the goal for these projects (as I found out once I got to Marianne’s!) is to put them in the We Art Women silent auction. I don’t think that Pam is going to part with hers, and honestly, don’t know if I can part with mine either! We’ll see…I figure I’ll frame it up and decide in a week or so.

Ok, maybe a little less.
Last week I had my first opening at the Basement Gallery here in Boise, and a fellow artist Randy Miller took a video of me talking about my prints. If you follow this YouTube link, my portion starts at 4:55 into the video (not that you should zoom ahead–you can watch a couple of my fellow Boise artists in those first few minutes).

Had my first opening in a gallery, the Basement Gallery here in Boise. It was very crowded all evening and I had a wonderful time. Thank you so much to my many friends in Boise who came down to see the show. In this picture you see me on the left and the Gallery’s new owner Jane Brumfield on the right. Behind us on the wall are my prints.

Here’s the final print for my vineyard set of Watercolor Monotypes.

Here’s a couple of new prints I’ve done–planning to put these in the We Art Women show this year. I have one more to print that will complete this set of wine related images. All are approx. 6×8 inches on white Stonehenge.

Not often I have an excuse to do some sewing any more. But, I made a baby quilt for my niece…size is 45×60 and it went out Priority Mail today!