In the Studio and Changes Coming
Back to the studio today after a week away with a rotten cold and then snow yesterday. It was really good to be back even though I got a lot done in my time at home. For one, I’ve finally designed my new website and am really pleased that I could do it myself, with a little help from my friend Kelly, and especially happy that I’ll be able to update it myself with new work as I go. I’ll be closing this blog and transferring the blog to the new site next Monday. It’s really just the name that will change and the look of things; the blog will continue as usual. The new site has lots of pages of art though and a few of writing.
I thought I might work on a banner for the new site at the studio today but when I started in these little people started to emerge. I really love them. They look particularly good grouped together. I ended up doing 18 of them. Usually I do art based on ideas so this was a bit of a departure for me. I started with black silhouettes of people and thought I’d put them on patterned backgrounds then got the idea that the people themselves ought to be patterned and just carried on from there. It’s part of the ‘All Are One’ theme.
At then end of the day my studio neighbor, Kaetlyn Wilcox, and I did show and tell. Her work is so wondrous and magical and it was really great to just share with another artist what had gotten done today. Looking forward to tomorrow and working some more on paper. Meanwhile, we have the opening of the faculty/studio artist show at the Arsenal Center for the Arts on Thursday and I’ll try to take some pictures to post of that. Hope you’re all well.
