Ready for Friday!

We delivered all the paintings for the Contemporary Realism Show to the Hammond Harkins Gallery on Wednesday.  Phew!  I am very much looking forward to seeing the show hanging at the opening this Friday! Now back to the studio to get ready for a show at The Mansfield Art Center in the Foundations Gallery, opening June 30! 
Here are the works delivered this week!

Got Milk?  30" x 40"

Catching Cold 36" x 60"

Diet Coke 48" x 60"

Left Behind  36" x 48"

Paper 36" x 48"

Rocks 36" x 48"

Scissor 48" x 36"

Tomato Juice 30" x 40"

On the Rocks 36" x 48"

Have a great weekend everyone!

Salon International 2013 at Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio

SO thrilled to have two pieces selected for the Salon International 2013 at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Tx!!  I will be sending off both "Locked" and "Sleep Well Sweet Song" early next month for the show opening April 13, 2013. 

Locked 9" x 12" oil on panel

Sleep Well Sweet Song 11" x 14" oil on panel

Have a great weekend!

 

Piano Man Project

Piano Man Project is a very cool project that my friend, Ken Arthur, is doing.  This show opens tomorrow at the Sandusky Cultural Center.  The show will also feature the work of Gary Spinosa.  If you get a chance to go see this show, I highly recommend doing so!  Two VERY talented artists!  I can't make the opening, but can't wait to see the show next week!

This is my piano man for the project.  The Stand In...

New York City!

Single Fare 3 opens this Wednesday in NYC!  We can't be there for opening night, but I am so excited to go see it over the weekend, and beyond excited to see Cat and Nick and to go gallery hopping!

Opening Reception - February 13th, 6 - 9pm
137 Duane St. NY, NY 10013

When we get back for New York, I will be finishing up work for the upcoming show at the Hammond Haarkins Gallery in Bexley!  Hope to see you there, if not before!

New work on an old series idea

I could paint the metro cards all day.. so much fun!!  But I also need to keep busy on my work for the show at Hammond Harkins Gallery in March, so I started work on some new paintings that are picking up an old series I started years ago.  I am excited to explore this idea a lot more!  Rock, Paper, Scissors.. works in progress... each 36" x 48" oil on canvas

Single Fare 3

There is a really fun show happening next month in NYC!! The Single Fare 3 exhibition at the RH Gallery, NYC, opening February 13, 2013.  

Here is the info..


A big show of small works on MetroCards.

OPENING: February 13, 2013 6pm - 9pm

Following the tremendous success of “Single Fare 2,” Michael Kagan, Jean-Pierre Roy and RH Gallery are pleased to announce “Single Fare 3,” an exhibition of artwork on New York City MTA MetroCards. Inspired by the notion that the city’s subways and buses allow for a kind of creative interchange unmatched in human history, the first “Single Fare” sought to create a unique art event where art and artists could come together to form a monumental event made from a tiny, innocuous piece of plastic: The MetroCard! Single Fare 3 promises to deliver an even more exciting exhibition with more art, more artists and new ways to view and enjoy the work.

www.facebook.com/singlefare3

www.single-fare.com
www.rhgallery.com

Open call for submissions:

http://www.single-fare.com/guidelines.html

Due date for submissions: FEB 3, 201

It's been very fun and interesting painting this small... and a little additive.. and I think I am learning and getting better as I go..  Google search Single Fare 3 and see what other people have done.. Some are absolutely amazing!!!
Here are some of my cards..

 

Facing Fifty

On Friday of this week, I turn 50 years old!.  I don't feel "50".. not even sure what that is supposed to feel like.  Most days I don't think about it, and when I do, I feel like the same awkward, outsider girl I was in high school and I certainly don't feel like a "grown up" even though I have lived this long and have raised children to adulthood.  So to record this milestone in my life, I painted a self portrait.  I wanted it to be a little naked and raw.  No makeup, no hair style, no jewelry, with the scars and wrinkles I've earned along the way.  Just me, reflecting on getting to this point in my life.

Facing Fifty oil on canvas 20" x 30"

Mooooving right along!

I have been working hard on glass paintings for the Contemporary Realism show in March, but Saturday I felt the need to break out a bit.  So I went through my thousands of reference photos and found this old girl asking for a portrait. I had the best time painting her!

How Now, Brown Cow oil on canvas 48" x 48"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And these two are paintings on which I'm working for the show...

On the Rocks oil on canvas 36" x 48"

Hang Ups  oil on canvas 36" x 60"

Have a great week!

one more doll painting... for now

I finished this painting at the end of last year and have to be done with my doll paintings for a month or two.  I have lots more that I am looking forward to painting, but I will be focusing on getting work done for the Contemporary Realism show at the Hammond Harkins Gallery, opening March 8, 2013!

The Congregation  oil on canvas 36" x 48"

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and I wish you all the best in the coming year!

Staying busy!

I have been happily busy these last couple of weeks!  I finished and delivered three small ornament paintings and one tiny candy painting to the Hammond Harkins Gallery in Bexley, OH.

 I finished and shipped two commission pieces fro the Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC.

I finished a painting for a cookbook cover,

 and got a new treasure for my studio!!

Small and Wonderful!

Chet from the Hammond Harkins Gallery sent me this photo he took of Matt and myself on Friday, speaking with LaVetta at the Small and Wonderful show opening.

 Loved the event and the picture!
 Hope you can all get in to see the show before it closes in January!

Art-filled Weekend!

This past weekend was wonderfully filled with art and friends, both old and new!  On Friday night, we went to the opening of Small and Wonderful at The Hammond Harkins in Bexley, OH.. Here is my wall of small and wonderful!

The show hangs through January 6th!

And On Sunday evening we attended an artist's reception for the 130 artists who had work selected to hang at the Hilton Downtown Columbus Hotel.  It was a lovely dinner reception where we saw old friends and met many new ones as well!
The project was to decorate the hotel using all mid-Ohio artists and it looked amazing!  They did a fabulous job and I'm very proud to be a part of it!   Click here to see a cool video on it! 

Some of the artists gathering for a photo on the stairs

Now I'm happily back in the studio working on a Christmas commission for the Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC and some small ornament paintings for Hammond Harkins Gallery in Bexley.  

Small Works!

I have been loving painting smaller works over the last few weeks.  I got really excited over some small moody NYC scenes, and then earlier this week, I just really wanted to paint a bit tighter and found this ribbon candy that has been sitting in the studio for a year or more waiting for the right time.  (I wouldn't try to eat it, but it wasn't in bad shape considering! )  :)
How blessed I am to be able to do what I love!
Happy Thanksgiving to you!!

Carrying On  11" x 14" oil on panel

October Snow 8" x 8"  oil on panel

Evening Commute 6" x 6" oil on panel

Sunny Side of the Street  6" x 6" oil on panel

Ribbon Candy  12" x 12" oil on panel

Heart Of Ohio Magazine

I am so pleased and honored to be featured in the Nov/Dec issue of "Heart Of Ohio" magazine!!  My painting titled, Time in a Bottle, is on the front cover!  It's a beautiful magazine that speaks about people and places in our area of Ohio.  If you  get a chance, click here to check out the article and magazine!

Heart Of Ohio Magazine Nov/ Dec

I have also been working on my smaller pieces and here are two works completed so far for the 'Small and Wonderful' show at the Hammond Harkins Gallery in Bexley, OH opening Nov. 30!  I'm hoping to finish a few more for the show and look forward to seeing you there!

Rollin" In 9" x 12" oil on panel

Feels Like Fall 11" x 14" oil on panel

Birthday celebrations!

This week I took some time to work on paintings as birthday presents to two special friends.  The first is"Snowflake" for darling Bailey, who is now 12!  And the second is "Stella", for my dear friend, Michelle, who turns the big 5-0!  Happy birthday ladies, and wishes for many, many more!

Snowflake 11" x 14" oil on panel

Stella 12" x 12" oil on panel

Next week I start on more small works for the "Small and Wonderful show at the Hammond Harkins Gallery, in Bexley, OH. which opens Friday, November 30!  Hope to see you there!

Home Sweet Home!

What a wonderful, crazy week we have had.  A week ago today we unloaded paintings and then enjoying a nice afternoon poolside at The Sanctuary on Kiawah Island.  What an incredible place, we felt so blessed to be there!  That evening I did a painting demonstration for The Wells Gallery "Art Uncorked" event in the resort.  I had a great evening talking with, and meeting people from all over the country.  Mary Ellen got the "furthest drive award" and I was so glad she came and we got to talk a bit! Thanks to Hume, Emily, Kelly and the staff of The Sanctuary for a wonderful time.  After the show, we headed north again so we could make it home for our youngest son Ty's last football game of the season Friday night. (They won!)  Saturday was a day filled with family, friends, amazing food and some Halloween fun!  We started off the day with a quick visit with our oldest daughter, Cat, who had just driven in from NYC for a wedding and my fathers' 86th birthday party.  We then went to see oldest son, Connor, at ONU for lunch, drove on to Heidelberg Univ. to see our second oldest daughter, Kaleigh, play is the high schools' district volleyball game (they lost :(.. ) and continued on to The Culinary Vegetable Institute where we changed into American Gothic zombies and enjoyed an amazing meal prepared by Executive Chef Tony Dee of Eddie Merlot's for their October Earth to Table event. On Sunday we celebrated my dad's 86th in style with family and friends and tons more good food as Chef Tony and his lovely fiance', Kacey, came and stayed a day with us before heading back to Indianapolis to finish packing to move to Chicago this week.  His parents, our dear friends, Vicky and Dave, finally made it home to Virginia Beach through Hurricane Sandy yesterday, just a day or two later than they had planned. Cat and her boyfriend, Nick, made it home Sunday evening/Monday morning deciding to ride out their second NYC hurricane in their apartment with their cats on the upper east side.  Phew! So glad everyone is home safe and sound! Such a good week, but I have to admit that I am still catching up on sleep! 
Some paintings I took to The Wells Gallery;

Front and Center oil on canvas 60" x 36"

Making Connections oil on canvas 60" x 48"

One Big Pickle oil on canvas 26" x 54"

Sound of Surf oil on canvas 48" x 60"

Saturday Morning oil on canvas 36" x 60"