I feel so special!

It sure has been a busy few months. One super duper highlight was winning first place in the Art of the Peace Juried Art Show. The show was put on in conjunction with the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards and Iskoteo Arts Festival. The festival took place June 16-21, 2009. The show was wonderful and featured many well established Peace Area artists, I was very pleased to be accepted as part of the show, let alone winning!  If you go to http://www.artofthepeace.ca/juried-art-show you can see the on-line exhibit. That’s my piece on the cover of the catalogue!

I will also be in the next issue of the Art of the Peace magazine and the first issue of The Magpie, http://themagpie.ca .  Pretty cool stuff!

Here’s a painting I did a couple of months ago.  It’s called Little Sparrow.

Chroma

Hi!!  Wow it’s been forever since I posted last. I sure have been busy. Here is the poster and some pics from my first solo show:

      

 

Other pieces included in the show are pictured elsewhere in this blog , so  I am not posting them here. These include two encaustic pieces, some acrylic fruit painting and some other watercolors.

 

And here are some monsters I made before christmas. The first one is Cecilia, I made her as a sample for a class I am teaching. The bride and groom were for friends who got married, and the red one was a gift for a different friend.  Super cute and fun to make!

IF: Repair

Here is my entry for this weeks Illustration Friday theme: Repair.

This young elf girl is being so kind as to repair her little sisters stuffed animal, even while she’s bugging her.

IF: Late

Here is my Illustration Friday entry for Late:

Little Mouse knew he shouldn’t stay up so late, but the story was too good to put down. Now here’s one reason I can’t wake up in the morning!

Trashed

Two of my friends, Stephanie and Miriam, and I currently have an art installation at the Centre for Creative Centre. It’s called Trashed and is made entirely out of recyclables. Here’s the poster I made:

and some pictures Steph took.

IF: Strings

Illustration Friday entry for Strings.

This one is called Apron Strings and is colored with pencil crayons, a bit of pen and a scanned doily.

IF: Sugary

Whew!! I’ve been so busy, working on my art installation (more on that in my next post) and working. I did have time to do this drawing in my sketchbook for Illustration Friday. I have been wanting to post on their site for ages, so here is my first IF post for the word “sugary”. I think I might watercolor this when I get a chance.

Sketchbook pages

I don’t usually get anything good in the mail, so I was happy today when I got my 2009 Ikea catalogue and 2 U2 CDs that I didn’t have and they were FREE! I love free! 

 

Here are some pages from my sketchbook that I did in the last couple of weeks:

Is it strange that I made a teleportation device out of cardboard at work today???? It was cool! My boss tried it… but then she is strange too…

Shadowbox collages

A while a go I found some Martha Stewart shawdow boxes at Micheals, they were finally marked down to $1.50 so I bought the last 4 and made some shadow boxes for my room. I used bits and pieces that I had in my studio.  Here they are:

New Header!

Whoot whoot!! Do you like my new header?