Percieving Reconstruction

I'm relieved to be on the other side of October, I did enjoy thoroughly throwing myself into making the work for my show happen, and in fact even after painting ten to twelve hours a day I still would want to stay up at night and draw.  I'm not the greatest at multitasking, in fact it's an area at times I feel deficient in as far as my roles as wife, mother, and homeowner go.  But I'm learning in my art I actually need to multitask,  I need to have different projects going simultaneously,  I need to have emotions and ideas connecting back forth around in my brain.  Today I realized I have this future, past, and present thing going on in my art, and  it makes sense  I have to look at something from every possible direction I can find to understand it. Or to fully make meaning of it I guess.  So far it seems each project has a process that comes about organically.  I'm learning more and more to trust being in my element of intuition, emotions, and imagination being in the drivers seat.  And then allowing the other parts of me to follow behind,  investigating,  putting the clues together, seeing what my subconscious has been pulling out and bringing to my consciousness, tracking down and being on the look out for new inspiration and researching.  Love that researching part.

1. Disburdenment

2. Take

3. Pure

4. Some Fun

5. Softly Contemplate

6. Compasion

7. Open

8. Mine

9. For the Love of it

10. Pass

11. Sincere Communication

12. The Gift

13. Room for Questions

     

More Paintings for the Show

1. Fresh
2. Golden
3. Go
4. Start
5. New Ground

I think I'm coming down with some bug now but dang it!  I have a goal,  I might just be doing a little painting in bed this weekend.  Also I posted some new drawings the other night.

Inspiration for Days

Holy cats and kittens!  Angela's got a bunch of work posted on her blog The Shape of Secerets check it out,  you won't be sorry I promise.

More Paintings.

1. Handle with Care
2. I.Worth
3. Excavate

This month is flying by it's been pretty crazy around here.  My youngest son is just starting to get over the flu which has been with him for two solid weeks.  They didn't test him but they thought he probably  had the swine flu and my husband has had some bug the last two weeks too.  It's been quite the balancing act but I've been thankful to be immeresed in getting ready for this show.  I have a hard time adjusting in the fall and I'm finding comfort in making my art, getting outside, walking, looking at everything around me, and music. Always music, somehow you know your not alone with the music, somebody created the music. The conversations we can't have or don't know how to have we can find a way with our art. And that just seems  important and so needed.

Perceiving Reconstruction

1. Keep

2. Breathe on

3.Electric

4. Aware

The name of my show is Perceiving Reconstruction and I got my sketchbook blog started. 

What to do on a Sunday afternoon

Improvise and play.  

Shine

Shine

I have been having fun using all sorts of materials in my paintings lately.  This one I used a pressed flower, silver ribbon, paper ribbon, plaster, window screen, and paint. There are a few of  things are that appealing to me with these paintings. One is the texture you want to touch it,  we are told not to touch "the pretty things" so the little girl in me is enjoying the idea right now of making pretty art that can be touched.  I think this also comes from hair styling all those years, I have a need  in my life for the feel of texture, run my fingers over my paintings.  Also I love when art is made from using something that is traditionally thought of as pretty and reconstructed, redone, or reinterpreted. I've got loads of inspiration for this so I hope to share much of that in the next month.

Now I onto finalizing the name for my show coming up and I've got a whole day by myself to accomplish that.  And walking my dogs and painting, yay for boys in school!

Santigold!

I gotta crank up the volume everytime I hear this song.

Catch up and Good News

I've got art news to share with my blog and friends , exciting , good stuff is happening.  First I sold a couple of paintings at Sontes that was a fantastic feeling, Sontes has been a good fit for my art in my home town and it's been such a encouraging experience.

And in November I am having my own show and I am teaching a Abstract painting class at Smith's Infusion in Northern Minnesota.  I am so stinkin stoked! The artist reception and class will be the same weekend so it will work out well, and my good friend Heidi will be teaching a portrait drawing class that weekend also. How cool is that?  I've got loads of work to do to get ready for the show, which makes me happy.  And I've got work finished that I want to post on here too soon, also I am starting a separate sketchbook blog so I'll share that link once I finish setting that up.

In the meantime, I have two sick childern at home with me and not a whole lot of sleeping went on last night, the one thing I can count on as a parent is life rarely turns out as expected, especially night time. Today I'm taking it easy.

Sketchbook and Process.

And trying to make sense of the senseless.