fine art
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a verrry big day
As they say “it takes a village” to put an artist’s artwork out into the world safely. Especially a “Verrry Big Project”. My public art project is 4 feet tall by 8 feet wide. It took a whole community. The top photo is of a few of my “village” people. The ones not pictured are…
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Literary Journal Love
Just got word that 5 of my illustration artworks will be published in the next issue of The Tishman Review http://tishmanreview.com/ ! Color me very happy! In fact here is my “happy dance” illustration – and no, it’s not one of the ones that will be published in the literary journal, (contracts don’tchaknow) – I’m…
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verry big progress
I met my Christmas deadline (details here) on my “Verry Big Project”, backed away slowly and while my project dried I had a very restful Holiday! Hope your Holiday was good too. Tomorrow the executive director will visit my studio to see and approve my project, discuss installation, paperwork etc! Wish me luck! Here are…
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deadlines and verry big projects
In a previous post Caution: Artist At Work I posted pictures of me working toward a “Verrry Big Project” that had a deadline. Here are more photos of me at work – I’m meeting my deadline handily! Included in this post is what I keep in mind when dealing with deadlines. These tips may also…
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Caution: Artist At Work
Here are assorted photos of me working on my huge hairy fire-breathing deadline – mentioned in earlier blog comments – also known on my Facebook page as my “Verrry Big Project”. This project is a public art project and the organization that it’s for will do publicity at the appropriate times. So I’m using “Verry…
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Art is Love
This photo shows what I see when I enter my art studio. It smells like freshly sharpened pencils, new paper, ink and archival glue. I feel a deep to-the-bone happiness here. On the wall above my stand-up desk (pictured) I have a quote: “One must care about a world one will never see.” – Bertrand…
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party at Joe’s gallery
A Holiday party opens Dec 3rd from 6 to 8 pm at Joesph Gierek Fine Art http://www.gierek.com/index.php and I’ve got some new artwork there. (See photo’s in this post and on Joe’s website) Joseph Gierek Fine Art is a pro at shipping art anywhere – so if you see something you like, just contact Joe!…
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Alphabeasts advancing
Been working on my “Alphabeast” series. These cut paper mixed media artworks each feature one letter of the alphabet. Hopefully someday they’ll become a picture-puzzle-book… in the meantime they’re fine art pieces currently at Caplan Art Designs. Perhaps one will be placed in a child’s room – a child with a name that begins with…
