visual story
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the trumpet illustrated
Here’s another flash fiction writing effort – with an illustration by me of course. The Trumpet (Story and illustration by Sue Clancy) Billy had very good hearing. He heard someone walking towards him on the sidewalk. But he didn’t look up. He was busy with his toy cars, trucks and animals. “That’s a Marmota Monax”…
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finding artistic inspiration
People tend to think of “wealth” as things they have yet to acquire rather than things they already have. Similarly people think of “artistic inspiration” as some grand life-changing event rather than a learned-and-practiced way of looking at ordinary life. I had an art professor in college who would talk, after class was over, of…
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fine art and fine wine
Here are some photos of my fine art in the process of being exhibited at a winery, Burnt Bridge Cellars in Vancouver Wa, for a First Friday event, June 3 2016 www.burntbridgecellars.com At the winery I’ll have new artwork in an exhibit titled “Enjoying Time”. The opening starts at 4pm Friday evening and includes music, food…
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artist book page
I’ve been updating my Artist Book page on my website so that there is a link to my book “Coffee Please” (so you can flip through it) in the 23 Sandy Gallery Wanderlust exhibit catalog. That exhibit opens tonight! And I’ve posted on that same Artist Book page another of my artist books – in…
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Wanderlust Book Arts Exhibit Opening
This coming weekend is the opening for “Wanderlust” a book arts exhibit at the 23 Sandy Gallery! I am lucky enough to have a unique artist book in this exhibit that has a lot of impressive book artist’s work in it! Here is a link to the online exhibit http://23sandy.com/works/product-category/current/wanderlust in case you can’t make…
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coffee delivered
I took my artist book “Coffee Please” to the 23 Sandy Gallery today. Had an enlightening visit with the gallery owner Laura Russell talking about the role of the artist’s book in the world… Of course I’m aware of the role of the artist book in my personal life – but to talk about the…
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chihuahua book hat
Here is number 3, in my new series of related artworks, titled “The Read Hat”. For this one I focused on memory and awareness; the image of a book symbolizes a collection of information, the ancient Greek text represents the beginnings of human philosophical thought… and yes, I also thought of magicians and the hat…
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chihuahua book wagon
Like the first piece in my new series of 3 artworks, my second piece has also been inspired by dots, evening book reading, chihuahua’s and the colors I’ve seen in my local landscape. My newest piece is titled “The Read Wagon”. It, too, is made with my hand dyed, handmade papers, hand stenciled papers, found…
