Photoshopping Drawings and other High Wire Acts
This is a rendering for larger project to be made in fabric. I’m pretty happy with the composition — it’s an interesting spin on a portrait of a single character as the center of interest with my typical busyness in the background. It’s also the first time I’ve combined natural drawing media and computer...
540 Stone Monks
Here’s some pages from my Japan sketchbook. At the Kitain Temple in Kawagoe, there is a small plot of land with rows and rows of Buddhist monks, carved from stone between 1782 and 1825. A note on the guide sheet said no two are alike. It’s not just that the statues are all different – it’s that each one has such...
Fun with Old Family Photos
My mom’s birthday is coming up, so I recruited the help of my brothers and cousin for a little party. So my cousin Debbie sent me old photo albums, and Chris scanned a lot of old slides… and I put together a cartoon birthday invitation using Comic Life by plasq. I love this program! It’s so fun to use, it makes funny...
Tokyo Towers
I know for my online Japan Journal, I should probably first show you the pretty photos of snow-covered ancient pine trees in Nikko, but I have to start with the funky stuff first – because it’s my nature, and also I have a project deadline approaching, lol. Always ready to have a project in pocket, I was happy to have something...
Winter Olympics 2010
Recently back from Japan and still suffering jetlag… So it’s nice to just veg out in the evening and watch the winter olympics in Vancouver. Here are some couch potato ink brush drawings of Olymipic ice dancing using my travel watercolor set and my new-found joy – Japanese waterbrushes. Waterbrushes are plastic pens that you...
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Japan Journal
We’re just back from Isesaki, our Sister City in Japan. Besides official city events, we were able to squeeze in a trip to snow-covered mountains to visit Nikko, tour an unusual ceramics museum, have a night out at a karoke box, visit Tokyo, and stay in a Japanese family’s home. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sorting the photos, video and drawings from the trip. To see an index of posts, click on the tag Japan.
Modern Materials Exhibition
Modern Materials: The Art of the Quilt curated by Jill Rumoshosky Werner will open at Living ArtSpace in Tulsa, OK on Friday, February 5th and run through February 25th. The opening reception is 6-9 pm on Feb. 5th, and Jill will be giving a curatorial talk at 5 pm. Members of the newly-formed Brady Craft Alliance will be discussing their organization starting at 5:30.
For photos, information and a Flickr Gallery of the first Modern Materials exhibition at [Artspace] Untitled gallery in Oklahoma City during July-August 2009, go to my blog post Modern Materials and friends.
Fiberarts International 2010
I just shipped a quilt to the Fiberart International 2010. This exhibition will feature 87 works of art that were selected from submissions by 703 artists from 30 countries — so I’m very excited to included in this group. The show will open April 16th at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and runs through August 22, 2010. From there it will travel to the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design.
Books to inspire creativity
Check out these two books that came out in October 2009 that feature some of my artwork along with a lot of other great and inspiring artists…
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