24 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Bonnie Hull, Quilting
(and I don’t mean vitamins)…Laura suggested that we each make one small piece a day for a month and I (what was I thinking???) agreed. Mine are fabric/quilt oriented and I’ve had a LOT of fun with them. They’re portable, serendipitous, funny, sad. Here’s a few: (I have 27 completed as of this writing…)
We’re off on a cruise to Alaska…See you in June!!!
23 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Just visual, Sculpture
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Ellen and Karen both called to say I should go to the Church Street bridge and look over the side…remember the Salmon that appeared on the island during flood season?
and then the flood waters rose and washed to salmon away???
Well the waters have receded and now something new is happening down on the MUCH larger island…
Go take a look,,Church Street about 3 blocks north of Mission…it’s cool
Wonder who’s doing this?
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Bike Rides, Uncategorized
One of the best things about my daily bike rides is watching the seasons change at our beautiful Minto Park…
Ride on…
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Coffee art, Drawings, Uncategorized
You know I really like Art House Coop and their Sketchbook Project. But all spring I’ve also been doing some of their weekly projects, that have been fun and very amusing. The current one is called “The Mystery Project.” I received a nice Prismacolor marker in the mail along with the instructions which included a “theme” and the instructions to create a small work and install it in a public place, leaving it for somebody to find, while documenting the process. Just about then I got some “packaging” which was a series of little cards. I was having a coffee and trying to think what to do when it came to me suddenly…me, the drawer of hundreds of cups of coffee:
I would go to a coffee place, order a coffee and draw it, then leave the “good luck coffee card” for somebody to find…VOILA! I wrote my theme on the back of each card, and then added the www.sketchbookproject.com url…in case the finder wanted to check up on the project.
Card #1
card #2
card # 3
now really…even for me…there’s only so much coffee I can drink (and afford!) so it was time for a Gin and Tonic card…
and the next day I left the LAST coffee card:
…and now I’ll forward this post to sketchbook as my documentation, so you all have been part of the process…
21 Monday May 2012
We were in Portland Saturday to hear Tom Cramer talk about his new work on view at Laura Russo gallery this month. For me the show is a knock out, and if you’re near the gallery on NW 21st take a look. The work is beautiful, but also fresh and original.
Martha introduced Tom…
and he spoke very interestingly about both idea and process…
21 Monday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Artists, Uncategorized
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Mary Lou Zeek has been showing the work of 14 local artists in May in both of her Salem gallery spaces. Thursday was the gala at Gallery 2…right in “her own back yard”…literally…
and we all went to see our own work and the work of our colleagues…
but the real fun was the party…
and book talk…the gallery has published a blurb.com book about the 14 artists featuring painter Carol Hausser on the cover…
and each of us has an 8 page spread…mine include:
Sloy and I had some book signing fun…
and Mary Lou over saw the proceedings serenely…
there’s still time this month to go take a look at the show…(everything is for sale…hint hint…)
The artists included are Rob Bibler, Carol Hausser, Robert Hess, Bonnie Hull, Kristin Kuhns, Nancy Lindburg, Sue-Del McCulloch, Terry Melton, David (nic) Nichols, Sandra (sloy) Nichols, Emily Stuart, Susan Trueblood Stuart, Jed Thomas, and John VanDreal.
17 Thursday May 2012
The Salem Public Library has in its collection a beautiful Carl Hall painting called “Flood” of 1948. It has had some definite conservation issues so Nancy and I agreed to take it to Portland to art conservator Nina Olsson. First we arrived at the library and removed the painting, posting a note on the wall…
which Nancy had nicely provided…
and placed the painting carefully in the “art mobile” (not to be confused with the “bat mobile”)
and then took off for Portland to see Nina Olsson, art conservator.
We brought the painting in to Nina’s studio and she and Nancy began examining the painting’s condition…
while I began photographing the studio…
when I suddenly noticed that Nina’s hard working assistant was OLIVIA!
Olivia and Reva just graduated from Willamette last week and are important to us because they are terrific young women we care about (here they are at a farewell Art History dinner)
but they are the last two students that Roger really worked with at Willamette before retiring in 2010 (when both were sophomores)…Olivia is about to take off to NYC for a job…but today she was hard at work here in Portland…
Nina’s conservation studio is a studio in the really good and familiar sense of the word…
So we left “Flood” in her competent hands and went for lunch to the Jo Bar which has great food for sure (here is my beet nicoise)
but also has a couple of yummy Fay Jones paintings, and if I can be seated so as to gaze at one, then okay…and I got lucky on the lunch AND the painting…
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Bonnie Hull, Drawings, Garden, Salem Art Association, Uncategorized
Carol reminded me of the two beautiful wisteria plants at Bush House Museum…(plants I drew and drew when I was the Artist in Residence at the Annex in 2010) so I drove over today for a look…
this one is a Japanese wisteria…
and check this gorgeous Spanish lavender growing by a lamp post at the curb
16 Wednesday May 2012
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R is over at the beach writing this week and sent me an informational picture of the wisteria by the back door…
so I sent HIM a picture of the wisteria here at home…oh I love this warm weather…everything is POPPING!
14 Monday May 2012
Posted in Art work, Art World, Artists, Celebrations, Garden Studio, Quilting, Studio
I had a great one and am wishing all my motherly readers did too. Mine began with breakfast on the deck while I contemplated the Tennessee Goodwill shirts…hmmm….hard to image the quilt this will become…
flowers were brought from the Dad in question…
and when I went to get the mail I noticed a photo session in progress across the street at the church…awwww…
In the afternoon was the opening of the Radius 25 show at Bush Barn
which included my gouache piece…”The Part of the Brain that Governs Speech”
as well as two very nice watercolors from Liz Bauman…
and Irene’s portrait of Trudy…
We went out to La Capitale for dinner and dessert…
and a uke concert that I failed to photograph…and then SUNDAY:
Z & A’s brunch for Mamas and Grandmas…
complete with floral tributes…
some time to quilt contentedly…
PLUS an afternoon in the studio, getting the monoprint bases done for the summer Project Space project which starts June 15…
…it gets no better than this…
(and yes…I notice my lens cover is failing to open all the way…camera not even a year old…rats)
