More good news.

First of all my winnings arrived from LaWendula. Yippee!! Here’s a pic of all the yummy goodies

and second… I am really proud to announce a collaboration I am participating in with Jennifer, a photographer and Dave, an amazing writer. You can see more about it on their blogs, here & here. I will be creating a limited edition custom binding once they have finished all the hard work of creating. Jen and I will probably team up on the graphic design. There may also end up being a print on demand book too. I’ll keep you posted.

Thirdly I will be sending some work off to Leeds again this year to the book fair, working with the same book arts collaborative. The piece I am sending started out as the one for Seth’s new book, but has become much bigger and interactive. Pictures to come later this week.

Tomorrow is the first day of classes, another new beginning. I am always filled with hope and excitement… all in all, good news from under the snow here in upstate NY! And I can’t resist one more egg picture!!

you’re a winner!

woot! what a great start to my day… Lawendula, diva of the paper swap sent me an email to let me know that the collage box had finally returned from its long trip around the world, so I headed over to her blog to read this post. And, wow! I have won the final contents, I am so happy! OK I know this is a little sad, I am happy about winning a box of paper scraps… but , well woot!!! For anyone not familiar with the project, here’s a link to my work with the collage box.

Routes to Art

I am a participating artist in this years Routes to Art, there is an accompanying exhibit at the Quick Center at St.  Bonaventure and all the artists have been asked to submit one piece that represents their work… obviously as this is an open studio tour and the main purpose is to make sales (particularly if you have just resigned from your day job!) I wanted to pick a commercial work, and after much back and forth I have decided to use the piece I just finished from the collage box project. I don’t really feel that it is particularly representative of my work as a whole, but the colours are really beautiful, and hopefully it will generate some traffic. The choice was really baffling for me, I had to ask for a lot of opinions and help, so I was wondering, if you dear readers had to pick one work to represent you, which work would you choose. By the way if you think this was a crummy choice on my part, please don’t tell me till after the show, as I can’t change the work for insurance reasons… wow, this artist lark is super stressful today, and feeling way too serious… best go play in the studio until that feeling passes!!

postal treasure

 

So LaWendula is a genius and today when I got home from work the collage exchange box was waiting for me, thanks Seth!! 

Here’s what I took out

I guess I was most attracted to the handwritten pieces, especially the old physics notes, which look absolutely mystical from the back… and I must be in a purple phase, as you can see as I once again found myself drawn to all shades of it in the box. I am chomping at the bit to get to work, so have a great evening everyone…