Out of my gourd!

2007 Luna Dreams 2007 Feast of the Hunter's Moon


The 2008 Feast of the Hunter's Moon is fast approaching. Pictured above are the family in our booth/tent, and samples of my gourd art. The leaf-cut gourd and the black one with orange leaves were my best sellers. I have been making more of both this week. Much scrubbing, cleaning with wire brush, jigsawing, coloring and waxing has been happening in the past few days. It's hard work, but I LOVE it! I think I like the Feast more than Christmas.

I'm Somebody! (name that movie)

The phone books are in! Well, not really, but I AM officially listed, pictures and all, on the McFee Gallery Website. (link to the right) It looks great, thanks guys!

I have been extremely busy getting ready for 2 shows. The gallery show is this Friday, 9/5/08, delivered paintings and prints galore a few days ago. One more delivery and we should be in good shape for Friday night. Paintings in the gallery are selling right and left--love it!

Gourd art is in full swing now that the paintings are set for a little while. I have a tent in the reenactment French and Indian War time period gathering, Feast of the Hunter's Moon in West Lafayette, IN. Check out the link, it's a really cool event.

http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm

New for this year will be DIY gourd kits for those wanting to try it out. I toying with the idea of a children's make it-take it table of gourd necklaces.

Off to design a huge basket ball gourd!

Commissioned Artwork

Let me start out by saying that I hate doing commissions and usually refuse them. This one was presented to me with such heart and soul that I agreed to give it a try. No promises, but I had to be able to do it my way. The request was for two figures and a dog, a golden retriever who had recently passed. The colors were to be green, blue and purple. This was to be a wedding anniversary present.

So I got started and low and behold, this painting was as smooth and trouble free as there ever was. I had to do the dog over once, but he looks great. So with fingers crossed, I sent the picture to my client yesterday. Well, she loved it! It portrayed the exact moment when they walked a path in the woods at dusk immediately after their outdoor wedding ceremony. The Universe was smiling at us both that day.

Secret Entomologist

Ok, it's not art, but I found it on my way to the studio.





Today I painted a few more paintings and got a start on a custom painting.

Smoky Mountains or Where's my nicotine patch?

Wolf Moon

Summer Camp

The Summer Camp piece reminds me so much of the camp tie dye projects. It is made mostly with leather dye, the tree is done with acrylic paint. The purple part was a base of red and overlapped with turquoise. I love the way it melted into a beautiful purple. The white drops are also leather dye, the white is more opaque. I think of nurse shoes whenever I pick up the bottle.

Wolf Moon is a blend of colors you might see on a wolf, the browns and rusts of the undercoat and the gray blues of the outer coat on the face and back.

Smoky Mountain has a cloudy, smoke colored feeling to it. The colors look like drying tobacco leaves.

Hot and Tasty

New work destined for McFee Gallery:

Just Sleeping

Hot Flash

Wanted: Tire Swing (child optional)

These original paintings are definitely going to the gallery. They are all 9x12 gallery wrap. There are two more that I'm debating about-they are very abstract and it could be that I'm not used to them. If I still like them tomorrow, there's a good chance they'll go.


I'm keeping busy preparing for the Fall Gallery Walk. Many prints are shrink wrapped and in their new bin, ready for delivery. Probably too many. I might have to cull the herd.


Feel free to leave a comment and come back soon!

Cool Giclee Print

New listing on Etsy for this awesome Giclee gallery wrap print by David at REDIpix. (Link is on the right side of the blog) Isn't his work amazing? I love what it does for my paintings. The colors are a perfect match and have such a vibrancy about them. Notice the gallery wrapped sides. These are light weight and ready to hang. They will last a lifetime, because that's what giclees are all about.

One really nice thing about REDIpix is that you can have your own photos printed there-family, vacation or art shots. All on a variety of supports or flat to have them framed. Check it out and tell them I sent you. You will be amazed and inspired.

New artwork

Still having fun with photoshop!