Gallery Art Shows

 

 

This little blog of mine has been neglected for far too long and if you have been stopping by and reading my older posts I thank you very much!

I have been busy, with four back to back group shows. I am so blessed to be a part of a few artist groups and all the participating artists are so talented and amazing people to know. 

I have been playing around with a new technique for me, I'm trying to loosen up and develop a different style. I'm calling this a impressionistic/pointillism type style. 

 This was my section of the gallery wall at Live 4 Art in the lovely village of Pawling, NY. We will be back there in October.  The small riverscape sold, thank you Mary!

This series of tiny birds is currently in the Spring Pop-up at Mid Hudson Arts on rt.44 in Poughkeepsie along with a few other artworks and pendants.

This saw whet owl is also in that show.

Just smile nice I asked.....lol!

And I did some target shooting and this is currently on display on my refrigerator :)

I hope you all have an amazing week!

Studio Photography

Taking photos of my pendants has been a challenge. Trying to 

minimize the reflections on the glass dome covering the artwork

is probably best left to the professionals. However that delightful service

 is not in my budget (yet).

This picture taken with my Pixel phone is not too bad, I am sure that a professional could make it much better, but for my purposes I'm pleased. There is a slight bit of reflective glare on the right side but not enough to be distorting. If you look closely, you can see my reflection in the bail, lol!

So this is what I've come up with using my photo box that my son gifted me for  Christmas one year. I placed a piece of fabric across the top.

It's set up near the window to get the natural diffused light on one side and the clip on light on the other. After I set up the shot, the white fabric gets pulled down in front and just my arms and camera poke through.

There is quite a bit of revision made after each shot but I can do that immediately after each one.

I do love this phone's camera....

Thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day!

On My Drawing Table

My local arts council has a members show every year in August and this year the

theme is: Flights of Fantasy

So, with my proclivity to things with wings, immediately an owl in flight came to mind. How to incorporate fantasy into my work took lots of thought and planning.

With all the vintage papers floating around in my studio I knew that I wanted to use that in my artwork and also acrylic painting. There was a cradled wood board that I had prepped earlier leaning up against the bookcase and that became my canvas.

After sketching out the barn owl I began to cut individual pieces of paper and arrange them along the wing span.

That quickly became cut and glue and put in place, I trusted that all would work out.

 

The first wing was amazing and so it continued....

Just loving this....

I was so busy painting that not many more photos got taken.

"Night Flight" can be viewed at:

Flights of Fantasy: Arts Mid-Hudson Members’ Show – AMH Gallery
August 3 – September 9
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 3, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

(The opening was cancelled due to loss of power and will be rescheduled.)
Art Brunch: Sunday, September 9, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

artsmidhudson.org