On My Way

"This hill...goes on...FOREVER. I wish I had remembered my water bottle..."

Frederic Remington Museum - Juried Art Show 9/24/11

Show #2 of the weekend was in the great Frederic Remington museum. The more and more I see his work, the more I like it. There was a great exhibit for Remington's 150th birthday. Artists made pieces inspired  by Remington's work, and they were all amazing. Remington would have been proud!

Most of the pictures of the show were taken by my darling sister. The lighting of the museum plus my camera didn't work out very well, but we did our best.

The Remington Museum (I took this photo from their website...currently the museum is having some construction done, and I couldnt get a good picture of the outside)

Like the show at Lake Placid, it got crowded fairly quickly.

Taken by Marion Bradish

Undulating Fibers by Sue Thomas

Daybreak by Terry Rempel-Mroz

Some of the gallery space. 

Almost Home by Bob Renaud

My uncle Ron. 

And one of my pieces!

Four of my (blurry) cousins.

A really dramatic picture of my other piece (the lighting was crazy). 

Me and my sister.

A shout-out to all of my family: thank you for coming to the show and supporting me and my artistic endeavors. You guys are the best!

Lake Placid Center for the Arts - Juried Art Show Opening 9/23/11

Wow. Just wow.

I drove 4+ hours on Friday to get from my house to Lake Placid for the opening, and it was totally worth it! What a great show. There are some amazingly talented people out there. So many mediums were represented at the show: collage, stone and wood carvings, paintings, photography, weaving, pencil drawings...amazing. The show is up until October 23rd, so if you are in the area, you should check it out!

The opening:

The art center.

The refreshments were set up outside. A lot of people showed up!

The exhibit space was nicely presented.

Left: Afterglow by Suzanne Doin
Right: Patterned Growth by Nip Rogers

Papageno Costume: The Magic Flute Opera by Timothy Westbrook

So many great pieces on exhibit.

Left: Earthbeat by Ralph Prata
Right: Oranges by Ruth Crotty

Dawn by Analise Rigan

Left: The Source by Ian Burcroff
Right: Echos of a Dream by Annoel Krider

By 5:30, the room was full of visitors.

Dramatic lighting.

And finally...

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....yours truly!

Coleoptera, the Largest Order of Species in the World

I have two pieces of news to report:

1.) My piece, "The Murder" was accepted in the Lake Placid Center for the Arts juried show. 

2.) One of my pieces in the upcoming Remington Museum show was featured in this mornings newspaper. 

Good things are happening! 

The piece for the day: A sample of a little project Im working on. In this piece I focused on...beetles!!

The Murder

From Wikipedia: "Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals."

UPDATE: This piece was accepted in the juried show at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The show will be up from September 23rd-October 23rd. Stop by!

Fall Harvest

Fall is here! Im counting down the days till the local cider mill opens for the season. Hot cider and doughnuts...there's nothing better than that.

There is a family of Amish people living nearby, who have cut all their wheat and gathered it into little piles in their field. Inspiration hit me like lightning. I designed this art nouveau-esqu wheat design and used a really neat gold mesh paper (which unfortunately doesn't translate as well on a computer screen). I need to tweak this some more, but I like where it's going.