Bethel Street Gallery, new paintings! May 11, 2010

New paintings are up at the Bethel Street Gallery in Honolulu. Like this 12" x 12" acrylic painting 'Giant and Giant's Baby Terrorize Town'. Run for your lives, people!!

Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Spring Show April 28, 2010

It's that time again! Crafty Wonderland! This spring, it's bigger and better than EVER! For starters, it's going to be a two day event, (wowza) in the Oregon Convention Center (awesome) and it's so close to Mother's Day!

So come on by and get some gifts for the beloved moms in your life. Or just peruse the crafty and arty goodness. Or just swing by my booth and poke me with straws from your slurpee. Whatever you want! It's going to be a parrrtttty! 

Maude Kerns Artists Panel April 27, 2010

Hello friends!

Wowza, what a great turn out at the Rieke Art Fair. Thanks so much for coming out! 

Life is zipping by at record speed right now. Lots of projects and travel that are keeping me pretty busy. Luckily I have a tiny kicking baby bump that reminds me to slow down, take naps, and eat a lot.... (The baby WANTS me to eat soft serve ice cream and doughnuts. It's a growing baby!)

If I owe you an email or an etsy conversation, sorry for my slowness. I do get through my emails, they just take awhile these days...

In other, non-doughnut related news...I will be on an Artists Panel at Maude Kerns Art Center on Thursday evening, and would love to see all of you lovely Eugene peeps! Come by for a high five and a hug. Maybe there will be doughnuts? Maybe you will bring me some? One can hope...

Here's the scoop:

In conjunction with the current exhibit, “Drawn to Tell: Illustration
Invitational,” on Thursday, April 29, from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. For the panel,
participating local artists Alan M. Clark, Don Prechtel, and Mike Van, as
well as Portland artists Craig S. Holmes, Angel Roman, and Johanna Wright discuss their creativity and artistic process.

“Drawn to Tell,” which is on display through May 8, features ten Oregon
artists who represent the gamut of the illustrative arts, from the horror
images of Alan M. Clark to Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup comic strip, from the
historical genre pieces of Don Prechtel to Larry McQueen’s fine art bird
illustrations. The Title Sponsors for this exhibit are David Wade and
Nancy Pobanz.  For more information, please call Maude Kerns Art Center at 541-345-1571.

Rieke Art Fair April 22, 2010

Thanks everyone, for your super lovely response about the bump news! It is quite exciting, and I really appreciate all of your kind emails and comments. It's nice to have it out in the open now. Whew!

In arty news, I will be selling at the Rieke Art Fair, April 25th. The fair runs from 10am to 3pm at 1405 SW Vermont St in Portland, Oregon. 

 There will be 40+ fabulous local vendors, art classes for kids, food, a farmers market right outside...and more! It was a blast last year, and I'm excited to be going again.

Hope to see you there!

the bump! April 19, 2010

What do we have here? A little picture of a couple...and they look suspiciously like Gabe and I. And, what is that beneath that polka dot shirt? A bump? 

Anna Vogelzang April 14, 2010

Probably one of my most favorite things of all time, is getting real mail. Letters and packages and stuff like that, especially when the real mail is a big surprise. Remember the days when that was a common thing? Sigh. I have saved so many beautiful letters and crazy collages and funny stories and poems and drawings that I used to get in the mail from friends, back in the day before the internets seeped into our skin. Not that I send a lot of real mail to friends these days, but I should. Anyhow..I digress..

The point is, I came home the other day to find a package with this lovely cd in it, by Anna Vogelzang (a very talented and special lady) along with a whole kaboodle of buttons. Oh happy day! I did the cover art for this album many, many months ago and had kind of put it out of my brain, so it was an extra bit of a surprise and treat for me! Anna is on tour right now, you can hear her play in a town near you. You can also buy her album, right here.

SCBWI Western Washington Conference April 13, 2010

Home again, home again.

Maude Kerns Art Center! April 09, 2010

One more thing before I head off to Seattle...

I'm going to have some artwork in the "Drawn to Tell" show at Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, Oregon. The art will be up from April 9th-May 8th, with an opening reception this evening. You can read more about it, right here.

Unfortunately I will be in Seattle tonight, and won't be at the opening, but I will be speaking on the illustration panel later this month. More on that, soon!

Seattle! April 09, 2010

I'm sipping some tea this morning, making a thousand to-do lists, and beginning to throw things together for yet another trip!

In a few hours I'll be heading up to Seattle with Laini, Jim, Matt, and Suzanne, and of course the great, Clementine Pie, for the SCBWI Western Washington Conference. Yahooza! 

Chicago Mural April 08, 2010

I must have caught the lucky-pants express in Chicago last week, because what a fabulous trip THAT turned out to be.  

When I arrived it was a balmy 80 degrees (for reals) and I was lucky enough to waltz into a near stranger's beautiful (beau-ti-ful!) house and spend three days painting a mural for a tiny sweet little baby named Sophie (pictured above, look at that amazing wee one!!)

When I waltzed OUT of that lovely mural land, I had new friends and a happy heart.

And not to fear, sweet little Sophie was a safe distance away during the actual mural making, and did not get a drop of paint splattered on her, so everyone can just delete those crabby emails you were about to send me, titled..'how dare ye!'

The next few weeks are exceptionally full of travel, shows, projects and what-not, so stay tuned for some more-than-average posts on this here blog....(average being..seldom. More than seldom....)