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Summer approaches

2009-05-16T22:49:00.000-07:00

The countdown has begun to time uninterrupted by anything other than what I choose shall interrupt it. There are only 14 days until graduation. I've been going through my art supplies, getting ready. I started meeting with other art teachers in our district. I'm going to teach them how to do gelatin print making on the 9th of June. I'm looking forward to remembering how to do it, getting out all the supplies...making another collograph to print from.

Raven Woman

2008-12-29T08:57:00.001-08:00

She's about a foot tall and made from self-hardening clay.

The Wailing Wall

2008-12-23T17:40:00.001-08:00

This is #48. I have eight days to do two more pieces to hit my goal of 50. I actually have two very large paintings about half done, so I can't count them...and 2 large collages started, but know I won't finish in time. It's got to be something quick...and easy. Does a large chocolate chip cookie Christmas tree count?

Owl Necklace

2008-12-23T17:38:00.000-08:00

Bought all the pieces...just liked them and put them together.

Flower Face Necklace

2008-12-23T17:37:00.001-08:00

Another necklace with a bead from Taylorsville.

Ceramic Seagull Necklace

2008-12-23T17:35:00.000-08:00

I bought the ceramic seagull bead years ago for less than a dollar at a rummage sale. I hung it as the clanger for a windchime and when the windchime broke surprisingly the bead did not. Now, it's a necklace.

Celtic Cross Necklace

2008-12-23T17:32:00.001-08:00

I got the cross bead at the Solar Cook-off in Taylorsville this summer. I like to think I'm Celtic, but in truth I'm 1/2 Norwegian, a smattering of French, a bit of Irish, and a bit of English.

Biliken Necklace

2008-12-23T17:30:00.001-08:00

I got the biliken years ago and the beads a couple days ago.

Job Swimming in His Sea of Troubles

2008-12-23T17:25:00.001-08:00

Blue Hand

2008-11-20T16:00:00.000-08:00

Made from no-bake clay. Painted with acrylic paint. Aboriginal design.

Cool site

2008-11-18T16:27:00.001-08:00

http://celestebergin.blogspot.com/

Here's #40

2008-11-18T16:22:00.001-08:00

This is a neat assignment where you use student grade watercolor paper and crayola crayons to make a painting that has a very realistic batik look without all the mess.

December #4

2008-10-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

Getting closer....to the goal.

2008-09-28T15:25:00.000-07:00

So I'm at 38...hmmm. I have three more months to do 12 more pieces. Better get going.

language is the dress of thought

2008-09-28T15:20:00.001-07:00

Barbed Wire dress

2008-09-28T15:16:00.001-07:00

4 Horsemen Planning an Apocolypse

2008-07-31T15:29:00.001-07:00

Wild Nights

2008-07-24T10:44:00.001-07:00

This is the last of my plaster hearts, at least from that mold. It has a poem I just discovered by Emily Dickinson printed on it.

Cat's Meow

2008-07-21T08:36:00.001-07:00

I got the cat beads in Taylorsville, Ca at the Solar Cook off. I think they are ivory or bone.

art-tart: Walking Through the Valley with the Shadow of Death

2008-07-11T16:29:00.000-07:00

art-tart: Walking Through the Valley with the Shadow of Death

Walking Through the Valley with the Shadow of Death

2008-07-10T13:54:00.001-07:00

Here's what the real painting turned out like. I ended up working off a very bad photo I took last week at the opening of Art Town of the 4th Street Marching Band. Death was just a guy on stilts, and the guy in the left corner an observer. Even though it was nothing like I had originally thought about, it ended up being closer to what was really going on inside my head about death and how life is a valley always overshadowed by death, and that's not always morbid, but can, at times, be extremely comforting.

Value Study for Walking Through the Valley

2008-07-10T13:52:00.003-07:00

This is the value study I did for Walking Through the Valley with the Shadow of Death, which ended up being nothing like it. I used the study to attempt a painting, but the painting just never had the same impact as the drawing so I painted over the first start...something I seem to be doing a lot of these days.

The Blood of Life

2008-06-05T15:58:00.000-07:00

Here's the third. I think I like it best so far. The kids at school liked it. They wanted to talk about it. I got kind of nervous talking religion, but it's one level of the art, so I did it anyway. Hopefully in an objective this is what I was trying to say tone rather than anything else.

When Jealousy Entered Paradise

2008-05-27T17:17:00.000-07:00

Here is the second in my biblical series. I had fun doing this one too, but it was bigger 20 x 24. Disobedience to good really unleashed a whole can of bad worms, huh? Kind of like the Greek's Pandora's Box. I'm listening to Ekert Tolle's New Earth book. He says sin means straying from the path, or something like that, veering off course. Of course, it's the ego that must always satisfy itself, and what damage it does.

G.Dub's web

2008-05-16T17:57:00.000-07:00

Also, on a political note. I did a piece for La Bussola's latest group show "Animal Farm". My piece had one of the small boxes I did at St. Mary's in the Mountains last summer with Candace Nicols. On the box I put a web with toy soldiers all caught up. Soldiers are glued across the top as well. And, of course, there's a spider, painted gold with an American flag emerging from it's back. I didn't realize until now I hadn't taken a photo. May try to get down to the shop and take one this weekend. I won't get it back as all proceeds go to the SPCA and I donated it for their auction. I realize it is a little political probably for that venue, but it's what I wanted to do.

Jonah trying to escape his fate

2008-05-16T17:48:00.001-07:00

Christianity swirled through my adolescence. As a teenager I embraced it, read the Bible frequently...all the way through more than once. Didn't understand much of it. Got married, largely because of it. Got divorced eleven years later in spite of it, and began to question it...and be angry about it...and the way women are treated and portrayed. Started studying religion in general, which made more sense to me. "One God, world without end." I'm missing the stories. I started reading it again. It still doesn't make much sense...much of it...but I still like the stories...the horrifying, badder than Grimes Fairy Tale Stories. This is the first in a series I'm going to do about those stories. I have twelve planned. The number is intentional.

Red Lips

2008-05-16T17:45:00.000-07:00

The last of the three portraits from this series of my daughter. I want to do a series each year and see how long I can keep it going to mark changes ect. She's in a band now...very new, called Panoramic. They are writing all their own songs. She's the drummer.

Wild Tiger Lilies

2008-04-27T11:09:00.001-07:00

This was a project where we drew with glue, then added colored pencil, melted crayons and anything else we wanted to throw into the project.

Altered Doll

2008-03-31T16:11:00.001-07:00

This is my entry for La Bussola's Altered Doll show which opens tomorrow. Stop in and see it. It's on First Street in Reno.

Keeping Time

2008-03-25T14:51:00.000-07:00

I started these two clocks about three years ago and then lost interest. Yesterday, I dug them out and finished them for display and sale at La Bussola.

DRAGONFLY CLOCK: SOLD

Medusa

2008-03-16T17:13:00.001-07:00

Another portrait of my daughter. Don't know if she'll appreciate this one, but I used to read them Greek Myths and was always struck by the fact that medusa was supposedly more beautiful than Aphrodite, which is how she came to her plight.

Awards & Money

2008-03-16T13:15:00.000-07:00

The Nevada Wide Open show was a great show. It travels from Reno to Yerington and perhaps beyond. I had a wonderful surprise in that my piece was one of the winners and I get a hundred dollars. Nice...think I'll spend it on art.

2 new necklaces

2008-03-08T12:24:00.000-08:00

The horse necklace is another version of one I did earlier. It too was a gift. It was another horse bead I purchased at the Carson Rendevous.

The seashell necklace has green beads I got in Gallup, New Mexico a few years back on springbreak. I got the brass seashell there as well. Kind of ironic to find such a beautiful seabead in the middle of the desert.

Nevada Wide Open

2008-02-26T16:04:00.000-08:00

My piece made the advertisement! It's the one in the far right corner. If you want to see the real thing the reception is March 14th, Friday at the Sierra Arts Building on Virginia Street. Hope to see you there.

art-tart: Ballerina Flowers

2008-02-22T16:15:00.000-08:00

www.iggiart.blogspot.com

art-tart: Ballerina Flowers

2008-02-22T16:14:00.000-08:00

www.iggiart.blogspot.comart-tart: Ballerina Flowers

art-tart: Haunted

2008-02-22T16:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.pencil-portrait-drawing-artist.com/

Haunted

2008-02-20T20:43:00.000-08:00

This is a colored pencil portrait I just finished of my daughter. I did a bunch of loops first and then put the portrait underneath them.

Daytime Ballerinas

2008-02-12T18:19:00.001-08:00

More ballerinas. Just experimenting with different media.

Blue Ballerinas

2008-02-06T19:58:00.000-08:00

I did this to teach value...or how you just use one color (lots of hues).

See more

2008-02-01T16:29:00.000-08:00

of my art at SIERRA ARTS "Nevada Wide Open IV". The piece I submitted...the first piece on my blog got accepted. To see the piece other than on my blog stop in to the Sierra Arts Blding on Virginia across from the Pioneer theater. It's a group show and supposed to travel...so that's a plus.

2008-01-27T08:55:00.001-08:00

Teddy Roosevelt

Ballerina Flowers

2008-01-24T18:23:00.001-08:00

I love my students. Amanda Tirk gave me the title of this one. I had photographed a beautiful flowering shrub while in Ft. Bragg over Christmas break, but I failed to find out what they were called. Later, setting up the assignment to use four different zones and come up with a drawing (scratchboard, neg/pos shapes, cubes, full value, and pointillism) Okay that's five...anyway. I realized I didn't know the name of the flower. Amanda saw my drawing and said, "Oh, ballerina flowers. I love those."

La Bussola

2008-01-22T18:58:00.001-08:00

SOLD

SOLD
SOLD

ART SHOW

2008-01-22T18:53:00.000-08:00

SOLD

So, I'm getting my very first solo show at a place called La Bussola in downtown Reno. It's off of First Street next to Java Jungle. The show will be up in February, so if you're downtown then check it out. I'm pretty excited. Even though I didn't create the art this year I thought I'd put it here for you to preview.

2008-01-21T19:24:00.001-08:00

printmaking

O'Keefe quotes

2008-01-19T10:17:00.001-08:00

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."

Michelangelo again

2008-01-19T10:11:00.000-08:00

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."

Michelangelo

2008-01-17T18:39:00.001-08:00

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."

Art versus Craft

2008-01-14T19:49:00.000-08:00

I'm back at my day job, so it's harder to squeeze in art making, but yesterday I did make this necklace and earrings as a gift. It's creative, but not sure it qualifies as art. Anyone out there have any thoughts on art versus craft?

Racoons

2008-01-12T07:43:00.000-08:00

They shrieked first...like cats. We heard them from the hot tub, but when one scaled the fence, we saw its outline against the night...that long ringed tail and fur rimmed neck. It watched us a while before scaling the skeleton tree hanging over the deck.

Waiting for the Muse: Arts & Bolts

2008-01-10T20:18:00.000-08:00

Waiting for the Muse: Arts & Bolts

Virginia City, Nevada's St Mary's Art Center

2008-01-10T19:47:00.000-08:00

The catalog arrived today. A full color brochure listing the new classload. For artists, it's a wonderful retreat tucked into historic Virginia City. It's in an old hospital...complete with ghosts, that's been rennovated as a place where artists can create. I've taken three wonderful printmaking workshops at this site: Nolan Preece (intaligio), Stephen Lewinter (Solar Printmaking), and Candace Nicols (gelatin prints).

Jasper Johns

2008-01-09T18:05:00.001-08:00

"Do something to that, then do something to that, then do something to that."

My massage therapist says I have to quit hunching. Maybe raise my drawing board?

Blogger Buzz: Browse Profiles! Find new blogs to read!

2008-01-08T16:52:00.000-08:00

Blogger Buzz: Browse Profiles! Find new blogs to read!

Teddy Roosevelt said...

2008-01-08T16:41:00.000-08:00

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Sometimes, for me, stilling the inner critic is even more difficult.

Art Piece Number Three

2008-01-07T13:42:00.001-08:00

The female galaxy is a gelatin print that I did this summer. Today I went in with a brush and acrylic paint and added more color. A gelatin print is made from jello. I made a collograph from file folders, inked them and pressed them into the jello. The fork I found flattened on the road outside my house. I inked it up first, pressed it into the jello and then put the collograph on top of that.

Art Piece Number Two

2008-01-06T20:35:00.001-08:00

A dream about red dots...nostolgia for my South Dakota roots...remembering Sitting Bull's vision of hundreds of soldiers falling all around him. The US calvary button I found in the desert a few years back sticks to General Custer's foot. It's much larger than Piece Number One. This one is 16 x 20

Van Gogh

2008-01-06T09:01:00.000-08:00

"If you hear a voice within you saying you can not paint, by all means paint and the voice will be silenced."

Learning to ignore critical voices all together is a good life skill.

Art Piece Number One

2008-01-05T13:49:00.000-08:00

This solar print collage is dedicated to teacher Stephen LeWinter. I learned solar printmaking from him at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City. He was a wonderful teacher who succumbed to cancer, but whose memory lives on in the lives of his students. The piece began with one of the prints completed the summer of 2005. Originally, the piece was 5 x 7 inches, but I'm submitting it into a show called Nevada Wide Open that requires the pieces be 2.5 x 3, so the piece was modified by tearing and adding the torn pieces to create the collage. The green is colored pencil and the bit of brown silk ribbon came from a 2007 Christmas package.

Creation

2008-01-04T21:28:00.000-08:00

So I read an article lately about an 80 year old woman who started doing art at 67. After 13 years her art was featured in this major art magazine...and I was impressed...and inspired. So inspired that when I sat down with a friend to create my list of New Year's visualizations (my friend and I have been doing this together once a year for over a decade) I decided that in honor of my 50th birthday I would create 50 works of art. I hope to post them on this blog.