“to bits and pieces” – solo show at CMD:P Gallery in Pioneer Square!!

Happy 2014!

{Warning – Image HEAVY!}

I’m a little late on this, but I currently have a show up at CMD:P Gallery down in Pioneer Square! The opening was last week, and I got to see lots of my favorite people, so thank you so much for making it by! If you didn’t get a chance to come see the space, the work will be up until the end of January. You can even just walk by and look through the windows!

This body of work was rather experimental – as usual it was under a time crunch, so I set parameters early: I found some amazing handmade watercolor paper at the Artists and Craftsman Supply store up in the University District – and picked up a pile of small pieces, and a few large ones. I had no idea what these were going to become, but two weeks later, and after destroying the studio, here are 12 new pieces! All done with charcoal, sumi ink, acrylic and of course, the cut-fabric flowers.

“Chill”

“Cluster”

“Collarbone”

“Cosmos”

“Dahlia”

“Forearms”

“Frost”“Fuschia”

“Lacquer”

“Oh Boy”

“Posey”

“Russet”

I rang in the new year with the first flu I’ve had in years and years, up to my ears in scraps of work and small projects. I’m very happy and can’t wait to see what happens next! I hope the start to your year was beautiful, and that it only gets better –

May Flowers {three new fabric collages}

“Lottie”

“Blue Rose”

“Jasmine”

Here are the three most recent fabric collages I’ve been working on, all available for sale now in the shop, here.

Happy May!

Artist Crush: Hellen Jo

She is so cool.

Her super-saturated colors, watercolor washes, badass girls and incredible lines. UGH! See more here.

All I want to do is sleep

Because it’s the middle of winter and I’m convinced I’m part bear.

But, you know, I’m a grown up now and at around 11am I get thirsty so do get out of bed. Yesterday I was SUPER grown up and cleaned the house. Today I made these. Little drawings this time, 5x7in, on the kraft paper with charcoal, ink and acrylic. Lazy Bones.

The small originals are all up in the shop here.

Are you (my Northern hemisphere friends) all having the same hibernating problem, or is it just me? How do you kick it? Or, how do you not stay in bed all day, especially when you have thick blankets and like, a million pillows, and your sweetheart makes you coffee in the morning so you don’t even have to get up?

Of course, this’d probably be different were I still a student or had a day job where I was expected somewhere at a certain hour. But then again, I’d probably be playing hookey.

Plumping up for winter (hibernation mode), AKA the winter habits of the work-at-home Artist

Yup, this is about the state of things in the home/studio lately. Except instead of berries, they’re chocolate-caramels and little puddles of coffee. Slightly more clothing is usually involved, and Downton Abbey has been playing in the background (along with some unhealthy hat envy).

Seriously. I’ll take them all, please.

I kid, I kid – it’s not that bad – I’m not quite that feral yet. Though lately, with the exception of my daily stroll to the post office I’ve been holing myself up from the grey, wet Seattle weather, and really settling into a hibernation of sorts. My daily ritual goes something like this:

Oh, sorry – not like that, like this:

• cuddling
• coffee
• bath
• email
• music (pandora or last.fm or my small but treasured CD collection)
• foraging for berries food
• work (sketching, research, painting, post office run, getting distracted, finding myself staring off into space for embarrassingly long periods of time)
• more coffee
• {repeat last five steps, as often as necessary}
• documentaries on le TV
• reading (just finished Stiff, the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach – awesome.)
• cuddle cats
• When N gets home, dinner and games {shooting skags, as you do}

So, that’s more or less my life lately – and, as Nick’s just walked in it’s time to move off of the list! What have you guys been doing lately?