Aar River and NEXT...maybe...

Last night's opening reception at the Aar River Gallery was fun!  I'm sure the artists out there can relate to the joy of being able to talk about your work and meet new people...THANK you Beck Silver!!  If you live in the area you must take time to visit the gallery sometime...it is a beautiful space!

Now, on to other things...my families paintings...a new NEXT piece...and working on step pieces for the Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine!

Full of ideas, fun and smiles!!  HAPPY CREATING!!

Another beginning...always!

With the beginning of this new vision that I have come to PLUS trying to start a group up here...and, well...REGULAR life I find myself always feeling like I am behind!  Since right now I am working for myself I have to laugh that I feel this way...but...well, I do!...sigh...smile...grin...It's ok...I'm about to take a nap...so perks come with this too...:)

I'm thinking cherry tomatoes (before I eat them up) for this one...I already have my visual laid out and my stream picked out (in case you haven't noticed in my new work there is a stream of paper threading its way throughout my pieces...I find it helps to pull the eye across what is largely very vertical shapes in my work)...and also is fun for those more organic type shapes...and, I just like it!  So, when I say I'm streaming...that is the term I came up with for this compositional piece of my work.

I've been thinking other types of texture for my new work...so you can see the first play with it...I'm a likin it!  It's just a little bit more...a little bit new...we always have to keep moving forward...never get complacent with what we find come out of us!

As I do...I'm sharing the latest awesome view I get to see while living up here...this one was the moon rise over the city of Denver... it is hard to catch the moon without a tiny bit of movement...a photographer I am not...still it is pretty...enjoy!!

THE MORNING OF...

My eyes popped open at 4 this morning...my brain started and there was NO shutting it off...so I decided to do some last, last minute things...It's AMAZING how many things there are to do when one has never done a thing before...:)  My first outdoor festival...fun, and a little daunting for me...This is the culmination of many months of figuring out how to do something (like set up tent and what does one use for hanging art when one is...well...sort of poor! ha)...but, it's all figured out and ready for me to go a bit further up the mountain in about an hour to hang my work and set up shop...Will I like this??? Time will tell...I KNOW I will enjoy talking about my work...meeting new people and hearing some music from MY time...Three Dog Nightish stuff...

"Poppy Fields"

24 x 24"

Mixed media on MDF panel with 1 3/4" poplar cradle...

detail...

We met some fun people yesterday when we set up the tent (during the ONLY rain shower of the day I might add!):)...so I'm looking forward to that again today...

"Kaleidoscope"

oops...can't remember the dimensions...later...something like 8x25 ish

DIDN'T YOU JUST KNOW I WAS GONNA DO ANOTHER ASPEN PIECE!!

So, I know most of you will not make it up my way, so I'm sharing the two paintings I finished just in the NICK of time...:) and another visitor yesterday...she was busy eating, but she did glance my way!

Wish me luck!  HAPPY CREATING!!