a few more tag drawings

Anna Hepler

Saw this artist at the Richard Levy Gallery in ABQ. The pieces in the show that I was so smitten with were not on her website, but they were much like these, layers of plexi with small blue marks on them and framed by antique paper portrait mats.

"Giving Shelter"

Here is just a small sample of the work from the "Giving Shelter" show in Albuquerque.
What a impressive turnout the opening had! It's good for the cause, of course, but selfishly it was very cool to bump into so many folks from the past. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera at the opening, but on the other hand, at least I had the day before, when I went to see the show with Deborah. We were lucky to get a personal tour of the show by Deborah with a bit of background to the vast variety of artists involved.

Gina Dominique.


Kris Mills.
Deborah Gavel, on the left, curator extrodanaire.
Naomi Natale, on the right, impressive force behind "The Cradle Project"

ABQ

One of the things about Albuquerque that I love the best (aside from the good friends) is the inspired sense of the beautiful. Maybe the best kept secret about the city is that it is the most ready-made place on earth. Here are a few interiors and yards of some very dear peoples' homes.
Every minute of our visit there was rich with wonderful people and great food.
My next post will include more about the show, which was beautifully put together. Pictures of the opening can be seen here.

ffffound.com

Ok, so P just turned me on to this site and I'm just begining to explore it's multitude of images.
An amazing archive of images that leads you to an endless link of somewhat related or vaguely similar images. Non-stop fun!
The top image led me to this site and the bottom image lead here.

Tags

I once had a drawing assignment in college: make 40 drawings in 4 hours.
The fact is, I don't think anyone accomplished that, but the awareness that
sometimes you need to crank out a lot of noncommittal work in order to loosen
up and find a few new ideas stayed with me. I spent an some time this week doing this
and found that these little tags were just the right size and non-art-type
material to work with.

po lovey

This is the world's most pathologically vain and aloof cat. But we love him.
I don't think he knows he's crossed-eyed.

unravel

In the studio this week.

Diem Chau

Found both Diem Chau and Lindsay Sekulwicz on The Lumper.

Lindsay Sekulowicz

When you check out the website of this artist make sure to view the animations, especially the Ukranian Insect Race.

Some Beautiful Interiors

I just found this photographer on ArtMoco today.

You can see more of Wendy Cooper's images here.

Giving Shelter

I'm so looking forward to traveling to Albuquerque to see friends
next week.
I have the opportunity now because I was fortunate enough to be
invited to participate in this show which was curated by
my friend, Deborah Gavel. I wish I could show the piece
that I made for it, but unfortunately it had to go before
I had the chance to photograph it well enough but here is a small detail.
It's nice to be a part of such a
great project. This show is helping bring awareness to the Cradle
Project which I would love to contribute to as well. Hopefully
I will have the time to get that together.

Exotic Bird Sketchbook, too

Another little sketchbook I've put together.
I like these little birds, they're fun to draw.
I'm putting this on etsy today

Lauren Nassef

If you visit Book by it's Cover you can see the sketchbooks of
Lauren Nassef who did these beautiful drawings. These are from
her drawing a day blog. This was a happy find!

Part ll: The Doors

Windows in VN

I going a back a bit to earlier this year.
Showing some images of Vietnam.
I've got these organized so that these are just
a few of the windows. I literally have hundreds
of images from VN so I'm trying them out in
different arrangements.
The colors are so amazing there!

a long weekend

So nice to step away for the weekend.
Happy New Year!

Q's birthday

Yesterday was my youngest son's birthday.
This is his littlest best friend, Beene.
A portrait.

SToppin

This is what I found on flikr today.
Many many amazing drawings
on this artist's site. I've just begun to look.
You can see them here.