Peep Show - sketchbook
- Allergic to Rejection sketch, scanned into my cult'ish mac powerbook... Lovingly mingled with my mom's foto when she was about 7-8yrs old...
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I'm doing a series of sketches based on the premise, what if we could really wear what we are thinking on a teeshirt - So folks could just know what's going on without asking...
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The original sketches all have a letter on my h2omelon girl's forehead ... - "A" is for Allergic... - to rejection that is... But in her hair it says "Perserverance". Quite often, these words/images are kind of post it note to myself on how to "be."
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Been feeling rather 'factory worker lately about the art creation,,, so I have plans to 'crafty craft' this up... will print it out and embellish it some more...rescanning again all of the new layers of collage. Want to use some sparkles, and stuff... Nothing like art just for arts' sake! (ooh art tech talk)
Speaking of Artsy Fartsy Tech Talk... and NOT BEING REJECTED - i was Blessed to be in the company of about 7 other artists (artist- not a mathematician) . Berkeley artist Paula de Joie hosted her monthly 'artist salon' in her warm victorian home that was filled with her 2 beautiful children - and their friends wandering in/out (now teenagers), archival family fotos, and original art- both paintings of her own, as well as Latisha Baker's of Ishama.com.
Her kitchen is a sunny inviting yellow, as was her invitation when she opened her home to her artist friends.
Anywhoo - What a breath of fresh air to eat at a table with like minds/hearts. - and then it was show and tell!
Cancer conqueror Ms.Wanda Scott- Broussard shared her very triumphant painting that showed insight to what folks are REALLY thinking when they've been 'thru it'!, She's living proof... Ya just move on from there, cause there is where ya is. Her Linocuts were very thoughtful and moving as well!
Painter Rawn Mccloud shared his images via da web...(there were 3 computers !)
His Very serene images make you look twice cause there's always something else going on under the top layers of paint! Catch his paintings at ?Cafe Roma (oh, you know the big wi-fi coffee shop on the corner of Ashby&College in Berkeley/Oakland border) up until the end of August2006!
A photographer named RON M. SAUNDERS ( - gave a mini exhibit of his process, and finished works of exquisitely unique images that were created through a series of multilple exposure direct to paper. FABULOUS! CANT WAIT TO SEE HIM AT MOAD!
- Modern world - I pulled out the old PB to show slides of my booth at the Essence Fest in Houston, the newest paintings from the show, as well as some peeks into my sketch book. (no rejection - what a relief)
I'm so looking forward to next month's Salon...What a Luscious Afternoon - karin