It's been far too long that I haven't posted to my blog....this is not good and I'm going to have to much much better in the future. A lot of stuff has happened since my last post, but most of it is far to personal and not much in the way of being fiber related and that's what my posts are supposed to be about. The piece above, and yes, it's got glare on it, a new picture will have to happen. I purchased this frame and liked the size..11 x 42...took what was in the frame out and created this piece using different types of mask ideas....backed on the red/white stripe. Each mask is my adaptation of a group of masks I found on the internet that where originally made out of clay, painted, sculpted, etc.
Of course once I get them all finished and placed in the mat and then the frame, I found marks on the frame that would prevent me from using that frame for sales purposes, so now I have to either paint over the color on the frame of change frames completely. Haven't decided which way to go at this point.
My intent is to do something different and change my focus...getting away from the cute and creating collages with more substance or send a message. Still have a way to go.
Right this very minute I have a piece of work at the Blue Line Arts Gallery again...this is the third exhibit this year that I've juried into and it's only March. "Yosemite: Valley Floor" was entered into a photography exhibit titled "West Coast, Best Coast" and I entered it as a stitched photograph with cotton/organza and it was selected.
And a gallery in Colusa, Ca., has twenty of my pieces of work using photographic images for the months of March and April...a small community, but again it's exposure.
And here is a piece I created for Rio City Cafe exhibit through the Artists' Collaborative Gallery but after a month it was removed because the complained that the customers didn't like eating with an animal watching them....poor excuse, but now I'm entering it into an exhibit in Rancho Cordova in April. Just need to get my work out out out and hope for some sales sales sales.
"Giraffe in a Blue Box" by Louise Schiele 2016.
I keep creating new work in hopes that someday my sales will become higher, the demand greater. Some days I just can't get myself out into the studio, but I must or else shut it down.
