ARTFUL EXCHANGE

Two years ago, I was invited to participate in an altered book round robin with a group of women, half of whom were from Australia and half were from the U.S. We completed the round a few months ago, so I thought I'd share one of the pieces I did.

We each had a different subject that was chosen by the artist. In this one, the theme was chosen by Deb Lewis. It is called "Winged Messengers". I did the piece in January of 2008.

I was doing the work directly in the middle of the book and since it was going to Australia after I was done, I decided to use the representative birds of each country as a starting point.

DRAWN TO MAINE

I am "drawn" to Maine. I am" hooked" on Maine. Call it what you will. I enjoyed EVERY beautiful minute of my visit.

My husband and I planned to visit good friends and I discovered that an artist that I greatly admire, John Whalley (check out his incredible paintings and drawings), was teaching a class at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland while I was there. I signed up. I also arranged to meet up with the beautiful , inside and out, Susan Tuttle (check out her amazing photography and art).

Maine is about-

PEOPLE

Susan and I had lunch, checked out the beautiful town of Damariscotta.


I attended two days of a four day intensive drawing class with John. Not only is he an amazing artist he is a great teacher. Here he is explaining the golden mean.

Below is an example of Johns' work, a graphite drawing of my friend Walter. It is available at the Vose Gallery in Boston.

Dear friends, Walter and Arlene. Notice the resemblance. Pretty incredible, huh?


Maine is about-

ART

If you are in Maine , don't miss the Jamie Wyeth exhibit "The Seven Deadly Sins" at the Farnsworth . He uses seagulls to illustrate each one. Fantastic!! The show will be coming to Delaware in the fall.

Maine is about-

LOBSTER


Maine is about-

WATER









Maine is about-

FLEA MARKETS AND TEXTURE

WASTE NOT

Hey all of you savers, junk finders, flea market junkies and whatever else we call ourselves. Just saw this article in the NY Times about an exhibit currently at MOMA (that's the Museum of Modern Art in case you don't know, though you should). It's an amazing installation.

Check out the slideshow here.

KEEPING MYSELF ARTFULLY BUSY

I've been working on a few projects in my studio. I can only show glimpses at this time.......yeah sure. Some people hate that. Me? I think the small sections of work that people sometimes show are little GEMS in themselves.

I have also returned to my roots by going back to sketching. I can thank Barron Storey for that. I returned yet again to see his sketchbooks at the Society of Illustrators and spent a few more hours checking out the magic of his mark making.

Below you will find an "artsortment" of my"glimpses", PLUS my garden, that because of all of the rain we have been having, is looking better than it ever has. Also, when I was in NYC to see the Barron show again, I also went to The Met to see the incredible Medieval drawings. They will be on exhibit through the end of the summer.








Garden glimpses-






Hey Judy, check out the Prato Haggadah circa 1300. Have you guys read People of the Book? It's a wonderful story. Below images from The Metropolitan Medieval drawing exhibit.

A NEW YORK........."STOREY"

The above is a study for a project that is currently "all over my studio" . Just thought I'd let you know that I am still around, even though I haven't been visiting or posting much lately.

I spent a great day in New York yesterday. RUN.....do not walk, to the Barron Storey (he has both a blog and a website) show at the Society of Illustrators on 63rd, between Lexington and Park. It is a collection of his journals and sketchbooks that you can actually pick up , touch and feel, an amazing thing to be able to do in this day and age. It is there until the end of July and it's FREE. Be prepared to stay for awhile. I plan to go again.