Art. I have done some,

 I keep forgetting to post the art I have been doing.

I did a whole series of Watercolors in preparation for the Watercolor class that I taught here at the store.

Here's a tiny sketch I did as a sample for the pen testing project we have going on at the store.

I wanted to recycle some old flash cards, and customers love to try out the wonderful writing impliments we carry, what a perfect match.

I hadn't done pen and ink for a while...then again this was really just a doodle.

I will try to post the watercolors soon, so you won't think I am just sitting around not doing art!!

Do you remember winter?

I know, this year we haven't had much snow.
Although where I live -there is actually snow on the ground!
I have been trying to decide if it is worth it to try to carve anything out of my snowpile.
It's not very big and the temperature seems too cold to sculpt when I have the time.

I started thinking...

 I was remembering previous snowy years.






Sometimes we have been known to get this much snow:

I remember John and I, building a snowsculpture, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes...

 I am not complaining. The drive to work has been safer than ever.
I just thought I'd  take a look back as I load these photos into the snowscultpting page. I do hope you are all having a safe and wonderful winter.
I have finished 3 watercolors lately, but left them at work, so I will photo those and load them onto the computer next weekend or sooner...
c

Another collage

This is one that I made about 3 years ago, it's called "Eat your greens, and then we'll roast marshmallows!"

This is a close up, in person - you can see that the marshmallow is 3-D.

There's the photo of the other garden collage!

Finally found it..still haven't named it yet...

Gotta get back to art! ...aRRRt I mean...

 I must admit to having a lot of great and exciting plans for the store this year... so my time will be divided...but I haven't forgotten to do art.

The first thing coming to the store is the RE cycle show. Art with 3 R's. Artists Mediums REDUCE, RE-USE, RECYCLE  Exhibit.
There is  still a CALL for ARRRT! Go to the store's website at http://www.artistsmediums.com/ or the Artists' Mediums blog. (ALL artists are invited! ...nudge...nudge...)

 These shows have always been a lot of fun!
 You have to see it to believe what people can make out of garbage.
  I HAD two pieces that would fit the theme,but over the past few days, I have finished two more collages.
So I will have a total of four pieces in the show: 3 collage and one 3-D.
The collages are made from seed and bulb catalogs:

so fresh off the presses, I haven't even named them yet.

I seemed to have lost track of the phot of the other one...will post again soon.

-c

Retail Holiday sales, and inventory

Just in case anyone was wondering why I seemed to have fallen off the edge of the map.
I work Retail, at a fabulous store called Artists Mediums Inc. (http://www.artistsmediums.com/)

This means I have been putting in a lot of hours...
and inventory takes even more of my time...

The staff helps me by helping to count everything in the store, but I spend an awful lot of hours doing the data entry for inventory....so hopefully after I finish up inventory, and we plan out some of the coming year for the store, I may just get back into the artwork.

My oil paints are dry.
I am trying to decide.
I would like to try some more watercolors...
or I could mix another batch of oil,
since I have a friend who has commissioned me to paint a portrait of his dog...
Soon... soon...

Snow

I have started posting the snow sculptures from last year as a Snow Scuplture page (clickhere).

 I will continue updating it as time goes on...

I'd better start thinking about how to pile the snow this year...
:)