Hong Kong Show!

  

I just realized I never posted full photos of the pieces I did for the RE Emerging Art "Secret Garden" show at the Pawn Hotel in Hong Kong. All of these pieces are for sale, contact James Churchill at 

 info@re-emerging-art.com for more inquiries!

 More photos from the show can be seen HERE!

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hong kong bound!

so i have finished my pieces that will soon be sent off to Hong Kong! So exciting. Click on the photos to view larger..

three little birds, two of which will hang from a fancy birdcage (which will be bought in Hong Kong, so I won't have pictures of it until the event happens in June)

 ahh i love this stupid face the standing one is making. derp.

here are some detail pictures of the larger sculpture,

the figure, above, is surrounded by tiny cute little fat birdies everywhere.

and mushrooms. these are less than an inch tall..

and, here are some details from the two paintings:

 i will have more full photos of the paintings and sculpture closer to the opening, which will be in June. If you happen to be in Hong Kong in June, stay tuned for location and more information!

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scarves for sale and finishing up paintings

pocket helping out as i sewed the fabric clothes onto this painting

 a tiny bird embroidery i did. its about 1.5" tall. 

he will be part of one of the paintings i am finishing up.

full pictures coming in the next few days!

pretty ranunculus flowers i got, as well as some roses, for painting reference. 

these lasted a lot longer than the roses.

 

said roses, painted. i might still add some dimensional elements, as i just found out i have more time than i thought on these. yay!

more experiments in dyeing. i really liked how these turned out.

 

 the moon scarf. for sale if interested, let me know! hand dyed 100% habotai silk, 30" x 30"! $45!

the pattern scarf. hand painted and dyed. really bright and pretty, with subtle herringbone pattern as well as dappled patches of color, it is a little bit more green than these photos show. i should have ironed it for this photo..that one corner is weird. also for sale, and 100% habotai silk, 30" x 30", $45! 

 

... this one isn't for sale, i just want to make you jealous. i have been wearing it every day this week, it seems. but i am going to do more of these! this one is giant (45" square i think) and hard to photograph because its so big.

 the original sienna color (the negative space) was dyed with wild walnut shells,

 and then i did some tie-dyeing with black and wine red dyes.i really like all the weird mottled colors and mysterious shapes. success!

finally, there are only 3 more days to sign up for my workshop, Creating Homemade Terrariums for Earth Day! 

Sign up here! 

I need four or more participants for it to happen, and it will be really funnnn!!! get your hands dirty and come home with something green, that is really hard to kill! 

More Info HERE! 

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desert time, 5 hour paintings and aimless projects

 last weekend i went with some friends to Joshua Tree National Park. it was amazing. and super windy and freezing at night. we camped at Jumbo Rocks and there were...lots of jumbo rocks!

 these pictures are from Hidden Valley, where people hid stolen cattle back in the day.

 last night i painted the lovely Maude. this was a five hour session at Korpus School of Art, and it was lots of fun. it was a lot smaller painting than i usually do at these (9" x 12"), but i think it worked out okay.

 also a duplicate picture because pocket was investigating, and that's why you don't put wet oil paintings on the floor to photograph them!

 

 

and then i made some pouches and a brush holder for my makeup brushes, 

cause i have lots of cool fabric and should use it for something, right?

 aaand some drawings from a short figure drawing session this week.

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more painting, some new developments and stealing fruit

so! more progress on some paintings, who are making a long journey soon.

both need more work, the top one more so.

this photo is a sneak peak to a new project i'm working on- 

here's a hint- sign up for LifeCrowd.com now so you won't miss it!

and some fun-to-me things happening in my house; growing green onions, which i have a strong addiction to, in a mason jar..easy peasy- the tallest one went in probably a week ago and already 3" tall! magic! just put the white ends you cut off in about an inch of water, and change the water every few days. it seems to work faster than putting them in soil, which i have also done.

 cabin fever set in the other day and i went for a walk around my neighborhood, which has a large number of lemon trees, which all are laden right now, so ...free lemons! don't tell my neighbors (although to be fair, the little ones were from the ground * and then washed* and the big one was from a branch hanging over a fence into an alley, with about 30 other lemons that obviously weren't going to be eaten. No one makes that much lemonade...but they should.) they are about 23 times juicier than store-bought, and nice to know the ancient los angeles orchards that used to be here are still producing. and by "ancient" i mean the 1900's-1950s...if that..

there were also a lot of mostly barren avocado trees, which would be awesome if they were covered, because i love avocado more than any other food...maybe soon they will appear. i was tempted to grab a handful of kumquats from this tree that was overflowing with them near an alley, but a) i don't know what kumquats taste like and b) it was juuust a little too high/on the fence to casually grab some, unlike the lemons...