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The artist reception and a crazy donut eating contest is this
Sat., June 2nd from 10AM to 3PM.
If you're local, please visit me at the reception (pretty please!)
Come and meet the artists in person and ask them what inspires them
to create crazy bug art! The art show is quirky and fun and you will be able to find your favorite or not so favorite bugs starring in bug art to purchase.
There will be a bee expert with info on his bee keeping and honey producing company:http://www.bluem
Self-Portrait, Interior
Acrylic, ink, on wood panel 16" x 20"
6" x 6", acrylic on wood panel
By:
Annie Beth Ericsson,
on 3/5/2012
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In case you missed it, this week’s results for School Library Journal’s Fuse #8 Re-Seussify Seuss challenge were in, and they were pretty spectacular! The mission, as set forth by children’s lit guru Betsy Bird, was to draw a spread from a Dr. Seuss book, but in the style of ANOTHER famous picture book artist. I was inspired by the fun mash-up idea, and pulled off the image of Yertle The Turtle in the style of Arnold Lobel, above.
The idea for the image itself came to me pretty easily. It’s no surprise that I love drawing turtles, and Yertle The Turtle is a family favorite. The reptile vs. amphibian factor – Yertle crossed with Frog and Toad - was amusing to me as well. In particular, I wanted to try my hand at Arnold Lobel’s style. I thought the limited palette with textured graphite would be fun, and his characters and watercolors lend themselves easily to my own style. Plus, he’s a fellow Pratt alum!
I learned a lot about Arnold Lobel’s creative process from this video with his daughter, Anita Lobel. She sought to replicate her father’s paintings when she colored Arnold Lobel’s unfinished The Frogs and Toads All Sang:
I am very interested in Lobel’s use of color separations to make the Frog and Toad illustrations, and I wish I could find more on the subject. While Anita went with full-color in her recent interpretation, I wanted to imitate the 2-color (and black) separations by sticking to a green layer, a brown layer, and dark graphite. I’m pleased with the result and think it was rather successful, if I do say so myself.
Now go check out Betsy’s post for the other mind-blowing creative Re-Seussification mash-ups!
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Hi all, I'm stopping in to let you know that I've re-opened my
Etsy shop! I've still got more illustrations to post and I'm working on new artwork to put up soon also.
These are mini printable cards that are in my shop. They've been handy for me to have printed and ready for when my kids go to parties because I can just grab one real quick and go. That's pretty nice!
Happy Weekend!
Jenni
Bonni Reid - “Cartes de Visite”
My dear friend Bonni Reid has a solo show opening in two days (Feb. 3) at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles. These are some seriously gorgeous paintings. If you’re in L.A., don’t miss it!
Having a professional career in creating Saturday morning cartoons, I wanted to break from this candy-coated world in order to depict another side of childhood, one that is much darker, haunting or just plain weird — to evoke a time before we child-proofed everything.
By utilizing old photographs of family, friends and found images, this collection portrays the alter ego that resides in all of us — the real inner child which isn’t always what we as adults want it to be. (via “Cartes de Visite” on Facebook)
We finally got around to putting up our Christmas tree last weekend. I'm not going to want to take it down in a few weeks....some of you know that last year I kept our tree up until March! I'm certainly not doing that again but it's so hard to say goodbye to all the pretty lights you know?
And speaking of getting out things that have been packed away, I rummaged through my old watercolor portfolio the other day and it was interesting to see how my style has developed over time. I have a digital copy of the above painting now and it's funny because I forgot about the yellow text area that I digitally took out. I wonder why I did that? If I recall, I wanted to put "Season's Greetings" in it.
And I also found by rummaging, this painting which is an old logo of mine that I scanned in and put my name in the yellow box. It's fun to revisit things like this! I painted this about 9 years ago. Wow! Where has the time gone?!
I've had a few features this week from two blogs that I know you'll enjoy and I just want to take a moment to say thank you to
Meaghan and
Jill Blessings,
Jenni
"Avis Angelus: Tondo"
Acrylic, ink, oil, gold leaf on wood panel, 18” across
I painted this on a round 18" wood panel. First I stained the wood to accentuate it's beautiful grain, and then pressed some large inkblots across the surface. After that, I worked to find images in the random patterns that had been created. The gold sun is a small knot in the wood.
This is a fascinating, meditative process to me, and one that I picked up from Max Ernst via Leonardo Da Vinci.
Rockscape II (16" x 20" Acrylic, Oil, Marble Dust on Wood Panel)
I had a grand time building up these textures with marble powder. It's a departure from a lot of what I do, but I love and miss the massive rocks from the Western deserts where I grew up.
One of the first things I noticed after moving to the South was the kudzu draping the trees and changing them into strange, Max Ernst-like monsters. James Dickey wrote a poem about the kudzu--here's a tiny excerpt:
half out of leafage
As though they would shriek,
Like things smothered by their own
Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts.
My latest book cover with Pearson--what a great group to work with!
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Quite beautiful.
Thanks, Elizabeth. This one put up more of a fight than the others have.