My college "bestie" asked me to make an art piece from a photo of her late husband in Hawaii. She photographed a few cards he'd written to her and notes he'd placed in their gratitude jar. I overlaid a light image of the stones over his handwriting and placed the words among the rocks in the foreground. It was a joy to work on this for her and also so sad to contemplate her loss (and be reminded of my own loss of my husband of 30+ years). Art Therapy.
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A local gallery had a Clipboard Show with art hanging from clipboards (that could be framed by the gallery when purchased). This caused me to think of a way to make flat art that isn't glued down on a panel. I made three woven pieces for the show, all 10"H x 8" wide. I think I'll make more of these and float them in a shadow box kind of frame!
I was asked to make a grizzly bear collage for a friend. I embedded words in the foreground that she requested and also put some blue ledger paper in the sky.
The rock cairn is from a photo I took in Door County, WI. I embedded ledger paper, magazine text and handmade papers in the scene.
These were two pieces I made at the end of April. The cardinal piece is called "Checking out the Neighborhood" and is a 12" x 12" piece that includes additions of ledger paper and pieces of paperbark birch. The lake artwork is called "Early Morning Flight" and includes additions of blue ledger paper, vintage US postage stamps and a grassy handmade paper. (I heard geese that morning but they were too far away to photograph. In this artwork, I digitally moved a squadron of geese into the scene from another photo.)
I took a lot of photos of water lilies when we were in Florida, so I decided to make a series of art pieces. These are called Dragonfly Dream #1 - 3. All have handmade green papers in the lily pads, blue ledger paper from 1858 in the water, and shredded U.S. currency "floating" among the pads. (available for purchase on my website lorireedart.com)
I sent three pieces of art off today!
One was an enlargement on canvas, going to someone's new winter home in Florida. Another was a commission for a wife to give her husband of him on his sailboat, they live in Omaha, Nebraska. The third was a sale made this morning to a regular customer of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. I'd purchased a page in their bi-monthly catalog of art, and a man in New Jersey bought it upon receiving his catalog in the mail.
Good art day!
I'll be taking 15-16 pieces of art up to the Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County in early spring. These three will be added to the group. Vintage postage stamps, newspaper text and handmade papers join the filtered photos to make the mixed media work.
Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County, Wisconsin is planning for a big year of tourist visits and art sales - yay! They sold 9 of my pieces last year, have 11 in their two galleries currently and want 15 new pieces to start out the spring season. NICE! I have enough appropriate imagery from my recent show to fill that request, but wanted to make a couple more from photos I took when in Wisconsin last spring. This sweet lighthouse is at the entry of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal that gives ships a shortcut from Lake Michigan into Green Bay; there's a Coast Guard station next to it as well. After layering up my three versions of the photo in quarter-inch strips of paper, I embedded segments of some vintage 3-cent postage stamps depicting sailors and a Coast Guard ship.
