Humor me, please...click here. It had to be done, now I can properly introduce my new series for November 2015...'November Blue!' This month it is going to be all about monochromatic blue. So far I am working with acrylic on canvas, but I may or may not stick with that for the entire month. One thing is for sure, I will maintain the color scheme...and probably the size/dimensions...cause it drives me a little bonkers when my art within a monthly series is different sizes. This isn't my first time working with a monochromatic series within my monthly pieces. In May of 2012 I was working with the prompt of 'one', which I interpreted as one color- hence, monochromatic. (well, one color and the tints, tones and shades) I completed all blue drawings on paper for the month. Wanna see? Click here to view May 2012 images. When I was working on my first piece in the series, I had an Avett Brothers song in my head- 'November Blue'. I love that song...love TAB...scribbled some of the lyrics on my painting. At the time I wasn't sure if I was going to commit to monochromatic blue AND all Avett Brothers-related paintings. As much as I love TAB, I decided that the color blue wouldn't necessarily fit all of their songs so instead today I had the idea to incorporate different songs by various artists that either mention the word 'blue' in the title, or feature a significant lyric that mentions 'blue'. Now, I'm no slouch when it comes to music- I love music, multiple genres, but it always helps to get a little help so I enlisted several of my 'music guru' friends (ya'll know who you are!) and the result was a huge amount of texts back and forth which I then used to compile a spreadsheet with each person listed and their suggestions...'cause I'm nerdy like that. The second piece was the suggestion of my girl, Gin, out in Colorado. She mentioned some lyrics from 'Sorry I am', an Ani DiFranco song we both love...so I used that. Rock on, ya Righteous Babe you! And I have more insights on the significance of the theme for this month...but its getting late and I need o get ready for my show installation tomorrow...so something's gotta give. More bloggin' later!
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But for now...Happy Halloween to all! Be safe! So...I have a solo art show and the opening is next weekend- you should come! I was scheduled to show in 2016 but received the call from the Harold's curator, Christian, asking me if I was interested in showing in November...the answer was 'YES'! I have a ton of new work on hand that hasn't been formally 'shown' yet...but I instead I figured, what the heck...I'll just make brand new works for this show.
Gulp. Wait....whaaaaa?! I have five paintings pretty much finished...four small ones started....a secret creation in the back of my classroom in progress...and then I had another idea for some special things earlier today...so I am going to have a busy weekend ahead of me- and I can't wait! Local folks, I sure hope you can make it!
We had a weekend filled with football, tons of junk food (hey, we gotta be good hosts, right?!) and even got a lil' culture in! Saturday we peeled ourselves up off the couch from our football and chicken wing coma to head out and get some fresh air...and we stopped by Ink and Pistons/Slushbox Gallery for the opening of 'The Kill Room'. Now, a few thangs about me. If you have read my blog before or checked out my art I'm pretty cheerful and silly. I like glitter, gals with big eyes, bright colors, leopard and zebra everything, it's just who I am. But did you know I am a straight up scaredy cat? For real, I am. But I wasn't always. When I was in middle school I LOVED horror movies. I read most everything Stephen King wrote cover to cover multiple times (The Stand, Different Seasons are my favorite...and I once had a nightmare from just LOOKING at the cover of Salem's Lot!) I don't know when...where...but at some point I just started getting scared and I stopped watching scary movies. And don't even get me started on zombies...soooo scared of them!!! So we went to the show, I didn't have a piece in it but I know many of the talented artists featured and John and I knew that Justin would love Ink and Pistons 'cause...well, just 'cause its awesome. And he did! We all did! ...Detour...T-shirt Necklaces! I love them! I made three more this week (yellow one not pictured) More on my instagram, @artinw_damuse or check out the hashtag #MissMatchyMatchy ...seriously, I love making these!
And now...my art. Here it is!
You can probably tell which pieces I created after seeing 'The Kill Room' show! Ummm...okay, so I gave in- I followed the artsy fartsy flock...and...I...ummm...I bought those art jammies from Target!!! And I love'em!! But I'm not alone...here's proof! (and check out the sparkly gal in the beginning of the blog post...yep, yours truly!) http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-artsy-pajama-party.html |
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