Here are a few art cards I am planning on putting up for ebay auction soon. I also may or may not get an Etsy store. People have been asking me about that. Ebay has treated me pretty well in the past regarding these cards, but if you have other opinions, please feel free to leave them in the comments section. I would love to l hear what you have to say.
On the cards themselves, I’m trying to do different series. This of course is the bird series with their Latin scientific names appropriately attached. I also started experimenting with colored collage from my 60’s/70’s magazines regarding the leaves. I usually only stick to my 40’s/50’s mags for collaging but thought I would try this out. The jury is still out on this process, but I feel I need to give it more of a chance than just two cards before I can officially declare it a disaster which we are all about ready to.The committee that resides inside my head tends to shut things down before its time and it is really hard to sometimes convince them otherwise. But I’m going to try hard not to fall for their tricks in 2010.
Bell’s Vireo
Summer Tanager
Eastern Bluebird
Dark-eyed “Oregon” Junco
Oh wait, are you worried that my crazy esoteric acrylic collage paintings of sideshow freaks and mermaids have been abandoned for nature, rainbows and woodland creature creations? No. That is absolutely not the case. They are resting right now. And I promise that is not a fancy word for procrastination.
Watercolor beckons right now and I must answer the call.
February 10, 2010 | Comments (6) | Views (184)
Hello true-believers! Take a peek at last week’s Capitola performance over at The Driftless Market in Platteville, WI. As usual, it was a ton of fun. Hope to see you at the next one in Cross Plains February 14th.
February 5, 2010 | Comments (8) | Views (176)
This coming weekend, the Capitola troupe is going to be out and about reading and performing for you. This Saturday, January 30th, we’ll all be at:
The Driftless Market
Saturday, January 30, 2010
1:00pm – 3:30pm
95 West Main St.
Platteville, WI
Mark Miskelly and I will be singing a couple tunes together and many readers will be in attendance to read their pieces. Please come out and check us out. It’s a lot of fun and it’s free! Hope to see you there.
January 29, 2010 | Comments (0) | Views (96)
I know. A week in-between blog updates is teetering crazily on not keeping things truly updated at all. But it is better than nothing. Or two weeks or a month in-between, right? And good habits take time to learn. That also means I have to get rid of a bad one in order to adopt a new one. No? Maybe not. I also showed up here with a studio podcast that takes a little time in constructing along with constructing items to actually show “in” a podcast, so I feel I should get some gold stars for that at least. The podcasts keep the artistic motivation going in an odd way which is why I do them at all. Well, and the nice feedback I have gotten about them too. That’s always a strong motivation.
More art and music are planned for this week. A kind Twitterville citizen politely suggested that the last podcast was a little long and took a while to download, which was a good point. In mulling that over, I had an additional idea that by keeping these podcasts a little smaller, I might be able to make them more frequently. It’s a theory anyway.
Last night I had a great Capitola practice with Mark Miskelly and Jenny Green. Unfortunately she won’t be able to join us for quite a while regarding these upcoming shows but hopefully she will come out one of these times. She’s one talented lady. The next Capitola reading is in Platteville, WI at the Driftless Market on January 30th at 1:00pm. Please come out if you can. We all promise to put on a good show for you.
In-between practices…
More...January 16, 2010 | Comments (6) | Views (232)
Ok. I’m tired of looking at that Christmas podcast on this blog now that there’s a new year here and I’m sure you are too. Time for an update to say the very least. So happy 2010 everyone! I won’t lie. I was very happy to see 2009 go away. Sure, there were some lovely parts, but there were also some shitastic moments for sure. The whole decade was one in question come to think of it but I’ll focus positively on the new one instead. One of my resolutions is to keep this place more updated in general. Not only with words, but with art, music and podcasts regarding such. And who knows maybe even some animation will show up here in 2010. It’s a goal anyway. Hopefully not a lofty one.
It’s finally cold and snowy here in Wisconsin, and this my friends is a little salvation for me. I am a winter person mostly. Well, and a spring person too. But there is nothing more depressing to me than a 60-70 degree day in December, January or February which the last decade brought plenty of. So far this one has brought plenty of snow and bone chilling cold. Thank you 2010!
More...January 9, 2010 | Comments (2) | Views (236)
