What a surprise! Many thanks to I Love Handmade for featuring one of my blackbird prints today. Check it out, then take a moment to look at other remarkable finds on this site!
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The fall equinox makes it official: it’s autumn!
Since the summer shows are over, the Etsy shop is slowly being restocked. Today’s item is BlackbirdBox/Autumn. It won’t be long until the trees outside the window are as vibrant as the trees inside the BlackbirdBox!
aubergine walls:
Purple paint covers the walls of the new Artists of Rubber City gallery on the third floor of Summit Artspace. Work in progress can be seen here.
violet veggie:
Purple produce was part of last week’s market share through City Fresh. Eggplant, grapes and cauliflower?!
purple art:
Purple inks were used for the third print in the pod series:
Framework
woodcut/linoleum block print
private collection (purchased at Art in the Square - thanks, Heather!)
Decisions, decisions. . . load up the vehicles or borrow a wagon or two? After all, Highland Square is home and Saturday’s art festival is only a block away. If you’re around the square be sure to stop by!
Art in the Square
Saturday, September 12, 2009
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
West Market Street in Highland Square
Akron, Ohio
This summer’s garden seems to have had a unifying theme: beauty and the beasties, with a subtext of appearance and deception. Even the bindweed, which spent the month of July wheedling its way into the perennial and vegetable beds and tried to disguise itself among the clematis, provided a backdrop for some garden magic. This bit of enchantment appeared in the guise of the golden tortoise beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata bicolor. In a true sleight of hand performance, what appears initially as a drop of molten gold disappears the moment it is disturbed, replaced by an insect looking much like a nondescript, drab ladybug. Catching sight of a golden tortoise beetle was compensation enough for tolerating a few weeds.
During the midst of summer’s many projects the last parcel from NAGraphics appeared on the doorstep. There was barely time to open it, let alone finish work on the letterpress rehab. Even so, the rollers have arrived - and Labor Day weekend is as good a time as any to start the presses!
Another one out of the box past!
After searching through image files and disks I nearly gave up on locating photos of the first Out of the Box piece. What year was that? 2001? So long ago that the pictures were actual snapshots, taken with a 35mm, sent out to be developed and stored in a box with all of the other artwork images from that time. You just have to know where to look!
Out of the Box 2001
mixed media
private collection
