My Bird Heart print is officially up on the Keep Calm website! You can buy it here. You can also read the short bio I wrote about myself here. (Side note: does any artist actually enjoy writing these things and then having to go read them once they are out there for the public to see??? *gulp!*)
Excitement was high at my house this morning, owing largely to the fact that my daughter got some indirect credit for the very existence of this print (see links above). So the breakfast table quickly morphed into a makeshift art studio, and together we began working on a parrot heart collage.
I don't know if there is a better way to start the day than to find my print online and on sale, collaborate on an art project with my daughter, and read that it is going to be 77 degrees and sunny today in Boston. Sort of softens the blow of the not-so-glowing review of my Punch Gallery show that ran in today's Seattle Times. I should not complain; yesterday, I got another nice mention in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
And it's nice to see part of your process.
Have a nice weekend you too!
Posted by: Esti | April 19, 2008 at 06:19 AM
yes. i hate writing those things. imagine being FILMED. nightmare....
enjoy the weather!
Posted by: lisa s | April 19, 2008 at 01:59 PM
haha, i do think that our warmer weather is affecting your art, tee hee...those brightly colored birds make me want to break out a Hawaiian shirt and drink a pina colada!
yee ha!
Posted by: Julie | April 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM
congrats on your prints. adorable. and i'm glad to know that you will have a show in SF this summer. super good news. and enjoy your nice weather!
Posted by: katrina | April 21, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Hello! I can't wait to get my hands on your print. I've been waiting since you first made mention of it earlier in your blog.
And that does sound like a lovely day. One might even say, a perfect day.
I read the review written in the Seattle Times. Perhaps it's my unfamiliarity with the author, but I thought it was poorly written. The criticisms of the show seem to expose more of the insecurities of the writer than really evaluate the work, the context it's being shown in, or the fundamental idea behind the exhibition. Instead it gives the "art-critic-knows-best" approach. For example, the generalization about the art not "hanging well together"... what exactly does that mean? It was like in art school when someone said, "the composition is off" and gave no reason or rational as to why they thought it was "off." One was expected to take their word for it. And, I for one, am not taking this particular art critic's word for it!
Anyway, congratulations on your many successes and keep up the good work.
Posted by: Andrew Thornton | April 22, 2008 at 02:55 AM