In the Name of Art

Looks like November, But it's really October (Scroll down for wedding pics)

It was a November-like day when I did this. We had a bunch of gray days but the trees were shining like matches so it wasn't all that bad. I've spent the last 5 days speechifying at the Ohio Collage Society opening (in addition to other sundry tasks related to that) and church, going to a wedding and a blow-out reception, a Brown's party (if you're from Cleveland, through your tears, you know what that's like), a close shave with working at the polls on election day (they didn't call and I'm counting my blessings) and decoration committee work at the church for Christmas. Now there's a sentence! There's more this week but without poll-working I have some time to get a handle on it and actually make some art!

This journal entry is junk-mail collage, watercolor, stamping and color pencil. Oh, and some marker.

More Wedding.....

Our intrepid photographer with her handsome nephew.

 

 

Some shots of my mother and father, the last couple on the floor during the married couples dance at 61 years of marriage.

 

My brother and his daughter, the bride.

Journal Entry, Around Halloween

Looking for wedding photos for Lauren and Mike? Scroll down. Otherwise enjoy the only art I've been doing for the past week and maybe this week too as the decoration committee gets into high gear. I can't help remembering with this entry that I was in Mexico this time last year....

A Little More Wedding.....

 

 

More tonight or tomorrow.....

Lauren and Mike's Wedding on Halloween

First shots, hot off Karen's camera! Email me yours and I'll post them here. I'll post some art tomorrow in journal form.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll be posting some more of these tomorrow, sorry about the lack of commentary, but most of suspects know who they are, and it takes me less time that way. It was a wonderful party though!

A Giant Community Mona Lisa

You have to click this link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCEwerNrHs

What a fantastic way to contribute artistic talent to the community. The director of this project just became a member of OCS (where I'm also posting the link). And with the intent of spreading good news as far and wide as possible, it's also up on my facebook. Yes, I have a facebook page. It's a long story. 

2 to the Finish, 6 Altogether

Of course in any self-respecting allegory there has to be a clothed male with the nude female and here, although darkly, he is: upside down and bearded. I included some of my favorite paper pieces, the gold rectangle with numbers on it (an old variant of the lottery) to hint at chance. It seems to be flying, leaving a trail of gold and ballpoint squiggles. 

I'm not all that certain I'll be posting much this week since the member show for Ohio Collage Society is going up and the reception/opening is on Friday. But since my sanity depends upon making things, something will probably land here.

2 More, Text and Titian

Two more of a total of 6 started at the collage party in Medina, OH. 

I'm getting excited about the opening of the 3rd annual Ohio Collage Society membership show next week on Friday. There are 4 entries already taken in and resting safely on the 3rd floor of the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center and the battle plan is drawn. If you're in NE Ohio and you want to have a good time with some phenomenal collage, stop in and see us! 

Currently reading "7 Days in the Art World" and wondering how it is my art world can be so different. Mostly that's due to 2 things: being in Ohio and not having a kazillion bucks. The money involved in the scenarios described in this book is positively obscene. But it's certainly worth a read and will make you thankful for smallish art scenes.

Postcard Size, I'm Addicted

The hands (and faces, which I'll post later) are all from a reproduction of a Titian painting, The Allegory. The woman is almost completely nude but I couldn't figure out how to use her torso, perhaps later. These were started at the collage-making meeting of the OCS last Saturday and finished at home.

And then, because I can't help myself, a picture of my nephew, front and center, looking particularly handsome at my other nephew's wedding. He's a police officer in Washington DC.

An Invite for you.....

Please come join us in mask and costume or not, we hope to see you there!