Recently found out about the coolest little local art gallery called the Radar Station in East Wenatchee. Owned by local artist, Ron Evans, it's a quirky slice of north central Washington art. Through the end of the year they are hosting a themed "Post-it Note" show where, you guessed it, everything is done on post-its. They're available for purchase at only $5 each. I submitted a handful myself, below. I found it quite addicting to fill those little colored squares!
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A few from this summer that I never posted. These all came from the 100 Days of Art project I committed to (and finished!) I really love the ocean, it soothes me, and I am a west coast girl for sure. The Pacific, she calls to me, both while dreaming and awake.
16 days ago I joined the "100 Days Project" and committed to creating 100 pieces of handmade art -- one each day -- for 100 days. I choose this because, as a graphic artist, I spend a lot of time making "art" on the computer. I love it, but I knew it wasn't going to get me out of my comfort zone. Making, and sharing, "art" with the public is scary. Because I am not an artist. I honestly feel like I just get lucky much of the time and it's much easier when you can just share the things that you think came out all right. Harder to come up with something every day. Below are several of them, and a few other things I did before the project started. Many are available in my Society 6 shop, but I haven't gotten everything out there. If you're interested in anything, please contact me.
Have you heard of the Secret Message Society? Maybe you should! I've been a secret message maker, leaver, finder and lover for probably my whole life. I just never had a name to call it. But after watching my friend, Mandy Steward, thrash about and grow her art message, I found a group of like-minded people who see the hidden magic in finding the silver lining and secret messages in life's moments. As much as I love finding them, I love leaving them even more. Thinking someone could find just the right message at just the time they are needing/wanting to receive it gives me the greatest thrill. So keep your eyes open, Wenatchee, you never know what you may find.
A million years ago, or maybe 25ish, before I had kids, I loved to paint. Watercolors my main choice, though I was eager to play more with acrylics as well, I happily painted "plein air", which basically means outside (plain air), on location. And then, as newly married young people do, I started having kids. And I never painted again. Until this summer. I missed watercolor and decided now was the time. I've been going to our wonderful Wenatchee parks on lunch breaks and weekends and happily playing with techniques and enjoying the pure joy of pushing pigment across paper. If you read my blog, you're in on the ground floor, so to speak, as you can watch my work progress (hopefully for the better.) If you've ever wanted to try watercolor, don't do as I did and let life get in the way. Start now. Life is what you do now, not what you used to do or will do "some day."
