My Portfolio for 2023.

Bavarian Pig: Digital Collage

The Dollhouse: Digital

Cow in the Barn Reading: Digital

Fishing: Digital

Dance to the Music: Digital Collage

John on the tire swing: Digital

Pig smells smoke: Digital

Sharing Lunch: Digital

Harry Pottermus: Digital

The Painter: Digital Collage

 

Participating in the Greenville Artist Guild's COPY CAT Show.

 Lucky me. There are two nearby galleries where I show my work. The HeARTland Gallery in Hillsboro, IL and the Greenville Artist Guild's shows in Greenville, IL.  The latest show in Greenville was such fun. It was called the COPY CAT show. Artists were encouraged to copy or interpret a famous work of art for the show. I entered three marker drawings as shown here:

My Version of The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet
Marker

The Original: Self-Portrait, The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, 1844-45.

My Version: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

The Original: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, 1908

My Version: Self Portrait with a Monkey by Fridia Kahlo

Self Portrait with a Monkey by Fridia Kahlo, 1940

Re-Discovering Scratchboard.

 I've always loved black lines. Must be the memory of all the joy of coloring books and crayons. The MAC, (Macoupin Artists Co-Operative, Staunton, IL) has a Tiny Creepy Art Show every October. I love Halloween so I'm all in. I explored the studio checking out all the options and discovered some small scratchboards leftover from kid's programs at the library. I took them home and came up with these:

I never really LOVED scratchboard before but....I was addicted....bought more boards and created several collections of bookmarks/miniart/fridgeart. Ones for Tiny Creepy, ones for FALL and up coming four collections of small and larger works for Christmas. Here's an overview of the Tiny Creepies (showing at the MAC in Staunton, IL and heARTland Gallery in Hillsboro, IL)  and the Fall Collection (showing at Shibui Studio Art Gallery in Gillespie, IL) Some of the tiny creepies:

The Fall Collection at Shibui Studio Art Gallery, Gillespie, IL.

Collage Butterflies

 I have an overabundance of paper at the studio. Calendars, dust jackets from library picture books, shiny papers, textured papers, maps, music, and all the colors you could imagine. So I decided to create some Butterfly collages. I started out with some imaginary butterflies and they evolved becoming women butterflies. I showed them at the heARTland Gallery in Hillsboro Il along with a retrospective of my husband's art. It was a great show and I'm very grateful that Martha asked me to show our work there. (I think I have butterflies out of my system for awhile now!)

Three colored images for a new manuscript.

 I've been working on this manuscript for a couple of years. It's a regional story. But I'm keeping the story under my hat until I've exhausted all my publishing options. Just wanted to let you know I've been very busy prepping illustration work for submissions.

I've been busy! Designing for Education.

 Since my last post, I've been busy working on a dummy I hope to start submitting by the end of this month. I have another in the works, and I've been designing activities for Heidi Roemer's Steam Powered Poetry website (www.steampoweredpoetry.com). And of course, I've been writing along the way too. Here are a few of the "activities" I did for Heidi's webpage. It's been good practice for me. Designing pages for education is fun but I don't think I'd like to do it full time. 

It's been a good year. #ArtvsArtist

#artvsArtist 2021