December 2010 Issue of PSA Voice. This is the quarterly newsletter for Pittsburgh Society of Artists. My article is titled Handmade Nation.
Last I Made it Market thing I was in was December 3
December 2010 Issue of PSA Voice. This is the quarterly newsletter for Pittsburgh Society of Artists. My article is titled Handmade Nation.
Last I Made it Market thing I was in was December 3
Heard from a wonderful client who commissioned a house portrait this fall:
…”Also, am going to want at least one more house portrait. My kids are fighting over the one you already did! Don’t need it before Christmas, just let me know when you have time”… Laura Horner
More examples of my Custom House Portraits
“Peace to Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon”
This is my watercolor, a diptych I am exhibiting at PSA Annual Members exhibit. My words on the piece and my thinking about the title for it are below. [Read more…]
On December 4th Chatham University Alumni Assosiation decided to pilot a new tradition to go with their annual holiday luncheon. Working with local arts organizations like Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, they invited artists, makers and crafts people to participate in the first ever event. I exhibited my original art, prints and greeting cards. People always respond with interest to my silly ink drawings of Pittsburgh, which I try to have some framed versions of and also as sets of greeting cards for these events. I also brought an example of one of my custom house portraits. I did not have room to show my Allegheny River paintings except as greeting card sets but they are on my website under “Shop” then go to “River.” [Read more…]
My art booth using my new homemade posts for hanging framed artwork
Friday night Dec 3 I was an art vendor at “I made It for the Holidays” at Southside Works right next to REI. My niece Frances flew in from Portland, OR and was a MAJOR help to me as well as her dear friend Meghan Olson. Meghan was premiering her new venture Clothespin Press at “I Made It”.
City Walkabout is an extension of Pittsburgh Post Gazette beat writer Diana Nelson Jones’ coverage of Pittsburgh’s kaleidoscope of neighborhoods. I was so pleased to have my work blogged about as it pertains to her observations of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods.
Read her blog on my work.
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