venita | June 30, 2008
Well it is Sunday and I am working on my Mixed Media Monday piece. The theme this week is “dance.” What to do? What to do? Well I knew I wanted some sort of a dancer and originally it was going to be a couple dancing. Then I found this vintage image from Artchix Studio. [...]
venita | June 29, 2008
I got a chance to have lunch on Friday with Laurie Zuckerman. She is an artist, teacher, photographer and amazing shrine maker. If you have perused my website (www.venitahawkins.com) you will have seen her photography. She took the majority of the photos on both my website and blog. Next year, 2009, she will be doing [...]
venita | June 26, 2008
You would think I would give up submitting to shows, but NO!!!!!!! I sent in my five slide submission today. The show is December 12 – 21, 2008. Many of my friends have encouraged me to enter. It is suppose to be a large show done at the Arvada Art Center. They sell traditional art, glass, [...]
venita | June 26, 2008
Well to my surprise the notice came in on Tuesday. “It is with regret that we did not accept any of your work….” I should have been really sad about it. But, my response was quite different then when I received the rejection notice from the Emerging Artist submission. I was oddly not really sad. [...]
venita | June 23, 2008
Well this is it, a collage for the latest challenge of “place”. Once again I had bazillion ideas and this time I finally settled on my piece “What About India”. It is a collage of all things from India. The background is a newspaper from India that my husband brought back from his visit there [...]
venita | June 23, 2008
Well I did it. On Saturday, I turned in my piece for the show. The Artists’ Nook is hosting the Transformation of the Mundane. It will run July 3rd through the 31st. It should be great fun. The goal is to create an art piece using an item from everyday life. I can’t wait to [...]
venita | June 17, 2008
This week is the big week!! James Judd and Son Vineyard starts bottling their two newest wines. They are a Tempranillo and a Cabernet Sauvignon. Why am I talking about this? Well last year during the Castro Street Fair, James (the son) and his partner stopped in my booth. They took a business card and left. [...]
venita | June 15, 2008
Now that I have a blog, I want to participate in some “challenges.” So, with that said, I have been working this week to submit an image to Mixed Media Monday. I first discovered the site via an article in Artful Blogging by Somerset Studio Summer 2008 issue. There are several cool articles in their [...]
venita | June 11, 2008
Well I heard early this morning, that none of my art pieces were accepted into the show. I was pretty sad about that. But, Kelly sent me some great and inspiring notes that really cheered me up. And the reality is that this is not the end of the world or stopping the pursuit of [...]
venita | June 10, 2008
I just received an e-mail from Sarah Fishburn. They have advertising space in the July issue of Pasticcio. I am going to go for it. It drops in July and is a great time to advertise my new website. I think I may try to fit a note in about the Santa Fe show in [...]
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