Archive for the 'mixed media' Category
Santa Fe – Set Up & 1st Day of Girl’s Inc. Santa Fe Arts & Craft Show
Set up happened on Friday afternoon, you had a time slot to come in and do your set up. I was on South Lincoln between San Francisco and East Palace Avenue in booth 134. Nancy, Sara, & LeAnn helped put up the tent and then had to head out for a store visit. So, I [...]
Read More..>>Girls Inc. Of Santa Fe 36th Annual Arts & Crafts Show – Aug. 2-3, 2008
Well it is almost here! I think I mentioned in one of my earlier post, that I have been accepted into the Girls Inc. of Santa Fe 36th Annual Arts & Crafts Show. It is the first weekend in August. And there are 250 artists that will be in the show. You had to be [...]
Read More..>>Mixed Media Monday – A Cup of Tea with a Bit of Cold
What a fascinating selection this week. I have been working on a piece for submission to Cloth Paper Scissors. The call is for pieces that represent “A Tea Party.” And low and behold Mixed Media Monday selected “tea” for this week. I think one might call that Serendipity.
The piece is for my mother-in-law who resides [...]
Read More..>>Mixed Media Monday – Pretty in Pink
Well I am a little late posting today. But, I still want to share my Mixed Media Monday piece. The theme this week is to use a singular color and all its variations. So, I thought of my dear friend Kelly Kilmer and decided I would work in pink. I have this great vintage image [...]
Read More..>>Laurie Zuckerman & Memory Jugs
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 [...]
Read More..>>Arvada Art Market Submission
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, [...]
Read More..>>Fort Collin’s Rocky Mountain Biennial Show Submission – Epilogue
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. [...]
Read More..>>Mixed Media Monday – What about India?
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 [...]
Read More..>>Dos Corazon
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 [...]
Read More..>>Fort Collin’s Rocky Mountain Biennial Show Submission epilogue
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 [...]
Read More..>>