Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Mixed Media Monday

Posted by venita on November 10th, 2008 filed in Classes, Mixed Media Monday, Photography, collage

I have missed posting in Mixed Media Monday.  So, while I was in Kelly Kilmer’s class this weekend, I worked on my submission.  I created a journal page in my new Fukoro Toji we made during class.  At first, I was really spun up with doing something anatomical based on the description.  Then it occurred [...]

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Lucy Mae

Posted by venita on November 6th, 2008 filed in Photography, collage, mixed media

I dedicate this post to my mother.  Lucy Mae was born the day the stock market crashed in 1929.  She still recalls growing up in the segregated south quite vividly.   She remembers going to segregated schools and having to step off the sidewalk when a white person would be coming down the sidewalk. Her grandmother [...]

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Cool Artist Blog Sites

Posted by venita on October 7th, 2008 filed in Photography, collage

Last month, I got tagged by lovely Sarah Fishburn.  And essentially what that means, is that you tag some of your favorite blogs.  So with that said, I wanted to tag some of the blogs that I love and get inspiration from:
 
Kelly Kilmer
Karen Michel 
Sarah Fishburn 
Tiffini Elektra 
Helga Strauss   
 
These ladies are beautiful, in your face, thought [...]

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Castro Street Fair

Posted by venita on October 7th, 2008 filed in Photography, Road Trips, Shows, collage, mixed media

Tami and Marty met me at my booth.  Special Events, had set up my booth and left two tables for me (and they come and tear it down after the show).  We put out my wonderful linens from Santa Fe, my art, prints and t-shirts.  The booth looked great. 
 
The show officially opened at 11 [...]

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Friends

Posted by venita on October 7th, 2008 filed in Photography, Road Trips

This whole post is about amazing friends.  I flew in on Friday to SFO and off I went to my dear friend Lily’s house.  I shipped all my art for the show out to her.  It was wonderful to see her and her family.  They loaded up my art into the car and after that [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – A Cup of Tea with a Bit of Cold

Posted by venita on July 14th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, Photography, collage, mixed media

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 [...]

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Running for My Life

Posted by venita on July 12th, 2008 filed in Digital Collage, Health, Photography, collage

I got up this morning with an attitude change, a significant attitude change.  Like so many of us, I have a day job.  Though stressful, it is a very cool job.  However, with that said, like so many others, we are going through downsizing, restructuring, and “right-sizing.”  And being a stress eater coupled with the [...]

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