Friday Folly

Forbidden City
Beijing, China (2005)

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Fiber Artist: Sharon Wheat

Sharon Wheat is a San Francisco based fiber artist with more than 30 years experience in the field of fine art.  She has received numerous honors including the One Woman Show Award (San Francisco Art Festival), the Best of Show Award (Mill Valley Art Festival), and a Best in Fiber Award (Sausalito Art Festival).
I discovered [...]

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Doodling

Do you doodle?
I don’t doodle very often; even in school I wasn’t much of a “doodler.”  I’m prone to sketching which can sometimes be too demanding on my brain because a little voice in my head likes to speak up and talk about “perfection.”
However; yesterday I found myself doodling and drawing for a time while listening to [...]

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Call for Entry: Postcards for Sustaining Our Environment Exhibit

I was checking out the Women’s Art Caucus site today when I came across this call for entry:
Art for Change Around the World
Women’s Caucus for Art/United Nations Millenium Goals
Postcard call for entry: Sustaining Our Environment
Submit 4×6 or Size 6 postcards made from recycled materials on the theme of “Sustaining our Environment.”  Full submission details can [...]

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Let The Confusion In

Somewhere during October and November I begin to grow tired of my production art work.  I start to ask myself why I’m making these pieces.  I want to stop what I’m making and do something completely different.  New ideas flood my head that I can’t act upon until after orders are filled.
Waverly Fitzgerald, in her [...]

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Friday Folly

Don’t feed Hamish cakes or crisps.
Tour guides, however, are ok for they are soft on
outside and chewy on the inside.
Scotland (2004)

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Thanksgiving

May all beings be peaceful.
May all being be happy.
May all beings be safe.
May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature.
May all beings be free.

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Book Review: 500 Handmade Dolls

I recently received the newest book in Lark Books 500 series: 500 Handmade Dolls: Modern Explorations of the Human Form
The book starts with an introduction by Akira Blount, who provides a brief history on the evolution of dolls as an art form.
The book is then divided into five sections: Non-Traditional Dolls, Fantasy Dolls, Found Objects, [...]

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Random New Work

There is light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train ready to knock me over.  I deliver work to the Brookline Arts Center tomorrow for their annual Crafts Showcase.  Then I have a few small items to deliver to a local gallery and two remaining wholesale orders to ship.
Here are a [...]

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Something to Crow About

Do you ever have images or shapes or colors that present themselves to you over and over again?  Perhaps in dreams, in books or magazines, or in your day-to-day activities?
Does it make you think someone is trying to send you a message?  Does it make you wonder if you should incorporate it into your art through [...]

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