New ACEO before Oz

Here's my newest aceo. I found the text in a Woman's Day magazine from 1959.

This could be my last post for a couple of weeks as I leave for a whirlwind trip to Australia on Friday (I may be able to post tomorrow though). We're in Bribane for two days, Sydney for four (with a side trip to the Blue Mountains), Tasmania for four and Melbourne for four where we'll stay with my penpal from 6th grade. She and her husband visited me 17 years ago when I lived in Chicago and stayed with us for a week or so and since I was little, it's been a dream of mine to visit her in Australia. I'll be taking tons of photos, some of which will hopefully end up in my artwork. Plus, I hope to buy some old books or magazines to use in my altered art and collage work. I can't wait! And the Mincing Mockingbird plans to take a lot of photos of birds, so he'll have new painting subjects.

Great Top Hat Dad

Here's my new father's day card. Thought I'd better get one done before I head off for my two week vacation to Australia on Friday.

Here's the Billboard

Here's the billboard in San Francisco at night -- my piece is the painting on the right. Here's the link for the article.

What's for Dinner?

My most recent cartoon card.

I'm in the San Francisco Chronicle!

Last year for Earth Day I repainted one of my paintings 13 x 13 feet, "Kim Has a Good Skip", on a billboard size piece of vinyl for Eco-LA gallery here in Los Angeles. It was rehung in Los Angeles (above) this past January, and now it's hanging in San Francisco for the following month. Also, a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle called my fiance, the Mincing Mockingbird, (who painted a full-size billboard) and interviewed him. The article came out today and we're both mentioned! It's pretty exciting for us both. Here's the link for the article.
I think it's also running the actual printed paper on Tuesday, so we'll have to run around and see if we can find a copy.

Here's the link for one of the previous posts during the painting process.

Joey the Mechanical Boy

Went to the artists' reception for the Found 2 show at Cactus Gallery last night and Mincing Mockingbird's piece in the show sold as well. Yay! There was so much amazing art there and we got to chat with the prolific Walt Hall who had a whole wall of art in the show. We were so inspired, that after we got home we both went to our studios and created new work. Joey the Mechanical Boy (above) is my newest piece. The illustration was taken out of an issues of Readers' Digest from 1946 and the painting was from a school photo I found at a flea market.

Come Meet the Artists!

Both the Mincing Mockingbird and myself will be at the artists' reception from 7-10 p.m. this Saturday, April 19th. We'll try to be there the entire time (but never guarantee an exact arrival time due to traffic or awaking from late afternoon naps). And even though one of my pieces has sold, I think it's still hanging until the end of the show, and there are lots of other fabulous art pieces to peruse, like Mincing Mockingbird's piece below.