Triptych

This has been my week's work, figuring out this 3'x5' triptych. It is my first ever so I had to figure out measurements and how the different prints would look together. I also added a rusty metal piece with hammered copper in the center of that piece at the lower left corner; and a small piece of gold/copper leaf on the right panel. This gives me the sense of satisfaction I had doing collage and assemblage!

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Laura G (6 days including the 19th)

Hiking up Badger Mt yesterday, yielded some interesting photographs taken on my little iPhone. I understand this thick frost, is called hoar frost. It is spiky, yet delicate and hugs the north side of plant material and chainlink fences. So beautiful. Even with the gray day, it had a remarkable beauty.

What else have I been up to these past 6 days since my last post? Lots of stalling - or maybe just waiting "till the vessel would fill again." Art supplies have been ordered; I've met with my private students; have painted 3 days in short spurts; enjoyed lunch with 2 artist friends discussing the business of art; helped another artist set up and photograph a booth display; spent time deliberating my future as an artist; and sketched several pages of those "stream of consciousness" doodles.... I'll post those later. I think the well is filling again. Yea!

Geting out

This is the beginnings of the piece I'd like to submit for the March show, whatever it's called.

The final piece will be very different. Thank goodness art is a process, and a journey.

regarding: March 2009

Grand and wonderful idea for the "Eyes of March" ... "Ayes of March?" So how do we go about it? Orchestrate through Brook at You and I?
We need to set dates soon for the show so we can get info to the Entertainer -who offered to do a story.

More fun with scraps

What could be more fun than combining copper with coloring!
This is a process created and perfected by Marilyn da Silva where copper is cleaned and given several coats of gesso. Color is applied with colored pencils and blended with turpentine, the black areas are liver of sulphur patina.
I’m not yet sure how I want to mount them. These are still sitting on the paper towel I used to spray coat them. Each "village" is approx 3" x 5".

Doodling with scraps

I had four small sheets of 8oz copper about 4" x 6" with a soft pink/red patina. Three of them I cut into strips and practiced weaving which came out very flexible and fabric-like. The fourth became a landscape. Some of the small pieces are scraps from the weavings and others are attempts at weaving a heavier weight copper that I'd long ago practiced a process called fold-forming developed by Charles Lewton Brain - testing the notion that the folds, if used strategically, might hold the piece together. Works to some degree.

friday night

I know some of you are probably tired of me challenging some foregone conclusions but I though tonight was a real waste of time. Kim had the plans already cast in stone and I am confused why she even bothered to talk to us. If there is no place for us why did we listen to her? I loose patience with people who think art is a frill and a casual pastime. I am thinking of her employers. It is time this country realized what the arts do for our economy. Graphics, only a part of the art industry, is the 5th largest industry in this country. Intertainment is the largest. There are more people doing visual communication for a living than there are chemists, biologists, psychologists and mathmaticians combined. If the Reach isn't going to serve the people they cannot blame the people for not coming. If you don't build it they won't come.

I've worked the last two days on the computer editing the poems for the book. I feel like my head is tweeked just a tad to the left. But, I think I may be ready for a final print onto the "pretty" paper, gulp, I only have one sheet. Then the book structure can be made to house the poems. Here is the last poem I've written...so far, you all probably recognize it.

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Within
this sacred circle
steps hover, hesitant
then tentatively trace
the path polished pure
by countless ones before them
gradually a rhythmic lilt evolves
finally... finally the mind quiets
the soul is open to listen
for the story simply
waiting to be
heard

March 2009

Lu Ann and I will be having a joint show at the You & I Gallery in March. Seems to me, this would be a good time to stage the Art-a-Day show as well. 

It could happen like this...

• You & I Gallery: Lu Ann Ostergaard and Michael Rastovich
• D.S Studio Gallery: The Art-a-Day Show
• The old Reniassance Gallery: The new Laura Gable Gallery
• Kennewick Coffee: ???
• Backbone Restaurant: ???
• That Glass Blowing place: ???
• T & L Art Supplies: ???
• Sara Nelson Design (the old Watkins Gallery): ???

We could call it "Eyes of March" (groan)

Lucifer and the Pope

poems

I'm editing the poems today to place them in the book of woven bristles. This one seems to fit the mood.

Making Art


A quiet,
patient,
beguiling
invitation
to splay your
whole soul
wide open.

The possibility
to delve
deeper,
forgetting all
but the need
to create a
cherished
essence
of existence

Pot

Here's one of my pots. Next time I'll make the image (or the pot) smaller.

Bird House Man Waiting for Spring