For fiber artists and knitwits

A friend of mine is having a sale on her hand-dyed yarns and fiber batts. I recommend taking a look-- the colors are gorgeous! http://www.etsy.com/shop/laughingrat?ga_search_query=laughingrAT&ga_search_type=seller_usernames

She may be closing shop due to hand issues and other concerns, so you might see it as a last chance thing.

Being productive

I've done a fix-up of Snowbringer, a fantasy piece that got a weird mark on it when put away for safekeeping. I think it looks better now. Sometimes accidents are happy accidents in art, and a good artist should learn how to be clever about fixing problems.

I've also finished some small works: A Topography of Roses, The Ocean in a Drop of Water, and Partners. Next up, Sky-Bird Nesting and a monochrome of the Monterey Bay landscape I haven't got a name in mind for yet. Also Orbit and Moon Launch, a couple of Cosmic Cat pieces. Some, but not all of my new pieces, will be in the February show at the Lodi Art Center. I also need to plan ahead for a few months worth of their theme shows: Treasures From Travel and Artist at Play should be good ones.

Happy New Year

I've been getting busy with projects. I've upgraded Heart Full of Joy, a mixed media painting, and I've crocheted a few new fuzzies. They seem pretty popular around here-- I wore one to my dance class and got so many compliments, and when I brought samples to show, people were just purring over how comfortable they are! I'm showing off my Star Light, Star Bright fuzzy here, and I have lots more I need to list know I know there's a market for them.

Speaking of dance, this is not my creation, but one of my teammates in Fantasy Artists of Etsy has a beautiful belly dance pants for sale. http://www.etsy.com/listing/61353552/teal-velvet-belly-dance-pants
They're a little too small for me, so don't think I'm hinting, but if any readers fancy them, I think they're gorgeous and would probably look good on you. ;)

Merry Christmas, everyone

A picture Allan did... I haven't done much in the way of holiday painting, although every year I mean to.
I've been working on a few new pieces; I'd like to have a few new things to show at the Lodi Art Center show I'm doing in February. It starts right before Spring term starts, so I'll be doing First Friday for it and hoping to earn some textbook money. I'm working right now on an abstract based on particle tracks, a floral, more Cosmic Cat and possibly an astronomy fantasy piece.
I will also try to finish my Lady of the Lake colored pencil piece.

Isis Pyramid

I always love working with new materials, and I knew these triangular canvases were something I just had to work with. As I've also painted on papyrus, I decided to go with an Egyptian theme and paint a tribute to my favorite goddess, Isis.

She's just been added to my Etsy site, along with my Asteroid Belt necklace.

To the person who is leaving comments in Chinese.

I assume you are trying to post advertisements and blogger is automatically scrubbing them, because your comments are always gone by the time I try to reply to you to tell you:

I don't read Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese are both a mystery to me. I have a very small readership, and I don't think any of them can read your posts, either. Since they automatically disappear very quickly, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.

Please stop. It is irritating to have squiggles appear in my inbox daily.

October Magic sale on my Etsy site!

October Magic -- 20% off all items tagged Autumn, Fantasy, or Costume.

I do love this time of year. I'm trying to organize my improv dance class to go to the downtown Santa Cruz Halloween promenade and actually pperform in public. People have said they like the idea, but I know a lot of them are kind of stage-fright prone, so I don't think more than a third of the class will show up. And yet you never know-- people do let themselves get a bit wild come Halloween.

New FAE exhibit

The Fantasy Artists of Etsy have put together an exhibit of our "Hearth and Harvest" art pieces.
http://faeteam.com/exhibition.html

The ones I have in there are definitely fantasy, but I'm posting this with my still life "Harvest Gold", not included.

Touch Down

This is the second in my Cosmic Cat series, and I may do more work on it before I'm satisfied. This is the current version of Touch Down.

I have had to stop comments on this post because some creep keeps posting "comments" in a foreign script I have been told is really computer coding.

Remembering Keiko

September's theme for the Lodi Community Art Center is "Remembering". I'm working on a picture I started some time ago based on our first cat, Keiko, when she was a kitten. She was half-Siamese, a very clever and playful cat.
Sometimes a toy of hers would end up under a little faux-oriental rug we had, and I thought that made the perfect backgroun for her. Which is very attractive, but it's hard to try to do complex geometrics in perspective to a deadline... and I want the paintings to ride back to Lodi with my family after their visit tomorrow.

We're celebrating my brother's birthday, with a wonderful vegan dessert from Staff of Life.

I'm working on a couple of other cat-related pieces, too, my Cosmic Cat series where I mix astronomy and cats together.