Amazing Book Stores

Beyond the House of the False Lama:
Travels with Monks, Nomads and Outlaws

By: George Crane

Turtle Feet

By: Nikolai Grovni

As you all know my love for art, nature, and adventure are just as great as my love for books and reading! The short list above, are the books im currently reading. As usual I alsways update/keep you posted everytime I finish what I read.

Also: If your a book lover as am I, you need to CHECK THIS SITE OUT!!

Iits pictures of the most interesting bookstores in the world,
I hope Im able to visit most, if not all of them one day!!
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-bookstores.htm

New Website.... COMING SOON!

a few things:

May 15th, 2010 from 3-5pm!
I will be having a joint show with Jenny Reci and will be showcasing my latest artworks at the Baumberg Estate! Im so so excited, and you should be too! Its going to be a great show!

Also my website is 75% done! All I need to do is post some pictures, update my CV, and fix a few little things and Ill be done!! So excited to get that up and running! I believe it will be done by the first week in May!

I heart my job.

I love being an artist.

I'm happy that I can be inventive with my artwork. I'm always able to rethink different approaches that id like to take. The hardest, yet most rewarding part of being an artist is that I get to think-up new ways in which to get my ideas onto a new space or work it into nature with my installations.

In order for my art to be successful, I need to keep re-evaluating the visual experience that I create from all angels. It is far more important to me that my viewers walk away with my overall message to them. It makes my art that much more meaningful and effective when someone sees my art and tells me what they have gotten out of it. I feel much better knowing they learned something. It is far more valuable then having to explain my overall message to them. I want them to grow from the experience!
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Im currently in the works of creating a website!!
I believe it will be up and running in the begining of May!!

Yay me!

Featured Artist: Justin Nelson

"Shika" by Justin Nelson

WEBSITE: www. justinbryannelson .com

I just bought this original print from Justin Nelson. Its a smaller print and comes in a series, when I saw it, I knew I needed to have it. (I heart deer!) He does a lot of 'hairy" type work in pen and ink. But its the tiny detail that allows for him to be my featured artist of the week! It looks like it takes a lot of time and patience to complete a peice like this. Check out his website for more "hairy" art!!

Caught on Itself in the Process of...

GROWTH: Self Portrait

(detail of drippy tree roots)

So this is/was my first screen print in a long while and I am so pleased with it. This is the start of a long beautiful relationship with screen printing... When I first learned to screen print (like 3.5/4 years ago, it def wasnt a medium I was a fan of, I just couldnt registrar to save my life... ha ha. In fact, I was often frustrated with it. Lino-cutting was my strength. Only problem with lino-cutting is it takes forever and until I can figure out a newer way of re-inventing lino-cuts and its same boring, OVER DONE subjects (aka cut outs of buildings, landscapes, and people OR abstract shapes).

Getting back to this print, it shows myself as the deer. I see the deer as a gentle, secret spirit of the woods. I picture myself a lot as a deer. Its my way of being apart of my art. It also depicts my spiritual journey from when I was lost and disappointed with the direction of my art to my own acceptance of my artist career to make art for myself. To put my happiness first and to make art I like.

This Print is EXACTLY that. The deer stopped for long enough on its journey through life where her legs have started to grow together as the trunk of a tree. The roots are a droppy mess and even caught two unexpecting birds in the same process. My art is narrative. It never has an exact, perfect registration, but like my art I have grown to love that about my work. NOTHING IS EVER PERFECT IN LIFE, THERE ARE ALWAYS SMALL THINGS THAT WILL ALWAYS BE OFF. And thus, is life.