Out in the garden painting last two mornings

Out is the garden painting this morning ans the whole world goes away.
It's just me, these canvases MY TOOLS, MY DOG AND TUBES OF PAINT.

All  the sudden I CAN DO NO WRONG, All the sudden, I am awesome!
I have no idea how I will amaze my self next.Each step is an experiment.
Its all new to me but, still it was planned.
Like a pawn in game the canvas tells me what to do and I just respond.

Years of experience come flooding back in seconds as my fingers dance, swooshing brushes and making marks
I grab a palette knife and dig right in with no abandon, there is no plan, there is no mistake just color and gloppy paint.

I am a child again. I am not 33 with graying hair that badly needs dyed. I am painting. and I just remembered. That I am awesome!

I am not worrying about the dirty dishes piling up again. I am not thinking about the mistakes I made at work on the computer yesterday. I am not the error of my ways and my career.Right now I am an artist and I am awesome!

I think to myself if only I could do this everyday, if I could only wedge out a little block of time to be my myself,  messy and reckless and painting my heart out. Be myself, this awesome think how smooth the rest of my day would go?

I am a mess I am dirty I am covered in paint and I don't care.

I am up and I am rolling with it .Yesterday I was down and angry but colorful none the less.When I paint I can feel however I want and let it all out without offending a soul.

I have worries but no matter,I am painting  and it feels awesome!Later I may not think these canvases are that great I will see what needs to be changed but right now in the process they are amazing and I pleasantly surprise myself as I let go and let the process take over.

In Rochester we only get warm weather to go outside and paint it up a few months of the year. I need a completely safe and available space to be messy and my awesome self everyday.  I need the Warehouse Arts space to open. I need a respite of sanity I needs to be able to remind myself everyday that I am awesome and have a place to go to shut off the self defeating voices. I need a place with other just as awesome as me!    
                                              
 http://www.warehousearts.org/index.html

Warehouse arts had its first major fundraising event!

We had live entertainment!

Ceramic hand built and wheel thrown items were among the many items up for auction

 You can now even get your own Warehouse Arts Button.

See what you can buy to support Warehouse arts!
http://warehousearts.org/index.html

Zine and Craft fair reflections

 So since fall 2010 I have been talking with Caitlin Holcombe and Ted Forsyth from the Flying Squirrel about doing the Fair again this year. We have emailed,,and emailed. We meet on Sundays discussing the event and following our creative tangents....We will hopefully do this again very soon. For a small indie craft show and four or five of us volunteering the little spare time we had I think we pulled off a pretty good show! We had artist venders, workshops and readings even face painters and food.

So here are some of the fliers we doctored up for the event.We had a coloring party were we colored them in. We took Dan's  loveable little yarn monster in many directions for this event.The yarn monster become Flava Flav, Harry Potter, A jester,  candidate for mayor. He really developed his own person.

 

Here are some pictures of the yarn monster puppet getting some love.That's Dan he had no idea what he started when he drew that little guy(he is also wearing a yarn monster button that KT made for the event.

Here Marylew and Ian snuggle the little baby yarn monster.


 I made many wonderful new artist acquaintances.Several were up for trading art items for art items so although my sales were not overwhelming I made new connections with people and got to bring home some awesome art...

I was stationed upstairs at my Sculptresslink table and did a quick workshop on ATC's so there are many more awesome artists downstairs that I did not get to see too much of.
So now let me share with you just a few of the new artist acquaintances I made:

This is the JBird designs tables:She makes jewelry and very cool quilted patches with skulls, birds and bold abstract patterns.

I also spoke with Marylew and dug these little wands and rattles she makes. I love the crow magnets and I am so happy to have one on my cluttered fridge. 

Here is the the lovely Nancy Toploski of Second Seed designs. Nancy was sitting next to the table for The Warehouse Arts.

The Warehousearts is a group of artists curently raising funds to purchase a warehouse space to by used as a collective artists work space,gallery space and, retail space to sell members artwork. We will teach classes for children and adults in a variety of media. It will be a space for musicians writers, artists and musicians to come together. We also hope to have shared facilities for glass,ceramics drawing and painting. As a member of  Warehouse arts I would like to thank everyone who purchased items to help us raise our goal please come back and support us at your Silent Auction on April 1, 2010 from 4-10.Here are Dan and Alysssa from Warehouse arts.
  But wait I am not done yet  more pictures and more images of wonderful artists and there work can be seen here on the zine and craft fair Wordpress blog.I will also post them on my facebook.

A shout out goes to Fawn Brokaw of Fawn Ray designs, Jay Rubin of Schmutzine, Will Carroll of Rochester Teen Set Outsider,Emily Good, Tanvi Asher of Excessory ( I still want some of those bangles), Kira Sinclair of KiraArts, Dan Varenka of EAT and HEY BUDDY!,Robert Frank,Erin Bullock of Mud Creek Farm, Luke Stodola of Small World Bakery,Sara Wick,Trina Quinn,Dave Gunn/Discomfort,T.G Chernesky,Ryan Clover/Silent City Distro,Heidi Brown of Heidala's, Awkwardcore Records, John Gormly and Kaitlyn Terry of Black Olive.