NEW THINGS!

BY: ADRIENNE

I realize I haven't posted on here in a

ges. Jerry is being a great example and getting things done and actually using our blog.

I have been showing quite a bit around Nashville this year. They have been smaller group shows with some friends but it has been very nice to have deadlines again. Other than that I have been looking forward to graduate school, trying to make future decisions, have a full time job and make artwork.

Heres a photo of my bulletin board in my studio. The two animals in the top right corner are what I have been working on this morning. I am planning on cutting these sort of animal puppets out in LARGE multiples and hanging them all together in a group with framed artwork possibly? They are really just something I had been thinking about how to construct alot lately and figured it was time to try it out.

Been thinking about bears alot lately too. Not sure why.

New Work! Finally!

BY: ADRIENNE

Hey everybody. I realize that none of us have posted on here in ages and ages, but here are some new images of things I have been working on. Give me feedback if you'd like. I am just trying to still figure out what I want to do and say with all these.

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Our Etsy store has actual pieces of art for sale now. Tell your friends.

http://theclearancesale.etsy.com

All proceeds go to buying me a Wii. (just kidding...not really.) 

Not my Art, BUT. . .

BY ADRIENNE: 

Maybe this isn't REALLY following blog rules, but its related. 

A friend of mine recently sent me these videos of friends of mine. These are people who inspire me on a daily basis and make me feel like the luckiest girl in the world. 

My incredible boyfriend talking about how typesetting for letterpress works: 

Brad Vetter 

My friend Agnes with a video about handcarved portraits for Etsy: 

Agnes Barton-Sabo 

I also recently made a beautiful art aquisition. I traded the wonderful Bryce McCloud of Isle of Printing for his handcarved, 18x24, 4 color, Gillian Welch poster. See here at a Prints Gone Wild Exhibition: 

I'm making work for a book exhibit, working on our sketchbook exchange, and making work for a print show in Colorado. Hope everyone else is doing just as well!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho. . .

POSTED BY ADRIENNE: 

I've been making work again. Granted its really silly work, but its work none-the-less. I feel like its totally different from my work in undergrad as far as mood and intention goes but some of the imagery is the same.  I'm drawing much more than normal. 

Also, currently making art for the Tomato Art Festival Show that is held in East Nashville on August 9th. I'll be posting those as soon as they are finished.  I could not be more glad to have a deadline again. 

Another announcement: Jerry Phillips, our friend Alex Griendling, and I are collaborating on a sort of traveling sketchbook project that we created. The theme is "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" I'm sure we'll be periodically posting things about that as well. 

And heres a few of my sketches as of late: 

(unfinished), old letterpress/tea/ink/graphite/colored pencil/marker, 2008

Thoughtful Accusations, pencil/tea/ink/old letterpress,2008

Train of Thought,  chalk/tea/color pencil/ink/graphite/old letterpress, 2008

(unfinished), color pencil/graphite/ink, 2008

field studies, color pencil/ink/old letterpress, 2008

P.S. My 24th birthday is on Friday. If you want to get me something wonderful, I suggest going to Etsy. (just kidding. but seriously.) 

from the west

Hey Friends!

LMU's on spring break, which means I am having an intense, uninterupted week of productivity....both making work and tending to computer-business like my Blog, and my Etsy shop. It feels springy in LA. One would think there wouldn't be a perceivable change in weather, but there totally is.

Also working on my plan to attend Southern Graphics Council at the end of the month. I can't wait.

Hey Emily! Are you going? And don't you owe me a print?

Here's a picture from Athens, dug up from the archive:



Love, Michelle.