ArtFind is right around the corner.
ArtFind is an art show coordinated by Soul Arts Society.
Soul Arts Society is a loosely affiliated band of artists who put on shows for their mutual benefit. we, the artists, all live on the Treasure Coast of Florida. ArtFind is our second group show. facebook: @soulartssociety
my contributions for ArtFind 2018: logo and other graphic elements for web and print, web and social media marketing, coordinating between artists and host businesses. it’s kept me busy.
i will be showing my art at Gray Gardens Design & Salvage. (instagram.com/graygardensdesign)
it’s a great place. i ignored a twinge of guilt and called dibs.
here’s a link for the locals: facebook.com/events/212185782947696/
seriously, if you’re local, please come and support local art and local business.
among other works, i will display my new creation: a fascination lamp.
materials:
- an old stump (Gray Gardens gave it to me in the spirit of collaboration, and told me i could do whatever i wanted.)
- a ton of epoxy resin – colored with mica powder and alcohol inks
- cement and cement mastic for the base
- random pieces of metal, stone, and the like
- the vertebrae of some ocean creature (my friend Dominic gave them to me)
- some hollow glass orbs
- re-purposed parts from two other lamps
- and two hundred feet of LED lights.
it’s fascinating. (at least to me.)
challenges: the only real challenge was chiseling out the inside of the stump. you’d think the thing was partly petrified. i chiseled for days. i felt like i was paying some kind of karmic debt. i’m pretty sure the stump is from an Australian Pine, what elsewhere is called she-oak, and is not really a conifer at all. this suspicion is reinforced by another colloquial name for the same tree: ironwood. not funny.
i had a little trouble leveling the base, resulting in some unexpected cement grinding. but now it sits level as a calm sea.
here’s a timeline of progress pics. i’ll share a photo of it finished after the show.
the fifth book in the False Key anthology is OUT and available on the interweb.
the best way to get a hold of a copy is Poetic Justice Books and Art (https://www.poeticjusticebooks.com/). not a local? Kris will ship anywhere.
since we signed every book in the house when Poetic Justice Books & Arts hosted our book launch party, ordering from him is a good way to get your hands on a copy signed by all the authors and the artist responsible for our great cover art.
i mean: fuck amazon! you can support an Actual Independent Book Store!
here’s a photo of us crazy book people. i’m wearing a mask that i made for the occasion.
this is a good place for me to segue from the new book to my future intentions for my space on Patreon.
i will continue to share my creative forays and miscellaneous writing, but i have been floundering for a project that could serve as a main course. and now i think i know what that project is.
i have four not-so-short short stories that are begging to be transformed into a series of illustrated novellas. they are the stories published in the last four False Key anthologies.
they need a little polishing, maybe some adapting. before i wrote PO Box 319 in Somewhere South of Sane, i hadn’t really written anything since college. (excepting drunken ramblings, maybe a poem here and there.) so, in four years of four stories and a few dozen poems, my writing has evolved noticeably.
Conspicuously.
authors, feel me on this. i read that first story and i cringe. i sat down with it and re-worked almost every sentence.
the first five pages, divided into two short chapters, are edited almost to my satisfaction and are ready for illustration. i can’t wait! i am going to be so so extra in filling these books with as many images as there are paragraphs!
is that too much? i don’t know. we’ll just have to work it out as we go.
i’ll restructure my subscription tiers to accommodate these new plans. i still want to offer gifts and correspondence, but the False Key project (title?) will be a main thread and premium content.
first, i have to get through next weekend’s show. after which i will require a day of napping with books.
other news:
- i helped to hang the first exhibit of the season at the local UU church. i’m a member of that congregation, and a member of the art committee. the next show is mine: i will be on exhibit throughout December. photos coming soon. facebook presence still under development: facebook.com/ArtInTheNarthex
- i’ve really neglected my etsy shop lately. all of a sudden, i made a few sales, which reminded me of how much i like selling handmade things through a website to people in far away places. moral sufficiently boosted, i hope to post some new products (attractive resin trinkets) within the next week. (etsy.com/shop/BlueLeafShop)
that’s it, a fairly full digest of my artventuring. thanks for riding along.