Ella Sharp Art Opening

Cara and the Juror. He put together a wonderful show. We're proud to be a part of it!

Cara's sculpture, "Twirling"

We were a little surprised by the way it was hung.... what do you think?

Here we are in front of my paintings.

Cara and I had a great afternoon at the Ella Sharp Museum art opening. We each had a piece selected for the exhibit. We appreciate so much that friends and family came to see us there. Thanks for coming to the show!

tues nite paint nite

Tonight for paint night, it was me, Mary, and Mary Lou - potato soup for dinner- I'm still working on the tree diptych, Mary is working on a motorcyle design, Mary Lou is painting a cow :) American Idol started tonight, so we had fun watching that while we painted. I posted an event invite on fb for our (Cara and I) opening reception Saturday at Ella Sharp Museum. We're really looking forward to it. Cara is also in a recycled art work exhibit at Art634 right now. Lots going on!

Ella Sharp delivery

Farmscape is being delivered to Ella Sharp today or tomorrow morning! Cara and I are both in the Ella Sharp museum exhibit that opens Jan. 16th. We have to deliver our art work today or tomorrow. This is pretty exciting for us! It's really neat to be doing this with my daughter... I hope you can see the show. It will be up through mid March.

Today I wrote an email on "Ellen" inviting Andy-in-the-short-shorts to come to the opening on the 16th. Wouldn't that just make the event so much more wonderful for us to have him there! I even offered to tape him! Now that would make a memorable sculpture!

I think Cara's sculptures would be great for the Ellen show. At the Coldwater art walk some of the guests suggested this to Cara. I think they're right. Her sculptures are so fascinating to people, I think Ellen should get taped!

Artistic Relief From Hard Times

Looks like a great idea! Let's support Michigan!

Artistic Relief From Hard Times

Pay Pal

My Pay Pal trial:

Please take a look at my Julia's Paintings site (click the button on the top right, it will take you there, or go to http://www.juliaspaintings.blogspot.com/ )

I have started adding Pay Pal buttons. I don't have them on all the paintings yet, but I'm working on it. I hope this will be a useful, easy addition to my website. We'll see how it goes. If any of you have used Pay Pal on your sites I would love your advice and comments. Thank you!

Big News!

Cara and I both received news that we will be in the Ella Sharp Museum Statewide juried show. I'm so excited to be in a juried show with my daughter! Her sculpture of me twirling got in, and my Farmscape dyptich was accepted.

Here is a copy of portions of the email that I received :) Hooray!

We would love to see you at the reception.

Dear Julia,
Congratulations! Your piece Farmscape was selected for the Statewide Fine
Arts Competition. We look forward to it being on display from January
16-March 20, 2010! Please keep these dates in mind;
Jan. 16, 2010—Opening reception for artists and guests,
(2-4pm, awards at 3pm)

Blog Wordle

I wordled my blog :) It made me see which words I overuse- great!

new cool site to check out... Wordle

Jackson Civic Art Association

Mary, Mary Lou, and I went to the Jackson Civic Art Association tonight. Very nice demo by a water color artist tonight!

We signed up to be members :) I did the family membership since Cara will want to be involved too. We also signed up to put up pics in some exhibits.

It will be nice to be involved in Jackson.

We also got a little painting in tonight...

MAEA Conference in Kzoo

MAEA Conference in Kalamazoo this year! I went to some great workshops, great museums and galleries! Saw old friends, made new friends! Saw the awesome new art facilities at WMU! Entered 2 pieces in the member's show across from the Radisson- 100 w. michigan - it will be up for a month. This band was great! They not only sang and played guitar- they were artists and performed a speedpainting! Very impressive!
Got to hear the Guerrilla Girls!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Girls