more wildflowers

Another lovely day with my pretty camera!

White wildflower
Not sure, but I liked the color

pinecone

Shasta Daisy

Probably some variety of hemp

My yard

Central New York is absolutely amazing at this time of year. Nice temperatures and no rain this past weekend, so I took a walk with my camera. Photos are labeled where I know the name of the plant. If I'm wrong, let me know!

Dandelions

Look for the spider in the last one (good thing I didn't see it until after I had taken the picture!)

Buttercup

Daisy Clover flower

No clue

At one point, this was a purple lilac

Crabapple (?)

Deadly Nightshade

Pots

I wrote last time about re-connceting with old friends. Funny thing, it ended up with my re-connecting with old art inspiration.

So after 20 or so years, I'm making pottery again, throwing on the wheel, slab and pinch work.....aaaaahhhh it feels wonderful!

Also a little insecure...what do you think?

Feedback is always welcome, but especially with this as I feel completely out of my element.

Thanks

MadArt and Featured Artist, Susanne Farrington

Since my last posting, I've joined MadArt Gallery in Hamilton NY. It's an upstate New York Artists co-op gallery located downtown, near Colgate University. It has been just great to get back into a creative community setting, meeting artists and re-connecting with artist friends from my Hamilton days.

Among those old friends is artist Susanne Farrington. In the time since we met, she has branched out from her beautiful and practical pottery into sculpture and felting.

Beautiful and practical as always, Susanne's felted hats are made from locally produced lamb's wool which she then dyes and forms by hand. Comfortable, soft and extremely warm, they are perfect for upstate weather (and skiiers love them). They're well worth the price of around $50 each. Contact me if you'd like one and I'll set you up with Susanne.

Earflap hats are the warmest of all. The braided yarn ties are formed with the hat and not added on at a later time.

Three colors fused together in the felting process. I was surprised at how smoothly the colors flowed into one another, almost as if they were just painted on rather than attached to one another.

For those of us would prefer cold ears to earflaps...............

These are only slightly less practical.

With this one, the flower is a part of the fabric, added during the felting process.

I love the color variation in this one.

And the style of this one.

Susanne gives workshops on felting through Madart in Hamilton (click on the title of this post).

Want to be a featured artist? Contact me!

Model T for sale (OK, so it's only a drawing)

Pencil drawing of a model T. Image size is 8 x 10, museum quality. Starting price is just $10. (usd) Click on the title of this post or on the link at the right to bid. The auction will begin this afternoon and run for 7 days.

I started to go to car shows a couple of years ago when I started dating a proud '70s Corvette owner. Much to my surprize, I liked it. Particularly the older models. I still know very little about them, but they just look so cool! So, of course I had to start drawing them. The pencil drawings were just for me, most of the paintings were comissioned by the owners of the vehicles.

I decided it was time to let go of some of the drawings I've done, starting with this one. Art by us is a possibly great auction site, all original work sold by the artists themselves. It's very similar to ebay, but free to use (supported by advertising), so the prices don't have to include listing fees unless you want to jazz up the listing . It's gotten so outrageously expensive to get your art listing noticed by even a few people on e-bay that I thought I'd give this a try.

The Band Painting

"The Band" Acrylic mixed media painting on Board. 34" x 36"
Sometimes realism just doesn't show the atmosphere. This painting was done in a somewhat more expressive style as my interest here was to show the effect of the lighting on the members of the band I was watching one evening.

http://kathysgallery.blogspot.com/

"Hope" abstract painting

OK, so I know that this is really different from what I usually post. It started back in College when I was playing with styles. Inspired by movie special effects and some pretty obvious Christian symbolism. I called the sketch "Hope" I decided to make a final painting of it a couple of weeks ago and enter it in the Obama art contest.

Keep your fingers crossed!