Some Studio Updates!
Location: Backspace Gallery, 606 Rear Main Street, Peoria, IL
Time frame: 4pm to about 930pm
I haven’t spent a lot of time working on some art in a while. The last two weeks, I was lazily getting ready for the annual Moss Avenue Sale, here is Peoria. It’s a rather large yard sale of types, where a good percentage of the city shows up to sale off items and/or come and buy such items.
Cassandra Lawlor (graduate student in Ceramics here at Bradley University) and I both signed up for a plot of land (someone’s yard) in which we put on display a selection of our work and anxiously waited to see if the public would be willing to purchase anything. We did fairly well. I sold about half the small handmade books I produced and a handful of prints and a gouache painting. I made a little over $350 profit that day. I’m not sure what Cassie pulled in, but she was selling regularly throughout the day. I think we both agreed that we had a good day.
Days pass and I only go to Backspace to check on my ivy plant. I decided this plant was a boy and I gave hime the name Samsonite. There is no real reason behind this decision. This morning I popped in to see if he needed watering and I was greeted with a surprise…
Samsonite has friends!
After work I managed to work on the goauche drawing a bit more clearing up some messy edges in the Jellyfish and solidifying some of the tendrils.
I made some progress to this guy.
Not as much progress as I was hoping for but I have a great reason why I was somewhat unproductive.
I present my distraction….
Meet Charles Barkley (get it?)…Charlie for those who know him.
Meet Charles Barkley. Charlie for short. He was my guest studio buddy after work today.
Charlie is a doberman puppy. He’s very quiet and somewhat timid, that is until he gets used to you.
Needless to say, a good majority of my time in the studio today was spent exactly like the picture below.
*sings* In Your Eyes….
Great reason to put off working on art, right? Right? Don’t Judge Me!