ArtJam, the annual popup gallery exhibit benefiting Homefront, ended today, and I picked up my pieces, and found that I had made a sale! this is always exciting, never gets old. And this time the fee would be shared with Homefront, so that's exciting, too, donating to them.
It's a piece called Tidepool, in fact I think I got the title from a reader of this blog. It's a mixed media piece, with stitching on net, beading, and painting on Tyvek attacked with a hot iron. In fact quite small, 8x8 inches, though it looks big in the pic. I'm so glad it went to a new home, and hope the new owner enjoys having it.
I was still using a tired old digi camera when I did this pic, so it's dimmer than the ones I make with the tablet. Tyvek is that material that you see wrapped around houses, and also as those white envelopes that courier services use. It feels like paper, but is plasticized and won't tear. You paint it, then it shrivels up dramatically when you apply a hot iron, using parchment paper to save the iron, and is a very exciting material to use. You learn how to make holes where you want them, and creases where you want them.
With this piece, I had made the painted Tyvek background separately from stitching the beads onto net. Some stitcher friends were intrigued by the apparently invisible work I was doing, at stitch-in, applying beads in mid air, since the net was almost not there!
It never gets old when someone wants to live with an artwork I've made.
Art goes on, with a second butterfly on the hoop, with a color scheme of turquoise, silver and chestnut brown with some dark blue
And tomorrow, these two pieces will go on display at Terhune Orchards in Lawrenceville. Local readers can stop by over the next few weeks -- there is to be an open house and wine and pie event there the weekend of November 14 and 15, and I'll be there on the Sunday, demo'ing a bit of stamp carving and showing the butterflies to date.
Meadow, monotype, image size 3.5 inches by 6, framed at 10 x 12. Price $150US plus $10 s and h, and I can ship. This one would ship portfolio style (no frame, no glass, for safety). You frame to suit.
Tidepool, beading, stitching, tyvek, framed at 8.75 inches square. Can be shipped in this frame, sturdy stuff. $200 plus $15 s and h.
Local buyers are asked to wait till the end of the exhibit to pick up, but out of town buyers can have shipping right away, and I can put other works in place so the exhibit doesn't have a hole in it.
