TV!!! (more writing)

Hippy Dippy Eco Peace Garden has been chosen to represent Everett's Garden Arts Festival, Sorticulture. It's in June (11th, 12th & 13th) in Legion Memorial Park along the waterfront. It's so exciting! I have had to send info for a press release and now for a spot on TV. HolyMoly!

This is what I wrote:

The patterns and colors of Hippy Dippy Eco Peace Garden have been with me since the late 1960s. The Beatles ("Yellow Submarine"), Peter Max (LOVE poster) and Woodstock were enormous influences for me. I also remember a story about a little boy in a village where everybody had a pointy head, except for him and his dog, Arrow. (told in Niilson's song, "Me and My Arrow" ) The 'point' of the story: be yourself.

As an over-thinker, the Peace Garden series is my therapy—a way to relax, breathe easy, and recall simpler times. The 'eco' part of the series is the enjoyment I have had in outdoor activities, playing in the dirt and most recently, planting vegetables—getting dirt under my fingernails and reaping the rewards of a well-tended garden. And Hippy Dippy? I was an Art Student in the 70s! The art comes easy when I just let myself be me.

I think Hippy Dippy Eco Peace Garden and Sorticulture are made for each other. Both celebrate life, art and the garden with lively, whimsical, positive energy.

Begin to Write

Social networking is great, but it’s social more than networking. I have pages on FaceBook and MySpace and I tweet on Twitter.

FaceSpace.

SpaceBook.

SpaceFace.

TwitteringBookSpaces.

TwitterFace.

but I digress...

http://jeezlooeze.etsy.com

http://jeannieburham.blogspot.com/

Rusty helped paint the wall in the hallway. He's a good boy.

Rusty the Collie

Meet Rusty, the studio dog. (here he is, standing by more rusty stuff)

Kelsey Excelsior Letterpress & Type Cabinet

Typefaces and fonts are some of my favorite things. The texture of cotton rag paper and the feel of raised letterpress print are mesmerizing. Some of my new artwork is done on a letterpress case. The case is a sectioned drawer that holds lead type in a cabinet. One of these days, I'll actually set a block of type and print it! One of these days.

More is More

Less is more? HaHaHaHaHa.

More is more and sometimes not enough. I fill my artwork with textures, colors, patterns and use as many tools and mediums as possible. Quite often you'll see coffee stained canvas, thick acrylic gel combed in a pattern, layers and layers of color, paint applied and rubbed off, and found treasures glued to the surface of my art. I use acrylics, oil paint, latex house paint, gouache, encaustic, colored pencil, oil bar... I never met an art medium I didn't like.

I also like to keep my tools and brushes in unique vintage containers. The bright purple box is a repurposed silverware box—perfect for holding tubes of paint. (other boxes and more and even more stuff can be seen on the shelves. Also notice Easy Rider poster on the ceiling)

Uncle Albert

Albert Einstein is one of my inspirations. He's always been in a prominent place in my studio or work areas. 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."   Albert Einstein

When you come to a fork in the road—take it.

Piano lessons in 4th through 8th grade and I thought I'd never touch a keyboard again. But, I do. Especially during the Holidays and summertime for some reason. I love the classics and plunk away on my very old, out of tune upright. Mozart, Beethoven and assorted show tunes  don't sound too awful. 

Go past the piano, through the Green Door and you're in the garage Studio!