Details on the Art Show I'm In!!

Details on the Art Show I'm In!!!


Forgotten Works Studio 30 Artists 30 Days 30 Paintings Event:

Big opening show = Thursday December 3rd 5pm to 9pm

Open Sale day = Saturday December 5th noon to 5pm
Forgotten Works Studio is located at:

the Tashiro Kaplan Building

115 Prefontaine place Seattle WA.
 
Woohoo!
 

Richard Burton

It was Richard Burton's Birthday the other day so TCM celebrated by showing many of his best films. 

I've had a crush on Richard Burton (those eyes! those lips! that voice!) since I was little so I've already seen many of them.  Among my favorites: Night of the Iguana, Cleopatra, Becket, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.... to name just a few.

Many books have been written about the wild Burton: his drinking, his acting, his on and off-again steamy love affair with Elizabeth Taylor.... so I won't even try to write about his life here.  Suffice it to say, he was one hell of an actor.  If you aren't familiar with his films you owe it to yourself to dive into them.  All bias aside, I recommend Night of the Iguana as a great film to start with.  How can you beat the combination of Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr in a film directed by John Huston and based on a play by Tennessee Williams?!

30 Paintings in 30 Days Art Challenge- Finished!

I will post details of the event when I know more!

Here is my Black/White/Red Series for the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge:

 

Here's my Monstrous contribution to the challenge!

And here is my Pop-Culture People series.... the quotes are from old home ec/etiquette books that I collect- most are from the 1940s-1960s.

First up is my only collage piece in the collection- I tried to draw a full body but think I need to stick with faces for now so I thought I'd collage it instead!

Below is my interpretation of a portrait of my mom when she was younger!

Below is one of my personal favorites- and the last one I did for the challenge.

The following two are two of my favorites!!!

In the end I sort of felt like this one below was a wee bit of a self-portrait (but with red hair).  LOL.

Three & Four Musketeers

Watched the Richard Lester-directed Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers again this weekend .

Tho' I've seen both of these films at least 10 times, they never cease to thrill. And, as with Dumas' novel, they are full of subtle wit and blatant humor both!

They star the most amazing ensenble cast ever put on film. From Michael York to Faye Dunaway to Charlton Heston to Christopher Lee to Frank Finlay to Richard Chamberlain to Raquel Welch, its a feast for the eyes and ears.

But it's Oliver Reed that always steals the show for me- he IS Athos. His performance in both films is absolutely riveting and wonderfully nuanced. And he was sure easy on the eyes to boot. Sigh. I sure miss that man.

30 Day Art Challenge Begins!

The 30 Day Art Challenge Begins!

I have 30 days to complete 30 8x10 canvases for the Forgotten Works Challenge. 

I got a great start- worked on the backgrounds for 15 canvases in the first weekend!

Corsets!!

I hosted a Corset swap on the AAO art group. I wish I could be a real fashion designer but these paper versions will have to suffice for now!! They are meant to be bound into a book eventually.

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Remembering Titus the Mountain Gorilla