September 23rd, 2009
My youngest cousin Siri (9) gave me the best gift ever this week.
My cousin Siri, sweet and cute!
It is very easy to get discouraged in trying to make a living as an artist. I contemplate quitting all the time. A few days ago, however, I got an email from my aunt that motivated me to keep trying my best.
Here is the email:
Siri was “Star of the Week” at school. She had to fill out a big poster and one of the categories was “Meet My Hero”. She wrote…
“My cousin Jill is my hero because she is a paint artist and she paints things like birds and flowers and sometimes she paints fruit. I think her art is great and colorful.”
Also under When I Grow Up I want to be a _____, she wrote “glass or paint artist.”
Thanks Siri!
September 15th, 2009
Ahhh, what a bizarro blast from the past.
My art fair this weekend in Northfield, MN was great and wonderful and nutty and thrilling and freaky. Being that I was born in Northfield – and lived there until I was ten – was just the first weird-o factor.
Add in my parents being from there, my grandparents having spent years living there, and having two uncles and eleven aunts who all grew up there makes me one connected woman. I’d say one of three people who walked into my booth had some connection to me.
“Oh, are you so-and-so’s so-and-so?”
“Oh, you must be related to such and such.”
Albeit weird, every single one of those people were kind and supportive. Not to mention beautiful. Are all folks from Northfield so good looking? Dang!
I also was lucky to have great artists in booths around me who were helpful and talented. I will have links to their sites soon.
Also, BIG NEWS: I will soon have a gallery representing my work in Madison Wisconsin. And I will be at the The Autumn Art-Quinox art opening in Minneapolis this Friday night. Come out and visit!
Chillin' with my baby
September 8th, 2009
This painting just does not want an identity.
First it was a painting of Leper Lilies (which I never snapped a pic of). Their remnants are the speckled purple areas.
Then it morphed into a pond reflection abstract. Several times it got flipped upside down and reworked. Now, I’m not quite sure where it is.
I may have killed this one..
Originally: Leper Lilies
Now: Pond Abstract
