Toddler Room

I finally put together my daughter's room (a renovated walk in closet) a few weeks ago. She's moved out of the crib and is sleeping in her room. We're picking up a bed from my sister in law today so she'll be off the floor soon. Here's some pics of the decor. Some items were from her old room in TN and a few I made for this new room. The painting is of her and her 2 favorite stuffed animals, Lamby and Hedgehog, who go everywhere with her. I did the alphabet painting because almost all kids materials have capital letters but in order to learn to read, kids mostly need to learn lowercase. The name painting was from her old room but I painted over the letters with red this time. I had made the bulletin board for her old nursery as well. I painted the 4 flowers and her name blocks as well to match the new space. I still need to weave the lights into the grapevine that acts as a border going around the entire room by her ceiling in a whimsical line. When she saw the new room the first thing she did was go climb in her bed and lay down and announce she was going to sleep there.

Ahead

So I didn't go to the show tonight due to the snow and babysitting issues. The gallery owner told me he'd tell me how it went. I think there's something next weekend so I'll go to that one.

I talked to my brother the other day and he is going to make me some sculpted metal frames for my art and he's working on some sculptures I'll include in my store as well soon. My uncle who is a fine furniture maker is making me some frames this week as well and I'll be using those with my landscapes I think. I'm going to use my brother's frames probably with my abstracts more since that's more his style.

I'm hoping both of them will be interested in doing sculptures. My uncle has done quite a few that have gathered dust in his basement and attic and some eventually been chopped up for firewood. Beautiful mahogany and metal. Some are/were giant - 4' by 12' wall hanging pieces. I saw some things still intact covered in dust last time I was at their house when Sophie was 6 weeks old.

I was reading through art blogs and stumbled across this article that kind of had me depressed but the comments left me with some small scrap of hope about making art in the future.

Nowuno Gallery

Again this Saturday we'll be having an event at the Nowuno gallery as a part of the show. It will begin at 7pm and go til late. There will be music, finger food and alcohol :) and art of course. It's at 403 Constitution Ave several blocks from the capital (just after the split with Maryland Ave.) I've added another piece to the show.

On the easel today

I decided to go up a level in paint quality. That means my paint is going to cost 5-8x as much but the better materials are easier to work with and last much longer in colorfastness. There is another level up from where I am now that is another 5x jump in cost but we'll wait until I want my stuff to last 400 years without any color change. I'm not there yet. So I got started with the sky and background on a new piece. Here's the beginning (I'm having fun - looove the new paint!)