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I've been encouraged/demanded by friends that
blogging can reach the largest audience (albeit the favoritism of Facebook). So here I am, beginning. The above piece one of my first bas relief pieces. I worked for several years, through inspirations of paintings, photographs, drawings. I am going to have a website devoted to my artwork in the next month and there I will be able to post pictures grouped by show.
I will be bumbling along, but determined to do as many entries in a week as I can.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
ReplyDeleteIt's very late...much too late for this old artist, yet I wanted to enter something about the process I've been experiencing in getting ready for a major show in Virginia Beach: Wine and Arts Festival; leave tomorrow for Saturday show.
*every item priced and marked
*tables, chairs, drapes, louvered door
all about presentation
*explanation of HANDS exhibit -- with
accompanying brochure
*brochure giving information about labyrinths
*getting everything up to this apartment
for pricing, inventory, and packing
*organizing a "supplies" box
*business cards/holder
*money box/receipt book, cash...
Guess I could go on and on but just wanted to get a bit down on paper. I will surely do another post next Monday to talk about the experience.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012joys of June
ReplyDeleteThe utilization off "social media" a new experience for me. I vowed to write daily, yet here I am a month since my last post. Oh, how the world of health, finances, relationships seem to block my way to the studio and my work as an artist.
After my last show "HANDS" I decided to take a break from a prescribed show requirement, and simply listen to some things in my inner heart.
I have made several pieces since that time, including a bas relief form of a tree ... very hopeful it will lmake it through the bisque. Plans to use specific glaze only on tree, with blackground waxed out to leave only the clay color. After this, I will be adding some kind of medium to bring the tree into a blossoming stage. I began yesterday to work on an intricate design which focuses on a dragonfly. Lots of symbolism for this elegant creature: defeat of self-created illusions, foxus on being in the moment, opening one's eyes, maturitiy and depth of character. All ofthese and more leading me to have a beautiful tattoo on my left forearm of a dragonfly. I invite you to visit: http://dragonflysymbolism.org/ for a peaceful moment.
As this piece develops, I will be uploading pictures of its progress.
And then, my commitment to do a series of nudes in bas relief, based on photographs of me -- "ARTIST AS MUSE". The show will provide a dual experience: the clay creations on one side, and matching images of the pose in black/white photographs on the other. A show which undoubtedly take me a year.
My website will be an ongoing process -- http://www.drgabb.com/
where I will be providing a range of information and photos sof my work. But this blog taps into my world as an academic and lover of story. I hope you will travel along with me.
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Am trying to re-enter y world as an artist...and as a writer on a blog. Hoping this will at least post...
ReplyDeleteBe a while before I can sort this all out but am determined
ReplyDeleteto get this blog going in a week or so.