Postcards and Mailing List

One goal met! My postcards are ordered and delivered as of yesterday for my upcoming solo show at the Slingluff Gallery in April. I hope everyone on my mailing list likes theirs :) If you aren't on my mailing list and would like a postcard, just shoot me an email with your name and address to mailinglist@laurenadamsart.com. This also signs you up for my monthly newsletter and other freebies! The sidebar to the right subscribes you to my newsletter only, but if you want snail mail like postcards (like I do), I will need your physical address too.

Anyway, I do love a good postcard - Here are some favorites that are for sale on Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67688619/clouds-of-calm-post-card-gift-set

http://www.etsy.com/listing/68621435/orginal-christo-umbrella-program-and

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62700619/subway-postcard

I'm featured!

You can find my work featured on the Best of Etsy blog, here: http://bestofetsy.wordpress.com/ along with many other fabulous artists of Etsy.

A big thank you to Ryan James for including me on the blog! Thank you!

New Paintings!

February 26th - Prickett's Creek. oil and acrylic on canvas. 17 x 20"

February 26th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 8 1/2 x 10"

Black and White Series

Painting 2. oil, acrylic and gesso on canvas. 17 x 20"

Lately, I've been playing around with a slightly new idea - to create abstract landscape paintings in black and white. I've always loved black and white work, even my husband has fantastic figurative black and white pieces. See here: http://www.derekoverfield.com . But I have decided to explore this idea. Two have been created already and I am working on a third today. The first one was not very good, but I really enjoyed making it. The second was better - much better and I really liked making it even more, it is featured above.

Already they have become more abstract in nature. The process is much longer than I am used to, no part of the painting is done plein air. First I begin with acrylic paint. Then I incorporate thick spills of gesso onto the stretched canvas, and let that dry overnight. The next day I can begin again with acrylic and then finish it with oil, or put down more gesso and start again. It's all very improvisational and intuitive, more so than my regular work. That's when I can make the most progress with these, it seems.

It's been a long time since I made something just to mess around - no real goals for the work in mind. No certainty that I will show it. I'm allowing myself to do this (in part) with the hope that I will learn something to apply to my main body of work. I'm not sure what it will be, but I have a gut feeling it may work out...

New Painting!

February 24th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 24"

Progress

So far in 2011, I have created 19 new works! Some are good, some are not, but that is expected and I am okay with it. 19 is oh-so-close to meeting my monthly and therefore, yearly, goal of 130 new paintings. To achieve this goal, I aim for about 10 new pieces a month, so I am one short. Grr.

Here is a short, top three list of my favorite recent paintings:

New painting post tomorrow!

New Painting!

February 18th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 8 1/2 x 10"