Hiatus

I'm back from my wedding hiatus - the day is over and so is the honeymoon - and that means back to work! I told myself I would not work during my vacation, that I would take a real break and try to recharge. Not one of those "breaks" where I take a day off from my day job, only to install a show, ship a painting, prep surfaces, deliver works, or do any assortment of wedding-related things, but an actual break where I slow down and catch my breath. It was wonderful, but I am looking forward to getting back out there and painting. I have changed my standard sizes again ( I know, I know, I'm terrible about this!), more on this later, but it is a necessary change. Also, the Southern Alleghenies Museum exhibit is going really well, I'm getting a lot of great feedback - lots of thanks to everyone who has or plans to check it out. The exhibition will be up until the end of October.

Art Scam Alert

Lately I have received several emails from "buyers" who are basically trying to scam fine artists. It is a very obvious scam, involving someone from a foreign country who is moving and wants to buy several pieces, but will not pay shipping, and is in a rush. Please look out for this if you are an artist. For more detailed information, Lori Woodward on Fine Arts Views has written a post about it:
http://canvoo.com/blog/22852/ignore-this-scam

Upcoming Opportunities

For anyone interested, a reminder about the Historic Buildings and Structures juried exhibition at the WV State Museum! Entry submissions are around the corner, for more info see: http://www.wvculture.org/museum/exhibits.html

Brian Ferrell and Lauren Adams: The Aesthetics of Nature

Just checking in to say that the reception for the exhibition was absolutely wonderful. So much thanks goes to Sommer Toffle for all her hard work - and for letting me be able to show in her beautiful museum with such a fantastic artist, Brian Ferrell. Also, thank you to everyone who made it out to the reception (!) and to everyone with Vallozzi's, the food was amazing! Below are some pictures we took of the evening, if anyone missed the reception but still wants to see the exhibit, it will be up until the end of October.

Brian Ferrell and Lauren Adams: The Aesthetics of Nature

Whew....the work is delivered (although I do have one last small painting to mail tomorrow)! I feel relieved to have completed over 44 paintings for this exhibition (I'm not sure what the final total was, considering sales and not-so-great paintings) and it is all over. All that's left is the reception on August 14th, 6:00 pm - everyone should come, I'm extremely excited to see all of our work installed. Check out the press release for more info:
http://www.sama-art.org/info/press/2008/2010-07-23-a.html

Getting Closer...

I am so close to being finished with my upcoming two-person exhibition! The delivery is next Saturday and I'm really pumped. This Saturday, the last few frames are going on the last few works. After that, all I have to do is make sure every last piece is wired and ready to go and then bubble wrap each work and box them up for the ride. That's not too much to do in a week, right?

I haven't done any painting recently, since all of this last minute preparation has been happening. Next month, I hope to get a few paintings in. Also, I hadn't seen any ducklings this spring, and a few weeks ago when Derek and I were out taking photos of me for the catalogue(!), we came across these little ones...

New Painting!

Above is one of my last additions to the upcoming 2 person exhibit at SAMA in Ligonier Valley (which I couldn't be more excited about!). It's titled "Marion County - June 3rd", and the work is on my larger size, the 24 x 20" canvas. It's also oil and acrylic on canvas. The picture could be better, but it will do for now. Right now I'm working on getting all of the work framed and wired for the exhibit. It's half way there! I will be so glad when I have it all safely delivered at the end of the month. I've been fairly stressed out lately with wedding planning/new homeowner issues/large, 45 piece exhibit stuff swimming around in my head. I would like to put one of those large things away and have a big check on my to-do list!