Zion Art Exhibition

Update: I didn't post this in time, sorry.

This exhibit closes soon but I really enjoyed it so I want to share that if you're in the area you should check it out. I didn't love every piece but there were a lot of really great works and I was reminded of the things that I want to be as an artist and what I want to bring to my art. It's a good reminder and motivator for me to make art a priority in my life. I just started a new full time job and making art is giing to be more challenging but it's soo important to me.

I had an art filled weekend, I checked out the exhibits at the MOA, this was my favorite. Then we hit up the Springville Museum of Art, this was a fun and informative exhibit.
It's good to be visiting art exhibits again, I haven't done that enough recently. Here's to being better going forward.

Illustrations

They say that one should not judge a book by its cover, but I quite often do, there are good books with unexciting covers but I've also thought that if they don't bother to make an interesting cover, what's the point. This visual judging of books started as a kid, if a picture book has good illustrations, I'm more inclined to read it.

I wouldn't classify a lot of illustrations as "high art" but it was an early introduction for me and so many others, to the arts. One of the books I grew up with was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and today I got to go see an exhibit of his work. It was fun to have the nostalgia of childhood but also to be able to see these images as drawings, sketches, watercolors, lithographs etc. and to be able to appreciate Sendak's skills as an artist.

New Year

It's a New Year, I don't get into New Years resolutions much but the new year is a wonderful time to review and to look to the future. 2014 was a pretty good year, I've been privileged to participate in a lot of shows this year.
I'm excited for the future, I'm working on big plans for the new year and some fun ones too. I started a drawing group with some of my friends, we'll take turns sitting for one another so that we can all get practice drawing, the first one was fun, I'm excited to have more. I need the practice.
I'm also renewing my efforts to attend gallery strolls. Usually I have intention to go, but by the time it comes around, I would rather stay home instead of making the effort to go out. Well see how it goes.
Here's to art in the new year!

Update

So I haven't blogged for a while but I'm really excited to announce that my art will be in two shows opening this week.
I am thrilled to again be included in the 29th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah show at the Springville Museaum of Art. The show opens this Wednesday!
I'm also pleased to be a part of the holiday show at the Utah Arts Festival Gallery! The show opens Thursday night and there will be a gallery stroll Friday from 6-9.
If you have the chance, check out both or either of these show!

Fresh Paint

So currently there are three places where my art is on view currently (and available for purchase). You can still see my art at the wonderful Lamp Co. and a few more weeks at LunaBerry and you can see a piece of mine and many other lovely pieces at the Loge Gallery until the 27th of September. If you get the chance check any or all of them out! PS Gallery Stroll is this Friday.

On view

An exciting announcement, there are now two lovely locations to view my art, my art is still in it's mini gallery space and the Lamp Company, and now for about a month, it will be at LunaBerry's local art space. Check it out!

 These are all from my Hex series.

Gallery Stroll

I used to try to go to my local gallery stroll all the time ... try is the operative word there. I haven't been for months and I don't know how long it was before the last time. There is the fact that my local stroll isn't a stroll so much as a drive (it's nice when you really can stroll between the galleries) but at any rate, I slack when it comes to getting out, exploring new galleries and seeing local art.
Today I wasn't even thinking about gallery stroll but I happened to be going past one of my favorite galleries, one I'd love to work with some day, during the appointed stroll hours and so I stopped in. I saw some things I loved, some things that were interesting and other things as well. I also learned that the gallery has some new management... I'm not sure that's the right term but at any rate it was good to know and it was really nice to be in the gallery for a bit. I need to get out to gallery stroll more often.