Houston Art Walk

So, I was hoping to have loads of awesome pictures etc etc, but as it turns out, as soon as I got to Betz Gallery, I was immediately sent to work. I didn't even get to see what else was in the gallery! Sad but funny... Before the art walk even started, a young couple came in shopping for art. So, I got to ring them up. Oh so professional... The gallery was already pretty full, so I was lucky to still have room for my art. I had a little space for my work. To my dismay, the band had to be brought inside due to the rain, and guess where they set up... right in front of my work! So I thought "Great, no one's gonna even walk over there to check it out!" Weeelll....

To my surprise, I actually had a really nice girl talk to me about my work, and a couple minutes later, I had a buyer! So `a outrance now has a new home, no longer giving me attitude from her perch in my room, but now someone else's! haha

So, thank you! The piece just kind of started as an experimental piece, just for fun, but I've had such a nice response from lots of people about it, that I'd like to do a couple more in the same spirit. But for now, I'm still just going to enjoy my leisure time lol.

Post show update (LOL)

`a outrance- sold at the Houston Art & Culture Art Walk
Finally home from Houston, and I am soo happy to be. These last couple of months have been craaazy between school, work, and preparing for the art walk. At long last, I have TIME OFF (a day!! haha!!) so, I will finally take some time to chill out and finish all my little projects that I put on hold months ago.

I just wanted to say "thanks" to all the people who made it to the art walk, and a special thanks to my dear friends who were a HUGE GINORMOUS help, and to my newest art patron ^__^. Thank you all, and I will make sure to post pics ASAP ^__^ I've got a new painting I want to show off, as well as pictures from the event. I'll be posting soon!

Houston Art Walk

As of today, I have signed up for the 2nd annual Houston Art and Culture Art Walk!

My work will be on display at Betz Gallery, and I will also be there working the event.

I know a lot of you readers are not in the area, but if you do find yourself in Houston on May 15th, I'd love to see you there! More info on their site ^__^

Website Updates

Quandary

For various reasons, I haven't posted pics of the completed the red dress painting. One of the reasons being that I'm fical. The painting is finished, and hanging in a gallery, but part of me has always had a strong desire to take it down and redo parts of it (that's typical me haha). Originally, I wanted to go with a sophisticated, yet avant-garde sort of look, leaving the background unfinished, with the newsprint.


(this is basically what it would have looked like WITH the unfinished backround, I've just added a lot more detail and refining to the subject)


And, (b/c I don't have any GOOD pictures) here's how it looks with the finished background. I think either way it looks okay, but either way gives it a completely different feel, so I'm not sure what I'm wanting.





Thoughts, anyone? Please post and let me know what you've got to say ^__^ because I don't know haha. I'm always way too anal and overthink things, so sometimes I need an outside source or point of view to help me figure out what I may not be seeing. Any way, love to hear from you guys.

My 2.5 Seconds of Fame!

Ha ha. That's all I can say about that. My mom sent me a link to the Betz Gallery page where you can watch a brief news piece on the gallery. My piece Charlotte y Raton made a brief appearence... in the background ha ha. My mom was really excited, like moms are, and was like "Your painting was on TV!!" Check out the clip (it automatically plays when you get there)... you'll see it in the background lol. Sorry I can't just upload the video here.