Busy falltime

I love how life amps up in the fall.  Each weekend filled with our favorite seasonal activities and preparations for baby’s arrival in January.  I’m eagerly plowing through my to-do list as I anticipate my body grows larger and slower with each passing week.  I’ve made a few new paintings in October.  My art show [...]

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Mogs Made Art: Pumpkin Heads

What to do with those silly little decorative pumpkins:

We used non-drying modeling clay.  It’s kinda like a DIY Mr. Potato Head.  You can peel off the clay and start over anytime.

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Overly Ambitious Reader

Current list of books I’ve checked out of my local library with the overly ambitious hope of actually reading them:
Novel–The Other by David Guterson
Non-fiction–The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art by Lucy Lippard
Artist Biography–Edouard Vuillard (I think this book weighs at least 10 #!)
Children’s Book–When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary

La Patisserie 1899 [...]

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Pink cloud ideas

My brain is so scattered lately due to the combination of pregnancy hormones and caregiving.  Ideas and images float in and out of my brain all day.  I try to lasso them to my mind as I go about my errands.  As I drive down the road I try to hold on to that great [...]

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ArtsWalk report:

It was Fall ArtsWalk last night.  The semiannual art event in downtown Olympia.  I showed recent paintings at Batdorf and Bronson Coffeehouse–which will be on display throughout October.
I really loved the space I had to work with–the color of the walls played on the color in my paintings in a nice way and the overall [...]

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“No! I want to work with raw meat, right now!”

…what I overheard my daughter shouting in the kitchen last night.
She also recently asked Tony if he and I had playdates when we first met.
Having a 3 1/2 year old is incredibly challenging.  I’m constantly turning to parenting books for advice, as I often find myself quickly reaching the end of my parenting abilities.  My [...]

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Recent Paintings

I’m gearing up for my upcoming solo(!) show at Batdorf & Bronson.  (Sure it’s a coffeehouse, but in Olympia there are very few galleries or decent exhibition spaces.  B & B is a popular hangout and a good spot to have my work seen.)  The opening is Friday, October 2 at 5 PM during Olympia’s [...]

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Autumn texture

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Mogs Made Art: Paper Doll Fairies

We make a lot of mess in our house.  When we’re in the thick of a project, bits of paper, tape and glitter fly.  I sometimes wish we had a nice kitchen table (or kitchen for that matter), but then I might be stressed out by this sort of activity.  We always clean up when [...]

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Inspired by…Robyn O’Neil

Reading an old issue of The Believer, I came across a fun interview with the artist Robyn O’Neil.  Her giant graphite drawings amaze me in their scale and interest me in terms of their end of the world subject matter.  She is also a weather watcher, making daily notes on the weather conditions at her [...]

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