Doodling Tuesday goes 3-D

So this first picture isn't a doodle, but shows the nice contrast in weather and recreation from last weekend's art fair. Say yes to kites!
Okay, on to the doodle...


I'd like to showcase a three dimensional "doodle" piece that is a still a work in progress. Inspired by a vivid dream I had last month and the form of mussel shells(resting in the lower left corner of the picture above), I have begun a paper sculpture. It is a natural progression from the series of "book sculptures" I was making in North Carolina this Spring. Refer to this post and this post about those previous works. My dream was trying to the solve the problem of making the accordian fold (a rather inorganic structure) move organically out of an enclosed space. Ya know, your standard, run of the mill dream. Take THAT dream interpretors! Side note: I will be returning to the theme of accordion folds in a future post soon. Okay, back to this crazy dream...
so wouldn't you know it, nature's done it already. My coils of handwriting (torn out of my journals) are growing out of these "pods" that are shaped much like a mussel shell.

It can morph out of the wall as well. I'm not sure where it is headed; it's doing things of its own accord. I just hear one word in my head as I'm working on it: MORE. Perhaps these pods will start flourishing in the cracks of my ledges like fungi. Thoughts?

"How was the art fest, Jean?"

The art was packed in the car in the rain. Jean's art and what seemed like half of Home Depot's inventory is driven to the suburbs. In between the storms, tent was assembled in Cantigny Park. In the middle of the night, the tent blows down and poles bend and well, Jean doesn't get to enjoy her morning coffee. Jean's art is wrapped in a tarp and is more or less saved. Jean does not cry. Jean realizes the show must go on... with the tremendous help of someone whose name starts with an M and rhymes with cycle. The tent is rigged back together with more Home Depot products.
Jean sells some stuff, gossips about art fairs with her neighboring exhibitors, sweats some more in the humidity, does a doodle for Tuesday, wraps up her broken tent and goes to Jamba Juice on the drive back to the city.
The End.
Oh!, but here's the doodle:

Doodling Tuesday, unbelievably early!

This week's Doodling Tuesday arrives one day early because I'm running ahead of schedule on other things and have absolutely nothing else to do...said the artist, lying through her teeth. No, really, I'm getting all ready for the big fest this weekend and wanted to get my Tuesday doodle out to you before I forgot.
This week, I thought I'd "draw" on the parallel of my violently scratched out to-do lists and their relationships to my paintings. Draw your own conclusions.

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We sho' are special here at art fest prep headquarters with our new camera gadgets and such! Get ready for June 20-21! Details are a comin'! (What? You see paintings in the background that might be at the show? Shh!)

Doodling Tuesdays: Art Fest syle!

Art Fest prep is on the brain this week! I've been scheming ways to lay out my booth. This is a preliminary sketchy doodle from that. You can definitely see the potential, right?

New Paintings from May 2009

There has been a sparseness of blog posts of late and I still have to blame it on my wonky digital camera that reads: Lens Error: 115,0,0,215 when I try to turn it on.
That does not mean I haven't been busy with artsy happenings and haven't wanted to share them with you all. May has been a month of adjustment and preparation. I got settled back into my Chicago environs and have been sorting through the logistics of events ahead. Namely, the Cantigny Fine Art Festival happening in Wheaton, IL, June 20-21, 2009.

"Enjoy Father's Day weekend at Cantigny Park with The Cantigny Fine Art Festival. Established in 2002, the festival showcases juried artists from all across the United States. The artists are thrilled to display sculpture, fine art, and fine craft at the former estate of Colonel Robert R. McCormick on the park’s spacious front lawn, under a canopy of honey locust trees. Cantigny Park is, in and of itself, a horticultural masterpiece.

...Cantigny Park will present an opera concert on Saturday at 5pm in the festival area."

I will be exhibiting my artwork all weekend and have a few new pieces "fresh off the easel." Some new ones from the past few weeks are pictured here and will be for sale at the fest.

Doodling Tuesdays: a two-fer

You may have noticed that there was no doodle last Tuesday. Today, I bring you a doodle out of one of my handmade sketchbooks. Since it's on two pages, maybe it can count as a "two-fer" for the past two weeks?
My digital camera has been acting funny and I have felt completely at a loss for blog posts without access to images. What's a blog without some pictures? Thankfully, I can still share images through a scanner.