Art Show Opening Next Week

My next art show is opening next week. I'll be showing my etchings and the embroidery series - there's one more finished one but I want to debut it at the show so no sneak peaks here!
It's a group show with two other fabulous local artists. I'm getting excited!

 

I also cranked out two new small linoleum prints to sell as cards, and may get a third done before the show. If so, the design will be a surprise. ;)  Here are the two I have ready:

 

Not all the detail comes out in the scan, as the embossing is an important part of the images. So these need to be seen in person.

I spent today getting labels and displays figured out, and generally getting pumped. :)

Portrait the Fourth

This one is of a friend, from a few years ago. Aww he looks so young ^_^

Once again, 18x24 inches hand embroidered on unbleached muslin.

Portrait #3

I'm not quite sure if this is finished, but I've moved on to the next one so for now I'm going to say that it is.

Embroidered portrait of my mother and cousin, 18x24 on unbleached muslin.

Embroidered Trio

I finished the second piece in the series of embroidered portraits I'm working on!

For most of the graffiti in the background I used an old shirt (yay recycling), appliqued using my sewing machine I got for christmas. The rest is hand embroidered.

I'm currently working on #3.

Print Swap! Pt. 2

I received the lovely box of amazing prints (it's actually been a few weeks now...) which I had been waiting impatiently for since I sent off my box of prints to the Pussy Cat Press Print Exchange back in September, which I posted about here . I am blown away by the prints I received, I want to frame them all and cover my walls with them. :)

I said I would post the print I contributed to the exchange when it was all over, so here it is.

9x12'' linoleum print, "On/Off"

In other news, I was working on some quilting-type stuff for a while. Everything I've made so far though is practice and will end up as garbage. I'm taking a break from that (and my other couple projects..) to work on a series of reduction lino cuts of sunsets. I've never done reduction prints before now, and it's an interesting thing to try to wrap my brain around. Kind of like stencils but with completely blind registration.

Embroidered Selves

I finished this right before the art show a few weeks ago, just in time to slip it in. It's hand embroidered, 18x24 inches on unbleached muslin.

My intention is for it to be the first in a series of embroideries. My brain has already moved on to trying to wrap itself around quilts, though, so it might be a while...

Prints Are Done!

I finally finished all the intaglio prints I've been working on since January, just in time for the art show I'm in next week at Thread Space. :)

The prints: