In honor of the annual Soiree coming up, I’m going to be your typical artist & make a post about the show… about a year later. Eeek. I promise to be better!
So here it is the BIG piece I made last year;
Join us this year for the 3rd year of spooky, creepy, beautiful art, drinks, costumes, and more! Details below on the sick poster by Craig Horky.
It’s an evening you can’t beat, in my opinion.
I have worked for Sandhill Crane Vineyards for 5 years this September, this will be my third time showing my art. I am so blessed to work for a place that I am passionate about, and even more so to be able to put my other passion on their walls.
My art will be going up January 17th, and 20% of all sales from my art will go to the Aware Shelter in Jackson MI. 1 in 3 women experience physical or sexual violence in their life. The Aware shelter strives to eliminate domestic and sexual violence while promoting social change and empowering survivors by offering shelter & services to help a cause that not only has effected my life, but so many other women that I know.
I will be using bright and vibrant colors to bring life to the walls of the winery at such a gloomy time! Almost all my pieces will have a theme for one of our biggest upcoming festivals, Wine & Wool on January 28th.
The first year that I worked this event I thought all my bosses were over exaggerating about how busy, and full of life the winery would be in the middle of the winter. They were not. I’m hoping that my pieces are a hit with this crowd, that I know appreciate another artists craft. I cant wait to show again, and I absolutely cannot wait to donate to the Aware shelter!
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There’s something about being asked to make a piece of art for a little soul. For a little baby that will get to look at something I made for, years. It makes me so happy, it’s truly inspiring. Marcy, a friend of mine needed art for her sweet angels room, she said she wanted elephants, blues, and golds. This is what I came up with;
I hope her sweet girl looks at this for years to come, and maybe even feels inspired from them. They were made with all the love and good vibes.
I’m blessed with a day job I enjoy going to everyday. I work at Sandhill Crane Vineyards, and we are apart of the Southeast Michigan Wine Trail. This wine trail puts on events to bring customers to all the wineries on our trail over the course of a weekend- Pioneer Wine Trail, Art Along the Trail. My idea for this was to rangle all my talented staff and their art to show for the entire month of April, and what do you know it worked! Not only were my bosses cool enough to let me run wild with this idea, but they also ran a people’s choice award where our customers could vote for their favorite piece of art, and they awarded the top two a $50 prize. The day I took down all the art, I also got to tally the votes, it was wild how many participated, myself and one of my co workers won, and three of our staff members tied for third.
My pieces ‘Wounds in Spring’ inspired by all the new I felt coming into my life. Accompanied by Rumi.
I also had two smaller pieces ‘Live’ and ‘Feel’ we live by the sun and feel by the moon. I never get sick of this concept, and painting sun and moon inspired pieces. I used the flowers from my big piece to tie it all together.
I saved this window pane from my aunts barn, along with a couple others. This was the first one I painted on. I wanted to represent day going into the night of darkness, then while researching ‘creepy romance’ I came across this poem by Cosondra Sjostrom. It fit perfectly. ‘Your absence would release all of the darkness inside of me’
‘Princess’ A Moment in Time. I always like to mix it up a little, and add a collage or some other form of mixed media that isn’t paint. I found these bits and pieces from the array of magazines I save, first finding the night piece on top, and then the girl, everything kind of flowed together after that. I love how it turned out.
‘The Witch’ the first piece I painted for the show, I love the female figure. I’m not sure what struck this inspiration, I knew I wanted a witch, and just ran with it.
‘Her Compass’ while researching what kind of witch I wanted to paint, I came across across a witches compass, I thought it was super creepy, and cool. I also saved this old frame from my aunts collection of stuff she didn’t want, and it fit perfectly.
Halloween is easily my favorite holiday, I was beyond excited when I was contacted to do this show, and it was a great turn out, with impressive creepy art. I just hope every year there happens to be a show I can be a part of. I love seeing what this side brings out of artists.
special thanks to Kaiti McDonough for all her hard work in making this happen, and to Grand River brewery for hosting.
‘Wow it’s what I pictured, but couldn’t describe. You just get it.’
What higher compliment could I possibly receive? My heart is overwhelming warm that I could capture exactly what she wanted for a piece that will be displayed on one of the most important days of someone’s life.
I painted a yin and a yang, each side representing the couples favorite color, the trees represent each of them coming together, rooting into each other. I put the green in the middle where they meet, to represent this. I was told the family on both sides love water, & are always around it, so I this is where I drew the color for the base. The antlers came from the brides reception inspiration, but I painted it to kind of hold everything together.
Three years ago I made my dear friend a painting for her birthday of her sweet pooch Luna! Just like Luna has helped her through hardships, she’s done the same for me. Watching how much my she loves her best friends, makes me so antsy and incredibly excited for the day I have my own pup. My heart feels over joyed to give her a gift that brings her such happiness!
Well she didn’t want the newest, ditsy, adorable, member of the family feeling left out, so here’s Ollie!
Just like most things I’ve done, I never thought I would be painting pooches! I truly love how they turned out, and the the joy it brings to my friends face just makes it all that more sweet.
I love love love doing custom work! From this message-
‘I don’t have so much as theme ideas but color schemes. (I can give you paint chips for a reference idea)
My bedroom is Dark purple, black and silver. I like peacocks, lace, skeleton keys, cameras and makeup..haha
p.s. Your work is beautiful’
came this piece that ended up being one of my favorites to date!
We’ve all seen it, or own one, a generalized piece of ‘art’ from here or there, whatever store it is, someone else surely has it too. Well not this piece, well not anymore that is. Before and after.
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