springy bits and new work for the shop...

Good morning to you,

On Tuesday I had a pretty good day in the studio and am looking forward to more time in there today. I'm getting a small springy collection of new watercolor pieces together {plus some new art cards, a couple larger pieces, and a few surprises} to have a shop update early on Monday, May 11. I will be participating in the new Poppytalk Handmade Market Paper Pops! {yay!} which also begins Monday. I'm excited to be part of that again.

} Yesterday my Vegetarian Times May/June issue arrived and I was thrilled to see the photography of Jen Gotch featured in one of the pieces! She did the styling in another piece too. You should pick it up just for that reason, not to mention there are some amazing recipes for asparagus; vegetable smoothies; and a strawberry ice cream strata {pictured here} that I must make!

} My friend Christy is having a giveaway of one of her beautiful letterpress garden journals, but hurry, it ends Friday morning!

till soon when I hope to return with more peeks of new work,
H

bits of joy

items found while digging around the garden yesterday

Good morning,

I hope you had a bright weekend! We had a yummy little brunch yesterday and then worked in the garden all afternoon, M. planting peppers and I weeding. I also made a couple baguettes that tasted more scrumptious than their appearance would lead one to believe.

I'm working on my find joy list...
one. Spend at least a few moments each day working in the garden. {Maybe I can get the weeds more under control!}
two. Make bread at least once a week. {I realize I miss it when I haven't made bread for weeks!}
three. Be sure to hug my husband and each of our three cats at least once daily. {That shouldn't be hard to do, pretty much do that already, but you know, those crazy busy days can sometimes slip by. ;)}

} I really wish I had some polaroid film or could still get it around here, so I could take part in this.
} I think there's lots of beauty here.
} M. and I took more photos of his project this weekend so hopefully this week I'll share the upstairs and exterior with you.

alrighty, hbm!
H

happy weekend

I took this photo yesterday of bulbs we have blooming but I don't remember what they are called. We call them the 'spikey things blooming by the studio'.

howdy,

It's a beautiful Sunday here, I'm so happy the sun is SHINING! We've had so much rain and greyness lately, the sun feels like an old friend I've not seen in a while.

Here's some finished installation shots of the Incredible Print Show at artstream, with just a few of my many faves and a peek of mine...

I hope you're having a nice weekend, are you? I need to decide what to make for Sunday brunch. What did you have?

see you soon,
H

tulip petals and raindrops

Today in the studio I wrote pages and pages of thoughts and haiku poems. Imagery seems to be pouring forth in the form of words rather than drawings for me right now. Maybe it's all this rain! And it all caused me to remember a poet, named Gary Short, whom I met in 2003 during an artist's residency at VCCA. Today I found a hand-written poem of his that he gave me at the time and then I came across this poem online called The Collector. The last stanza is just amazing to me.

} Incredible Print Show opens tomorrow with a reception Saturday! Susan has been uploading shots of the installation. Works will become available online tomorrow as well. I'm really thrilled to be part of this show!
} Jan wrote a piece about IPS here too, thanks Jan!
} Tomorrow marks my last day at habit. I'm sad about leaving but excited to see what's in store there for the rest of the year. I posted daily and feel like I've accomplished something in doing so and that feels good. Thank you Emily & Molly for the opportunity, it really has meant alot to me.

Have a great weekend,
H

listening rock

"listening rock", graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, letterpress blind embossing on paper. framed 12 in. x 13 in.

Hi,

I just got home from a teaching day and plunked myself down. Whew. I started looking at some images of the work I will have in the Incredible Print Show at artstream and thought I'd offer a little bit of what I was thinking when I made this piece.

"Listening rock" is about the friend, or the one that is always there for you, ready to listen; they are a listening rock. For the watercolor portion in the bottom, I looked at the shapes and tones of some small stones that belonged to my grandmother, and glaze drippings that i would collect as a girl from my dad's kiln shelves. The hovering ovoid shape is made of layers of colored pencil {inspired by the paper I keep on my work table for sharpening my pencils} surrounded by letterpress embossed brackets. I use the brackets to allude to sound, quietness or listening as I did in my {whisper} series. The last element I added to the piece was the tiny letterpress ornament in the top left.

For the Incredible Print Show I decided I would incorporate various media together including letterpress printing to make original, one-of-a-kind pieces. There is so much variety in the show it seems, I think it will be awesome.

Thank you for listening, :)
H