a fair to remember!!

 most photos taken by my daughter emily.

i feel like i am slowly starting to come back to life after this past week and a half of prepping for my show and then participating in it. anyone who does art shows know how exhausting they can be! i confess that both sunday and monday nights i fell asleep on the couch before 8 pm and slept the whole night through!! my family room looks like a tornado hit it...hopefully tonight i can unpack and put away a little bit more!

my show wasn't as financially successful as i had hoped it to be but i learned sooo much again from prepping to set up and have made some good decisions for next year's show. i'm going to change out my whole booth to make it more "gallery" like...have more framed pieces and organize my prints way better. plus i'll have a lot more drawings finished to display as well.

i moved my booth location this year to a different block to see if it made any difference, which it didn't...but i so lucked out and got incredibly wonderful booth neighbors!! in fact i LOVED my neighbors, linda and ron sadon, who sold really awesome jewelry! and i was so grateful to see sooo many friends and family that stopped by to see me, plus a lot of people i knew from school, soccer, work and past clients.

my fabulous daughters and boyfriend helped me out so much again this year...i am super grateful for that!!

 

and so, all in all it was a wonderful and memorable experience...a tremendous amount of hard and exhausting work...but all well worth it!!

getting ready for the big show!

a lot of framing and preparing for the upcoming art fair this weekend in montrose. it's an exhausting process but i highly enjoy it. it's easy to sit behind a computer and just sell my art that way, it's a whole different energy being at these fairs...connecting with fellow artists around me, meeting people, being outside all day...just a very cool experience you can't get any other way! this year i'll be selling both my photographs and drawings. stop by if you're in the los angeles area, 3 blocks of wonderful art, music and yummy food, not to mention all the great shops and restaurants there too!!

 

fun opportunity!

 last week i received a fun opportunity to work with one of our top producing agents in our real estate office. she had a new 3 million dollar listing and asked me to take photos of it. wow...what an opportunity!! i was very excited and nervous at the same time, as i have never done this before and had never even taken indoor photos with my new camera! i learned so much in that one hour i took those photos and am pretty happy with the results! now i can hardly wait to see the brochure!

i am falling

 like a stone,

 like a storm

 being born again

 into the sweet morning fog.

~the morning fog by kate bush~

these photos were taken last saturday morning on my hike in the san gabriel mountains...cloudy, foggy and really cold!! the explosion of yellow wildflowers at the base of the mountain was pretty darn impressive!

this past weekend i was at an incredible/life altering lazaris workshop, so jos and i didn't get out at all into nature. by the time i got home on sunday evening i was depleted...in a good way, but i  had no energy to do an early evening hike. although the clouds were so beautiful it would have been super nice to catch the sunset!!

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

~Andrew Wyeth~ 

 just have the foreground to finish now and some touch up work left to do in the leaves.  I have a show coming up June 4th & 5th so my obsession with drawing is now on the back burner...ugh...as i have LOTS of framing to do!! but i am really looking forward to the art fair, it's always fun to get out and meet people and chit chat about art!!!

Staring into the beauty we can see, 

 we see the reflection of our own deep beauty, 

 our own perfect Self, 

 our own pure Silence, 

 like a snowy field in the highest mountains 

 that cannot be seen with human eyes alone.

Robert Rabbin

i highly recommend reading the full speech...you can read it here

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein


i still have a lot left to do, but it's progressing pretty fast now!!