Sunlight Cafe

I did it! I went to Sunlight Cafe last night at 9:30pm and hung up some art! I had help from my great friends Amy Chinn, Deb Cooper and Sarah Bear. We were still hooking and wiring at 8:30. It felt odd to wake up with no paintings in my room, or the urgency to get quickly to painting. I was actually dreaming of stacked canvas and paint boards. Like I could see them behind my closed eye-lids.

Yesterday was such a spaz. I was still not done with at least 4 pieces. I literally painted for 30 minutes at a time in-between Ruby's choir performance at Seattle Center at 11:00, dropping and picking her up from a birthday party 2:00-5:00 and dropping Wylie off at a basketball game at 4:00. I was a freak. I am a freak. I painted an entire piece in 30 minute increments while driving all over the city. Today I feel tired, a little hung over from the beers I gulped down, and very, very strange thinking about the people eating brunch with my art. I am seriously worried one might fall down on someones head.

"Alive" acrylic, pencil, collage   Not quite finished with this yet actually, needs one more layer or two.          18"x24" (i think)

Alive 

I live in a house full of petals and paint. 

and there is a daily paper 

grown over with green grass

  and painted orchards with daddy-long-legs all around. 

I drape pain in fabric and wash it out with titanium white. 

I pencil over parts and spread it out on a large flat story board.

I keep sparkly objects in a bin. 

I am strawberry flavored.

 I am damp earth.

Coral pink is how I keep it.

Today's the day

I am hanging my artwork for the first time. (At Sunlight cafe) I feel funny.

art journal work 

acrylic, ink, pencil

I love my art journal and I want to teach a class. And I will. I will start an art journaling group.

Some stuff

"Yoyo"   mixed media

"Owl Eyes"       acrylic, collage, pencil on canvas

2011

Theo Ellsworth Imaginary School Artfest 2012

"Imaginary School" with Theo Ellsworth rocked my free world!

First we needed a mind technology powered Disbelief Suspension Suit. 

It protected us against non-believers.  My suit is made of leaf vine. My wings are made of branches and there are little magicl charms hung all about them My helmet has kaleidoscope glasses. I easily disguise as flora or fauna. I shuffle when I walk, kind of slide or shuffle like Sigmund the Sea Monster does.

Then we created a portal so that we could travel to our own world. We needed the suit in this world. Now we make the portal to travel between the worlds. 

My portal was through the deep paths of a forest, and draped with web

We were working with a folded piece of thick paper. We cut ourselves out, opened the "portal"

And then placed us (glued) onto the opposite page after tracing the portal so we were in the correct spot to go back when it was time to leave the world we were now in. Our real world.  Mine was weird.

 It has giant weird mushroomy things and webs with moonbeams and feathers hanging down, and little creatures like snails and fairies and ....well, I'm still not done with it. Then you color it in! Someday.

This really happened in April. Not March as the post suggests. I did a naughty thing and deleted what was here before and inserted this one, because I like things to be in order. Time order. But it's really just silly. 

Mindy Lacefield Artfest 2012

Gosh golly I love art fest!
It is one of the best things in this whole giant world and I am going to miss it when it goes.....
All of my classes were epic.

Mindy Lacefield....
personal marks, and favorite colors

I just woke up

I just woke up. I was dreaming I was stuck. I dreamt I got a bike and road away occasionally. I lived in two worlds. I ate a lot of green food, and wore feathers in my hair. My bike had bells. I also collected stones and shells and used them as tools to remind myself that I was an earthling with wings. I'm going to write a book.

"Homes" by Sylvan Bourgette

- 14" x 17" acrylic and pencil on paper  

Art Journal Work. I did this wild thing and painted girls. Women. Whatever. It is weird because I usually do not. I want to go to another country. And I want to have a larger home space to work in.