Café Society Art Opening
Come view artwork about coffee and travel, meet the artist and enjoy lovely snacks and drinks at Muse Café! It’s located on the corner of Montana and Harrison in Westwood at 3018 Harrison Ave.
The exhibition has original drawings for sale. Some in frames I’ve modified with paper mache — A MUST SEE!
I’m happy to share the night with pianist Ricky Nye!
Friday, March 15
5:30 – 7:30 pm — art opening reception
8:00 – 10:00 pm — Ricky Nye plays
As reference:
Café Society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century. Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915 — let's do it again in Westwood in 2024!
Valentine Couple’s Portraits!
Thank you to all the great couples that sat for portraits at A.R.T. Gallery.
My biggest concern was fitting 2 people on 1 sheet of paper, as I usually draw one person’s portrait at a time. And having enough time for drawing. I brought 9x12 size sheets instead of the regular sketchbook size and think I got some pretty great likenesses and had fun conversations! As far as timing I allotted 20 minutes a couple and was running behind so next time I’ll spread the spots out a bit. All in all a big success. Thankful for Sharon and Dave for being the models on my promo image!
It’s a Wrap!
I’m happy to have participated in (4) Holiday Art Shows this year. It was wonderful to meet many new people, talk about cats, paper mache and my art process and show off the paper mache cat cafe!
During the shows, I met some great folks who ordered custom art from me. Here are a few of these commissions:
Holiday Art Fairs
Come shop the Handmade Paper Mache Cat Cafe!
By popular demand by cat-lovers everywhere — I am proud to share the newest miniature cat cafe in Cincinnati. This project manifested itself after thinking of a way to present my paper mache work as an environment that I could share with people piece by piece. I’ll be showing the complete piece of art and each individual piece will be for sale until they are gone. Items available are cats, furniture, people and plants made of paper mache, wool rugs handmade with punch needle, and miniature fine art prints (framed in foam core). HMMP (hold my mod podge) while I get ready!
Go get your piece of the Cat Cafe at:
Market Bleu / Winter Quarter
Saturday, December 2, 2023
6 – 10 pm
Admission is FREE
Contemporary Arts Center: 44 6th St E, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Visionaries + Voices’ Holly Dazed
Friday, December 8, 2023
5 – 8 pm
Admission is FREE
V+V’s Northside Studio + Gallery: 3841 Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45223
Shop art from extraordinary artists from both of V+V’s studios, as well as community artists. Enjoy the exhibition and party!
Holiday Market and Artist Open House at Hellmann Creative Center
Saturday, December 9
11 am – 4 pm
Admission is FREE
Hellmann Creative Center: 321 W 12th St, Covington, KY 41011
Join us for a holiday market with craft vendors and an open house featuring resident artists of the Hellmann Creative Center! Do some holiday shopping from over a dozen local craft vendors, and take a look inside the artist studios while you're here. See you there!
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I’m excited to announce my Summer 2023 Surface Pattern Design Portfolio! It contains 3 new pattern collections: Dandelions, Pasta Tonight!, and Spring Chickens. This portfolio features the patterns that grew from each theme and the rationale behind choosing these subjects. See the unique color palettes built for the collections and the versatile patterns that can be used on a wide range of products. Included are mock-ups that help visualize the patterns in practical applications. These pattern collections are available to license now, and I am also available to work on assignment on custom projects.
Fox and the Hen illustrations
The direction for the project included drawing a fox and hen interacting with each other, and to specifically include drawings of a fox pouncing (on their prey) — if you’ve never seen this phenomenon — look it up because it is REALLY cool!
I had the opportunity to work on a project with an amazing graphic designer in Denver, Colorado. He needed drawings to use in developing the brand for a new brunch restaurant called “Fox and the Hen”. The restaurant concept was developed with Chef Carrie Baird of Season 15 Bravo’s Top Chef and Chef Michael Fox of Denver.
The direction for the project included drawing a fox and hen interacting with each other, and to specifically include drawings of a fox pouncing (on their prey in the snow) — if you’ve never seen this phenomenon — look it up because it is REALLY cool! I provided many drawings and different poses of the two. For the next phase he asked for breakfast item drawings they could use for the menu and website. This was great fun because well, breakfast is my favorite meal and mostly because I love to explore and research and keep on drawing until one thing leads to another.
I am delighted to see the resulting restaurant branding and how the designer integrated my line drawings with the uber colorful, fun yet sophisticated photography and design. Collaboration is a beautiful thing — please go see Fox and the Hen website to see what I’m talking about!