how it all started
Weeks and weeks ago I started with a pink bra with raspberry trim....The very beginning of the bra for Cups Full of Hope..... the transition was quite amazing as I got farther and farther along in the project.
As soon as I originally heard about this project I knew I wanted a pink bra painted in cerulean blue. I could SEE it:)
Cups Full of Hope
#59 Mariposa Azul is my design
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some new rocks
A friend captured some images last weekend when I was wading around in the Pennsylvania creekbed looking for rocks for some more paintings, making stacks of rocks that were coming home with me. I spent some of my growing up years wading these streams, and it was good to come home.
it's raining leads, hallelujah.........
I got up a little early this morning (which for me is BEFORE 5 am) to see what had happened overnight after my first introduction yesterday as a new manufacturer on TODL (Trade Only Design Library, Inc) through one of their email blasts. I am delighted to say that the leads and contact information are flowing in, and I am busy in my home studio/office right this minute drafting new information to go out to prospective buyers and clients to introduce my work in a hardcopy mailing. These introductory packets often become the basis for a consultant or designer to build a file on a manufacturer or artist, and these leads allow me to follow up and offer information to professionals who are always specifying new projects.
If you would like me to forward you a copy of this introductory email in which my work was featured, please just shoot me an email to judith@judithheartsong.com and you can share in my excitement at this really great feature!
A lot is happening in the studio, I got all three Stacked Stones paintings photographed by Frank Dene, a tremendous photographer and teacher, and easily the most professional person I have ever worked with in getting high resolution images of my work. Those high resolution images will allow me to print giclees and notecards.... coming soon!
I managed to get out of the studio long enough to buy new canvases for more paintings, one 40 x 40 that I already have a gorgeous, heavy frame for will be another stacked stones painting based on river rocks I picked up in that Northeast Pennsylvania stream I was wading in last weekend. I am adding additional coats of gesso to the 40 x 40 canvas and also bought 3 - 12 x 36's for a smaller take on a new set of stacked stones.... along with some tiny 6 x 12's just for fun. (I will have to start sorting through my collection of rocks.) A friend living in San Diego emailed last night to say that my rock collecting was finally paying off:)
I am having so much fun with this new series and look forward to seeing where it will take me.
you can always learn something new
The Maryland Small Business Development Center offered a workshop yesterday, held at VisArts, and I signed up to attend and put a note on my studio door that I was at the conference. More than 100 people attended and it was a great morning of some reinforcement of things I already knew.... and some great new ideas. I spoke to several people who are trying to manage debt caused by their businesses, and I am grateful that I only ever spend some of what I make in my business. The workshop was a great investment of my time and I look forward to seeing what more I can learn!
