Art Night for Projects

Posted on April 24, 2014 by lksukany

The Art Night for April 2014 met and I am thinking this group needs a name – like Crunch and Create, Munch and Make, or Snack and Scheme. The night serves dinner and then space and time to work on a creative project.

M made chicken and vegetable fried rice and then baked chocolate chip cookies.

Mariel was the first arrival and continued her puppet making project for the Man and Bear musical puppet show by the Damsels in Distress.

J brought a Darth Vader coat rack that she wanted to touch up paint.

M.M. brought her beautiful beads and worked on a bracelet.

K and A came together, sat together, and worked on their projects together! K worked on a felt billfold, and A worked on sewing an image for her trading card group.

I worked on printing cards to send to Lucy Luton in England. I was one of the first three to email her for a contest, and she sent me some of her cards – so I wanted to send her some of my cards.

More pictures of the night!

Art Studio Series: Emily

Posted on April 17, 2014 by lksukany

Emily Wood is an artist in Arkansas. I know her from the Master of Arts painting program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She teaches at the Arkansas Arts Center, and is highly involved in the Arkansas artist community.

Her website is www.emilywoodart.com

Emily Wood’s Art Studio – Emily talks about her studio below.

“My studio is in the sun room at my house– it has tile floors and windows on 3 sides.”

“Besides being a little small and a mess, I love it! The lighting is great and I can open the windows when the weather is nice. This is also my dog, Turk’s ‘room’, so I am always picking dog hair out of my paintings!”

Enter a Drawing to Win a Chicken Painting

Posted on April 14, 2014 by lksukany

I am fundraising for the Walk for the Waiting event in Little Rock, Arkansas. There are over 4,000 kids in Arkansas’ foster care system on any given day. There are about 1,200 of these kids waiting for a foster family, including 500 that are waiting to find an adoptive family. Because of the shortage of families, nearly 250 kids will “age out” of the system this year and enter adulthood without having found a family.

Donate Now!

For every $20 you donate, you will get an entry into a drawing for one of two chicken paintings! When you donate – put “chicken painting” somewhere in the message, and I will enter your name (however many times) into the drawing. There will be two winners – one for each painting!

The drawing will be after the Walk for the Waiting event on Saturday, April 26, 2014 and I will contact and announce the winners and will deliver or mail the paintings.

Please consider donating to Walk for the Waiting to support foster children in Arkansas find their forever families. We are all in this community together.

Donate Now!

Best,

Lauren

Quick update: The winners were Beckie Sudduth and Niki Zimmerman – the names drawn out of a hat by Kelsey McCall and Ana Li Richardson.

Art Studio Series: Kelsey

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lksukany

Kelsey McCall is a student in the painting progam at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She works in her studio, which is a room in her home.

Kelsey McCall’s Art Studio – Kelsey talks about her studio below.

“I primarily do realistic figurative painting in oil. I’m working on a series of Rockwellesque paintings right now (one of which is on my easel).”

“My studio is a mess. Every once in a while I get overwhelmed with it and I try to clean and organize it all to perfection. But when I’m working I tend to create clutter and chaos around me so the cleanliness doesn’t last long.”

“I recently got a giant black-framed mirror, so now I don’t have to go to the bathroom to paint self-portraits.”

“So my studio is a nice place to work but also a work in progress.”

Death of an Artist

Posted on April 4, 2014 by lksukany

Yes, this may be a grave post, but as artist, I think about death. I don’t think about death necessarily in a depressed or creepy way, just about the thing itself as well as the customs and rituals around it.

I wanted to make my will and pick out my burial ground and headstone. The only thing I really have to leave to anyone is my art (paintings, drawings, prints, and books I’ve made with M). I think I would want my family to pick out what they want and the rest to be donated.

I found family buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Paris, AR and thought that could be a good place – it would connect me to someone and somewhere from a historical perspective. Honestly, I don’t know anyone who actively visits gravesides, so I don’t think it really matters where I’m buried because I don’t think anyone will visit the place.

Here were some family headstones I found.