Saturday, January 14, 2012
Next Swingin' at the Sage: February 18th! Extra sweet social dance
Friday, January 13, 2012
A Few Art Pieces
So you know we have a studio right in downtown Paonia. It is on the ground level of a former bookstore, and we love it. It is around the corner from the Blue Sage, across from Don's Market, and an easy walk for me to the elementary school for my job. The building is for sale, so more on that if and when there is movement on that. In the meantime we struggle to get there and put hours in, what with farm and chickens, dance business, other political involvement in the valley, my job and all the social opportunities.
We have been managing it some, and here are a few of my early pieces, just taken with our point and shoot. When we can get some higher quality photos, and when I can produce some higher quality work, I will post them on the MarkWillsonArt blog, but since I hadn't posted here for awhile, I thought I'd put them up.
This is Mt. Jumbo, or Jumbo Mountain, I'm not entirely sure which. Everyone just calls it Jumbo. The sketch for this painting was done from our hayfield.
This is untitled. I think the sketch might have been done on a bike trip we took up Back River Road, but I'm not sure. I have lots of sketches.
This is Lambourne Mountain and her companion, whose name I can't retrieve from my foggy brain at the moment. I have many sketches of them. They dominate our landscape. They of course have snow on them now.
Also a view from our hayfield, looking off toward the Raggeds. This is version one. I have since finished it. I will get a picture soon.
All of these pieces are gouache on paper and they are smaller than I typically work. I am not super duper happy with them yet, and was thinking today I need to start working bigger to loosen myself up a bit. I'll keep documenting.
Margot was inspired by an exhibit the Blue Sage is having this month. They had a call for entries into a History Exhibit, so Margot put her thinking cap on and came up with a fabulous idea for a series and came up with an even more fabulous painting. She entered it, it got in, and Annette at The Sage asked her to make more of the series. So I have made her some cool wooden panels to work on, and she is plugging away. We are talking to a local photographer about getting some professional shots of these, and we will post as soon as we have some. Get ready DeEtta, these are going to knock your socks off.
Other News
Margot is struggling and jumping through hoops to get her teaching certificate and sub certificate for Colorado. They are making it extremely difficult. We still don't know when that ordeal will be over.
The chickens are doing great and are making lots of eggs. We are averaging around 18 to 20 a day, with a record 25 one day! We have no trouble selling them, and actually eat a fair number ourselves, but we have been buying organic feed of late, which is awfully spendy, so we are not really making any money on it, but we love our girls, and the eggs are exquisite!
It is very cold! Takes some getting used to, and also appropriate dress. I get fooled in the morning by how bright and sunny it is, and go out under dressed to check on the chickens and the barn cats, and yowchy it is biting! Riding my bike to and from work can also be interesting, but I actually do have good gear for that.
The job is good. The kids are getting to know me and I am learning the ropes. It is every day, and actually provides a good anchor to build the rest of my day around.
Our third second Saturday social dance is tomorrow. December's turn out was spectacular and surprising! We hope the momentum continues. It was great fun and everyone was very enthusiastic. We built a short choreography (well, Margot actually did) that we have been working on with some students that we will be performing at the dance.
We just got a DVD of the Christmas show we were in. It was great to see all the acts! We are going to try and isolate our number and download it as a file and post it here. That one we choreographed together.
Thanks for keeping up with our adventures. All our best to all,
Mark
We have been managing it some, and here are a few of my early pieces, just taken with our point and shoot. When we can get some higher quality photos, and when I can produce some higher quality work, I will post them on the MarkWillsonArt blog, but since I hadn't posted here for awhile, I thought I'd put them up.
All of these pieces are gouache on paper and they are smaller than I typically work. I am not super duper happy with them yet, and was thinking today I need to start working bigger to loosen myself up a bit. I'll keep documenting.
Margot was inspired by an exhibit the Blue Sage is having this month. They had a call for entries into a History Exhibit, so Margot put her thinking cap on and came up with a fabulous idea for a series and came up with an even more fabulous painting. She entered it, it got in, and Annette at The Sage asked her to make more of the series. So I have made her some cool wooden panels to work on, and she is plugging away. We are talking to a local photographer about getting some professional shots of these, and we will post as soon as we have some. Get ready DeEtta, these are going to knock your socks off.
Other News
Margot is struggling and jumping through hoops to get her teaching certificate and sub certificate for Colorado. They are making it extremely difficult. We still don't know when that ordeal will be over.
The chickens are doing great and are making lots of eggs. We are averaging around 18 to 20 a day, with a record 25 one day! We have no trouble selling them, and actually eat a fair number ourselves, but we have been buying organic feed of late, which is awfully spendy, so we are not really making any money on it, but we love our girls, and the eggs are exquisite!
It is very cold! Takes some getting used to, and also appropriate dress. I get fooled in the morning by how bright and sunny it is, and go out under dressed to check on the chickens and the barn cats, and yowchy it is biting! Riding my bike to and from work can also be interesting, but I actually do have good gear for that.
The job is good. The kids are getting to know me and I am learning the ropes. It is every day, and actually provides a good anchor to build the rest of my day around.
Our third second Saturday social dance is tomorrow. December's turn out was spectacular and surprising! We hope the momentum continues. It was great fun and everyone was very enthusiastic. We built a short choreography (well, Margot actually did) that we have been working on with some students that we will be performing at the dance.
We just got a DVD of the Christmas show we were in. It was great to see all the acts! We are going to try and isolate our number and download it as a file and post it here. That one we choreographed together.
Thanks for keeping up with our adventures. All our best to all,
Mark
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