MFA Corporate Connections Entry: Mind The Glass Mixed Media

I am very excited to have finished a mixed media artwork featuring a print of my Mind The Glass digital painting. The print used is a one of one limited edition print made via darkroom processing on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic Paper and framed behind non-reflective UV museum glass, which protects the print from photodegradation while appearing invisible (Thank you C A Fowkes Framing for providing me with the glass I needed with 20 minutes notice!). Found object glass and mirror shards (retrieved from an auto- and other glass sourcing and replacement business local to me, thank you Economy Glass) are affixed to the museum glass, and seemingly to the print itself, over top of the painted images of glass shards into the print, making them into real objects. The shattered glass spills out of the print and onto the frame (and also includes purchased craft crushed glass nuggets). I extended the  background of the digital painting print by painting it out onto the frame using acrylic paint, and am very pleased with how well I was able to match the colors. 

I have submitted this artwork along with a giclee print of Herman Goes Sailing for consideration to the Maryland Federation Of Art's upcoming Corporate Connections exhibition. 

07/24/2021 Working hard

Hi all. I have been working hard for a couple weeks now on a submission for Easton, Maryland (USA)’s Gateway Sculpture project. A 4-sided obelisk is to be erected featuring art from 4 Maryland artists printed on 5x25’ panels of LEXAN. The artwork is supposed to follow a theme of Maryland water/riverfront life and/or Essex itself. Mine features a Baltimore checkerspot coming in for a landing on a Black-eyed Susan (the MD state flower) whose petals are made in he map outline of Essex. The sun peeks out from clouds through which a skipjack (MD state boat) trawls. A kayaker paddles below. 

One thing I’ll mention here that I’m not making a point of in my submission, because I don’t feel it’s the forum for an agenda of mine, is that I very deliberately make the kayaker, who represents a generic “outdoors-person,” non-white and most probably non-male. The PFD hides other gender cues, and the figure could be either a woman, long-haired man, or any other gender. Studying and working in wildlife biology, the stereotype of activities like kayaking, canoeing, boating, hiking, camping, and hunting as white male pursuits was pervasive. I therefore sought to normalize one not meeting those criteria by placing such a person in my artwork, which, if chosen, has the potential to be seen by 35,000 people daily. Fingers crossed!

Attention Email Subscribers!

The foretold end of Feedburner email is apparently to come to pass in mid-August instead of July. Right now I do not have plans to migrate to a dedicated email service like Mailchimp or ConstantContact. I will continue to post to the blog probably on a (I hope) at least weekly basis. You can also follow along via Facebook (@Fanfare.themed.art) or Instagram (@fanfare_themed_art). Thank you for coming along for my ride through the orchard. I hope you stay to play. 

Sincerely,

julie

Golden Hour’s Willow Paintbrush—Completed

 

07/9–11/2021 Camping

Time for my annual camping trip to South Sterling, PA in the Pocono mountains. Here is a photo of my I’m-progress plein air painting. I’ll have to finish it at home. Ran out of time and it started to rain….

Here Be Orioles Fans

 12x24” acrylic

Drifter

Reworked my first palette knife painting, evening out the planes of the water. I’m much happier with it now. 

12x16” acrylic

UPDATE: Mobile version

So I was wondering why I can’t find this on Google and did some poking around. I thought I’d had it indexed but I guess not? I swear I started the process and then maybe there were some things to fix and I did but didn’t restart the process. Well, now I have so we’ll see. 

In any case one strike against me was the lack of a mobile version of the blog—FIXED! The problem is that it doesn’t show everything available in the web version like the keyword cloud and archive. SO, if you want those, you’re going to have to click in “web version” at the bottom of the page. 

As for the feedburner issue, I’m confused. I continued to get emails so I’m not sure what’s going on with that. 

Custom floater frames

Ineeded to make some custom floater frames for these paintings because the lip of the frames cut off the edge of the canvas, which was needed for the sake of composition. = fun with my Dremmel!

Two Sisters, 5x4” acrylic

First palette knife painting

Unfinished? Maybe should smooth out planes. Used so much paint tho, loathe to add more. Love the texture. Was so much fun! Please send $$$ for paint!

MFA Rising Tides Entry + Huh!

So… I got an An Apple A Day email last night with my latest post that said that wasn’t going to happen anymore. They said July, so I though they meant the beginning of July. 🤷🏻‍♀️ In any case, the point is I was told to expect it to stop amd wanted to warn you and invite you to follow me on Instagram and Facebook. 

In other mews, I finished and submitted this 10x14” acrylic painting to the Maryland Federation of Art’s “Rising Tides” call for art. The theme is the effects of sea level rise on Annapolis. My painting depicts the iconic McGarvey’s Oyster Bar & Restaurant as operating from its second story a(and having added an additional story and connected buy a pedestrian bridge to a neighboring block of buildings that has become topped with a green area park. Parking is by boat only and piers with slips now jut out from each building. It was a lot of fun and I’m excited to see if it is chosen. I’m really in love with it and it’s doggo, colorful people. And impressionist boars. 

Second Story: McGarvey’s Dockside Dining By The Park

10x14” acrylic

Detail

Finished—Impatien Tiger

 14x16” mixed media (acrylic, beads)

Welcome to July—End of Feedburner

If you happen to be checking here because you’ve not received your daily email, there are two reasons for that. 

• Firstly, since the end of the year of daily apple posts, I have been taking a bit of a break. Posting daily was so good for me though that I am going to try to continue to post regularly, if not rigidly every single day. 
• Secondly, FeedBurner, the widget that brought viewers daily emails, has changed and dropped that functionality. If you’d still like to keep abreast of my work without checking here, I suggest following me on Instagram or Facebook, as it’s very likely whatever I post here will show up there as well. 

In the past week or so I’ve been working on some different things and also getting some things framed and hanging (freeing up space!) I’ll post those as separate posts for admin reasons. 

Thanks for following me thru this point and/or for just checking in and checking out my site.