printing today

After I got home from work this afternoon I printed 3 limited edition series. One of the lino blocks needed some extra touch up carving, so I feel like it's great progressto fix that one AND get some successful, frameable prints of it. And scanned! Tommorrow- framing, Thurs/Fri- hanging in The Recyclery! Oh, and I stayed up WAY too late last night adding the first 3 to my etsy account.

framed!

I'm framing my linocuts to go up in the bike shop:-)

On a more exciting note, I got a call on Friday from a board member of a community theater group in Strongsville, Ohio. They're doing a play and want to use one of my cityscapes for a backdrop! Whoa! The guy was really nice (a community theater person in Ohio- how bad could he be?) and said that he'd Googled "cityscape" and found some ok stuff, then found my work and had the "wow" moment. well, schucks! He made my day! I wholeheartedly gave him permission to use my work and tweak it as neccessary for turning something 6x6 inches into 8x16 feet, and they'll give me a whole page in the program about me with contact info & all that! Holy advertising, Batman! I asked if he'd send me some pix of the set, and he agreed to that & offered to send me a DVD of the production! What a great start to me Friday!! He was as happy for my go-ahead as I was with the recognition! Wowie wow!!

And I sold a painting from etsy to an international buyer...

And I have a piece in the CAP Art Evening and Auction...

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Oh, and I applied to Froelick's Oregon at 150 landscape show. I submitted my Front Ave inspired cityscapes as well as some of the red toned landscapes I did a couple of Septembers ago inspired by the drive through Banks. I wrote a damn good artist's statement, if I say so myself, so I'm hoping that my 100% Oregon paintings make it:-) At the very least, it's a great opportunity to submit my work (and two kinds!) to a gallery I have much respect for.

bermuda!!

I'm stoked as all hell!! I just checked my e-mail & there's an inquiry from my etsy site (purplespideroconnor.etsy.com) asking if I could ship a piece (this one) to Bermuda or an alternate address in the UK! Holy frikkin' WOW!!

BERMUDA!!

the recyclery

I'm pretty stoked- I put up about a dozen cityscapes in The Recyclery, and I have to say it looks good! Ian- the proprietor- said that it makes his shop look better. Nice! I put the cityscapes where people can get right up to them & look at detail, and I'll put the bike-themed linocuts I've done in the past couple of weeks in the higher places. I printed everything tonight, and was pleasantly surprised that I had less clean up work to do than I'd thought. I did the clean up and have only one that needs more background taken out- it's too dark.

I'm having lunch with Jen Lees tomorrow to talk shop:-) She gave me some good info on getting things printed at Kinkos, and what papers to use, and what size envelopes (I'll print cards of the linos). I've been coming homefrom work & diving right into the linos for the past couple of weeks. I finally feel as though I'm taking enough time with it to make the second job for real. That's part of why I work part time. I have 2 part time jobs... ans one of them doesn't seem like work at all:-)