WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE FOUR LETTER WORD?

Ordinary Life - Portrait of Mom 1951

Mine would be S O L D.
And....THISONETOO:

Chorus Line 2

It's...SHOWTIME!!

Yessiree, boyds and girbils, it's the Art Show and the major if decidedly only reason your ever faithful art maven has been absent from her post. Since Monday last, we have put in around 8 to 10 hours every day with a memorable 12.5 hr stint hanging work until the BlackRock Resort - where the show resides - kicked us out because we were hammering too much.
Ah...the joys of setting up.
Opening night reception we had around 125 to 150 folks partee-aying down and sold 8 works to boot!
The first full day - yesterday with yours truly 'the Prez' and her fantastic coordinator 'the Hottie' at the helm for a 12 hr shift - sold 5 more.
ZING!! 13 in 15 hrs.
Can we claim success?
Indeed.
More pics you say? Certainment, mon chums!

I do not know that lovely smiling young man, but the enjoyment of the show is most evident.
And look!

By all that is arty.....a good pic of SURFER, DUDE.
Will wonders never cease.......ok, off to my 2nd 12 hr shift day and, yes, I did actually agree to doing that. It only gets 'strange' after about 7 hrs when me and 'Hottie' descend into weird mayhem of eerie laughter and coded saying banter.
......you just have to be there.
I promise an in depth report after a day of sleep......or two.

Entries for the Art Show

Just finished a 12 hr day to get it all done. Here we go:

ENTRY # 1

SURFER, DUDE

Spare Parts sculpture from found objects

ENTRY # 2:

BEACH WALK (after De Sorolla)

acrylic 24" X 24"

in handmade beach wood frame

ENTRY # 3

CHORUS LINE (2)

Ice Cream Ladies Series

24" X 24"

Ah...we are beat. It was the mad painting marathon since Friday evening that has me knackered. But we 'gots it' done; and that is one of the things that makes me look bemusedly at the artists who come to the art show blithering on about not being able to get anything done to put in the show. You can ALWAYS get things done but you have to put your shoulder to the wheel and be willing to pull late night duty.

Allrighty, that's enough 'Mumsy' talk.

I am looking forward to seeing what the 'peeps' bring in over the next two days. Someone I know says she's putting in something that resembles a limp penis with an afro.

Well, that's Art for you, isn't it......

NOT EXACTLY AS ADVERTISED

AND........here it is "Surfer Dude". You may notice it isn't movable. Well I learned that when you make 'movable' sculptures and think that you can willy-nilly use any old bits to make them with......it doesn't translate. The metal parts that made up the very cool, if I may say so, figures actually made them way too heavy to be able to turn up and down on the cams. No matter how many times you remake them.
The lesson for today is:
READ the instructions first.
Anywhatanidiotinahurryway, I just reconfigured it all into a standing sculpture on it's own.
Being as I still have 2 paintings to do and Monday is the drop off day.
Here's a close up of his face:

....ah boy....we're still lousy at taking pictures.....

Some things just don't change.

Come to the art show and see it in person. That'll do it. Black Rock Resort in Ucluelet, B.C. March 17 to 25th. 10 to 10 every day.

Whatever you do, don't look down.....don't look up either.....

There is no way to accurately describe the complete insanity of my life currently...... Remember that great plan down there in the last post of the fantastic 'automata' sculpture I was working on?
Well, we've rebuilt it 3 times now. AND remade the 'Surfer dude'. AND recut the cogs 4 times. AND run to the hardware store so often all the 'guys' know me by name now.
Add to this the fact I still need to paint 2 paintings. Icluding making the stretcher bars and stretch/prep of the canvas.
For the Artshow.
The day to hand in work is on Monday.
I'm on the 'intake' table.
From 10 am to 4 pm.
Then I have to interview 3 people for a coordinators position for the Art Society.
After which there's a special emergency meeting of the art society board. I'm Prez.
All I can add to this is that I broke my toe last night too.
Eesh.

The painting is a mystery. But I sure like it! It came from a blog called stephaniebeth.tumblr.com except when I went there to find out the title and artist - it was nowhere to be found.
Perfectly understandable in the current chaos of this time.

And 'spellcheck' isn't working.

Ah, Life is nothing if it isn't an adventure.

And Now For Something Completely Different....

Greetings, Planetary Cohabitors!
Ok, that's a bit weird - even by my standards - but it's a way to introduce my latest creative craziness....Automata. Automata is defined as : toys that move by hand cranking built on a series of rotating cams. (note:No batteries included!! There isn't even a slot to put them in!!) However those initial 'Toys' have morphed into a whole art form of it's own; I guess you'd say they are 'kinetic sculpture'. Up above is a simple illustration of what I'm going on about.
Here's another somewhat more complex and certainly 'sculptural' piece:

All this started by me wanting to create a special piece for the upcoming Art Show here in town and being as my 'robot sculptures' have been pretty popular I thought I'd make one of those and basically we morphed into turning it into a moving sculpture....hence the Automata shtick. Here's what started that little sideways move:

Ah, great screaming chihuahuas...what a miserable photo...anykodakisnotmyfriendway, it's a 'surfer dude' built out of found bits which lead me to creating this:

..the shark. The Shark. ( had to, had to) And for those of you not as coastal as I am, that's an old fishing lure along with bits of attitude by way of sawtooth hangers and the tip of a pizza server which I cut with my super duper brand new 'Aviator Snips' -( I am in LOVE with those)....ta da!
Yes indeed. The end product -we hope- will be a whole moving sculpture where the surfer dude goes up and down as the shark goes up and down and the bird...did I mention there's a bird too?....goes up and down all at different times.
Y-E-A-H.....that's the plan....speaking of which...here is the plan:

Now if any of you talented readers are so inclined to make one of your own I invite you to do so. All I ask is that you let me know and send me a pic. Hopefully you can take better pics than me.....which is probably a given.
The first Photo of Automata is a piece by Kazu Harada from a great website Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. http://www.cabaret.co.uk/
and the second photo is a piece by Wanda Sowry www.flickr.com/wandasowry
go get inspired!

FINALLY>>>>>a NEW site FOR MY ART!

Ok...We've been a busy little professional Artist...and also kinda gave up on the other site that was impossible for me to load up pics from my dial up situation and consequently had to ask the Gallery Guy to do it for me as if he has all the time in the world to do this Art Diva's bidding and finally got my large leather butt in gear and did it myself........
Anytakeabigbreathway, go to:
http://www.marlathirskart.blogspot.com/
There we are!
And some good things for your perusal.

The Painting is "Parade" by Harvey Dunnerstein. I like the extreme silliness. Naked cavorters and skeletons and a beat you can dance to.....yep, that's my kind of parade.