Keep Austin Bizarre Bazaar

Hi! I will be showing new and old work this weekend, December 18th through the 21st, down at Fiesta Gardens during the Keep Austin Bizarre Bazaar.

Here is the info:

There will be ...

* Live Music
* Over 100 Vendors
* Full Bar

* FREE Admission - Fiesta Gardens
* FREE Parking
* Heated Circus Tents

YES! You heard right! HEATED Circus Tents.

Come Support the Austin Arts!

This is a 4 day event!
The event will take place Dec 18th - 21st
Fri and Sat from 11am - 12pm
Sun and Mon from 11am - 10pm

With an atmosphere true to the life of Austinites, the holiday shopping event will feature over 60 local artists and small businesses housed under multiple heated large circus tents, with a further 40 artists outside on “vendor row” selling unique gifts and fine, hand crafted items. In addition, there will be tribal and improvisational dance performances, fire spinners, djs, circus acts and resident musicians who play while patrons shop.


You can find me at a corner booth near one of the main entrances. Love to see you there! New work will be posted here very soon.

Cheers and Happy Holidays!
-Jayne

Postcard Art Show, June-July 09

"my pet wasp". mixed media on handmade paper.



"flight of the hoverbees". mixed media on handmade paper.

Through the month of June I participated in a wonderful exchange between artist friends, both Nationally and Internationally, from Twitter. 33 artists in all, we sent each other original postcards of our art. I have since found myself developing new ideas using this medium that I am expanding on further in my current artwork.

I began with making handmade paper for the project. I had wanted to do this for awhile, and this project seemed the perfect way to experiment. How the paper turned out determine how I wanted to present my collages. I decided on using b&w photographic images from an old photography encyclopedia, mixed with original drawings drawn on tracing paper and collaged on the card as well. I sometimes drew on the actual card in ink, and used ink and gouache to enhance the tracing-paper drawings.

Each postcard is approx 3 1/2"x5 1'2" in size, and made from pencil, ink, gouache & mixed media on handmade paper. My theme generally involves humans interacting with an environment based entirely on insects, rodents and birds that match the scale of humans. In some, humans actually become part of the environment in the form of plants, in others they are able to interact peacefully, and in others they work to have some form of control over the insects, rodents and birds.


"hide & seek". mixed media on handmade paper.




"food for thought". mixed media on handmade paper.




"flight of the ladybugs". mixed media on handmade paper.




"evolution". mixed media on handmade paper.



"but why? asked the boy...". mixed media on handmade paper.




"a silver bird nests here". mixed media on handmade paper.




"and they talked of many things...". mixed media on handmade paper.




"a bronze bird guards my heart". mixed media on handmade paper.




"they both craved her attention". mixed media on handmade paper.




"and so she finally conquered her fears". mixed media on handmade paper.




"sea urchin". mixed media on handmade paper.




"remote control spider". mixed media on handmade paper.




"playmates". mixed media on handmade paper.




"nesting". mixed media on handmade paper.




"my new best friend". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the burden". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the bather". mixed media on handmade paper.




"tending her garden". mixed media on handmade paper.




"something old, something new". mixed media on handmade paper.




"she decided to go stag". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the sunflower". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the storm". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the reckoning #2". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the reckoning". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the moonflower". mixed media on handmade paper.




"wonderment #2". mixed media on handmade paper.




"waltz of the beetles". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the wonderment of it all". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the tightrope walker". mixed media on handmade paper.




"the teaparty". mixed media on handmade paper.

Selected Metal Pieces: March-May09

"Leaf". steel. approx. 12" x 8"


Shaped steel pieces made for hanging on the wall outside or indoors. Patterned after the bite marks found on a leaf I found while hiking in Yosemite National Park (see final drawing in last post).



"Bite Marks". steel. approx. 24" x 10"






"Flower". steel. approx. 12" x 8".

Selected Drawings March-May09

"Bird and bee". ash, ink and pencil on paper. 10" x 12".


All of the drawings with ink and ash began with the process of throwing wood ash and salt water on paper to create organic patters that I then inked in. Washes of ink were followed by hours of tiny pencil lines, creating "topographic" patterns drawn closer or further apart depending on the hue of the ink wash. You can see a detail of this below in "Scattered Thoughts", which is one of the largest versions of the drawings. The smaller drawings started out as topography drawings as well, but I then inked various animals and insects on top. I loved the idea of creating my own "maps" or "worlds", so to speak...



"Scattered Thoughts". Ash, ink and pencil on paper. 3'x 2'.

Detail 1:


Detail 2:





"Curiosity". Ash, ink and pencil on paper. 12" x 10"




"Brain Mapping #2". Ash, ink and pencil on paper. 12" x 10".




"Nesting Birds". ash, ink and pencil on paper. 6" x 4".




"Mice". ash, ink and pencil on paper. 8" x 6".




"Ladybugs". ash and ink on paper. 12" x 4".




"Butterflies". pencil on paper. 6" x 4".




"leaf". pencil on paper. 4" x 6".

Selected Collages: March-May09

"The Last of His Kind". mixed media in a Pecan shell. 1" x 1/2".


The ideas for these tiny collages began when I was organizing my studio over the holidays. Small pieces of wood had drifted into the studio and I loved how tiny and interestingly formed each piece was. I have this tendency to constantly collect many items that interest me from old books in thrift stores to twigs and bugs found on the ground while hiking. The tiny collages became my sketchbook- fairly quick to make, these mini-narratives captured my thoughts and imagination without the tedium of the larger pieces. I ended up making over 70 of these to hang in my first show this past May.

Most of the pieces are under 6" tall.


"Happily Ever After" mixed media on wood. 2"x 1 1/2"


"The Secret" paper, hand-grown crystals, wax in a nutshell. 1"x1/2".


"Blood for Oil" mixed media in an avocado shell. approx. 3 1/2"x 1 1/2".


"Nightmare for Princesses" mixed media in a seed pod. 2 1/2"x 1/2"


"Evolution & Alchemy" on of the largest. mixed media on bark. 14"x 1 1/2".


"Forever & Forever". Mixed media on wood. 2" x 6".


"World Traveler". mixed media on wood. 2" x 1".


"The Grand Farewell". mixed media on wood. 4" x 1/2".