This is a blown-up detail of a small area of an ink drawing that I did for a new 3-color letterpress print that will be printed in the next couple weeks.
copyright Amy Crehore 2010
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Uke Building Workshop in Australia, Cairns Uke Festival
Rick Turner is in Australia teaching a uke building workshop as part of the Cairns Uke Festival this week. 14 students, 4 days. Shown here: newly built pineapple ukes, day 3. More photos of students and Rick here: LINK You can see the joy on their faces. This festival also has a charity art exhibit of painted ukes (Shaun Tan and lots of other artists) and a world record attempt to assemble 1,000 uke players.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Upcoming Art Show in Brooklyn, NY
I'll be participating in this exhibit:
On Friday, July 16, 2010 from 7- 10 pm, 99% Gallery will present a group exhibition entitled The New Order. This show will act as a survey of artwork by a variety of artists who have found their inspirations from the worlds of comics books, animation, illustration, graffiti, tattoo and many other forms of pop, subversive and outsider imagery.
Participating artists include:
Allison Sommers . Anthony Ausgang . Amy Crehore . Daniel Hyun Lim . David MacDowell . Gilbert Oh
Isabel Samaras . Jennybird Alcantara . Jeremiah Ketner . Jon Rodriguez . Justin Brooks . Lisa Petrucci
Mia . Sarah Joncas . Scott Altmann . Tony Philippou . Tristan Henry-Wilson . Van Arno
Monday, June 28, 2010
What am I up to?
Seen here: my rough sketch (in foreground) and my final inked artwork with 2 overlays (for 3-color prints), ready to ship off to the letterpress gal in Portland. More about that soon.
Two New Paintings (Crehore)
Girl with tenor banjo (click to enlarge)
"The Angel at Gossamer Creek", painting by Amy Crehore copyright 2010, 16"x16", oil on linenCLICK TO ENLARGE
Girl with ukulele detail close-up
"The Waiting Pool", painting by Amy Crehore copyright 2010, 12"x 24", oil on linen (CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, open window for full effect)
I finally got some 4x5 transparencies taken of my new paintings and scanned them for you.
I finally got some 4x5 transparencies taken of my new paintings and scanned them for you.
I also posted these paintings larger here: http://artofamycrehore.blogspot.com/
The Art of Amy Crehore (my regular website)
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Familia Carrera. Xixón. 1900
There are some lovely vintage
group photos like this one on
Von Aisaider's flickr.
group photos like this one on
Von Aisaider's flickr.
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