It’s been a very buggy time around here. Once you become aware of something, it is everywhere, and so it is with insects for me. Since getting to know Lauren, entomology has started to creep in on me, and it continues with the BUGS!!! exhibit at the Arts of Life. Mike Caskel From assemblage to collage to […]
Category Archives: Maikes Marvels Creations
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Aug
Aug
“I am a firm believer in drawing as a way of understanding the world. Drawing is thinking.” ~ Milton Glaser Over the past month I’ve been taking Lauren Levato‘s Botanical, Butterflies and Beetles drawing workshop. You may have noticed that although I took a drawing class in February last year, no drawings have emerged since […]
I’m back in the studio again, yippie. Since taking a variety of workshops over the spring, I have not spent time making encaustic pieces. It doesn’t mean I haven’t created anything. I learned encaustic techniques from Bridgette Guerzon Mills, Crystal Neubauer and Shawna Moore; bound books at the Chicago Print Collaborative, had two sessions of […]
Several weeks ago I took my art work to a professional photoshoot with Tom van Eynde. I have learned that art photography is a new skillset from just taking photographs in nature or of people. There is often ‘headstone’ effect when I try to take 2-D art work pictures. The key is to really center […]
Last Friday I attended Zhou B Art Center’s third Friday festivities. The building opens from 7 to 10 pm every third Friday to host exhibit openings and allow the public to peruse artist studios. art work by Tom Meyer and Isabelle Gougenheim First, I stopped by Jenny Learner’s studio to explore the art work my fellow […]
“We are all trying to get to our own place (in art).” ~ Shawna Moore Tonight the Shawna Moore and Friends exhibit opens at Studio 303. Several FUSEDChicago members will have work up, including yours truly. You can peruse our works from 7 to 10 p.m. on the third floor of the Zhou B Art Center at […]
Following Artruck, I was looking forward to my own pop-up gallery experience. I passed the morning observing dragonflies by the lake, and then made my way downtown to pick up Jason and his work, after which we began setting up at Paola’s Vinum. I claimed a table while the group divvied up the display walls […]
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Apr
Apr
On Friday, Artrageous opened to the public. You can now vote online for your favorite pieces, which are all listed here. The Swift Swallowtails are number 42, which made me think of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In this case, I fully agree that the answer, and vote, is 42! I attended the opening […]
This promises to be another fabulous week. 2011 was wonderful, but this year I’ve had numerous “pinch me, I must be dreaming†moments. Artrageous has opened, I attended a very inspiring studio visit, and the Red Admirals obliged me a little bit in posing for me on Sunday. I’m not sure my adrenaline-meter can keep […]
Yesterday evening marked the opening of the Arts of Life North Shore’s first Square Foot* show. 70 artists submitted 100 works, including the resident artists and mail-ins from seven states. I submitted to this call for art without having seen the studio (technically a no-no, but hey, I’m a newbie at this). I poked around on the […]
