Art by Erika Taguchi-Newton

Monday, February 27, 2012

Year of the Dragon, Megacon, and Zapow!

It's been a few months since I've posted, I'm going to try to catch up...

I took a month off in Decemeber to spend time with family and friends. I did manage to do a Christmas card painting before my break. It is a third in my series of reindeer cards and I will have the cards for sale this Christmastime:

Donner and Vixen

End of last year, I got a great opportunity to get into a new gallery in downtown Asheville, North Carolina called Zapow!  I have prints and giclees hanging there, and sometimes an original piece sneaks in. If you are in the area, please check it out. And if you do go, eat at Early Girl for me!

The new year started off fierce! Completed a New Year painting like I did last year. This year is, of course, Year of the Dragon and was the theme for the monthly art show by always-awesome Art Nouveau Events. I didn't get the piece done in time but was able to do some of the finishing touches at the show. I feel very cumbersome when I paint in front of people. At one point I had the painting upside down and someone asked me why. I told him it was because I was too short to paint the upper-left part of the sky comfortably. He looked a little disappointed, I guess he was waiting for some profound answer. Here's the result:

Year of the Dragon (final)

Some progress shots:

WIP: Year of the Dragon

WIP: Year of the Dragon

Megacon was just a week ago and it was fantastic! I got to meet some great artists in the Artist Alley, the talent was incredible. I did a little fan art for the con:

Batgirl - Final

Now I'm getting ready for the next show which will be in Largo on March 18th. But before that I will be at this Sunday's Downtown Open Market in Boca.

Oh, and I've been much more active on Facebook. Please "like" me at facebook.com/ravengirlsnest.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love all of your work! They are truely amazing!