Art by Erika Taguchi-Newton
Happy Leap Day! To celebrate Leap Day, I'm taking a LEAP back into space (that's as clever as it gets here, folks...). Bear and Bird Gallery's open-to-all-artists show,
Square Show 2, is next month. I played around with an idea, sketched it out, even got it fully pencilled on the board. But I wasn't excited about it so I erased the whole thing and pencilled a completely different idea. I'm glad I did because I had so much fun with this piece:
Preminary sketch:
By sheer coincidence,
next month's show at Zapow turned out to be a sci fi theme show! So I decided to take my painting and idea further and turn it into a faux pulp cover. I plan to do 2 more paintings for a series. Here's the first one:
Limited Editions giclees will be available at the gallery.
Prints will be available online at my store - http://ravengirl.bigcartel.com/product/raygun-love-print.
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:
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:
Some progress shots:
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:
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.
