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A working weekend

Photo of me in my studio before the photographer showed up!

Had a wonderfully productive weekend in the studio. It started Friday with me doing a MAJOR cleaning session at my house. The Dallas Observer peeps were coming by to take photos of me for an upcoming interview. I'll post a link when it's out- should be a couple of weeks. In the background is "Safely Away"- my newest piece and it's since been picked up by the collector so my studio is EMPTY of magic right now. This means....time to paint more!

"Safely Away", 36" x 48" acrylic on canvas. Kimme Collection
Just got this one back from being professionally scanned and put it up in my Shopify as LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINTS. I get these printed on RIVES PAPERS, a beautiful French paper with just the right amount of texture- sign them and ship them off. You can pick up your print here (theres a 10% off code at the top of my site!) 

https://tigerbee-arts.myshopify.com/

I'm in the thick of a commercial art project this week thats involving hundreds of paper leaves that are hand painted, cut and glued to little pins that will be hammered into place on their respective displays. Its very repetitive work but kinda meditative. I'm defintely remembering my LEATHER FEATHER days of production art and hot gluing days of yore :D 

As soon as that wraps up I'm on a project to revamp a local biz logo and prepare to do a couple murals at their upcoming new spot. More details on that as it materializes! Work is flowing and that is great. This week will also see me designing a new line of kimonos and more BUCKETFEET SHOES! It's kind of addictive and my friends and fans are loving them, especially my Peonies Power Kicks
Blair Menn sporting my Peonies Power kicks in the Bay Area! Love this shot with the pink flowers! SWOON!
You can order your Bucketfeet from my Threadless shop:
https://tigerbeearts.threadless.com/

Busy, busy week and trying to update my website. When the interview comes out I want my site to at least be CURRENT and easy to navigate to see new work and stuff that is available. An artists work is never done- and with that... I'm off to chase all the things!
Did you notice?My blog finally got a new LOOK! It only took like 3 minutes- why didn't I do it sooner? HAHAHAHA! I think it's much cleaner and not so "70s".




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