I worked on five new 6" x 6" Fence Detail pieces, as well as the five Seasonal Fences - Autumn series, I've been working on for some time, which I'm in the final stages of completing.
The picture above is a sneak peek of Fence Details #22, 23, 24, 25 & 26, which are almost completed. This afternoon, I'll finish them, and they should be dry by tomorrow for Open Studios. Since it's December, and the heat is on, the dry air should do the trick. After they’re finished, I’ll post pictures of them here and also on my website.
The 43 Main Street Holiday Open Studios are being held tomorrow from noon - 5pm at 43 Main Street, Studio 3, in Natick, Massachusetts.
Come visit my studio.
I'll have calendars and artwork for sale, and my husband will also have some of his creations for sale too. He's created a number of cool lights and sconces that he's named switchlights, which use a color-changing fiber optic LED on a metal base. They are a modern take on the lava lamp, use under 2 watts of electricity, and are hand assembled in Natick.
For the past four years, I had a different credit card vendor who was expensive and not easy to work with. Over the summer I signed up for a Square account, which I finally got to use at Open Studios this past weekend.
I put the Square in my iPad (or iPhone), slid the credit card through the scanner, and voila, the only thing the customer had to do was sign it with their finger and enter a phone number or email address if they wanted a receipt. No after the fact work on my end at all. No logging in to a website to document the transaction, no yearly fee, no transfer to bank account fee, no puny limits to transaction size, no monthly maximum sales total, and no credit card equipment to buy. There's just a small transaction fee and the money goes directly into my account shortly thereafter.
I couldn't be more pleased.
Hands down, Square wins! Thank you Square!
Natick Artists Open Studios are being held this weekend, on Saturday and Sunday
October 15th and 16th, from 12-5 pm in Natick, Massachusetts.
My husband will also have one of his creations for sale in my studio. The switchlight is a color-changing fiber optic LED on a metal base with a switched 15 amp grounded outlet. This modern replacement for the lava lamp uses under 1 watt of electricity, and is hand assembled in Natick.
Download a Natick Artists Open Studios map and brochure.
The weather is going to be beautiful this weekend. Come to Natick, say hello and see some art!
My studio, at 43 Main Street in Natick Center, will be open for visitors during ArtWalk on Thursday night (July 21st) from 5-8:30pm.
Please come visit. My AC will be on for both your comfort and mine. Feel free to ask my why I'm working with a large piece of monoprinted piece of fabric that's painted green, or anything other questions about my art that you may have.
Read more about ArtWalk in the article I wrote on the Natick Patch.
Inspired by a wonderful storefront installation that fellow artist and friend Adria Arch did, called Summer Constellation, and because there will be an ArtWalk in Natick, MA this Thursday, I asked the owner of Debsan, a paint and decorating store located at 25 Main Street (down the street from my studio), if I could do an installation in one of the front windows.
In a very short timeframe, I used three pieces that I created during my art residency at the Vermont Studio Center in May, as well as one of the first stiffened fabric pieces I made last year, and I created this installation. The picture below shows the installation from the side window.
What I learned is that it's really hard to decorate (or install) a window because you have to think about what it looks like from the sidewalk and street, from many angles and with different amounts of glare, depending on the time of day and the weather.
It's also very hot inside those windows in the summertime. And, it's even harder to photograph the window because of the glare and because of street and sidewalk traffic.
All in all, I definitely want to more installations, but with more time to create and plan. See more about the installations I've created.
Below is a picture of what the window looked like before I did my installation.
