Celebrating your birthday in Maui is not too difficult that's for sure! Although, I did miss all of you very much...
Thank you for all of you who called to wish me a happy birthday, I truly appreciate it!
My Uncle Bruce, cousin Chelsea, Steve, Christine and their kids (3) all went out to this Japanese place called Kobe; similar to our Benihaunas! We had a lot of fun avoiding catching on fire, eating sushi and having prawns thrown at us! What a blessing to have a family here to take me out to dinner on my birthday!
The last few days I've been filling in for Christine in the gallery. I open it at 10am and draw, paint, talk about art, sell art, dust art and shmooze some more until 5pm. And if you thought that was fun enough, I also get a 10% commission of whatever I sell! Whoo hoo! In the last two days I sold two paintings, one by G. Eguchi and another by Thomas Peters, both over $1000. It was such an exciting accomplishment for all of us involved. After closing the sale we take pictures of the clients with their new piece of art and congratulate them!
I think I could get used to this! Seattle galleries, watch out!
Meanwhile I have been working on my sculpture. I finished carving the, what we think is a buffalo horn, and just finished carving the base as well. You'll notice below the progress! The base is made out of maple and has really great knots and character that mirrors the horn. The idea is to keep what's organic and mawk it with my own manipulation of the material. I'll be starting the top piece shortly, as this sculpture is a triptych. The top piece will be made of coral... also mirroring the material of the horn. I will be putting some blue dye on the coral to give it a cloudy sky like feel. Each piece will be attached to each other in a lazy-suzan fashion where you will be able to spin each piece as well as take them a part. (Hard to explain, but I will be sending visuals soon!) This piece is very exciting for me and I can't wait for the finished product!
Uncle Bruce found a huge palm leaf that had fallen from a tree in our garden here. I'm planning on re-wetting it, cleaning it and pressing it between two slabs of marble to flatten it...
I'm thinking about doing a really neat acrylic painting on it... stay tuned!
Apart from all the art making I've been climbing mountains, swimming in river pools, helping Christine with her kids, reading my third book and occasionally going to Pailla to dance and listen to live music. The other night I went to this bar called Charlies. It reminded me a lot of Lindas in Seattle! I loved it there! Playing was this band called the Haiku Hillbillies! Check them out, it was so much fun! I managed to make my way to the very front of the crowd to dance and clap, of course you know me... I barely left the dance floor till closing!
Uncle Bruce found a huge palm leaf that had fallen from a tree in our garden here. I'm planning on re-wetting it, cleaning it and pressing it between two slabs of marble to flatten it...
I'm thinking about doing a really neat acrylic painting on it... stay tuned!
Apart from all the art making I've been climbing mountains, swimming in river pools, helping Christine with her kids, reading my third book and occasionally going to Pailla to dance and listen to live music. The other night I went to this bar called Charlies. It reminded me a lot of Lindas in Seattle! I loved it there! Playing was this band called the Haiku Hillbillies! Check them out, it was so much fun! I managed to make my way to the very front of the crowd to dance and clap, of course you know me... I barely left the dance floor till closing!
I'm off now to get ready for another day of surfing! Hopefully this time I won't get so burned! haha
Miss you and love to my family and friends!!
