Earth Heroes You Never Heard Of

 

I just stumbled upon this website with little bios of not-so-famous folks who are making a difference in the world and books I have missed that sound like amazing reads!

 

http://www.wholeearthprovision.com/news/category/birthday-bios/page/2/

 

I was searching for and Andy Goldsworthy book called A Collaboration with Nature and found Whole Earth Provision Co.'s post about his birthday, the paintings of Church and several ecologist/writers/activists I haven't heard of before, but who I want to learn more about.

 



New Painting!

Here's my newest painting! It's another scene I photographed at the Woodford house in Fairmount Park, here in Philly. I have to tour these other houses.

So Here is the Result!

I picked up my first print from Silicon Gallery and I was really happy. Here's the Blue and Black Branches painting on the Hahnemühle Photo Rag Luster 308 (a mistake they gave me). The regular paper print, more matte and smooth, went out to the client who purchased it.

I stopped by the art supply store at 2nd and Market, Artist and Craftsman Supply and picked up this simple white snap frame a couple of days later and it is perfect. If you haven't been downstairs in the shop, you've missed out on the treasury of wood panels to paint on and frames for all sizes of artwork. This is where I get my wood panels because they have every size under the sun, multiple profile depths to choose from and the prices are cheaper than anywhere else in town.

Black and Blue Branches Print in the Works!

I'm headed to Silicon Gallery on Tuesday to check out the first proof of one of my paintings, the Black and Blue Branches painting in my etsy shop, http://www.allisonspaintings.etsy.com/.

I'm so excited! I had a customer purchase the print and another painting last week and I get to go pick out the finish and paper. I know it's going to be beautiful. Silicon does the scanning and burns cd's and then prints the image. The scans are really high resolution and you can see every fiber of the original.

20% off all items in both stores

This Weekend Only!

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Check Out My New Etsy Shop for Paintings

I created a new etsy shop over the weekend to make it much easier to find my paintings and reduce the number of pages in my etsy shop for photos. The new shop is AllisonsPaintings.etsy.com. Click on the images at the left and see how beautiful it is!

New Paintings Released from the Vault!

I went digging through my box of paintings today in search of panels to repaint and I found these three paintings, one which I modified and two I left alone. The fourth I'm working on now to make it more to my liking. I repaintind the blinds in painting with the green and blue striped seating and then stopped by the Art Museum Annex to check out the shows and I found a Matisse exhibit which included his interiors, which are fantastic. The other shows I liked where an exhibit on Frank Gehry's Lewis House which was never completed but which he made outstanding models for an includes some of his bent wood lattice furniture, which I liked alot and they have videos playing with interviews with the home owner, Gehry, Gehry's assistant and Gehry and Richard Serra (sc?).

They also have a show of African American quilters from towns like Yazoo Mississippi and Gee's Bend which is amazing. There's a wide variety of artistic expression and some funny use of pantyhose package figures in one quilt.

New Frames and New Paintings

These are paintings I reshot today since I had some time

to work on etsy. I forgot most of these were in my closet

and since I sold three of the larger paintings this week,

I thought it was time I upgraded my pictures.



These are the frames my co-worker Mark made for me last
week. I'm so happy with how beautiful they came out. They
make the paintings look so crisp and clean on the wall.

Favorite Etsy Sellers

Krista Peel from SanFrancisco

Junk Prints from Brooklyn

Invisible Fountain from Easthampton

Ralph Nuara from Minneapolis

Cyrus the Potter from Pine River, Minnesota

Jack Procter from Vancouver

ClayLab Detroit

mck254 from Arlington, MA

redsonja designs from Ottawa

Fretz Fotos for Cystic Fibrosis

Second Line Frames from Orange Beach, Alabama

Montagyoo from Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Mariposa Avenue from Salt Lake City, UT

Bonnie Jones from San Angelo, West Texas

Pearson Maron from Southern California

Kinchi from Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Snappy Shop from LA, California

Etsy Painting Treasury With My Side Table Painting

Etsy Treasury

Here's a recent Etsy.com treasury I was included in. That's my tree branch painting on the right. I've been included in three this week, one of elephant pictures, one of architecture and this one. I still haven't mastered the treasury tool yet.