Art Pieces at Frank Bette Gallery

So three line pieces of mine are in an art show at Frank Bette Gallery from mid-June to mid-August. The show came in line with the Drawn Lines blogs, which I just finished. Come to the artist open house on July13 and view the art and the museum, a story front for a furnisher store, give to the public for an art Museum, quite unique.

Thursday - Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA 94501. Phone 510-523-6957.

Blog Road Trip

Okay - there were lots of bloggers in the A2Z  - 2018 blog challenge; here is your chance to view their blogs and see and read different and intriguing trips of interest around the vast linked lines of the web.

  "Visit blog in the #AtoZChallenge Road Trip!"

Reflections about Drawn Lines

Read others reflections about their blogs.

So I'm done with 2018 A2Z Blogging Challenge, What a fast, busy, researching, blogging month. Just as the neighbor mows his grass of weeds, the junior high students yell joy at spring, the passer-by's walk and the cars, Bart, and motorcycles race home from work. What busy noises!  And I'm sitting in the sun knowing I reached my goals for the blog challenged --> how-to-draw lines. My cats are patiently sitting in their chairs, and I have a beautiful view of my garden stretching to the busy street. Rubbing my eyes again wondering why the noise on this warmest of warm days, I feel content.

On reflection, the noise is the celebration of new growth, happy teenagers, busy shoppers, and satisfied workers rushing home to enjoy their evening. The chatter and sounds are the joy I am calmly hearing, watching and observing, once again drawing lines from my garden; the artist is the observer. AND, I do have a course and a book I can publish.

Remember, we are creative. You are the artist that uses pencil, pens, chalks, paints, garden to make lines, the detail, the textures, and values. Lines tell us the viewers what you the artist want us to observer, enjoy, and to be inspired. We see a visual story. Lines take us place. Lines go everywhere. Lines are varied, different. Anything can make a line on any surface.


Also, I did the NaNoWriCamp challenge during April.
 

 




 






Here is the sketchbook created during the A2Z April 2018 challenge about Drawing Lines.

ART SHOW at DareDevils&Queens

DareDevils and Queens Salon

 

 

ART SHOW

MY ART SHOW DISPLAYING MY YEARS FROM SIXTH GRADE UNTIL THE PRESENT WITH MY FRIEND 'ART', WHO IS RELAXING, CREATIVE, AND INSPIRATIONAL. ART IS A LIGHTHEARTED FRIEND WHO ALLOWS ME TO PLAY AND THINK IN COLORS, SHAPES, TEXTURES, AND VALUES, WHICH ARE PLEASURE AND DIVERSION FOR A VISUAL MIND.

Phases of Art, visual memoir is displayed at my daughter's salon at 122 4th Street, DareDevils&Queens, in Olde Towne Santa Rosa, CA  by the Train Station.

A great salon for getting one's hair colored or just cut and styled! 

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

The dream path that made the bad dream sparkle like the river that flowed.

Done at ART CAMP - 2018

Here are a few of art pieces from Feather River Art Camp. Although hot, then hotter did create a few pen/brush and ink line drawings.

Feather River Art Camp

Feather River Art Camp in Quincy, CA

June 18 to June 25, 2017

A week of chatting and creating on Spanish Creek, sleeping in platform tents or rustic cabins in the Sierras Mountains, hot during the day and cold at night. Refreshing with walks and swimming in the cold clear air and water.

ESCAPE, the Hornet Warriors

READ ON WATTPAD.com

ESCAPE is a folktale, The Frog Princess, a Russian folktale, I have re-imaged, adapted, enhanced, fabricated, modified, elaborated and embroidered into a story from the Elfin Colony that lives in the OakGrove gardens.

This is an illustration of the Hornet Warriors, who are the handmaidens of Vasalisa, the Frog Princess.

The Hornet Warriors use the InBetween to slid from their realm into the human realm where the Frog Princess hides from the bitter, foul-smelling Ole Fog, Ole Boneless, Death.

BOOK BLAST

Bobbie Kinkead on SCBWI

Looking for a holiday gift check out scbwi BOOK BLAST?


Done yearly by SCBWI, Society of Children Book Writer's and Illustrators, for authors to advertise their great new read for kids and teens. Use Book Blast to browse and find a book to give or enjoy. Opens in October of each year.

Rhyonna's Fright was listed in 2016. CAN STILL BUY FROM AMAZON AND SMASHWORKS.

Rhyonna's Fright is on Kindle, as a paperback book, and Smashwords as epub.