Delay.

Ahem. Okay, I've been a bit busy this past week - painting and preparing for a trip Back West. To California, that is.

In the meantime, I have another Art Recommendation, for a show here in Raleigh. We have a new artist - Julie Niskanen, recently relocated to Raleigh, NC from South Dakota - working out of the studios at 311 West Martin. She's a printmaker, and she'll be showing work at M Street Gallery down at 311 in August; come to the opening reception the evening of Friday, August 1st from 6-9pm down at 311 West Martin Street in downtown Raleigh.

Here's one of her pieces, from her website:

Artist: Julie Niskanen

Title: Entangled in the Moment

Medium: Etching, mezzotint, aquatint, spit-bite

Dimensions: 8" x 6"

Nature.

Hey. Here's yet another entry in the "unfinished series" series. Yep. I began a couple of paintings on wood, retaining the grain and natural color of the wood by using clear gesso to prepare the surface. Et voila:

as in nature...(1) oil on wood Diane Feissel

Productivity.

I have discovered an unfortunate equation:

Diane + humidity + heat = significantly reduced productivity.

Uggggggggghhhhhhh.

Birthday.

Just found out that I share a birthday with Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner and John Cusack. Now that's a good group.

More from that unfinished series I mentioned.

Ok, here's another installment in that series that I still haven't finished:

work in progress, oil on panel, 12"x12", 2007-2008...

The usual, but smaller and even more awesome.

I have a fully enthusiastic Art Recommendation for July... over the weekend I went to Morning Times in downtown Raleigh, and had the pleasure – nay, the extreme pleasure – of seeing their latest exhibit of artwork by Raleigh artist and designer Andy Heymann. He stopped by the studio at 311 back a couple of months ago and introduced himself, and after that I went over to check out his work at Riviera. I loved that work, but I really really love the work he has up currently at MT… I DEFINITELY recommend checking it out. Of course he has already sold some of my favorites, so act fast. Here's his website link, which includes most of the pieces on display now at MT, including this one:

Happy 4th!

Whoo! Happy Independence Day!

You can see more photos from last weekend, the wedding mentioned in my previous post, by going to this link. I'm far too lazy to upload them again here, except for this one: