Knock Knock

Happy to report that I actually made the submission deadline today for the small works exhibit ("#50 @ $50"). My goal was to make three new pieces, and I kind of did. Among them "Change the Story," which I posted a couple of days ago, and this one: "Knock Knock."

The third one I couldn't get where I wanted it to be and decided to work on it some more tomorrow.
So I entered "Night and Day" instead, a small mixed media piece based on a record sleeve that I had made last Fall.

"Knock Knock"
Acrylics, fly leaf, book clippings, ink, on canvas panel,
5" x 5"

Change the Story

Anyways. There's a call for artists to submit small works for a juried group exhibit in my town next month, and I am intending to do just that. I could, of course, hand in some of the completed pieces that haven't sold yet but I decided to make something new. Deadline is this Sunday. I better hurry.

Got this one finished: "Change the Story." I used the back of a sweet children's book called "The Rooster, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen," and because it used to be a library book in the 60s and 70s it had the library pocket glued to the back of its hardcover. Why not make the pocket part of the piece, I thought.

So the mouse has decided to leave hen and rooster behind and get out of the same old story. Who says you can't change the story. There's an ocean of possibilities, let's dive in.

"Change the Story"
Mixed media: back of a book hardcover, library pocket, watercolor, ink, storybook clippings.
9 1/4" x 7 1/4"