Art is Keeping Me Busy!

So maybe this post is more for me then for you, but I need to keep track of everything I am involved in and post a new blog at the same time. Two birds with one stone-like blog.

Andersonville Art Festival is coming up and I’m going to be at two locations this year. Is that allowed?
I’m going to have art up where I work, but since they won’t stay open for the late night Friday I am also going to have work up at the Monkey Gallery. Its not really a gallery though, it is a bead store. In exchange for showing my work I am going to draw the owner a Monkey Robot. Should be interesting.
The Monkey Gallery
5238 North Clark Street Chicago, IL

Next up, I am designing a Ketubah for a Jewish wedding.

Currently I am working with two clients on painting murals in their homes.
I finished the texture for one 128 sq. ft. wall today.

Next week I will go put a few layers of paint and glaze on the wall. The finishing touches will include gold metallic paint! Turns out she loves the texture so much I am going to be doing it in her bedroom too.
There will also be a mural in her bedroom and kitchen. Oh and we can’t forget the crown molding that I will be faux finishing.

*Edit* Here are some more pictures further into the process.

Bedroom Texture and Faux Finish.

The other house, which is like a fantasy world, will involve me painting a realistic face of a sun on the ceiling with the beams flowing onto the rest of the walls. I am also going to embellish a very detailed staircase to look enchanted and magical. Next comes a mushroom painted on a barrel ceiling in the kitchen. I will post pictures!

I am also working on opening a jewelry shop on etsy.

I just need to develop a good look for the photographs of the necklaces I have for sale.

I have also donated a print to an America SCORES Chicago charity event.
100% of the proceeds from the project to go support America SCORES Chicago: an afterschool nonprofit providing sport-based (soccer), arts-based (poetry), and service learning programming free to low-income Chicago communities. Learn more at www.americascoreschicago.org

Today I joined http://www.arthousecoop.com/ and signed up to participate in two of their projects.

The sketchbook project and The Spaces Between Us.

http://www.arthousecoop.com/sketchbookproject

My idea is to come up with a theme and dedicate the sketchbook to it.

I better get started with everything!

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