I've selected a few of my small pieces showing at the Marmalade at Smokebrush Spring Show in Colorado Springs, CO. 
Opening night is tonight 6-9pm. If you're in the area please do come. These pieces will only be available to purchase at the show locally.
If you are not local and would like to purchase* a 'Speak Love' piece, there are only a few left to buy at Nahcotta to have shipped right to your door.
* All proceeds this month go to my grandfathers memorial fund.
Thanks to this super fan for sending me pictures of their art purchasing experience at Nahcotta. I love it when people send me pictures. Since I'm not close enough to see the set up in person (I reside in Colorado now), I live through these photos.
Thanks Amy!
Don't they look so cute on the wall all lined up so neat and pretty?
They're selling fast!
Amy is one happy art loving customer!
Thank you so much for sending me the pictures and for all the love!
xoxoxoxoxoxox!
If you are interested in purchasing a piece while they are still available do check here.
In my haste to mail off my new pieces for the next Nahcotta show, I forgot to take pictures of the pieces I made! Silly me. I did scan them but I'm not so happy with how those came out. SO, I have the first piece from this series (it's going to a private collector) so I can at least show you that one and an extra one I have still. I sent 16 pieces to Nahcotta for the Enormous Tiny Art Show coming up next week! All of the pieces are different colors but with the same symbol/message:
Each original piece is appx 2.3 x 3.5 inches, watercolor and india ink, mounted on a bamboo board, ready to hang.
As you can see, I need a hand model. Any volunteers?
I just loooove the bamboo boards. I searched and searched until I found these ones. They are handmade in Portland. Aren't they beautiful?
Each piece is titled, numbered and signed
They are a simple, small, visual message and reminder to speak love to those around us. So often we get wrapped up in the annoyances and negative things that are so easy to point out all around us. It's nice to have a gentle reminder to think and speak love to and about the people/things in our lives. Even if they can't hear us, even if we don't know them, even if it's just the talk that is going on in our heads. Speak Love.
Can you remember a time someone said something kind or loving to you? did or does it still effect you in some way today?
Speaking loving words towards others can change the world. As important as that is, I think it's even more important to speak love to ourselves. That's right, to yourself. How many times do we beat up on ourselves mentally, verbally or in action? These little pieces of art are reminders to speak loving words to yourself too!
The show runs February 1-25th 2013. Opening night is Feb 1 st 5pm-8pm.
This is my favorite show and at my favorite gallery! If you are even remotely close to Portsmouth, NH at all- it's worth the drive, every time.
If you can't make it you can see/shop virtually here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for supporting the arts!
Also-You may remember similar work I have done for the art-o-mat machines. I wanted to continue that series on a more mature platform, the bamboo boards and curating make for the upgraded pieces you see in this show.
They will never again be together like this. Once these pieces make their way into the Art-O-Mat machines they will go about their own separate ways. So I wanted share what it looks like from my end when I'm making them. I love all the colors together. I've completed a total of 300 pieces, that's right, three hundred pieces of little art for this project. They are starting to get placed in machines and going out into the world spreading lots and lots of love. I hope they will make people smile and be a simple reminder to 'Speak Love' to others and to ourselves. 
Some other blog posts here and here about Art-O-Mat.
The first time I heard about Art-O-Mat I fell in love with it. Old cigarette machines turned into art machines! Being an ex-smoker and an artist...a "match" made in heaven. Yesterday I visited my first Art-O-Mat in Boca Raton, Florida. I plan to check out the two machines in Miami soon too.
