April 2010
Hello to all my friends, and welcome to the first edition of my newsletter
in html! This is a new thing for me, so I would welcome feedback and
suggestions on my formatting and anything else you care to think of.
If you are unable to receive html in your
email, please send a reply to let me know you would prefer to receive
updates and show announcements in plaintext. If you are having problems
reading this version, a copy is posted online at http://www.deadraccoon.com/newsletter/100413.html.
Upcoming Events
Spring Art Show This Weekend April 17th and 18th An indoor event to kick off the start of the festival season, with over 40 participating artists. I will be bringing new original works (scroll down to see a sampling,) cards, prints, and calendars, in all price ranges. |
Stargazer An 8 x 10 sculpture created in an edition of 20. |
Artists' Choice Through May 27th Held in the same building as the Spring Art Show, stop in to see a white version of Dendrobiums, one of my editioned sculptures. Other work exhibited by members of the Parker Artists Guild
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Miniatures Show Through May 5th Two editioned pieces are in this juried show from the Colorado Artists Guild: Another orchid sculpture, Forest Pixie, and a linocut ACEO print, Corvid Series: Raven. |
Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo May 15th More info coming in May! |
Other News
Artists Network Artist's Magazine has chosen to honor my paper sculpture of a pine siskin, Spring Snow, as a desktop wallpaper on the Artists Network website. Spring Snow placed as a finalist in the Artist's Magazine's 26th Annual Art Competition. |
New Works
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Time Stands Still for Me |
A mere three and a half by four inches, this small piece holds many levels of meaning for me. The piece was inspired during the 2007 Bozeman, Montana conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, a group of professional peers and close friends. A field trip during the conference led to the Lewis and Clark Caverns, where stairs descended past the skeleton of a bat stuck against a wall. Translucent papers cover the sides of the skeleton in my piece, allowing the bones to show through and imitating the process of the waxy flowstone slowly covering the bat. As a paleoartist, I am fascinated by this early process of fossilization. While the bat's fellow cave mates live and die, their bodies become scattered and their bones will weather to dust. Our unfortunate bat has a chance to leave a small part of himself beyond his temporary lifespan, as his bones are covered by rock and the hollow in them replaced by minerals. As the piece says something of the bat's future, it also recalls to me my past, as I worked for a short run as a tour guide at Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs, in between high school and college. The earthy, moist scent and cool air of a cave can be as refreshing as a summer rainstorm, as it calls adventure and discovery to your heart. Although Time Stands Still for Me will be on display during the Spring Art Show, it will not be for sale, as it is destined for the GNSI 2010 Small Works exhibit and benefit auction.
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Wings |
As I was doing the underdrawing for this oil pastel piece, I noticed the form of a bird taking flight in the lip of the orchid. The birdform mimicked the upward and outward motion in the crisp petals of the Cymbidium, touching the sense of freedom and expansion I feel in the shape of the flower.
Tiffany Miller www.deadraccoon.com
