SPIRIT OF SUMMER

Since I posted Spirit of Spring in a previous blog, I thought it would be appropriate to post Spirit of Summer too since we are in the thick of the season and past the solstice a bit.

I hope to have some more of my recent works here soon. I'm not sure how other artists get images jpeg-ed, but I have been getting them professionally scanned if I think the images are worth the effort. We have fooled around with using a digital camera & it seems fine for pieces that are no wider than about 16 inches in either direction, but we can never get the lights balanced on bigger drawings & paintings so that there aren't hot spots (bleaching out) in the image. This one was scanned & the twin spades which has a kind of grey tinged background (not the best & certainly not accurate: you can find it in my gallery here on EF) was shot with a digital camera. Any advice on this, if you care to share, would be much appreciated!

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

I am a member of the Spirites Consort (who are also members at Enchanted Folk) & a visual artist. I thought it might be a nice idea to start my own site here to show-case more of my visual art.

My website is: http://www.LiseWinne.com if you want to know a lot more about me than is on this site.

Our band has a MYSPACE at http://www.myspace.com/thespiritesconsort

I will list events that I am involved in here (both concerts & exhibits). I also have my work displayed in a number of on-going galleries & gift shops, but I will not mention them here (there are too many: but they are listed on my website). As for concerts, there will probably not be a lot of them as we are in the recording studio a lot trying to finish up 2 CD projects.

YEAR 2008 CONCERTS & ART EXHIBITS
please check back for constant updates!

2/16/08: concert: The Dance Flurry Festvival, Saratoga Springs, NY. 11:30 AM 

2/17/08- 3/24/08: exhibit: "A Gathering of Peers" Invitational Ceramics Exhibit, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY

3/26/08 - 4/19/08: exhibit: Small Works Exhibit (works 6" to 12"), Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY opening reception: March 26, 5 - 9 pm

5/1/08 - 6/30/08: exhibit: "Featured Artist of the Month", Lower Adirondack Regional Art Center, 7 Lapham Street, Glens Falls, NY  opening reception: May 9, 5 - 7 pm

5/9/08 - 6/15/08: exhibit: Members Show, Lower Adirondack Regional Art Center, 7 Lapham Street, Glens Falls, NY  opening reception: May 9, 5 - 7 pm

8/3/08: concert: Kribstock, Luzerne, NY.  all day festival 

NEW CD COVER

This is the art work that I did for our newest CD cover. It is also my first attempt at more "traditional" Celtic knotting. It's still not terribly traditional (considering there are horses heads & the end of the horses' tails embedded in them).

I probably should explain that the CD design is for our band, Saratoga Faire (not The Spirites Consort, the band that I am most known for in these parts). The weird thing is that 3 of the 4 members of Saratoga Faire also belong to The Spirites Consort. It's a complex story of how we formed 2 bands, but some of it had to do with going a bit more mainstream & issues about pigeon-holing & costumes, something that The Spirites Consort always has to deal with.

Anyway, writing will be at the top half of the drawing. But, I just thought I'd show the piece as it is in its raw state.

NEW FINE ART PRINTS (giclees)

These are all horse prints, but I am posting because I was influenced by some celtic knotting in some of them (particularly around the birds' feet).

I am posting Spring here (since we are in the midst of it).

These are available through my website at http://www.LiseWinne.com. Lots of sizes are available and they can come matted or unmatted. I'll be adding prices at a later date, but I wanted to get the images published since the art was finished in 2007! I also sell some of these prints through galleries and an art center shop.

Thank you for reading!

BY THE WAY, THE PREVIOUS BLOG POST HAS THE WRONG DATE ON IT: IT WAS ACTUALLY POSTED SOME TIME IN MID-MAY (I edited it & in the process, it gave the current date).

NEW ART WORK

Here is a piece that I finished a few days ago:

It is called "Hummingbird Sanctuary" and is a mixed media piece. It is a very small piece, about 7" x 9". The window was actually inspired by Suzanne's Mystic Wood which I loved (and can be viewed here).  

WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO RECENTLY

I am working on several pieces which I hope to post here in a couple of weeks. I have been too busy with recording, visiting family, taxes & spring cleaning, so had to shelve my visual art until next week.

But... in the meantime, for those of you who like good "historical" (or "costume") dramas, I recommend 2 movies I saw on DVD last week.

One is Girl with a Pearl Earring which I may have to put on my "favorites" list of movies. It is a fictionalized account by novelist, Tracy Chevalier, of Vermeer's famous painting. The cinemotography & art direction is outstanding & if you like more psychological suspense than action (which I generally prefer), then this is a great movie.

The other one is The Lion in Winter (2004 VERSION) which is a kind of condensed I, Claudius of the 1100s England (with a lot of the same kind of plotting and scheming). The costumes & acting are great.