Winter Berries

The latest "Winter Berries" - it's an Aquatint... No lines etched yet;
I will dry point etch lines next month, but I really like the look of
these so far~

"Sea Urchin" in the frame I made this last Spring~ I like the way it turned out!

Night of Gallery Walk...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by! I also saw Rob Roy's, Sherrie
McDonald, Ruby Room, Juneau Artist Gallery, Plein Rain, and UAS
Student Show... So many talented people in our little town!

They are hanging...

Only two small things that I forgot, so off without (much of) a hitch!

I'll take more close-ups tonight!

My First Solo Show

Here's my final flyer/postcard... My show will be hanging at the Heritage Cafe on 2nd Street (in Juneau) through the end of December... I'll be there tomorrow night, Dec 3rd, for Gallery Walk from 6:00-7:30pm - come say hello if you can!

This project was funded in part by the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council - We are very lucky to have an organization helping local artist!

My First Show...

I received a small but generous grant from the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council this Summer and wasn't able to pull things together in time for "My Summer Art Show" project.  They were kind enough to allow me to finish my project this Winter... so now it will by "My Winter Art Show"~

WHO: Julie Bates
WHAT:  Show of my Etchings and Silkscreens (and one wood block - featured on the postcard)
WHEN:  Opening December 3rd (Gallery Walk) - through the end of December, 2010
WHERE:  Heritage Cafe on 2nd Street, Downtown Juneau

Here are the roughs of my postcard/flyer, front and back:

New etching - "Soar"

Ebb - new etching

I Decided to call it "Ebb Tide" - meaning "The receding or outgoing tide; the period between high water and the succeeding low." It also can be use as a way of describing a state of decline... which kind of goes with the Lord of the Flies feel of these "wild" images of Kanon!

and a haiku for this image and my last woodblock image:

“Sea Urchin”
Summers ebb and flow,
Sun glistens through the air,
Urchin on the beach.

Newest sketch to be turned into an etching...

Back to the vertical orientation that I love! Also, working on
turning my last woodblock into a much larger piece - 28"x12" ~ I'll
share the background which I sandblasted to bring out the woods grain
and the final etching of this one (I'm calling it "Ebb" but reserve
the right to change it) later!

This time small ... Next time a big one! I'm happy with the look and style; woodblocking is fun!

New sketch...

I am trying to be more aware of my "style" when I sketch. I realize it
comes out on it's own, but I'm trying to be more deliberate in the way
I make my marks... Instead of timid little sketches I want solid
studies that reflect the final peice more. I'd like people to be able
to say I have a recognizable style some day!

Orange paint and my latest etching!

I LOVE my new orange coffee table... It brightened the rainy July! It
turned out to be too bright a background for my newest etching... This
one is my favorite so far (the newest one always is:). I'm calling it
"freshly fallen" and is a continuation of my snow covered trees series.

New work... Etching with silkscreened backgrounds!

Etching with silkscreen background...

"Through the Trees" at the UAS Juried art show at the JAHCC

Some of my Spring Semester work

Etching & Aquatint - Some of my work this semester

Winter berries and the first snow...

My Columbus Day hike to John Muir cabin... Gorgeous day!

making due with what I've got...

I don't have a great camera... I was pretty disappointed with the quality of the pictures it takes after I bought it. The flash isn't good and it isn't consistent; sometimes the flash goes off sometimes it doesn't. And the shutter speed is REALLY slow. Enough complaining, though...

Despite the deficiencies of my camera, here are some cool pics I took the other day. I love the green and that spring is finally happening... and I love these curtains that I've had for years and am finally using! For someone who never liked flowers... I think I like flowers now (they are very well designed, by nature, and since I'm obsessed with design it makes sense - in my defense).

small victories

Having a busy life can be so frustrating! I try my best to take care of things right away, but when difficulties arise, I only have so much time (during business hours) and energy before I have to move on.

Case in point: Two full months ago I decided I would figure out how to put a FAVICON on the website at work and on a friends I was working on... so, work said they didn't trust the code I had provided (I got it from a forum; perfectly valid). They have to be concerned for security, so understanding this, I decided I would put one on my site and prove that it was safe. When I tried to log in via ftp to do this, I was locked out of my web-hosting account. Many password resets later I still couldn't get in. This must have gone on for at least a week, when I had to abandon it for more pressing things. My friends had another friend put theirs on their site; mine (and work's ) were still default... until tonight! Yay for perseverance:) It was such a small, simple task and for life and technology to join forces to keep me from my goal... not cool. I can't believe how many dashboards my web-hosting co. has for my one tiny, tiny site... that was most of the battle. I finally found where my hosting log-in was located (and it wasn't very intuitive).

This just proves that I don't give up that easily(!!!!) Ha!

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