(a little theater on the lower east side in Manhattan). Its a variety, cabaret, service celebrating
the arts. One of my lovely followers, Maritza is involved in the production and sent along an
email to see if I'd like to be involved. It sounded a little different, weird, odd but fun.
It was one of those times where it felt right to just say yes and see what would happen.
And the theme was COLOR!!
I decided to do 9 22x30" monochromatic paintings in a rainbow show of color, I chose mainly
a table top theme so I would know what to do each time I went to work.
I painted these in acrylic and gouache, It was fabulously fun, I've been wanting to paint larger
for some time but just never seem to get to it. But in reality 3 weeks wasn't enough time
to paint so many, I got 5 done.
Here are 4 plus a purple one...
But the wall behind the stage where I was going to hang my work was huge and I wanted
impact.
So I chose 13 pieces of art from my sketchbooks and blew them up to 30x43" and had them
printed. I scan all my art at 400dpi, for this I used an app called alien skin blowup that converts
the art to vector for a sec, blows it up to whatever size and then returns it to pixels, It WORKS!!
At home on Saturday my husband and I put command strips on the back of each
piece so when we got there we could just hang it up. It still took over an hour, there were
singers, and musicians and dancers all practicing at the same time. But it happened.
Everyone was so welcoming and fun.
When the show started, the MC, Chris Wells came out, who had been in jeans and a very
plain button down shirt like this:
What a hoot! He was funny and interesting. There was great music, poetry, stories and
meditation. A dancer from American Ballet theater danced a gorgeous blues piece,
we laughed and and really enjoyed ourselves. Everyone involved was so professional
and creative. They brought me up to ask questions, which I have a video of but cant
seem to upload, If I can figure it out I will add it later.
Thanks for looking !
Please see my whole sketchbook project here
