Living back in the city and loving it, the footprint of my home is more of a thumbprint. My first artmaking in this new space is for the set of Blue Heron Dance's spring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I had a couple of sets I was using as inspiration, which I now can't find the pics of. So I just started working from scratch, using paint colors from past sets (the blue of Romeo and Juliet, the Purple of Firebird, the green from Giselle, the turquoise of my dining room walls which I am just in love with) to create a night woods landscape. In a week or so I will start painting these onto flats that are 4 feet wide by 13 feet tall, to be assembled by a bunch of dance dads the week before the production.
I haven't posted any blogs in a year. Not since I was poised to move into my new art studio. Oh who needs a big fancy island art studio with a water view, right? Sure it can be a great place to meet your friends while wearing black turtle necks and sipping expresso. I started this blog to chronicle my return to artmaking after a long break filled with teaching and parenting. A big part of that return was finding time and space devoted to art. Four years later and now in my re-return, I am discovering that all I really need for an art space is a kitchen table and shelves for supplies. That is, until it's time for dinner.
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