Now at Westmont Museum

VITAL

A Tri-County Juried Exhibit

Exhibition Dates: May 21 – June 20, 2015

Juror: Ciara Ennis – Director/Curator, Pitzer College Art Galleries

Boiling Storm 48x24" ©2015 N Strasbutg

There is only a couple more weeks left to see the annual show at Westmont!There are some real beauties in the show.

Museum Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm

Worktable Wednesday

Back to the easel...

snow path, low tide, foggy shore, roiling clouds

after a printmaking workshop using copper drypoint.

Wilson's Warbler in the shrub

Worktable Wednesday 2014

A new year, a new start. 

New oil sketches on the easel.

It feels good to be back at work.

Home Again

Paintings home from abroad are welcomed with open arms and eyes. They were finished and shipped off before there was time to absorb them. It's nice to look and be reminded, feel, the path, the journey.

Los Pinos 6 12x12" ©2013

Los Pinos 1 12x12" ©2013

Beautiful Summer Storms

Worktable Wednesday - computer day

Camping and our local mountains are foremost in my mind today as I sit preparing my next collection of stamps for production. I am creating a grouping of creatures from our local forest along with the human experiences of camping in our wilderness.

Working on the computer all day... not my favorite thing to be doing. Spending time dreaming about my next adventure in the pines.... makes it more pleasurable.

The prototypes will be in the shop by the end of the month and the manufactured versions by the end of July {fingers crossed!} You will know when I know. Happy trails.

Beautiful California. The black blob is our Los Padres Forest.2700 square miles of habitat with Mt. Pinos being it's highest peak at 8831 feet. © N Strasburg

hiking anyone? © Strasburg

our friendly black bear fresh out of hibernation © Strasburg

campfires © Strasburg

roasting © Strasburg

long hikes © Strasburg

and a good tent © Strasburg

Oh happy day!

What a grand surprise and start to June. LOOK what showed up on my doorstep today from the ever talented Teresa Zepeda! Such a lucky girl am I...

Trials  ©2012 Teresa Zepeda

The amazing Teresa is a printmaker. I have gushed about her before, her impeccably outrageous technique in silkscreen. This one steals my own heart as the dog looks so much like my Skye...but I can't stop staring at it because, well, it's Teresa's, super-dilly-icous, edible art. Thank you thank you thank you.

First Thursdays May

The Spring Salon opens this evening....

Island Hike Diptych 19.5x59" ©NStrasburg

in addition there are three other galleries hosting a wide variety of images from Anders Aldrin to Howard Warshaw and new works by Joseph Goldyne. 

Tonight at Sullivan Goss, 7 & 11 East Anapamu.

Don't forget! The Channing Peake Gallery will be premiering the new juried show by Santa Barbara Printmakers. 105 East Anapamu... first floor of the County Building.

And then there is always the fabulous shows at The Project... tonight featuring new work by Rafael Perea de la Cabada. 

4 East De La Guerra.

First Thursdays, May 3rd, 2012 from 5-8pm

Snow Beautiful

snow cold

s'no wonder

i have s'no voice

Worktable Wednesday - Framing

Every surface covered

Piles from my own collection

Stamps are in the mix AND paintings

Silkscreen from Small Stump

Ms. Molly gets a frame

Molly ©2012 Teresa Zepeda

That's right! This is a silkscreen, an amazing print.
Astonishing detail Ms. T

More work from Teresa HERE.

Snow Day

Worktable Wednesday

Back at the easel this week.

Coming soon: Silkscreens

A new idea, another way to use my stamp images

Worktable Wednesdays: woodcut

With the recent closing of my exhibition Islands Valleys Home, I am back in the studio wondering what is next. As a diversion I continue to work on my rubber stamp company, Two Dog Stampede. It's starting to border on obsession, okay, well, maybe it's already passed that!  Looking at the wee stampages, I notice that they are getting better {from quantity comes quality, no?}. Some I envision as larger images.

Today, I embarked on seeing if that hypothesis can be proved. I plotted out one of the feline images, two Abyssinian cats curled together in blissful sleep. We'll see if my carving skills are as refined on something that is bigger than two inches square.

Some day, in my not so far off future, the easel and getting back to that lovely fixation with pushing paint around. Until then, the scrape of tools on wood sounds good to me.

Transferring the image to the woodblock with hosho and rice glue

new stampages 2012

work table with block ready & new stamps

Road trip Palm Springs

From us to you.

Have yourself a merry happy new year. Thank you for your love, support, kindness and generosity throughout the year{s}. I wouldn't be where I am, or who I am, without you and you all know who I'm talking about.

Blessings and light in 2012.

Thank you Westmont Auction!

Recently the new Museum at the Westmont College campus held a great fundraising event called 5X5. It was a super idea which included over 400 artists producing images five by five inches. And let me say, five by five of superb, delicious, irresistible pieces. 

It was a chance to donate, participate, advocate, and celebrate a new building, a new art center AND best of all! take home a one of kind something from your choice of over 500 small images. A spectacular idea to auction off really wonderful works to support a new venue for celebrating art in our community.

Me? I took home four lovelies for my very own.

 Money by James Elston {Gouache, Acrylic & Colored Pencil}

 Untitled by Lloyd Dangle {Ink on Paper}

Behind the Shadow by Luigia Martelloni {Mixed Media}

Wonderland by Barb Parmet {Digital Print}