The Crowd Returns

We had a couple of months over the summer with low turnout at the crits, but it seems that artists are now ready to come back and show and talk art.  Although notice only went out yesterday afternoon, a little over 24 hours later we had 10 people in the Studio, and 8 with art to show.

The most recent layout sketch for my supermarket rubble piece is a the top of the tack board, and leaning against the board (from left to right) Mary L's completed portrait piece, four mixed media paintings from Sheilagh, two paintings and several small sketches form Mary G, and some found object food sculptures form Lisa.  On the floor in the foreground, Margery's ceramic ball of faces, a computer pad from Harriet with images of a painting and the commercially made blanket derived from it, and a bunch of mixed media pieces from Molly.

Above and below are two views of Margery's ceramic piece, a sphere made up of dozens of interesting faces- mostly human, but some animals are mixed in.

Mary L had seen an early sketch of my new supermarket print last month, but it was new to everyone else.  After a quick overview of the nature of the series I described the story behind the image.  Ideas raised included making it more a night scene (I had mentioned it was around dusk when the event occurred), and exaggerating the size of the pile of bricks removed from the car.  I'll consider both.