Verisimilitude Sylva: Irenic

The first in my new mixed media series, which is titled "Verisimilitude Sylva." This piece is titled "Irenic." It was created with acrylic, gesso, book pages, watercolor, graphite, ink, digital, and paper on canvas. Sealed for protection.



  

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Columbus Alive! mention

My 'Steampunk Columbus' skyline spotted in the newest Columbus Alive! issue. http://www.columbusalive.com

Thanks, William, for the photo!

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"Nature Collection"

Made especially for the 2 year anniversary show at CS Gallery.

Mixed media and organic found objects in shadow box.

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Doodles from an old notebook

There is something so endearing to me about other people's doodles in their notes. It's a little peek at where their mind goes when it wanders.

Here are a few of mine from an old work notebook that I discovered today while cleaning.

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What's New: Spring 2012

Here are some things that are happening in the world of Jannypie:

Craftacular planning is underway for this year. I have taken up my usual role as manager of the Craftacular website and graphics for the event. We've already hung fliers at Gallery Hop once, and have plans for more fliers, postcards, etc. Applications are only open for a few more days, and the show is less than two months away. I also need to start making new art for it!

Click n Doodle is where you'll usually find my most recent art thingies. A good friend and I began the blog as a 365 challenge: he would take one photo a day and I would draw one thing a day, (get it? click and doodle?) and we would post them to the blog jointly to keep each other motivated. Because we are both bums at heart, it hasn't worked out to be daily, per se, but we put new things up as we can. I personally am using it to practice drawing again after so much time spent with paints, mixed media and the computer. You may also see many re-appear in future art pieces (hints!).  Tom primarily uses it to show off and make us jealous of his camera equipment, a ploy which is definitely effective, but don't tell him I said that.

Working girl is what I spend most of my time as lately. I accepted a position doing, basically, everything I wanted to do in a job, alongside coworkers who happen to be way cooler than I am. I do the graphic design, website, social media, branding, and other marketing for a company that makes electronic laboratory notebook software, which makes the research scientist nerd girl in me absolutely delighted. It's good stuff, but I work long days and haven't had much spare time to devote to new art. I am working on new things, however, so I will have things to share soon!

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Skyscrape Tshirt Featured by Skreened

Skreened shoppers may have seen this in their inboxes this week: Skreened's Christmas special local offer, featuring my Columbus Skyscrape design in the ad!

You can buy it right here!

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Comfest 2011

This. is. my. favorite. festival. ever.

Comfest (Community Festival) is an annual holiday festival in Columbus that promotes human and equal rights for all, environmentalism and group participation in building communities. It is a three-day festival that takes place in Goodale Park.

Have I mentioned that this is my favorite festival ever?

Imagine the first really warm days of summer. The final cold fingers of winter and spring has been shaken off for good. The grass is bright green and all the trees have their leaves, but it hasn't hit the dog-hot days of late July. Everyone in the city comes out to celebrate. It's a festival of differences; it celebrates individuality and community, tradition and activism, seriousness and fun. The art tents stretch for blocks, there are six stages, food carts lining the park. And PEOPLE. People packed shoulder to shoulder in their summer wear shopping, drinking, eating, playing music, playing games, sitting on blankets, sitting on chairs, walking their dogs, and, yes, showing their boobs for some of them. (It is legal for women to be topless in Columbus, although one of the few times it is exercised is during Comfest.)

This year, like last, I shared a tent with Adornments by Karla and Kathryn of Arteest. This year we also had Amy from Painted House and More and Melanie from Mel's Clay. We had two side-by-side spots, which we turned into one large joint space, and proceeded to have the single most fun weekend of the year.




Adornments by Karla


Mel's Clay


Arteest


Painted House and More


The walkway in front of our booth


Comfest is also my biggest show of the year, running three days and getting thousands upon thousands of people attending. But the best part is always the PEOPLE. People after people: meeting new ones who like my work, seeing old friends, and having a beer with them all! There is nothing that beats that feeling. Spending warm summer days outside, talking about art, having drinks and delicious food, and meeting hundreds of people who love Columbus just as much as I do... it truly is my favorite weekend of the year. I can't wait to do it all again!

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Graphic Design

Graphic Design, a set on Flickr.

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Craft Show - Eco Chic Craftacular 2011

The Annual Eco Chic Craftacular event is a large 2 day indie craft show, indoors & outdoors, promoting green living, community involvement, handmade art and crafts, buying local to support the economy, and plain old having fun. They have live music, crafts for kids, free swag bags, raffle for AWESOME prizes, live demonstrations and more. I am on the planning committee for this show, and the work that goes into it is a testament to how much we love arts and crafts in the Columbus community. But every year it has so been worth it.

The Eco Chic show is special in many ways:

• "Eco-chic" comes from the ecological focus of the event: Artists who apply are encouraged to bring a more environmentally sustainable approach to their work
• Eco-chic also plays out in the workshops/demonstrations that aim to teach green living techniques to the community 
• It is 2 days, a Saturday and Sunday (unlike the usual Friday-Saturday combo, if any longer than a day), to make it as family-friendly as possible
• Charity: Each year the show donates hundreds of dollars to the Whetstone Community Center (where it is held) in addition to other local environmentally-focused groups
• Community: there is a strong community focus to the show, from gathering sponsorships from locally-owned businesses to having volunteers for the day to giving back to the community when it's done
• Indoors and outdoors: this is a large show. One of the largest in Columbus, at over 60 vendors. By being both indoor and outdoor, you will find crafters whose wares fit great just on a table top, like jewelry and soaps, and also those who like room to expand in the large tents, like clothing and pottery

It also has all the things that make a craft show worth attending:

• Juried entries: all the artists showing must apply and be approved by a panel of judges. This isn't to be exclusive, but to promise to shoppers that what they see will be of good quality
• A mix of things to buy: planners also balance what type of crafts are accepted so that there isn't too much of one type of thing
• Swag bags of free giveaways from any participating artists in the show
• FOOD! Locally-owned food truck and cart favorites
• Live music by local artists
• Kids crafts and entertainment

I also happen to be the web designer for the site, http://www.columbuscraftacular.com Any artists or craft show lovers should click on over and add it to their blog lists, to get all the first news of the 2012 show as soon as it is posted!

Here are some photos of the rest of the show:

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