Valentine's Day

Oh Valentine's Day, I remember when I used to avoid you. Now, however, I just try to get enough time to celebrate with my husband. We generally have some project going on that gets in the way. In China, while we were shooting a music video, it wasn't until 11pm that we realized it was Valentines Day, and it was our Chinese Translator who informed us. I think at the end of the night we grabbed a bottle of wine, but we were still with the crew for most of the night. This is generally how it goes. Not that I'm complaining. It happens to be that Tab and I like working together. It's one of the reason we have a reason to celebrate our relationship. Maybe we don't need a highly advertised day to celebrate how lucky we are, but hell, I'll take any excuse I can to get some quality alone time.

So I'm going to make a point of putting some time aside to spend with my hubby this Valentines Day. Maybe we'll go for a hike on this trail we found the other day, or go see one of the many performance shows I've seen going on of late (I noticed a Mozart performance, "Cosi Fan Tutte", Love With A Twist, at the Portland Opera House).



Who knows, but if all goes to plan, we won't be working. We will however, be working before Valentines Day, and we've set up a couple places to be before Valentines Day for you to find us.

I mentioned before that you can find us at Last Thursday on Alberta.

We are also going to be at the Urban Grind Valentines Day Gift Fair January 31st with Valentines Day Cards as well as our usual work from 12 - 4pm.

We still have our online sales going on, so you're welcome to pick something up there as well. Be sure to order it in time for us to ship it to you before V Day. (about 5 days before hand).




As a side note, I know I said our gallery would be open in January, but we all decided we needed a bit of a break. So the FrogFaith gallery is closed until March. You can still order prints to pick up at the gallery or call/email ahead if you would like to come in.

For those of you who would rather Valentines Day take a dirt nap this year, I happened to notice a few events you might be interested in. I also saw a few in WW that looking interesting too that I don't have here.

Sat Jan 30th Hate Roller Derby: Complete with Hate Cards and Hate Poems





LOVE STINKS, LET’S DRINK ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY BARFLY BUS TOUR
Dancing, Karaoke, and from the sounds of it, so much alcohol, you won't remember enough to regret it the next day.

Windy Days of January...

Some news of late.
Tab and I went to Seattle last weekend, to a warm welcome from local Seatelites. Thank you all who came and said hello. :) As a side note, I had some of the most amazing steak chilly there and munched on fresh vegetables all day.

Unfortunately, we won't be coming back for the next two weeks as we have other things to do here in Portland.


January 21st and 22nd


This Thursday and Friday , you can catch us at the Sylvania PCC, setting up our booth. We will most probably have some sort of Student Sale going on...


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Last Thursday (January 28th)

As long as the weather allows, we're also planning on hopping over to January's Last Thursday in NE Portland, which we haven't been to since November I think, maybe even since October! I think it's high time we come back. The wind has been a little crazy lately, but as long as it subsides a bit, we'll be there.



Urban Grind (January 31st)


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The following Sunday, we will be at Urban Grind coffee house at 2214 NE Oregon Street 97232 with a group of artists and crafters. I will most likely have my new Numberism Valentines Day Cards as well as some Calendars I'm trying out. Come down and take a look and tell me what you think. We'll be there from about 12 to 4pm.



Let's see, let's see... what other news is there? Ah, Tab and I are nearly finished with The Teenagers Guide to Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse's first issue! Which I'm very excited about. It has been a long process, having started it during our busiest time of the year, but it's really come along, and I'm looking forward to having more time to hammer out issue 2 (which really jumps into the story!)

Yesterday I started to also dabble in some work that I'm thinking about using for my next series. I'm not sure yet if this will be it, but it merges my obsession with numbers and the chance to use more oil paint. I'll have pictures of it up soon. It focuses on the consequence of wasting a moment, rather than just the benefit of appreciating it.

Beyond that, I've gone sale crazy on our online shops. Not sure exactly what spurred this, but everything on every site has been knocked down.

At our FrogFaith Site, all work has been brought down to booth prices or lower, as well as our shipping and handling. (The collections and limited editions have been seriously cut)

I've taken half off shipping and handling on everything in my Etsy store (sometimes more). Etsy has a selection of my available works and prints. The full series, my paintings and Tabulanis's work are all available at FrogFaith.com/gallery


At my Redbubble shop, I've cut everything down 10%. This is where you can buy T Shirts, Greeting Cards, Redbubble Calendars, Posters, Framed Prints, Mounted prints and Canvas Prints. All of my work is available here.

That pretty much covers all news I think. You're always welcome to email me with questions. I hope that 2010 is proving to be a great year for all of you.

Come Rain, Come Shine?

Tab and I are considering going back up to Seattle for this weekend's Fremont Sunday Market, but we've been following the weather and it looks like it's going to be raining Sunday. We don't mind getting a little wet, but our question to you, is whether or not you do.

So to all the Seattleites on my email list; will you brave the weather to come see us this weekend? If enough of you email back that you will, then Tab and I will be happy to come. I might even bring the latest painting I've been working on. :)

Send me an email at Sienna.Morris@Gmail.com and let me know if you'll be there. By Saturday, I will send out an email letting you all know whether or not we're coming.

New Toy

I spoke to a woman today in marketing and soaked up some good advice. Felt inspired and active so I fixed up my website a bit with some of her critques in mind.

It's always been difficult to show people my numberism work through my website, because you just couldn't get the feel and reality of all the tiny little numbers on images and screens that small. I've also had customers come to me, saying that they were trying to describe the technique to their friends but that the idea just wasn't coming across. All that is in the past now that I have Zoomify (real name, I'm not making that up, though it is nifty to say). I've taken my high resolution scans and dumped them into this program so that you can now zoom into even the smallest areas (given I had a good scan before selling the piece).

It's officially my new toy, and I keep playing with it, looking at numbers there's no way I could have seen with the naked eye.... which makes me wonder how I drew them that small to begin with...

Anyway, it's up now, so you can go to my website's Portfolio , in the Numberism section (and only numberism), when you click a thumbnail, you get to see the full glory and madness of numberism.

Seattle Fremont Market

After successfully finding a new vehicle, Tab and I decided we will take a trip up to Seattle for the Fremont Market. We're heading up this weekend for Sundays' show.

So if you're in Seattle, stop on by and say hello.

Also at our booth with be Seattle artist, Christen Shaw, whom I mentioned earlier.

Progress in Oil Paint

I haven't painted in a long time. Not since I started Numberism. A friend of mine posed for me a while back and my friend, Ian, took the lovely photographs. Just last month my mother sent me oil paints from my late grandfather, and all the pieces fell together. Opportunity to pick up that brush again.

I'd say my greatest weakness as a painter is a lack of patience. I was always too eager to see the final product, always seeking instant gratification. I suppose Numberism helped me with that. With each row of numbers, more light, more shadows and more dimension came through. At any point, if I were to become too eager, too rushed, the piece would have been ruined. I had to keep my excitement at bay and slowly let the image appear.




Sitting in front of my easel, I feel calmer. I can take my time. There's never been a rush afterall. I have all the time in the world to finish this painting.

I draw a page of the comic book, take a break and put down another layer. It was a painting, after all, that got me the gig drawing the comic.





It's not finished. A lot of this is under painting, but it's getting there. Time to pull out the linsead oil and smooth out the light on her chest.

Numberism Wedding

For Christmas, I was commissioned to draw a numberism portrait of this couple's wedding day. The husband ordered the drawing for his wife for a Christmas present. I am told she loved it. :)

I was given this photograph to draw from, which captured a beautiful moment of the couple on the bridge were they took their vows.



It was less than 2 weeks before Christmas, and we were all getting ready for the Festival of The Last Minute, not to mention that I was still working on the Comic Book. I wondered if I could draw it in time. My partners picked up the slack for all the printing and stretching responsibilities and let me draw. Tab, unfortunately got very sick for the entire week, and so while I was busy drawing, the rest of our group was pouring blood sweat and tears into the coming week to compensate for the missing players.

The drawing flowed from me. I haven't worked on a numberism drawing since "Transitional" (the fall tree and leaves), and I had finished that over a month ago. I missed it. The calm, the precision, the almost meditative effects of drawing numberism. It was no trouble at all to finish it in time. It was a pleasure. I decided to draw the bouquet of roses in full color and have the pedals fly off into the next moment, signifying that while time progresses, they are still together; solid despite the passage of each moment.

I wasn't able to scan it in time, so I don't have as good of close ups as I could have, but my friend managed to take pretty good photos of the final piece so I could share it with you.

This drawing is 16" x 24". Micron pens on Vellum paper.