Halloween!

Four years ago, under the cover of darkness, an "Unholy Matrimony" took place, forever binding Tab and I in marriage. We celebrate that day again this Halloween.

Tab and I, will be out celebrating all day, and so we will not be at the market this Saturday, however, our awesome, wonderful, considerate friends, will be there for us. Doc (who served as our Reverend), and our friend, Ben, will be at the booth for us near Ankley and 2nd, exhibiting our artwork for us.

Enjoy your Halloween, and we will see you again on Sunday!

And why not?:
If you buy a print in full costume: 15% off!

A New Leaf

Here is the official 3rd leaf for the upcoming exhibit (TBA).
This is just a quick (and poor) shot of it. I will have a proper scan by tomorrow.

This one just flowed right out of me. It felt good. I think my sketch-a-day habits are paying off.

Speaking of which, I have a new blog, The Rogue Sketch Pad at http://RoguesSketches.Blogspot.com I am posting my daily drawings as often as I can here. It's more like an "almost" daily sketch blog.

I think now is a good time to get back at it. I should have this leaf available by Last Thursday.


----- 2 Hours Later-------

Okay, so I couldn't wait. I got a good scan and it's now available for print on Redbubble and Etsy. I will also be printing some of these tomorrow so that I'll have them for Thursday.

Fall News

I haven't been blogging very often lately, so I have a bit of news to catch up on.

First off....

New Work:

I'm still working on the final Perpetual Motion piece. It has proved to be more time intensive than I had anticipated. However, I have finished 2 of the leaves, both of which are now available on our FrogFaith shop at www.FrogFaith.com/gallery.



I am still working on this project and hope to at least finish the large piece in a week. Wish me luck.


Tabulanis:
In other news, I have nagged Tabulanis enough to get him to put the majority of his work on the site as well, so now most of his work is also available for you to view and or purchase right there on the same site.

Sale:
I've decided to have a bit of a sale for all the wonderful people who have bought my work before. To those of you who have ordered from me before, and are looking for more of mine or Tab's work: send me a photo of the print showing ideas for framing or interior design and I will knock 10% off your next purchase. For those of you who are also students, I will knock off 15%. I want to fill up that buyers booth with more beautiful pictures. This also gives me a chance to thank all of you who have been so supportive to me through this series.

Send photos to Sienna.Morris@gmail.com


Soft Opening:
In other other news, which is actually fairly exciting news, Tab and I are planning on having a soft opening soon for our little FrogFaith gallery in NW Portland. We are planning it for later this month. For now, we are painting, arranging and planning, and soon we hope to nail down a date. We will send out an invite to everyone on our guest list just as soon as we're ready. If you're not on our guest list (you'd know by all the emails I would have been sending you), just subscribe to this blog and I'll be sure to put up all the info just as soon as we have it.

And last... but not least
There are a few of you who have been waiting for me to finish this last piece so I can get started on your custom pieces. I will be ready to start on yours next week. I'm holding myself to that, so feel free to nag me if I put it off. Very excited about the pieces. The ideas that are coming to me from my customers are very exciting, actually, each with their own new challenge for me, and I'm eager to show everyone just how inspired they are.


That's all for now, though there are a few other irons in the fire that I'll talk more about later. :)

Boyd Coffee House

I'm hanging some of my giclees at Boyds Coffee house in the Pearl today. Interestingly enough, Boyds asked for some of my old paintings, so among my numberism pieces, there will also be a few paintings that rarely, if ever get seen.

After I am finished hanging, I'll be haunting the Pearl for First Thursday.



Northwest Portland
Pearl District
404 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97210

The Leaf

I drew all day yesterday. Okay, I stopped once or twice to eat and smoke, but mainly I drew. This is what I was working on. An 8" x 10" full color fall leaf in numberism. I won't go into too much detail, but this is part of my plan with the Autumn tree exhibit... more on that later.

First Full Color Numberism Drawing

(Click the image to see full view)

I'm taking a break from working on my latest drawing and I thought I'd put up some shots from it.

It's exciting to be working on this. Another challenge: color.


It's interesting to see how this series/ technique has evolved. From a 10" x 8" pencil drawing, to a 19" x 24" numberism drawing in full color. If you line them all in a row, it's like watching the technique come to life.

So this is my first attempt at drawing with numbers in color. I bought a bunch of pens (in different sizes), a large pad of paper and started sketching. There's a few differences in this one from the others. For starters, this drawing is completely out of my head. There is no reference drawing. I stared at leaves and trees all day, then went to my drawing table and drew the most interesting tree that came to mind. Later I put in the woman reading the book.

Also, in this, I overlap the numbers often to get the color depth I'm looking for.



This is a rather large piece, so it will take some time, but I can't wait to see how it turns out. I also already have a plan for displaying this one. Along with this I will have... oh, you know what, I'm not going to ruin it. It'll be so much cooler when you see it for yourself. As soon as I find a place to display the finished piece, I'll post photos.

This isn't a very good photo of the image, but it gives you an idea. I'll put up more as it progresses. I'm also recording a time laps of this, so I'll have the video when I'm finished as well.

First Thursday @ TeaZone

This month, you can find me at The Tea Zone in Portland's Pearl District. I'm hanging prints from my series through the month of August and will be at The Tea Zone tomorrow night (First Thursday) between 6 - 10 off and on.
Come by and say hello and to see the brand new numberism piece. The new piece is called "Ceremony" and is also having it's debut in Scottsdale, AZ this month.









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