I've Moved

I've moved all my posts to my website, www.FleetingStates.com . If you would like to follow me, come on by to the new haunt.

Hey, it's snowing..... kind of

I can tell the holidays are here because it started snowing yesterday, not much, but enough to remind me that they're on their way. That's good too, because it reminded me to write this blog.

We are going to be at a few Holiday Markets and events this season. As always, you can find us at our usual spot at Skidmore Saturday and Sunday Market right up till Christmas Eve (Take the Max to Skidmore Fountain and you have arrived). We will also be at the Christmas Bazaar starting Black Friday! It's at the Portland Expo center, November 26th - 28th and December 3rd -5th. We will have a bit of a Holiday sale as well.


The 28th Annual America’s Largest Christmas Bazaar
@ Portland Expo Center
Nov 26th - 28th & Dec 3rd - 5th
Open Friday & Saturday, 10am-6pm, and Sunday, 10am-5pm
located just south of the I-5 Interstate Bridge. Take exit 306-B from I-5 north or south.
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Next we have Portland Saturday Market's "Holiday Artisan Market", where you can find your favorite Saturday Market Artists during the week, for one week only, December 7th - 12th. Visit us at Pioneer Courthouse Square!

"Holiday Artisan Market",
Pioneer Courthouse Square
December 7th - 12th 11:30am - 6:30pm

701 SW Sixth Avenue
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Relativity Exhibit November 4th - 20th

It's been a pretty long time since I've last posted a blog. I guess I've been keeping busy.

Well, I have something to blog about, so here goes:

Our little company, FrogFaith Media Group, is partnering up with the classy, AM Living, in downtown Portland for an exhibit this November. We're calling it the "Relativity Exhibit". Tab and I are showing a new collection of work in AM's beautiful showroom. My collection is "Here and Now". I have a series of Math and Science scratch board etchings (many of which you have seen, but a few that you have not), as well as the continuation of my Perpetual Motion series on time and living in the present. The new "Evening" series focuses on moments to cherish once the sun sets and ranges from 6pm - 6am. I will be showing a collection from this unfinished series. All but one of these pieces will be revealed for the first time at the exhibit.

There will, of course, be a wide selection of prints, and the possibility of some special limited editions.

The Math and Science series has become a new fascination with me. My aim is to capture beautiful or amazing aspects of our world (and possibly beyond), and draw them with the information that makes them function in such awesome ways. It's like pulling back the first layer, and seeing all the glorious information teaming beneath. Reason, patterns, numbers unfolding into the beautiful images that fill our lives.

For each piece, I do hours, days or weeks worth of research, and while much of it is based on subjects I had at least a loose understanding and interest in, much of it is new for me, and has allowed me to continue learning and pushing myself forward. As an artist, I'm sure you can understand that I am not predisposed to Math and Science. Conceptually, sure, but we artists have rarely been associated with left brain thinking. That doesn't mean I have to like it, and it doesn't mean I have to stick with it.

This world is fascinating, and every time I learn more about it, I am pushed on to learn more.... also it does have the dull effect of realizing just how little I know now, knowing that there's so much to learn. Research Scientists, Physicists and Mathematicians are constantly redefining their field and data and seem to be skimming the surface of the full range of what's going on in this complicated universe. Given that, it's obvious that I have light years to go.

But the process is wonderful in itself. I am often eager to draw, feeling that compulsive need to put "pen to paper" (often an obsessive need that's hard to ignore), and I find myself having to reign myself in and finish researching first, but I enjoy it just as much.

I've become a Documentary Junky.
I'm pretty busy with our little company, printing, market and drawing new pieces, so I don't have as much time as I'd like to research, but I get it in as much as possible, and when I don't have time, I find I miss it.

Oh right, news. I should back to talking about the show.

Tab, my wonderfully talented husband, is creating a series specially for the show. His series is called "Far and Away", and centers around his fictional company "Watson Positronics" and it's new Luxury Space Ship, Phaeton One, on a trip through space. He's creating this in Blender (always open source), and will be showing a collection of these pieces at the show.

We will have live music, wine, cocktails and prints. It should be a lot of fun and we're excited to show the new work.

The pertinant dates and info are below.

Come see us November 4th - 20th at AM Living in the Galleria!

AM Living in the Galleria

600 SW 10th Ave and Morrison

Portland, OR

Soft Opening: Thursday, November 4th, 7pm - 11pm
GRAND OPENING: Saturday, November 6th, 7pm - 11pm
*This is the day we are revealing all the new work*
Live music by Cassia DeMayo
Special Event: Saturday,November 13th, 7pm - 11pm
Closing Gala:Saturday, November 20th, 7pm - 11pm
*Live Music by Trashcan Joe *

Siren Nation - Live Painting Auction

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A live art auction and live paint featuring 30 of the Northwest’s greatest artists.
Music by DJ Safi and Calico Rose.

The Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Oregon
Thursday, August 12 | 7-10pm | $10

(I stole the above ad from Bret Superstar's blog, because it's rather rad).

Tonight, Thursday August 12th, at the Jupiter Hotel, in Portland Oregon, I am making my first ever Live Numberism Painting for Siren Nation's "Paint Your Art Out" live auction.

Siren Nation is an Oregon based group that offers support, inspiration and creative and professional outlets to female artists in music, film and visual arts. They hold year round events, performances and exhibits, and nights like tonight help keep them going.

If you are interested in owning an original numberism piece, I recommend coming tonight. The live painting pieces are 2 x 3 feet. I plan on using paint pens, and the subject matter is avian in nature.
But I'm not alone up there. There are 5 of us painting live, as well as a variety of printed artwork up for auction, including a couple of my prints, and Tabs as well.

See you there. It should be fun.











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PDX Gen-Y Interview

I will be on PDX Gen -Y, (of PDX.FM) tomorrow (Monday) at 1pm. Bret Bernhoft will interview me, most likely, on all things numberism. But I don't know, it could go crazy. I may go off on a random rant. Tune in to find out! :P

PDX Gen-Y

Hosted by Bret Bernhoft

Mondays at 1pm

PDX Gen-Y is a look at the influences in our lives. From DIY culture to Portland City politics, the idea of community is explored. Your host, Bret Bernhoft, interviews natives and new-comers alike, trying to capture what it means to be young in the city. With a dash of curiosity and a serving of backyard experience, PDX Gen-Y is your source for the Portland experience.

Tune In.

Seahorses, Fireflies and Beaches at Sunset

Recent Happenings:

We have been meeting more and more of the friendly neighbourhood PSM regulars, as we have recently started setting up shop on the Portland Saturday Market side as well as our usual Skidmore location.

I have been delegating stretching our canvas prints to other people in our company or friends, as the last time I stretched these prints, my hand was out of commission for over a week. I injured it after having stretched about 100 prints, and it hurt so badly, I couldn't open a door or flick a lighter, let alone draw for my usual 6 hours a day. So no stretching for me! - Many thanks to my friends who have been picking up my slack.

I will be painting live next month for a local charity, and I plan to paint in numbers. The piece will be auctioned off at the end of the show, so this might be a good way to get an original numberism drawing without having to pay a couple grand to do so.... I will devote another post to that next week. It will be August 12th, in Portland.

* We will be at Last Thursday tomorrow with all the new work I refer to below. :) Come see us.

I have a few new pieces to speak of (come on Sienna, get to the good stuff! ) ;)

From a recent comission, here is my newest scratchboard etching, which is currently titled "Seahorse", unless one of you have a cleverer name for it. I wanted to draw the seahorse with the remaining population, as they have recently entered into the endangered species list, but there are no accurate figures curently. (Anyone who knows good resources for genome data, please send me links, as I have a frog to draw that I could use that information with.)

Anyway, so the seahorse itself is drawn with the numbers of the clock, 1 - 12, which I think is relevant, seeing as their time here has a ticking clock these days. The sea grass I drew with the number 12000, to signify the 12000 square miles of sea grass destroyed in the last decade. With those two pieces of data combined, I think I got around the fact that there is no hard data on their estimated population, while still getting my point across.

Below, is the finished scratchboard, with watercolour wash, as well as some detail images.




You can purchase this at our FrogFaith gallery at www.FrogFaith.com/gallery , my Etsy account at www.SiennaMorris.Etsy.com

Next up is a new piece from my Math and Science series. My friend, Traci, (who is a killer stylist at the Chameleon Salon) let me use her beautiful daugher, McKenna, as the model.
The Firefly's abdomens are drawn with the chemical formula for their bioluminescence, C12H13N203S2. The light emitted from the fireflies (the jar and everything in it that is visable due to light), is drawn with the speed of light, 299792458 m/s. The girl is drawn with the numbers of the clock, 1 - 12, to signfiy time in her fleeting moment. All my people will always be drawn with time.

Completed piece and details below. Buy a print at www.FrogFaith.com/gallery







Next up is actually an oldy... kind of. I drew this etching of Cannon Beach a couple of months ago and never got around to getting a good scan of it in full colour. I'm finally printing it now. I used a local photographer that you can find at PSM for the refernce photo of the beach. I am a terrible person, because I can't seem to find his contact info right now, but I promise to let you know as soon as I get it. :)

Completed piece and details below. Buy a print at www.FrogFaith.com/gallery

CBLDF Auction @ SDCC

I am excited to say that I am participating in this years Comic Book Legal Defence Fund at the San Diego Comic Con. I am unhappy to say that I won't actually be able to physically be there for it, so those of you who are going have to have an extra good time to make up for me not being there.

This worked out brilliantly. I needed to draw a portrait of my friend, John C. Worsley, in return for him drawing me (see his version of me below)


He happens to have a bit of a (possibly) unhealthy obsession with the numbers 12 and 24, but then again, so do I. Being that this is about Comic Books, I decided to use this opportunity to draw Worsely as his comic book identity, which is clearly DC's "The Clock King".

I'm smitten with Batman TAS, and used their version of The Clock King for the piece.

Here it is, as a scratchboard numberism drawing (1 - 12, to mark the hours of the clock, of course). Original is 8" x 10" and will be available at the auction. If you will be there, you should go, and bid. Not just mine. There are many awesome artists participating, including one of my favorites, Jim Lee.






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