Art Show and my babies were sick

This last 10 days I was taking care of my daughters. My 5 and 3 year old were sick and they were feeling very bad. After sleepless night and trips to the doctor today they feel good.
I am working on small new paintings that I will show you later. Now I want to share with you that I was accepted on the show "Arte Caliente" at Betz Gallery.
If you are in Houston July 18 come to enjoy some art and margaritas. I will be there :) In other news I can't believe Michael Jackson passed away. I use to be great fan. I even won a dance contest with his moves. I am going to get some of his songs on my iphone, I will make a ringtone on his memory this week.

New painting, a covered Venus

One of my favorite artist is Botticelli and I painted my rendition of "The Birth of Venus" already but I had to do it again. This one is different though.
Botticelli painted Flora (spring) welcoming Venus. Flora is about to cover Venus with a red oxide/orange cape. Well I painted Venus covering herself with that cape. I painted also the little pink flowers and I continued the painting on the sides.
This piece measures 6"x12" it is Acrylic on stretched canvas and has a crackelure effect. My prior post is sad but I am already over it. I am a strong believer that when one door closes another better opens up. So everything has a reason in life.
I am not quitting applying for shows. I will continue to do so. I know the market here is very competitive and rejection is part of the process.
I learn that The Bayou city Arts Festival, received 900 applications for only 300 spots. So I think it was a hard work for the jurors to reject artist.
Thank you for all your encouraging words, it meant a lot to me.
Hugs.

Rejected

After spending a week in Orlando enjoying Disney and Seaworld we decided to have a couple of quiet days on the beach.
We came down to Manasota key, a beautiful community. I can see the beach through my window. It is so beautiful...
Today is our last day here and tomorrow we are going home.
In one of my trips to the house (searching for sun screen) I couldn't help but check my email on my Ipod.
There I saw an email from "Bayou City Art Festival" titled "Jury Results"
I got really excited because I was encouraged by so many people to apply to the festival that I though I was going to be accepted, but I was rejected.
I am pretty bummed out.
I didn't think I was going to be sad if I was rejected because there are so many good things going on with my art here but I am.
Now I am going to get some rest and get ready for 17 hours of driving back home. Good night my friends.

New website, me on the newspaper and vacation time!

I am very excited today. I am leaving on a vacation to Florida and I am so ready for some relaxation! Another thing that excited me is that a local newspaper mentioned me and the fact that I am going to be a feature artist in White Linen Night on August 1. This is a big event here and I am so excited to be part of it (pinching myself) I am so thankful to Mitch Cohen, the organizer, for helping me to show my art locally

In other news MY WEBSITE IS UP, yay! I made the site in 3 days . I don't think is that great and I will be adding more things but I like the look. My husband helped me with technical stuff, thanks honey!
I really wanted the website to be up now, with all this newspaper/postcard promotion. Check it out at http://www.adrisart.com/ and let me know what do you think.

Not much done

I didn't work to much these days. My husband was on a trip and it is so hard to take care of the kids and work.

I finish this doll. I made it in a different way that I made my Gritty Jane. I made my pattern, I try a different way to make the face and I use a different material for the skirt but it looks so similar to the other one!

Well, I guess it will take time to make it different.

I am also working in another painting and on my website, that I think will be up tomorrow (so many, many problems with it! so frustrating)

Something really good happen this week. I am going to be the feature artist of August "First Saturday Arts Market" and they put one of my paintings on the postcards.

Have a great week!

Etsy Update!

Arts Market, a painting and changing store

I can finally blog, yay! I had a very busy weekend and it was hard to start the week.

The art fair was good but very hot, my goodness I got a tan and I wasn't exposed to the sun that much.

The arts market wasn't that populated, some people believed the swine flu was the reason. I can't complaint because I had good sales.

This is my booth. I made new friends and my blogger friend Jennifer Dedonato was there. My mother in law came to visit and also stayed with me for some time.

I wanted to show you one of the paintings. This is "Peasant Sisters" 11"x14" with crackle finish.
The same day the Arts Market was on, the art and antique store "The Homestretch" went out of business (I was selling my paintings there) Maura, the owner gave me this beautiful book as a present. I am going to be working on more Fridas, I am very inspired.
I am going to be in another store here in Houston, but as my paintings are not there yet, I will be putting some of my paintings on Etsy until I take them physically there.

Happy 5 de Mayo!

Today!

Come to see this great Arts market today!

To all the people that came to this blog thinking it was my website, I apologize. I though my website was going to be up and running by now but It didn't happen (some technical problems) I have www.adrisart.com redirected to my blog but in the future you will be able to purchase art, see my portfolio and future events on that web address.
Thank you for your interest and patience.
Adri.

New paintings

I have been working on new paintings and here they are.

"Mary" is a big one (for me at least) it is a 15"x30" acrylic on canvas with (and according to my art book this is the right term) fine crackelure This is "Spring" and was created without sketching, I did the Mystele method, stare at the canvas until I see something. The flowers are concentric circles. 6"x12" acrylic on canvas.
Yesterday I submitted my application for the next "Bayou City Art Festival" I hope I get accepted.
I took my booth shot but I don't think I will use those panels for the festival. It will be on October so by then I will have mesh panels that are way lighter and easy to transport.

This is my booth now.

If you are in Houston (The Heights area) come and see my work at "First Saturday Arts Market" next Saturday May 2th *548 West 19th Street Houston, Texas 77008

Getting ready for Yale Art Market

Today was "prints" day. I didn't have much so I took pictures of my new work got images of my old ones and I went to my favorite print place.
They are so nice there! I also had an encouraging moment while I was waiting for my prints to come out of the machine.
A very sweet man behind me asked me where I got the images I was printing and I told him I painted them. He browsed through the prints (60 of them) and ask me if he could buy a couple of them. I said yes and I gave him the still hot from the machine prints.
I love to see people reacting to my work. This happened to me before but with commissions, I should go to the print store more often.

I have 17 paintings for the Art market and I keep painting and painting (but I always think is not enough)
This is one of them. Another Frida, 11"x14" acrylic on canvas with antiquing.

This is my rendition of "Antea" by Parmigianino, painted between 1531 and 1534

My version is 11"x14" Acrylic and I added a crackle effect.My husband finished the display panels and I will take some pictures later to show you.
I want to apply for the "Bayou City Art Festival" and I have to give them a booth shot so I have to work on that.
I hope you like my new paintings.