New Business:


I was a busy beaver this week . I have some prints on display and for sale at my fantastic massage therapist's (Julie Bovenzi's) office. It is called Spirit of Wellness and is located in North Grafton, MA. http://www.graftonmassage.com/ . Call and book a massage and buy some great art on the way out!


I also stopped by the Petersham Craft Center in Petersham, MA http://www.petershamcraftcenter.org/ and dropped off some prints, note cards and magnets to sell. It's a beautiful drive along route 122 through part of the Quabbin watershed.


Check out the Post Road Art Center, http://www.postroadcenter.com/ , I have a piece in their mixed media show through January 30th.

I also opened a shop on http://www.cafepress.com/. It will feature some of my art work printed on various objects such as t shirts, mugs, cards and tote bags. The site is www.cafepress.com/KonzaGraphics .


ART:


I belong to the Colored Pencil Society of America http://www.cpsa.org/ and have decided to enter their 17th Annual International Exhibition being held in Atlanta, Georgia. I am working on a piece called "Ode to Uncle Donny". He was a favorite Uncle who died of skin cancer in 2005.


He loved to laugh, play cards/board games and he taught me a lot about native wildflowers. To him a weed was a flower nobody loved.

This is the first section. He was Swedish so I included a Dala Horse (for more info about this interesting folk craft visit http://www.swedsnus.com/ ) and we played crazy eights a lot so the cards will be the eights from each suit. The round object is a glass blown paper weight that he gave me. I am doing this from life. The paper is black and it's the first time I have done work on this dark a paper. I wanted the colors to really pop, plus black is usually associated with death, so I thought it was appropriate. I placed the objects on a mirror (this was a change from my original concept) and hope to be brave enough to do the reflections!

That's it for this week. Back at you next week!