For a person who adores winter and cold weather and the Far North, I'm surprisingly also a lover of August. August is slow, golden, and ripe. Every year as the last days of July approach, I fall head over heels again. That light--- honey-colored and with a tinge of blue, too, in the afternoons--- bewitching.
This particular August is important for me, both in terms of what I've completed and what's to come, in my art life.
Nine illustrations for Walter Magazine in their August issue! Here are a couple of them:
The work for my art show with my dear friend Ippy Patterson, opening August 30th at the Ackland Museum Store! Can't show it now, but will after opening day. But, whew, to be finished with the work feels so good!
And in other news, Italy... the Adriatic Coast, to be precise ! I've been selected to attend a conference in Rimini, Italy in October on the theme of travel and blogging. Expenses paid, the opportunity to meet wonderful travel bloggers from all over the world, to meet with and brainstorm with people in the travel trade in Italy, to see what can happen when people who are passionate about travel and telling their travel stories get together! This is the second such conference and it seems to me to be a particularly Italian and lovely concept! More about this later!
Forgive me for my July absence, but you can see I've been busy in the studio!
Happy golden August to you!
Sarah, I'm not aware of any. That would have been a great idea, though!
Posted by: Laura | September 07, 2014 at 01:23 PM
Any sketchcrawls organized at the Botanical Gardens?
Posted by: Sarah gilley | August 13, 2014 at 05:02 PM
Inspiring - as always!! :0)
Posted by: sandra busby | August 13, 2014 at 09:27 AM
Thank you so much, dear Lucy and Cecelia. I don't know about August in Brittany but I loved September there. If I had two lives, a good part of one of them would be spent there. Cecelia, I had forgotten that you and I talked about August light then. I love you and miss you terribly.
Posted by: Laura | August 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM
'The green fuse' is a great title. Your work looks ravishing as ever, I do like Ippy's artichoke flower too.
I'm not a great fan of August, I hate the flies most of all, but the baked goldenness of it can be lovely, and I kind of like a bit of chillier wet weather at this time sometimes. It reminds me of a bit in an Iris Murdoch novel ('The Sea, the Sea' I think) where it's cold and wet and 'not the yellow, Provençal August that the English dream of'. British summer holidays are short compared to most other countries, so much is invested in August weather!
Have fun in Italy, it sounds wonderful and you certainly deserve it.
Posted by: Lucy | August 09, 2014 at 04:55 AM
Every August I think about the time, driving back from Ocracoke, that you called my attention to the change in the light and how much you loved it.
We had such a good visit and I miss you so much already!!!
Posted by: Cecelia | August 06, 2014 at 01:41 AM