Illustrative Versus

So, all week I’ve been trying to compose a thank-you note for everyone that motivated themselves to stop by my Open Studio. …& to those of you that helped me get ready for it …& helped over the weekend…& those of you that invited your friends…

I wanted it to express my heartfelt gratitude to every single soul that walked through my door over the weekend.

So here I am on Friday still trying to write the perfect note. Perfection is impossible so just let me say this:

Over the last year or so, I’ve had such doubts about being a painter….It’s isolating & well hell, I don’t make a lot of money doing it. To me, the main reward is in connecting w/ people – & there were some people that attended, that truly connected to my work & in turn connected with me…

And that makes it all worthwhile.

Not to mention those of you that put some cash in my pocket, that helps too!

But the main thing is just showing up, something I try to do more & more for my friends, because I’ve come to realize just how much it means.

& thanks to those of you that really tried to attend. I understand that sometimes life gets in the way of our best intentions.

The Big Giant Moon ~
white charcoal pencil on black paper
12” x 12”
19, Mar.

From Emily Perry Tresser’s suggestion

The Big Giant Moon

This piece is part of an ongoing series, In Like a Lion, an interactive project for the month of March where works are produced based on suggestions on my
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/shanon.playford.art

All works will be available at auction on my blog for one month from their date of completion.

If you’d like to bid go here: http://blog.josephsurface.com/auctions

~ Just Outside Siletz ~
Charcoal drawing  9.25” x 6.75” image on 11” x 8” 130lb paper
created on march 7th from suggestion on Mar 6th
No reference material other than suggestion

from Daniel Schulte:
My Mom moved to the country to live off the land in the early ’70s. We raised all kinds of animals and ate some of them. One summer day around 1977, in that ramshackle house there were rabbit skins hanging from the loft, drying…. My brother and I decided to make little caveman or Indian outfits – our Mom (an artist too!) painted our faces – and we got some sticks and hiked to the end our pasture and up to the highway, just outside Siletz, Oregon. When we heard a car coming we’d jump out of the trees and jump up and down with our sticks like wild children. Then we’d run back into the woods. Maybe somewhere in there you can conjure and image. It’s a magical memory for me.

This drawing, Just Outside Siletz, is part of an ongoing series, In Like a Lion, an
interactive project for the month of March where works are produced based on suggestions on my
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shanon.playford.art

All works will be available at auction on my blog for one month after their completion.

If you’d like to bid go here:http://blog.josephsurface.com/auctions/just-outside-siletz

See Janus Art Clearance on my facebook page