Day 3 - Vermont Studio Center + Indiegogo Campaign

Tuesday, was a very exciting day, as my creativity was flowing. I started with a series of expressive drawing exercises to see where they will lead me, here the results:

My first attempt was rather timid. I used acrylics, charcoal, and graphite on paper.

From this...

...to this.

I love how the wall looked as I took the first painting off the wall:

I took a small break to clear all the snow that had fallen the day before on my car before it gets frozen, and to move the car to a different location so they can plow the parking lot.

Can you find my car?

I guess my color palette was influenced by the landscape colors around me!!

Second piece of paper goes on the wall...

My second attempt was a bit more bold. I used my newly made brush and Sumi Ink, besides of what I used in the first one. Here it is...

Hand-made brush using my own hair

Dipping the brush on the Sumi Ink

First marks added to the paper with Sumi Ink.
Is that a face?

More marks with the ink, and I still see a face in it.

A series of additions and obliteration, my background is done!

The end result!

My studio wall, after the second painting...

And now I'm ready for the third painting...

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Remember, I still need your help to cover the costs of my residency. So, if you like what I'm doing and would like to support an artist, here's 3 ways you can help to make it happen. You can choose to do one, two, or all tree:

1. The obvious one, making a monetary donation of $1 or more, but there are two more ways to help that you're not probably aware of.

2. If you click on the link and go to my Indiegogo page, you can click to any of the Social Media share buttons on the top of my campaign.

3. You can also help big time, by leaving a comment on that page. Click on COMMENTS right above my video, right after you sign into Indiegogo.

Thank you for your help and support!!

Day 2 - Vermont Studio Center + Indiegogo Campaign

As I told you all on my last post, it's hard to post from here, as I only have internet in the studio and in the common areas, not in the dorms. But in keeping with trying to keep you all updated during my Artist-in-Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, here it is:

Monday, we woke up snowing and it snowed all day... Looks so beautiful!

Today was not a productive way per-se, as I had to attend a talk in the morning, sign a contract to pay the rest of my tuition in installments, and file my sales taxes. But I managed to set up the studio, construct a super brush with my hair (no, I didn't cut my hair again, I did it with the hair I have saved from last time, when I cut my hair very short) and it's all ready for tomorrow's creative and "expressive" day. Take a look:

Thanks to our wonderful Harlan, who
made me a paper towel holder!

My encaustic table

Found a shelving unit to accommodate
all my media

I left for the evening, leaving a piece of multimedia paper on the wall, that measures about 4' x 4'. I have so many ideas rumbling in my head!! Let's see what happens on it tomorrow morning!!

I leave you with an snowy image from my studio window. Enjoy it!

http://igg.me/at/corina

Remember, I still need your help to cover the costs of my residency. So, if you like what I'm doing and would like to support an artist, here's 3 ways you can help to make it happen. You can choose to do one, two, or all tree:

1. The obvious one, making a monetary donation of $1 or more, but there are two more ways to help that you're not probably aware of.

2. If you click on the link and go to my Indiegogo page, you can click to any of the Social Media share buttons on the top of my campaign.

3. You can also help big time, by leaving a comment on that page. Click on COMMENTS right above my video, right after you sign into Indiegogo.

Thank you for your help and support!!

Day 1- Vermont Studio Center + Idiegogo Campaign

As promise, here's my first post from Johnson, Vermont.

I arrived yesterday in the afternoon, to the Vermont Studio Center for a month-long Artist-in Residency. After checking-in, I was guided to my assigned studio and dormitory.

I got a nice little first floor apartment, that I get to share with another artist. It has two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen, and a sitting/dinning area. More that we would ever need here, just great!!

My studio is on the Sculptors building and I have already met most of the artists in it. Here's a little clip I filmed yesterday, after I started unpacking my art materials and equipment, so you can get an idea of the space where I'll be working this month...

We don't have internet in the dormitories, only in the studios and on the main house/barn. Therefore, it will be a little more complicated for me to post everyday, but I'll do my best to keep you all updated.

 

http://igg.me/at/corina

Meanwhile, I still need your help to cover the costs of my residency. So, if you like what I'm doing and would like to support an artist, here's 3 ways you can help to make it happen. You can choose to do one, two, or all tree:

1. The obvious one, making a monetary donation of $1 or more, but there are two more ways to help that you're not probably aware of.

2. If you click on the link and go to my Indiegogo page, you can click to any of the Social Media share buttons on the top of my campaign.

3. You can also help big time, by leaving a comment on that page. Click on COMMENTS right above my video, right after you sign into Indiegogo.

Thank you for your help and support!!

Artist-in-Residency at the Vermont Studio Center

Dear readers,

I've been away since November of last year; the holidays, travel to meet my new niece and nephew, and unexpected but wonderful news to start the New Year kept me very busy. But now I'm back, and I'm making it a resolution to write more often again.

One of those good news I received at the beginning of the year, was an invitation to attend the Artist-in-Residency program at the prestigious Vermont Studio Center next month. One of the largest international artist’s residencies in the United States.

The Studio Center comprise of 50 resident artists and writers that I will be a part of. Established visiting artists and writers will come during my stay there and speak about their work in slideshows in the evening, they will also visit the resident artists’ studios to offer critical feedback on their work.

It is an amazing opportunity to be able to spend a month-long time-away for research, reflection, and production, that will for sure benefit my professional artist career. An intensive month to explore new ideas in my artistic practice and to create a new body of work surrounded by a creative and supportive atmosphere. But I need your help in making this opportunity a reality.

For this, I've been working for the past two weeks in building up a crowdfunding campaign in Indiegogo to help me raise the funds I need to take advantage of this opportunity.

Please, click HERE, read my story, and watch my very short video. Your contribution will be much appreciated, whether monetary or by sharing this campaign with your contacts, or by doing both. Any help you can give me will go a long way to make this dream of mine a reality.

Thank you!!

NOTE: You may also click the shortcut on the right side bar next to this post. BTW, the image of the Vermont Studio Center's snowy barn was taken from the Internet as reference. Soon, I'll post my own images from there, Stay tuned to my upcoming posts!!

More info: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/artist-in-residency-at-the-vermont-studio-center/x/9630420

 

Corina Studio E-News for November 2014

Busy week of openings, don't miss them!! Take a look at my newsletter and find out where and when...

November Art News

Trying a new email server, hope it all goes smoothly!

Also, wanted to let you know that there's still time to sign up for my upcoming workshop at Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut:

MIXED MEDIA, WAX, AND THE ARTIST BOOK
Saturday & Sunday, Nov 29 - 30, 10am - 4pm

The Artist Book is a work of art in a traditional book form.

In this workshop, you will learn to alter and repurpose the elements of
a book. You will create 2 Artist Books, one, the accordion book, and
the other one by building its pages using plaster cloth, and other
materials. You will also learn to make Encaustic Medium, that will later
be applied to the books to protect them, and make them more sculptural.
Various mixed media and encaustic techniques will be introduced. You
are encouraged to bring personal items: such as photographs (printed
with toner based copies), imagery, twine, ribbons, fabric, natural
elements or old books. Materials included. Open to all levels.

Facility fee: $15
Cost: $160; members: $146

To Sign up just click here: http://creativeartsworkshop.org/html/classes/workshops.html

Corina Studio E-News for September 2014

Lots of interesting things are happening, take a look...

SEPTEMBER NEWS 

And try to stop by the exhibitions I list, or join me at any of my

classes and workshops.



More information about my classes and workshops by clicking on the tabs above.



Enjoy!

Spectrum Gallery Goes 'All Natural'

 My Elements series of four Encaustic mixed media paintings, is currently on display at the Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT, as part of their exhibition ALL NATURAL. The exhibition will be up until August 10th, 2014.

Elements Series (Water, Fire, Earth, Water) by
(c)2014 Corina S. Alvarezdelugo
at the ALL NATURAL exhibition
Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT

Here's an article published by: Zip06.com - Spectrum Gallery Goes 'All Natural' h3/h3 | News from southern Connecticut about the exhibition. I have added some images from our opening last Friday, for those too far to attend. Enjoy!

Zip06.com: Published 06/25/2014 12:00 AM - Updated 07/01/2014 03:15 PM  
Spectrum Gallery 
Goes All Natural

Artist Christine S. Aaron's installation
My Elements series on the far right.

Spectrum Gallery and Artisans Store at 61 Main Street in Centerbrook presents All Natural, an exhibition of works derived from the natural world, through Aug. 10.

Participating artists include painter and installation artist Christine Shannon Aaron; furniture, acrylic, and mixed media artist Joseph Dermody; Amelia de Neergard, who creates "drawings in space"; mixed media artist, painter, and sculptor Corina Alvarezdelugo; multi-disciplinary artist Amy Hannum; Bevi Bullwinkel, who makes non-objective pieces; sculptor
Ashby Carlisle; sculptor Michael Bobbie; painter Laura Eden; mixed media artist Anna Sidorow; painter Jan Prentice; photographers Elin Dolle, Jason Neely, Tom Kretsch, and Jonathan Steele; glass artists Roger Gandelman, Carolyn Teschke, and Carole Young; fine artisans Pat Shorey and Robin Erpenbeck; fabric artists Jennifer Tansley and felter Kristen Walsh; home décor artisan Cindy Streit Mazzaferro; potters and ceramicists Bonnie Beatrice, Margaret Ulecka-Wilson, John and Kate Hull, Priscilla Palumbo and Nancy Scilipote; wood carver Raymond Medeiros;

My Elements series on the far right, and a
sneak peek to one of the beautiful pieces
by artist, Joseph Dermody, on the left.

basket artisans Linda Scherz Allen and Lynn Goldberg; polymer clay artists Gloria Nilsson, Tricia Hamel, Marilyn Malcarne, and Meg Lundy; origami and jewelry designer artist Kristin Coombs; and jewelry designers Tabitha Bozzuto , Meg Brash, Eileen Clark, Jessica Dickens, Denise DiStefano, Jackie Koromhas, Dawn Lombard, and Janet Verney.

Spectrum Gallery and Store is open Wednesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5p.m.

The gallery is the newest expansion of the non-profit arts organization Arts Center Killingworth. In addition to offering classes, workshops, camps, and presenting performing arts events, the Arts Center's mission is to provide opportunities for emerging and established artists to display and sell their work. For more information, call 860-767-0742 or visit www.spectrumartgallery.org. To learn more about the Arts Center, call 860-663-5593 or visit www.artscenterkillingworth.org

For more of images from our opening, please click HERE
All images (c)2014 by Corina S. Alvarezdelugo