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New Traditions

This past Christmas as I watched my three adult children and their partners take in traditional items that mean ALOT to me didn’t seem to hit them in the same way. It got me thinking, what will their traditions be? What sorts of things will they collect to refelct this season? Their partners have different traditions of course as well as religious traditions. What imagery will they want to surround themselves with (if any)?

I asked them some questions about this - even asked about the traditional red and green color palette and if that was important to them. Their answers were informative and inspiring to me.

I’ve been developing ideas for Christmas tree toppers for the 25 - 35 audience. They are shaking up our ideas of the old world order and their future trditions and imagery/color palette choices will reflect this.

Here are some of my ideas I’ve been creating with paper maches and acrylic gouache. They are prototypes but the bug will go to my son Parker and the owl to my son Simon. I made my daughter and her husband a felt Santa developed from an illustration I did as part of my 50 figures series.

Dung Beetle - to roll away the crap from the year before and clear the energy for the new year.

Owl - gazing over the family to bring greater connectedness and wisdom

Santa flying over a village to bless the communities around the world - this one is the most in process of the three paper mache tree toppers.

Felt Santa created from my illustration:

Word Daily

An ode to ignored emails…

Does anyone else get emails on a daily that they do not unsubscribe to because they think they’ll get to them at some point but actually rarely do?

For me, one of these is Word Daily. I want to have better vocabulary. I thought I would play with some lettering and spot illustrations/doodles from my sketchbooks for a bit. The lettering is not fussy, just helps me learn the word.

Barnacles and Tony Soprano

August 18, 2014

During these past two weeks I have had to be very strict with my schedule (read: no dawdling on Pinterest). I have worked from about 7am - 4pm on Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search project , breaking to make my family dinner and look at actual humans in the eye , then back at it from about 6pm - 11pm. Many nights I work on my embroidery for the Beasts series. My husband and I have been watching The Sopranos (we are late to the party) and I have to say I am sucked in! I embroider barnacles and mandalas to be placed on the Humpback Whale and listen to Tony Soprano get emotional with his therapist.

A sneak peak at some of the original painted portion of my submission. I will reveal the final after 8/26

Click on images to see a small gallery of image details from the Humpback Whale piece

About Jane

Every time I start a new series of works I start with a sense of wonder, a speeding up of my pulse, a feeling like I can’t catch up to the things I want to express and the places I want the work to take me.