Yesterday, one of my luna moth prints, Insect Machine #7, was on the etsy front page with some other lovely moth inspired art!

Update:  I was thrilled to be in another treasury selected for the front page the same week:

Yippee! A three day weekend! I’ve been photographing shells and working on a new series… just a few images are ready. They’re on flickr now; when I get the series more fleshed out, I’ll start adding the prints to my etsy shop. Life is good!

I’m getting ready for a solo exhibition at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Chapel Hill (North Carolina). They sent me a draft of the exhibition brochure and included an apropos quote:

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” - Saint-Exupery

Thanks so much to Liana of Mixed Plate for featuring my art on her blog of cool online finds!

I spent a week at the beach (Emerald Isle, NC) a week ago. One day was stormy and the ocean rough. That evening my sister-in-law Cathy and I went shelling and we hit the jackpot! I’ve never seen so many seashells.

I’ve been scanning and photographing and thinking of new series for these images (and those hundreds of photos from yosemite). My usual process is to pick a dozen or so favorite shells to work with right away. I’ll scan or photograph the shell, then spend a good bit of time isolating the image from the background– careful work at this stage really pays off in the long run. My favorite book on image selecting, isolating, compositing techniques in photoshop is Katrin Eismann’s _Photoshop Masking & Compositing_.

I just got an envelope of postcards and a poster(!) for the show at Morehead State University. I was totally surprised to find they picked an image of my work for the publicity! The image is a detail from Insect Machine #6.

Other artists in the exhibition: Rachel B. Abrams, Lauren Lipiniski Eisen, Tom Rice, Susan Maakestad, Michael McFalls, and Leisel Whitlock.

I’m thrilled to be invited to show in a special exhibition at the Greater Chicago Quilt Exhibition! From the Mancuso announcement:
Digital Shibori: Pattern & Stitch
Fiber Works by Tricia McKellar
Tricia McKellar presents a series of fiber works that explore pattern and stitch. McKellar hand-dyes shibori fabric. Her shibori is a modern adaptation of traditional Japanese hand-dye methods. Shibori techniques produce patterned fabric with subtle variations; the patterns are natural, organic, complex, and, somehow, simple. McKellar photographs her shibori, digitally alters the image and prints the digital collage to silk. The works wrestle with the theme: How do the natural and the man-made, the organic and the digital feed each other? Each work is an exploration of another permutation.
Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition
11/8/2007 - 11/11/2007
Schaumburg, IL

Shibori Building
digital prints of altered shibori imagery and photographs on silk, machine and hand stitched
18″h x 36″w, ©2006

I’m honored that my work Shibori Building is included in this exhibition:

Art Quilts Lowell 2007
Brush Art Gallery
256 Market St., Lowell, MA 01852
August 2 through October 28, 2007

Wow! Guy Kawasaki rocks! I had the pleasure of hearing Guy Kawasaki speak in Boston a couple of weeks ago. Guy talks about innovation, marketing, new business, and being open to new ideas. It was one of the most memorable talks I’ve ever attended. I’m sure my summary wouldn’t do Guy justice– please watch the talk at one of the links below and check out his blog. But, I will mention his first bullet, as a thought to reflect on today: make meaning

Guy’s blog: How to Change the World

Guy’s Art of Innovation presentation to another audience

google videos of Guy

I’ve added a couple of new digital collages to etsy. Still enchanted with the luna moths and spatulas.

I’ve been accepted into trunkt! Trunkt is a buyer’s guide to independent Art + Design. I’m honored to be in the company of such talented artists, designers, craftsmen:

http://www.trunkt.org/triciamckellar

I’m thrilled to be invited to participate in this exhibition:

A Natural Order: Art Exploring the Organic & Artifice
Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky
August 29 - September 21, 2007

I’m sending 10 works from the Plans & Diagrams series. Thanks to Jennifer Reis, Gallery Director and the folks at Morehead State for this opportunity!

I’ve been working to get a lot of my prints on my etsy shop and get in tune with the etsy vibe:

http://triciamckellar.etsy.com

Holy cow!!! I am totally thrilled to be mentioned on my favorite design blog, designsponge:
http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2007/07/weekly-wrap-up.html

design*sponge always has the most remarkable objects; Grace Bonney has an outstanding eye. I’m truly flattered. Thank you Grace!

Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high

Your daddy’s rich
And your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry

One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take to the sky

–George Gershwin

I’ve been a bad blogger; it’s been a really relaxing, slow-paced summer. Yosemite had the most awe inspiring landscapes. I came home with hundreds of photographs of water and rocks…