New production is blooming
February 23, 2012
Scarves in process, February ©Jill Rosoff 2012
I’ve been doing a lot of marketing work lately, one result of which is that I haven’t been painting much lately. And I miss it! But I’ve had a lot to do both in the marketing and in my art projects.
One project is my hand-painted silk scarves. I paint them with permanent dye, right on to the silk fabric. I’ve been in production, developing the designs, and getting ready to show them at a few shows in the upcoming months. My next show is the Festival of the Whales in Dana Point, CA, at the Art in the Park section of the Festival. For the first 2 weekends of March each year, Dana Point celebrates the return of the once-endangered California Gray Whale with “a leviathan-size event”. I spent my teen years near here, I learned to sail sabots in Dana Point Harbor, so it’s a bit of home turf for me.
Back to the scarves. The photo above is from my production day yesterday. The scarves are pinned onto canvas on the painting table, where I then paint them with the dyes. You can see the vestiges of previous dyeing under the scarves. These are just 2 of the new crop of poppy scarves, all of which signed and numbered, and which I will be showing at the Festival of the Whales. Come see what they look like on! My booth will be at Art in the Park at the Festival, located at the intersection of Dana Point Harbor Drive and Island Drive. It’s at stop E12 on the shuttle route, which you will find on this map. Look for my apple-green market umbrellas.
If you aren’t anywhere near Dana Point and are unable come to the Festival, the scarves are currently available in my Etsy store, where I’ll be posting the new ones as soon as they’re completed and photographed. And for those in and around north Orange County, they are now also at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center‘s gift shop, in Fullerton, CA.
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‘There’s something for everyone at the ENC!’
February 15, 2012
“Field of Poppies”, ©Jill Rosoff 2010
1601 16th St.
Newport Beach, CA 92663
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New scarves, new events
February 3, 2012
Poppies scarf #27, yellow and orange poppies, on habotai silk. ©Jill Rosoff 2011
Big week! I had a meeting at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, CA, with the woman who runs the gift shop and they are now carrying my scarves. Yay! The Muck (as they’re known around here) has an exhibit that opened this week on Korean textiles, which is pretty yummy. So if you live anywhere nearby, are at all interested in textiles and fabric art, or are looking for something lovely to do, its a terrific exhibit, and the gift shop has some great scarves for sale1
I also have 17 of my watercolors hanging at the Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach, CA for the month of February. This lovely oasis of nature sits next to the sports fields at Newport Harbor High School. Originally unused land where dirt was deposited from grading for construction at the school, it has been shaped and nurtured for years and is now a center that ” provides quality education through hands-on experience with nature. The ENC’s 3 1/2 acre outdoor classroom displays 15 native plant communities that range from a desert, to a freshwater marsh, to a redwood forest.” I’m showing pieces from both my “Blossoms” and “Tapestri” collections, all with floral subjects of course. The ENC is located at 1601 16th St. in Newport Beach, and my paintings are hanging in their gift shop “Nature’s Gifts”. They are open M-F from 8 am – 5 pm, and Saturdays from 8 am – 4 pm.
Last but not least, this new scarf is now available at my Etsy shop, along with more scarves, small paintings, notecards and limited edition reproductions. In case you want something for your Valentine?
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