I'm starting a more professional blog, so I'm moving some of my posts from that blog here, so that my other blog is only about my artwork rather than including any personal posts. Here's one about my grandma :)
I was thinking about it, and I think that I'm going to make an Etsy shop soon. Not just for myself and for marketing my own art, but to market my mother's art and my grandmother's art. Also to help them sell antiques and other craft supplies that have been clogging my mother's home and also my grandmother's.
You see, we are all painters. Three generations of us and I'm the first one of us to get a BFA (or so I hope, we'll see if I make it through this last quarter). My grandmother has been painting for about 30 years now about ten years before I was born. In addition to being an awesome painter (medium: oil on canvas, which she on a number of occasions has submitted to art shows), she is a mom of three, grandmother to six and rescently, great-grandma to one! A school nurse, my oftentimes babysitter, constant reader, awesome cook.... Constantly busy, and I love to call her and talk to her when I get the chance (once or twice even from Italy). My grandma rocks. She was one of the people (my mom also) that taught me to not only read (I started at age 4) but to love books with a passion hotter than 451 degrees.
When I was 9, she helped me paint pears on a slate. That was our thing that all the girls in the family did with grandma when they turned 9. She also painted bird houses with my little brother and I at this time. I still have them!
Oh yea, I forgot to mention that in addition to big oil paintings my grandma paints in a folk art style on boxes, slates, birdhouses and other stuff, sews, makes hooked rugs, quilts, dolls, little mouse Christmas ornaments.....
I can't talk enough about how awesome my grandma is.
My mom is also awesome. She also was in the school system, though as a elementary school teacher. Taught my brother and I to read, to love art, to love everything really and to try my hardest and to try to achieve my greatest potential.
She also paints and takes photographs, though the tech aspect is hard :P She also has submitted paintings to art shows, the most resent to help support restoration of Saratoga monuments (I don't remember which, I think it was the Spirit of Life fountain in Congress Park). In addition to supporting two kids in college (of course with the help of our dad :P) she also is going back to school for an associates degree in Interior Design. She began this endeavour while still working full time, and continued after retirement. I am so excited and proud of her.
I'm going to post some photos of where we work, examples of some of our work because though we are all painters, our styles are wildly different, of course, because we are all wildly different people. My art is more graphic and I use digital media much much more than my mother, and infinitely more than my grandma who I'm pretty sure missed the tutorial on how to turn one on. My mother loves watercolours and is experimental with her style and media. It's very soft, gentle in the palette and mark-making though, and you can tell what kind of person she is by looking at it. My grandmother is very traditional, though you can also tell that she has thoroughly developed her style. This is not at all surprising since she has been painting for at least 30 years.
I love them, I miss them and I have the best wishes for their personal projects.
Hopefully more art soon, probably in the Archaeological Illustration realm, and probably more watercolours and stuff. I have probably 18 projects from my sketchbook class and 6 images from my book illustration class. So..... lots of work this term!
Now, back to actual painting instead of just talking about it :P
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