Mona Art Auction in June!

My Rite of Spring:Dance, Blue Green will be part of the Museum

 of Northwest Art Auction Saturday, June 16 in La Conner.

Preview Hours: Friday June 15, noon to 5 pm and Saturday June 16, 11 am to 3pm, free and open to the public. 

 Silent and Live Auction tickets available. Silent Auction begins at 5pm and Live Auction at 7:15pm

For tickets and info contact: 

Museum of Northwest Art 

 Rite of Spring:Dance, Blue Green by  Andrea K. Lawson

New Illustrations, still debating Seaweederella or Swimerella

               Swimerella Rides to The Ball in my twist on Grimm's Fairy Tale, Cinderella. In my version, Cinderella is a mermaid, Swimerella or Seaweederella.

 

     Last weekend I had a fabulously inspiring time attending the Society of Children's Writer's and Illustrators Western Washington conference.

As part of the conference, I took a master illustrators intensive with Scott Magoon, Art Director, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and  Lucy Ruth Cummins, art director with Simon and Shuster. Both are also children's book illustrators.  The two directors really got across their excitement and love of children's books. Our assignment was to create an illustration from Grimm's Fairy Tales, with a twist. This was fun and also crazy to see all of the variations from my Seaweederella  to an adorable  fluff ball monster Little Red Riding hood, ( Ben Clanton)  and Robin's nutty Rapunzel with a beard.

Working with variations on fairy tales is a fun way to expand both  visual and literary ideas.

These drawings led to some new illustrations for my portfolio which are now on view at my website gallery. http://www.andreaklawson.com/gallery/illustrations/

I named my underwater Cinderella, Seaweederella, thinking that Cinderella was named for her proximity to the cinders and that Seaweederella  would be all covered in ocean muck and seaweed. I had a suggestion  to name her Swimerella and  think it has a nice sound to it.  For now, I won't say who the suggestion came  from as that might sway public opinion. I'll give the person credit if wanted,  later.

Frozen Plein Air on Marrowstone Island

Now that I have recovered from my broken ankle and am more mobile, I was determined to do some early morning landscape painting. My adventurous friend Beverly Michaelson joined me early one morning in February in what turned out to be 28 degree weather. We appeared by the side of the road looking like rotund elves topped with paint spattered smocks. Painting as fast as we could between sips of quickly cooling hot tea, we managed to capture some of the early morning light over Marrowstone Island's waterways. Here are some of our results. My smaller study and Beverly's landscape.

Pina

I loved this film and it evokes so much of what I want to do in my oil paintings.
http://www.sundanceselects.com/videos/pina-official-trailer

Pina Official trailer.

Pina Dance clip.

Children Riding Poodles, drawing by Andrea K. Lawson

Children riding poodles, a recent sketch.

A Bird On a Pig

By Andrea K. Lawson copyright 2009

Unnofficial Participant Tomi dePaula Award 2012

copyright Andrea K. Lawson 2011

My illustration for “Chicken Licken,” by P.C. Asbjörnsen is included in the unnoficial gallery of Tomi dePaula award. http://scbwicontest.blogspot.com/

So they went along and went along until they met Turkey Lurkey
“Good morning, Goosey Loosey, Ducky Daddles, Cocky Locky, Henny Penny,
and Chicken Licken,” said Turkey Lurkey, “where are you going?”
“Oh, Turkey Lurkey, the sky is falling and we are going to tell the King!”
“How do you know the sky is falling?” asked Turkey Lurkey.
“Ducky Daddles told me,” said Goosey Loosey.
“Cocky Locky told me,” said Ducky Daddles.
“Henny Penny told me,” said Cocky Locky.
“Chicken Licken told me,” said Henny Penny
“I saw it with my own eyes, I heard it with my own ears,
and a piece of it fell on my tail!” said Chicken Licken.
“Then I will go with you,” said Turkey Lurkey, “and we will tell the King!”