...my 2557th piece of daily art! |
| This time at Art Basel was EXTRA special because this year Art Hive Magazine was actually IN the convention center. Like...for real IN it! Our first trip to Art Basel in 2012 I told Jess to hold up a pic of the magazine so that I could take a picture. We all said, 'one day Art Hive will be at Art Basel.' Hey guess what? It totally happened! Here is a link to a post I wrote about that first trip to Basel, waaaay back; |  (Left) Basel 2012 (Right) Basel 2018... #legit |
Pic before we hopped on the Brightline and began the journey down to Miami. Oh, and I LOVE THE BRIGHTLINE...and these fun #ShadesOfCulture courtesy of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.
And it goes without saying that part of my weekend included making time for my ART. I am cursed with the inability to sleep in no matter how late the night before was...so yup, sunrise at the beach and working poolside was my on daily agenda.
South Beach morning...gorgeous!
Ya'll- we stayed in a REALY FANCY hotel. Like...it was fancy. The rooftop pool was probably my favorite spot for making art...and that was also where Jess and Angela threw an impromptu Art Hive party...with Pharrell playing down on the beach below. (that last part wasn't part of the Art Hive party but we still had the best view of the show!)
Coffee, art, pool and an ocean view. I could get used to this.
The hotel had THREE pools! I only made it to two of them, but this one had an infinity pool and I found a cool floating platform in the pool to sit on. Started the piece there and then finished it in the room on our balcony while Marcela did everyone's makeup.
And of course... DIY accessories!
If you know me then you know that I LOVE JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES! I love putting together looks...and for anything art-related I try to add a little more personalization by creating my own accessories if I have time- or even if I don't have time. (who needs sleep, right?) I wanted to make sure that I was helping to promote Art Hive Magazine the whole weekend so I created a series of earrings made from pages in past issues.
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And that's it-
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A few years ago I got a chance to preview Iris Apfel's documentary and then interview her at the opening night at the Miami International Film Festival for Art Hive Magazine.
Here's a blog post...'cause of course I wrote a blog post about it;
www.jenniferlovegironda.com/blog/shameless-plug-for-da-hive
Here's a blog post...'cause of course I wrote a blog post about it;
www.jenniferlovegironda.com/blog/shameless-plug-for-da-hive
...and if you are late to the party, I LOVE Iris Apfel so much...like...total fan girl. So interviewing her was a DREAM.
I saw that she was going to be signing her new book at the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden so I grabbed my copy and a painting I made of her as Wonder Woman in my #WONDERfulWomanJLG series from November 2017 ...cause I wanted her to have it.
Book signed. Check.
Artwork delivered. Check.
Decent pic of me WITH Iris. Fail. Again.
Oh well...hopefully I will get another chance! That is my second time meeting her, so maybe third time is the charm! (...but she LOVED the artwork, so it was worth it!)
I had my first solo show five years ago today. I didn’t realize it was my first solo show until after I installed the work and went back to view it during the art walk in downtown Hollywood, FL. I had met Sally, the owner of SMASH beauty lounge maybe a month or two before in her shop, struck up a conversation about my art and, she looked at my work, liked it and she said I could display in her space. So I did. I created some paintings just for her place, separate from my daily art.
I found this blog post from back then that talked a little about it;
https://www.jenniferlovegironda.com/blog/now-showing
I found this blog post from back then that talked a little about it;
https://www.jenniferlovegironda.com/blog/now-showing
...and when I answered the call,
she said, do what you love for December 2018'
So ya'll know what THAT means...
FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS!
And while we're at it- throw in Yayoi Kusama!
Okay, so it wasn't quite that dramatic. See what happened was I wasn't 100% sure of what I wanted to end the year with. I knew I wanted to do something holiday related because, well...that's kinda my jam.
Don't believe me? Check out previous December themes;
For the past two years my December themes have had a fashion illustration influence because I really love anything having to do with fashion. So...holiday and fashion. I had that much figured out...but I wasn't 100% yet.
And then John and made some impromptu plans... We changed up an upcoming trip to the west coast of Florida to see my long time friend to include a trip to Tampa first to meet up with his friend...and I remembered that there was a Kusama installation there that I missed when I was out that way for FAEA conference so it all came together after that.
I left the show knowing I wanted to revisit my #LadyInRedJLG theme from December 2016, but figured I would throw in some dots as an homage to Kusama. As for the visit with friends...the visit with Cole in Tampa didn't happen because of a strep throat outbreak (we are NOT 'bout that life!) but the visit with my girl Gin- that totally happened!
I finished up my November series. Overall I am happy with the group of work, the color story was consistent- monochromatic blue. I began the series colored pencil and realized by accident that the marker I was using wasn't water soluble...which ended up being a happy accident because it created a watercolor effect. Towards the middle of the month I began working with some mixed media, first by hand painting some paper flowers (day 16-17) and adding them to the colored pencil and marker drawings.
From there it was more mixed media. I started cutting out the angel bodies and adding them to different patterned paper backgrounds, later including additional layers of the fun papers.
I posted a giveaway on my Facebook art page to give the majority of the angels away. The theme for the giveaway is 'helpers' based on a quote I love from Fred Rogers;
For the giveaway I invited folks to nominate people that they consider to be 'helpers' either by their job or through their service to the community. I did something similar last November with my #WONDERfulWomenJLG series, with a spin off set of angels, and it really made me happy...so I did it again- except with my actual daily pieces :)
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