Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition is here again...

Danforth Annual Juried Exhibitions 2011

I submitted two pieces this year for the Annual Exhibitions at the Danforth Museum.

I didn't submit furniture this year but instead I entered my Dot Dot Dotting By Pearle

Entry #1

Bowl & Orb

Blue side of the orb

Bottom of the bowl

Entry #2

Up-Cycled Trader Joe's Cookie Box

So, there are my two entries. Lets hope I get at least one...It would be wicked cool! ♥ 

Letter from Trader Joes about the origin of this box...

Pearle,

Thank you for your feedback and inquiry.  We offered our Orange Cardamom
Cookies in this box for the winter holidays several years ago.  This
packaging was exclusively picked just for this product by our supplier.
However, we do not have any specific details available about this
packaging.  We are sorry we cannot assist further.

Sincerely,
Amy
Trader Joe's 
Customer Relations

*On a side note: If anybody does know any more about the Trader Joes Cookie box that would be cool.

Also...totally looking for more. 

New~ Dot dor dotted Vase

This vase took me a little over 20 hours to dot. It was quite a journey.

I really do love finding things that I can just paint away on.

This will be my last Blue and Green piece for a short while.

Click here to see the process

Free & Groovy (sigh)

I work Crisscross applesauce on the floor...and in the middle of all my creative chaos are my cats! What I don't quite understand is why they MUST drink the rinse water. I always provide them w/ fresh drinking water in the kitchen...but they step over brushes and paint to get to my rinse water....Why? They wont tell me.....any ideas?

It's where my head goes....

The music is flowing through my house. The paint is glistening as I place each dot on this vase I am working on. My head is spinning with thought...from one life happening to the next~ I feel as if I am getting lost in the maze that has been my life. I have hit a lot of Dead Ends! Whoa! Back tracking to another path that perhaps leads me to a groovier way of living. I think I am on the right path now...

Amazing...I start painting and my head swirls...my head dances...my head journeys through time with ease and grace. It's like dreaming out loud while I am awake! Is it safe to say that each piece I create no matter how big or small is a puzzle piece of my dreams? For sure! Absolutely! Only in my dreams do dot dot dots equal beauty in a Pearle♥ way of thinking....Two objects intermingling to be one!

I can't imagine I am the only one that feels or thinks this way...when the inspiration hits, when the outside world pauses so not to interrupt...Get lost in the forest of creation! ♥

God has given me something that is unique to me

No matter the difficulties...It will be the Gifts of God that get me through

Live~Create~Inspire

♥

Reagan Took this picture! Look up!

It may be STUDIO time...

Reagan is home...Spring break!
She asked me if she could have a sleepover and it made my stomach twist! We live in a small two bedroom apartment and the entire living room has been taken over by my work. I feel sort of guilty. I mean...She should be able to have a sleep over w/ out it becoming a HUGE ordeal. I want to say yes but Where are the couches? OMG! One couch works as my shipping couch....boxes, tissue paper, labels etc. Where is the coffee table? Oh...over there...it is my photo studio now! WOW!
I MUST GET A STUDIO! It is official...I just need to do it! My work has taken over our tiny little home and it is affecting our social life. I'll have to start trying to make some money so I can sock it away for a studio!
Praying for sales & maybe donations....I need to make this happen. Dreaming will be my reality! ♥
I am feeling so very optimistic about our future....Reagan has been very patient and supportive. What a great kid I have...I need to make this right for her so that she doesn't resent my work.

Free laying on our couch...Yikes I got paint on EVERYTHING!

Green & Blue Dot Dot Dotting

 

After many hours, roughly 19 I dotted this wooden bowl and the ceramic orb. I think they are fantastic! I love the swirly way the dots go...This was a trip I really enjoyed!

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Butterfly Tall Pepper Mill...Mr.Dudley

This pepper mill is 11.5 inches tall. I found it in a clearance section...It is a Mr. Dudley Pepper Mill. Good strong quality w/ a Pearle♥ touch! Totally Functional Art

Now available @ my Etsy Shop

Butterfly Pepper Mill

Dot Dot Dotted Ceramic pots/bowls ♥

I bought these wonderfully ugly pots at a local shop up here (Building19). They really were not the most attractive things...but the shape is wonderful! As soon as I saw them I knew I needed to paint them. This is where they took me and I have to admit...I am quite pleased.

Will be available at The Five Crows in Natick.

I am thinking I may go buy some more to do..if they still have them.

Dot Dot Dotting....I am on a Dotting frenzy!

I am dot dot dotting away...I am really feeling the flow of just Dot Dot Dotting away!
Any guesses what this is?
This took me 6 hours to dot...

Free & Groovy

Groovy

Free a.k.a. Fat Free

Fat Free

Groovy

AH~ Stretch Groovy

Free

I was just thinking as I was working how my kitties are always near me when I am working! They swipe the wet paint w/ their tails, they knock over my brushes, they step on paint and leave paw prints....my kitties are near me every step of the way w/ every project. I use to think my rinse water evaporated rather quickly but it turns out...My kitties drink it!
I don't know if I can remember a time when there wasn't a tail whipping me in the face or a cat walking across my keyboard....Free has even shut off my lap top by standing on the power button...I swear he did it on purpose.
It doesn't seem to matter that at times they make my job hard to do....I love these guys so much. So what if I worked hours on something and Groovy just swishes her tail right through the wet paint smearing it all....I just wash off the dots and start over.
There have been many OOps in my work space because my kitties can't stay close enough to me...spilled paint, knocked over supplies, collapsed bookshelves....It doesn't matter. They are safe...
My kitties are a part of my process regardless if I want them to be or not! ♥

The 4 most important products I use....

I choose these products because they have been the most effective at giving my work a long lasting finish. The primer sticks to nearly everything...The flat black paint keeps its color and doesn't bleed through the other colors I use and it also allows my work on top of it to stick with ease....and the envirotex gives it a hard durable finish that protects my art over the longest period of time. 

It takes me a long time to go through a quart of Zinsser primer & the Flat Black paint. 

I have had the cans in the photo for over a year now. I am almost at the bottom...

It is important to me to use high quality products that give me the best results so that I can use less and feel confident it will last for many years to come. 

Anyway...boring I know....

Informative...to some degree I am sure.

I have been asked what I use..

now you know! ♥