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| "Lillian Among the Amoebas" (2013) ink on mixed media paper now available in the art store! |
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Rochester Contemporary Art Center 6x6x13 Exhibition Global Online Preview!
Two of my works are currently part of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center's 6x6x13 exhibition. Right now, you can see them via ROCO's global online preview. They are #485 and #486.
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| "Magical Jasper" (2013) #486 in ROCO's 6x6x13. |
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| "Astronomy Professor" (2013) #485 in ROCO's 6x6x13. |
Weaving and new work....
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| Remember the images of work on the loom? Here it is! The finished scarf.... |
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| Something new taking shape in the studio...more on this to come....I used an old original illustration from my 2004 book The Famous & The Anonymous as a collage element. |
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| And another new piece taking shape....also with an illustration from The Famous & The Anonymous |
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| Two tiny canvases taking shape, too.....far from being complete, though |
Friday, May 17, 2013
New diptych painting and two new surface designs....
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| From the Origin of the Milky Way Series - "Like a Diamond in the Sky" (diptych), 2013, acrylic and paper on canvas board; now available here: www.savannahguzart.etsy.com |
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| A new fabric, wrapping paper, and wallpaper design at Spoonflower.com. Check out the page here. |
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| Another new fabric/wrapping paper/wallpaper design at Spoonflower! Check it out here. |
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Weaving at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts -- progress continues!
I'm making steady progress on the weaving that I'm doing at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. There are just two classes left, so I have to boogey to get it completed and off the loom, so that I can learn how to tie the fringe ends. I'm doing large blocks of color, as seen below, and it's looking really neat (much more vividly colored than it appears in these pictures, which look so washed out and greyed down by comparison). I'll have finished pictures very soon!
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| Section 1 of my scarf (and my jeans below) |
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| Section 2 of my scarf (ha! and my little purple-shoed feet beneath) |
Friday, May 3, 2013
Messing around in the studio and the kitchen
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| Something new I'm doodling with...I got a new pad of Mixed Media paper and I'm seeing what I can do with it. |
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| I'm actually liking it more before I watercolored it, but we'll keep moving and see where it goes..... |
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| Eh....yeah, I liked the drawing much better. We'll see what we can still do with it.... |
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| Tex-Mex yeast cornbread with ramps from my brother-in-law's yard. |
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| Rhubarb custard in a shortbread crust! The rhubarb is from our garden and I just harvested it this morning. |
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| One of my two recipes created for www.TheyDrawandCook.com: Polish Potato Salad! I'll be taking them to FedEx-Kinkos to be scanned because the paper is much larger than my flatbed scanner. |
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Two new works for Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA...
Just submitted two new works to Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, California. Here they are, with detail images....
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| "The Florentine" (detail) pencil on paper |
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| "The Florentine" (2013) pencil on paper |
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| "The Florentine" (detail) |
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| "The Florentine" (detail) |
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| "Loretta" (detail) |
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| "Loretta" (2013) pencil and watercolor on paper |
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| "Loretta" (detail) |
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| "Loretta" (detail) |
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tying Off The Loom -- Next Week I Weave
I mentioned in my April 9th posting that I'm taking a weaving class at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. I've been making steady progress on getting the warp wound on the board, the reeds threaded and in the loom. These past two classes, I've been threading the heddle, "combing out" the strands, getting the appropriate tension on the yarn, and tying off the ends. Next week, I should be able to start filling my shuttle and putting in weft. Very excited to get to this part! In the meantime, some pictures....
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| The back of the loom--the yarn is under tension |
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| The front of the loom, where I'll sit to weave. I tied off all the ends before I left class today. Next Tuesday, I'll begin adding weft. I plan to start with lime green, move to my yellow-orange, and then to the purple-pink (the weft yarn colors are visible by clicking here) |
Monday, April 22, 2013
Nucleus Gallery in CA and the genesis of a work...
Today, I've been working on some pieces for Nucleus Gallery's "Power in Numbers" benefit exhibition and sale....I finished one, and then decided to photograph the progress of the other. Here they are:
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| My messy studio drafting table. "Gillian" is close to complete; "Maeve" has not yet been started. My awesome vintage Binney & Smith watercolor set that I got from the fantastic store, Becaruns.etsy.com a year or so ago. |
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| A close up of "Gillian" (almost complete) and the underdrawing for "Maeve" |
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| Progress...adding watercolor...can you tell I like green? |
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| Maeve is a red head. |
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| And now, the sky... |
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| Adding blue shadows... |
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| The addition of stars in white acrylic begins.... |
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| Savannah Schroll Guz, "Maeve" (2013) pencil, watercolor, white acrylic on paper |
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| "Gillian" (2013) pencil, watercolor, white acrylic on paper |
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Studio Pictorial Thursday
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| Today, a glue bath for colored tissue paper....the stuffed toys on the floor are Jasper and Fred's, not mine. ;-) No, really. |
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| Lavender tissue paper taking a dip in the glue bath.... |
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| The magenta colored tissue paper is clearly not colorfast.... |
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| Time to dry..... |
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| My secret stash of tissue paper and sticky-backed glitter paper that I purchased at Pearl Paint in NYC during spring break of 2000. |
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| The basis of something new....experimenting here. |
What am I listening to now? Something from 2008: the Dublin-based band One Day International, which for the record, is awesome and just doesn't get nearly enough play. You can listen to I'm Not Over You by clicking on the Youtube link below.
http://youtu.be/6qlQVIINzHw
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