Productive Thursday in the Beehive

The other day we painted the backdrop for the Valley Performing Arts upcoming play Babes in Toyland, a very interesting adventure (big headed artist types painting together. Said goodbye to a friend flying to Texas today. Today is the day I go to my artist meeting of VAA this takes place from 11:00 to 1:00 Thursdays at Sopias Kafe Neo on the Palmer Wasilla Hwy, they have good coffee and a Mediterranean menu, we artists gather to discuss art and all things art related. Occasionally politics are discussed and we still manage to get along. Afterward I went to The Alaska Gallery and Madd Matters frame shop to drop off art work for the Christmas show sponsored by Valley Art Alliance. There ran into a friend, we discussed my foot painting and how we were going to paint our dear friend's feet when she died, she took a picture with her cell phone that she still keeps. We Made tentative arrangements for dinner Sunday at my house. Discussed invitation to a baby shower our angel friend's daughter is having for her niece, because her sister and the baby's mother is being deployed to Afghanistan. Good God! the world keeps spinning people come and people go each one of us spinning our own stories and being as productive as possible bouncing of each other like little tops. This beehive painting illustrates my point. I should call it buzzzzzy beez. Is this fascination to the beehive due to my Mormon upbringing?

Beehive Painting
Encaustic Beeswax on 24 4 x 4" Wood Blocks
16" x 24"
525.00
Judy Vars
With all this going on around me I managed to create this cold peaceful painting called Winter Abstraction.
Winter Abstraction
Encaustic
8" x 12"
132.00
Judy Vars

Saturday Night!

My face looms in the darkness, (not scary at all) the night was clear the milky way visible and the moon was at half mast rising over Denali.
This is a whole lot of female energy! Peter almost bailed them some men showed up. One man told us of an expedition he took with the Discovery channel to Antarctica. He said the mountain tops look like the Grand Tetons and rise from a frozen wilderness where the snow is as hard as diamonds. They were checking the gravitational fields trying to predict when the poles will change.

This is Deb Wessler hosting her house warming party we were all happy to stand around the bond fire and tell stories.

First Friday in Anchorage

'Yapita' a Fayum Mummy Portrait
encaustic
395.
Judy Vars
Date: Friday November 6, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Doriola's, 510 West Tudor, #7, Anchorage

ENCAUSTIC ART EXHIBITION at Doriola's. This is a group showing of work by members of the Alaska Chapter of International Encaustic Artists (AK IEA). The show will run for the month of November and opens with a First Friday reception on November 6th, 2009, from 5p until 8p or until they kick us all out. Doriola's is located at 510 West Tudor # 7 between Arctic and C Street (just west of Cattle Company and Applebee's, on the south side of Tudor in the strip mall next to the double Asian restaurants) 907 375 0494. Mon - Fri 5a - 4p, Sat. 6a - 3p, Closed Sundays.