FREE POSTERS of Four Paintings
Free Posters!! This is one of four free posters Bug Press is generously giving away now through the end of April as part of their Featured Artist series. Bug Press is the high quality printer for many artists as well as the printer for Keeping Vigil Press cards. Prints, 12x18, of the paintings are on display in the Bug Press gallery and are for sale and can be purchased for $25 there or through this website.
FREE POSTERS of Four Paintings!!
FREE POSTERS !! 1 of 4 posters available from Bug Press in Arcata, CA
March 5 thru end of April
In case you are wondering, this is what a Tyvek painting looks like displayed.....
This painting, "Coming into Stillness", on Tyvek material shown here displayed in a home, is now part of the permanent collection of Hospice of Humboldt and can be seen in the Administration office's lobby in Eureka at 3327 Timber Fall Court.
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KVP cards are now in 6 card packs…and 20% off the list price!
Simply go to “Shop” tab to see the cards and packs and to place your order.
Here’s a sample of the 6 card Holiday pack.
NEW CARD FOR WINTER SEASON
Madonna of the Redwoods
from painting by Bernardino Luini (1485 to 1532)
This card I pulled from my archives. It was a personal Christmas card I designed in 2000, and by request have published it this year to share with more then a small circle of family and friends. It enhances the now 37 fine art card collection of Keeping Vigil Press.
She is certainly lovely thanks to painter Luini.
PEEK AT NEW CARD DESIGNS
10 new card designs!
being printed right now at
BUG PRESS
and in stores or
online store
beginning
September 21st.
Cards at Holly Yashi Store →
Holly Yashi The Store, in Arcata, is now carrying Keeping Vigil Press cards along with their signature jewelry and other gift selections. The cards pair nicely with Holly Yashi hand crafted jewelry style and aesthetics. The store is bright, shines with friendly staff, offers tours through their design studio...and a complimentary cappuccino!
https://www.hollyyashi.com
eCARD from Gratefulness.org →
Now you can send a free Keeping Vigil Press e-card through Gratefulness.org. Simply go to the link, scroll to "send an e-card", choose blank cards, select "Inner Still Life", follow directions for sending. This is an earnest, quiet and heart filled global organization, an online sanctuary. Their mission is "A peaceful, thriving, and sustainable world – held as sacred by all." I am honored to join in their mission and that Gratefulness has chosen a card from the Keeping Vigil Press card collection.
http://gratefulness.org
KVP CARDS NOW IN SANTA CRUZ!
Keeping Vigil Press Cards are now in the Santa Cruz area at "Way of Life" store, a high quality and green healthy store, offering classes and affordable natural products. It has been serving the Santa Cruz area for over 44 years and the folks there are great.
1220 41st Avenue #A
Capitola, California
http://wayoflife.net
Rumi Inspiration
This Rumi poem is posted on the wall in my studio and here for sharing.
In your light I learn how to love,
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and the sight becomes this art.
National Endowment for the Arts funding threatened!
Yesterday, the White House has released its proposed budget to Congress, officially recommending full termination of funding of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.
This is the first American President in history to propose zeroing out all funding for the nation’s federal cultural agencies.
DON'T LIKE IT? HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- Send a message to your elected representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose any attempt to eliminate or cut funding to the NEA.
- Contribute to the Arts Action Fund PAC to help ensure we have the resources to support pro-arts Congressional candidates who will help us save the NEA.
To learn more, we recommend this New York Times article. Oof.
Tyvek
I often get asked about Tyvek material, what does it look like. Pictured here is one view of Tyvek material used in construction. Initially I found scrap at a work site and after trying unsuccessfully to remove the big blue letters "T-Y-V-E-K", by painting over or scrubbing, (they're actually imbedded in the material), I found a graphics grade version suitable for painting.
New Store!
Folio, a wonderful fine stationery, card and gift store in Larkspur, Marin County, is now carrying Keeping Vigil Press Cards! This store celebrates the beauty and craft of card design.
Source: https://www.folioinvites.com
Current Showing for 2016-17
Wholistic Heartbeat Healing Center
Currently showing works throughout the healing center, located at:
44 Sunny Brae Center
Arcata, California.
707-825-8300
A LESSON IN COLOR
It is from a simple childhood chore that I learned about color and form– by hanging laundry out to dry. After I would arrange the clothing on the clothesline by color and shape, I would lie on the lawn and watch the palette of my arrangement billow and flap against the plane of sky. From this playful beginning emerged the color field base throughout my painting.