Friday, September 07, 2007

WIP: NOT!

Well this is about as much as I have got done in the last few days, the black background, LOL!
Meanwhile our Art Ball Machine has a NEW location at the Nolaa Gallery, designed and ordered postcards for my exhibit, started working on a new blog for the jafagirls,and had fun at the Blue's Fest watching Talitha's (fellow Jafa) husband play some blues with his band W.G. Blues Unit.
Sometimes there are days when creating needs a rest and spending time living an artful life takes precedence, as well as seeing to the business side of art. More on "living an artful life" another day.


Pioneer of Still Life
Fede Gallizi established herself as an artist at the age of 12. "Although very few contemporary sources mention Fede's still life paintings, they are the majority of her surviving works. Sixty-three works have been catalogued as hers, of which 44 are still lifes. One of her signed still lifes made in 1602 is said to be the first dated still life by an Italian artist....."