Craft Market

This Saturday (the 19th) Sarah McNeil ( http://www.sarahmcneil.blogspot.com/ ) and i will have a table At the Mighty Mighty christmas market. It should be a fun day - we have been making totes and little bags and notebooks and badges. Sarah has been great and doing lots of sewing. Sarah has more/better information on her blog, and also a photo of some of the totes. They are hand drawn! so each in unique and one off.

If you are in Wellingon, please come! There will be cupcakes.

scouts honor

Cross my heart - scouts honor
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i am so pleased that i've actually managed to do some painting in Wellington. Usually i have to be so settled and nested..but sitting on an uncomfortable 3rd hand couch watching a 3 inch tv with a table made of cardboard and books, i have actually done some of my favourite paintings from this year.

I received my government grant a week or two ago, and have been shopping like mad. It would have been more fun if i hadn't had to supply itemised quotes a month ago, but its still nice to have a truckload of new stuff. Well, new art stuff. Which is really all i spend my money on anyway!

I got some christmas/birthday/just because cards printed, and they'll be up on etsy soon soon soon, and hopefully they give my totally dead etsy store a bit of a kick re-start.

Rar

Tote
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The lovely people at sprout hired me to draw a little picture for their lovely bags. I have a few for sale on etsy


They are made of unbleached oragnic cotton and are lovely and useful!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35708031


On another note, i am super broke but am mostly moved to Wellington. It is a whole lot cooler than my old city, but i am not very cool so i'm not sure how i fit in. Art seems to sell a lot better here though. I am in a little group show at the nicest gallery here, called Solander. I had sent up two works a few weeks ago and somehow they sold before even being displayed! So i had to take in more. They took four this time! which is neat as the limit for the actual exhibition is two. Hopefully they take this as a good sign and let me exhibit solo at some stage.

I am living out of a suitcase at the moment, which is a bit tricky. I am living like a squatter without the plus of not actually paying rent. It's much more expensive to live up here, so a lame part-time job is going to have to me got by me.

I have a ton of art to upload, but im borrowing my boyfriends computer and he is shooting things on it most of the time so it might be a while before i can actually scan things.

Winner!

Winner!
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Drawn from my nifty new/old cane hat.

Congratulations Andi B Goode, emai me your address to deer_face (at) hotmail.com and i will send your goodies right away!


xox

Vintage frames

Vintage frames
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I'm considering selling these little ladies on my etsy, but am stuck with pricing. Also, maybe i want to keep them a little longer.

Today is the last day for entering my competition! draw will take place tomorrow evening (my time) I've had lots of entries, more than i expected, which is lovely. So i may do another little draw soon!

x

Competition!

Competition!
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Would you like to win these goodies?

Leave a comment telling me which of my paintings you would most like to see on a badge or card, and you will be entered into the draw.

Post a link to this on your blog/website and you will get entered twice!

Goodies include:

2 A4 prints on matte 250gsm paper (this is not my usual print paper, these were early test runs before i found my beloved watercolour card)

1x "her hair is a birds nest" badge

1 set of mini notecards (on watercolour card) 1 each of "She cries", "She sleeps", "She pulls",and "Her hair is a birds nest"

and 1 funny little notebook covered in purple flowers and gold.

Winner will be announced one week from now. xox

A thing
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Out of hospital! it was a bit of an ordeal, as i imagine all hospital visits are. But it's over now and hopefully i won't have to go back for some time.

I'm already going slightly mad being stuck in the house all day, i want to go for a run, or kick things or... anything! Several othe rhorrible things happened while i was in hospital, so it's been a pretty retched week all round.

Working on more little drawings, for a few specific things. Really need to start job-hunting unfortunately. This move to Wellington is stressing me out somewhat, and i keep feeling things might not be so scary if i at least have some work lined up.

I just want to be a librarian, i think.

x

Digital!

Swanhilde
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I haven't done anything digitally for quite some time.. but i do enjoy it. This is just a quick colour over a sketch for my bandits series. So it also a teaser, really. I've been drawing these mini-swans like crazy lately, which is odd, because in reality, i am scared stiff of white swans. Black swans i can handle because they are shyer (and also more common where i live) but white swans... i am very much afraid of them. Geese, too, but not as much.

Perhaps it's the honking.

Anyway, on a more personal note, I am having surgery on Tuesday. I will be out of action for some time after that ( i'm not allowed any form of exercise for a month... not even something so dull as jogging!) which either means i will be a lot less active on the internet, or a lot more. We'll see!

frankie feature

frankie feature
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I forgot to mention, i was featured on the website of Frankie magazine. Frankie is one of the few magazines i actually read, so this is pretty wonderful.

Next step is to actually be in print in the magazine...

x

Badges!

Badges!
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Badges are now for sale on etsy. I love the way they look on their little cards, but they look just as cute on clothes aswell.

Shown leaning against a cute knitted cupcake my mum gave me.

Wolf hat

Wolf hat
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I started painting again. A bit iffy still but fixable i guess. A break probably wasn't actually the best idea. Theres also a flaming redhead (more of a ginger) on my flickr, but she needs a recoat as i painted her all in watercolours and i'm too messy for watercolours. Gouache covers all over-line messes, watercolours do not. I drew some decent things.

Children's book i never talk about is BLAH i hate the style i've drawn it in. And the way i've coloured it. Only my initial character designs are any good. I'm stressing over jobs and it makes me rush illustrations because i 'need them for my portfolio'. Then i hate them and throw them out and have wasted time on nothing.

My secret bandits series is looking good though. It's stretching my drawing abilities, what with mostly being full-figures and animals i've never drawn and teeny details to agonize over. I love it because it is secret so i feel less pressure and thus am just enjoying the process of drawing/painting.

I should probably start contacting galleries to pitch the proposal to, does anyone have any good suggestions? I would quite like to make the move to exhibiting in Australia, but have few contacts over there and know no galleries very well.

I was featured on Decor8.com recently (or my etsy store was) which was a fantastic surprise. I just love Holly's blog, and actually seeing my art on it was wonderful.

xox

New prints!

New prints!
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Up in my etsy store. These are on lovely heavy watercolour card, so they really look like the originals.

A bunch of these are off to a cute little botique in Wellington called Swonderful.

i also found the nicest cellophane bags at a packaging warehouse, so they are all nicely wrapped. Maybe clear plastic wrap isn't very exciting to some people but, gosh, i just love stationary related things! i had so much fun exploring the big warehouse. I wanted to buy so many things that i don't really have a use for.

Anyway, prints are A4 and A5, and the little girls on the far right are a note card set which should be added to etsy soon.

xox

Don't come running

Don't come running
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Now for sale on etsy! I am a little loathe to part with her, but she is just sitting in a folder and i'd rather she was displayed and enjoyed. She has one of the lovliest faces i think i've ever painting.

Lovely things.

Her hair is a birds nest.
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Two nice things - A design of mine is going to be featured on a sprout bag, realeased by Ooid limited. I can't let out what it is until they're for sale, but it is very sweet and i'm very honored to be in cahoots with this great company.

A shop in Wellington - Swonderful - a shop i just love to visit whenever i'm south, is going to be stocking some of my prints. I am getting postcards and other things printed as well.

x

Etsy update

And i said
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New Things in my etsy store. This little original painting, aswell as a few new A4 prints.

Http://www.deerface.etsy.com

She cries

She cries
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I am back from wellington! things cheered up a bit. I miss Wal like crazy already, but, eh. I think a little devon time before we move in together is good. I finished quite a few paintings, did lots of drawing.

I have a meeting with my artist mentor tomorrow. I got a letter back from COCA (center of contemporary art) saying they are interested in offering me a show, so ive been writing a new proposal today to send off to them. A show there would just be fantastic, even if it is in Christchurch

Here is a little girl from a set of paintings i am working on - imaginary friends.

xox

Vacation

My Hearts
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As some of you may have noticed, i have been missing from the internet for a few weeks now. This is because the boy in my life got a job at Weta (!!!) and moved cities (not so great) and i have been visiting with him for the past while. I have lots of new things to show everybody, paintings, drawings, silly purchases. So when i get home next week expect lots of regular blog updating!

I just added this little lady to my Etsy store ( http://www.deerface.etsy.com ) and still have a few prints available too. I will be making regular updates there, too, of very affordable originals ( less than a third of my regular gallery prices) since i will be moving soon and need to clear out some art!

My website is also now up and (sort of) running. Most of the links don't work, and the gallery isn't set up properly, but you can still view all my pictures there. My web assistant ( or.. my nice friend Rob who is helping me in exchange for cupcakes) is away exploring japan for a month so it won't be fixed for a while. Visit it anyway and let me know if anyone has any suggestions of anything else i should add to it. Http://www.devonsmith.co.nz


xox

Updates.

I have just added a couple of things to my etsy store, including this dear little fawn. I love this painting but i'm moving cities soon and can't take all my art with me, so everything is being sold off slowly. http://www.deerface.etsy.com

My website is now online, although not entirely finished - most of the links don't work, but the gallery does, which is most important.


xox

Goodbye Stir.

Josephine framed.
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Stir is closing down. Which also means my exhibition will be closing. I realised i never showed any of the finished work so here is a photo of Josephine in her loely frame.


x

Etsy open!

etsy open!
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I've added several original paintings at very cheap prices. All orders come with a free postcard print to celebrate the opening of my new etsy store.

xox

eating ghosts 1
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Things are stagnating. My website launch will happen soon but it's waiting on other people. My etsy will finally be open soon, but thats also waiting on other people. I have been painting, but not at the rate or level i wish i was.

Expect newness soon. But how soon i cannot say.

x

New Exhibition

Lina
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I have a new exhibition opening in the next few days. The paintings are already up, but we haven't had the formal opening yet. It's all brand new stuff that i've done in the last couple of months so i'm still really pleased and love it all.

"a Box of Birds" Various new works by Devon Smith.
At Stir on George street. Open 10-5 daily.

Please have a look if you can, the framing turned out so wonderful and this is my first formal solo show. The owner Steph is a lovely lady who helped me with organising everything and sells lots of delightful things in the rest of the store.


xox