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Morran, Angel in Waiting © 2011 peg nocciolino

 Honored to find out my illustration of Morran as an Angel in Waiting, was selected for the 2012 Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Awards! It will be published in the 2012 May/June issue of Applied Arts magazine, featured on their website, and at an exhibit in November in Toronto. Applied Arts is "Canada's Visual Communications Magazine".

Thank you Camilla, The Morran Book Project, and little Morran, now a real angel...my inspiration.

in the city....

Central Park in NYC

Julliard, at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center, New York

in the country...

I've been quiet lately because I have been out and about...these taken at a friend's place in Brackney PA.

The Sugar Shack (a work in progress)

tap lines from sugar maples for sap collection.

Holstee Manifesto...just saying...

the typographic version....

IF: Forward

3X3 Directory

The 2012 3x3 Directory of illustration has arrived! My portrait of Vivienne Flesher....in good company:)

From the 3x3 website...

"A total of 335 illustrators from 29 countries are represented inside our 480-page Directory. Work is divided in nine categories ranging from conceptual to children’s, whimsical to decorative, landscape to lettering, figurative to fashion with animal rounding out our categories.

What we’ve found is that art directors and art buyers really like our Directory. They love our selection—our Directory is curated, you must be invited to be in. They love our size—it’s portable. They love our design—single image per page grouped by color or theme. And they like the categories and our online counterpart that clicks directly to the artist’s site. They'll also like the option to view the Directory on their iPad.

Illustrators love our Directory because they’re surrounded by the best illustrators around. And they love our page price, anyone can afford to be in our Directory.

The Directory is distributed free to over 6,000 art directors and art buyers in the United States. The list is highly targeted to those who have an interest in illustration whether they’re in advertising, publishing—magazine and books, in-house corporate, entertainment or design."

Birthday flowers from a friend and a calendar from Angela Ligouri arrived...

Some paintings in progress to show you next week:)

Have a nice weekend!

Shop News!

Meditation, Peg Nocciolino©2012

Some 13 x 19 prints are now available in my shop. I can print custom and smaller sizes too. You can email me for prices. Digital prints are printed with archival ink on an Epson 2880 on heavy fine art paper (Hahnemule Fine Art Matte) and signed and dated on the front by me.   Check out the shop "Info" for shipping information. I'm working on getting the American Heritage Seed posters (Trophy Tomato) in there also for Spring!

Red Boat & Surprises

Excited to get a print ("Red Boat") by illustrator/printmaker, Taeeun Yoo for my collection. I love her work. This is a combination of linocut and digital. There is lots to see in her Etsy Shop

detail of Red Boat by Taeeun Yoo © 2012

I also found out I won Angela Ligouri's Studio Carta Calendar Giveaway. She is just reurned from a visit to Italy where she collaborates with a printer.  Her 2012 calendar is based on a measuring tape inspired by memories of her seamstress mother....lovely:)

Jeremy Holmes wooden ribbons

Sam Wolfe Connelly

My 1959 Chevy Apache Red Truck print framed:) The print is available unframed from my shop.

Snow and.......

Orange Ginger Tea
from The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health Cookbook

Serves 4

Ingredients
2 heaping tablespoons peeled and grated fresh ginger

2 cups water

2 cups fresh squeezed orange juice

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1-2 tablespoons honey, to taste

Directions
Place water and grated ginger in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Steep for at least 5 minutes. Strain tea with a fine mesh strainer, pressing on the ginger with the back of a spoon to squeeze out all the liquid. Return tea to pot. Stir in orange juice, lemon juice, and honey. Reheat to serve warm, or chill to serve over ice.

handcarved

One of the more interesting forks I cames across in my research.....

"Flesh Forks"

more quick sketches from my sketchbook project ....

forks and spoons series

A New Year

New Years morning...homemade lemon blueberry scones.

Its been so grey and cloudy but,...Today is a rare sunny day for a long cold brisk walk...must be good luck...Happy New Year!

This stand of birch caught my eye. 

"Birch tree meanings include new beginnings and cleansing of the past. Birch trees are also associated with vision quests. The common name birch is derived from an old Germanic root meaning "white, bright or to shine." The birch is considered the national tree of Russia, where it used to be worshipped as a goddess during the Green Week in early June. Birch trees grow in hardiness zone 3-8.(Wiki)

The Morran Book Project

Excited today to receive my copy of the book "The Morran Book Project" by Camilla Engman. This is a tribute to Camilla's dog and constant companion,  a small Danish farm dog named Morran. My illustration of Morran as an angel in waiting, is feautured in the book and on the new website which is under construction. I have followed Camilla's art and blogging for many years and Morran endeared herself in every photo. It was very sad when she died recently of cancer that had spread to her lungs. The entire profit for the book is being donated to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)in Sweden.

Camilla created Studio Morran as a tribute and you can follow this and other projects by Camilla.

Here's the link to the book. There are different versions of the book. One has only 80 images in it. My illustration is in the larger book with 236 illustrations.

Enjoy!

ready for decorations...

We found a beautiful tree at a local tree farm.  Its called a Great Fir and the tree farmer told us it is a slow grower and more common in southern states.

making some tags with a nice hot press watercolor paper, my corner rounder, and Schimcke watercolor, a #1 brush, and waxed linen thread

Ornaments

 

I made set of six for the chandelier...inspired by Mackenzie Childs

I used a Krylon gold leaf pen, a black sharpie pen, and plain glass ornaments.

decorative art

I found a box of plain christmas balls that were begging for decoration.

Cotton ribbon from Angela Ligouri (of course:)

Seasons Greetings from NYC

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

Inkling

A wacom inkling arrived! So exciting...now to adventure:)