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The 3 Habaneros
Originally uploaded by colorado art studio

Hello all, I feel like I’ve abandoned my blog for the past week and I’ve missed everyone! It’s now Sunday afternoon and I feel like I am, for the most part, recovered from my week long excursion as a substitute teacher in Denver Public Schools. I subbed in Special Education which just about wore me out. Working with children with special needs is challenging to say the least and I decided that I needed to set some parameters with the school.

I feel like I am finally getting some wonderful opportunities and making headway with my art career which is solidly colliding with being a substitute. Yes, I’m glad to get paid and if I wanted, I could work every single day of the year as a sub since there is such a severe shortage here in Denver - maybe nation wide. It’s hard to say no when an assignment comes my way - especially since I’m working at the school that my daughter attends and know all of the staff and teachers. First, three different people offered me the job as a special ed para-professional full time last week. Three times, I politely declined. Next week, I will be subbing three more days in special ed but am taking Monday and Friday off to work in my studio. I’m debating about the following week, as I had planned to do the finishing touches on the house before the home tour on Sept. 8th.

I suppose absence does make the heart grow fonder, because I have been thinking about clay often the past week and can hardly wait to get back into the studio!

Meanwhile, I received a nice email from EBSQ on Friday. They are publishing a cook book this fall titled In the Kitchen with EBSQ and have chosen to include one of my little paintings of 3 habanero peppers along with my fresh salsa recipe in their book. I almost forgot how much I enjoyed painting these little works last year. I made almost 75 ACEOs using both paint and fiber which really helped me get over my clay slump (no pun intended) last summer and fall. Angela had asked if I would make some ceramic aceos awhile back, and after giving it some thought, I think I’m done with the aceo format.

Have a good week everyone,

~Cynthia

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I received a nice email from a woman this morning telling me that one of my fiber pieces was chosen as art of the day on EBSQ. What a great honor! Can you tell, I don’t have too much to report right now? I’m still working on my new soft painting that I started last week. I also have so many new ideas floating around in my head. They’re all related to ceramics and fiber and how to make them work together.

I just finished a new fabric ACEO for Jafabrit, that I’m going to put in the mail tomorrow. You may remember, that last week, on my 200th post anniversary I promised a new ACEO to the first person to comment. Jafabrit was it and I tailored this one especially for her…or at least what I know of her through her blog. I was undecided on whether to post it or not, or allow it to be a surprise for her. Let me know what you think?

Meanwhile, I just started taking an online art marketing class taught by Art Biz Coach, Alyson Stanfield last week. This is a month long class that covers a lot of information about the business of art marketing. She just announced that one of her teleseminars which is taking place this Wednesday is going to be free, but is limited to the first 250 people who sign up. The teleseminar is titled What the Artist Needs to Know About the Artist-Gallery Relationship and will include a special guest, Paul Dorrell, author of Living the Artist’s Life. The class is a must for everyone who wants to know about getting into galleries, rejection & perseverance, choosing the right gallery, your relationship with dealers and much more! Plan to spend about 60 minutes Wed. evening, hours are posted on the class link.

Just a quick post this morning…ACEO Magazine is launching this month! It’s a new magazine devoted to ACEOs and ATC artists. I’m included in the first issue! The little fairy in the center that you see on the screen is mine!

If you are an artist and you make ACEO sized work…submission guidelines are included on their website. If you’re scratching your head asking, what is an ACEO? It stands for Art Cards Editions and Originals. They are collectible art cards whose only restriction are size…They can be no larger than 2.5 x 3.5 inches.