Paint to the Music

I had the privilege of painting with a brass band this last Sunday at Seminary Park in Noblesville. I used paint to interpret the music along with creating an image of some Historical buildings of Noblesville. Every Sunday at Seminary park from 6:30-7:30pm there will be free concerts, and i will be painting to the music. So please come and join us next time:)Here I m during the early stages of the painting. I love the expression and abstract composition. Little did the public know it would turn out to be something different!
Noblesville takes pride in the old buildings, courthouse, the square etc. I love the honest charm and nostalgia that Noblesville has.





This was the painting after the band was finished. Although, I wasn't so I took it home to add more layers and details...



I fixed the Architecture and placement of the buildings. Then I veiled it with tissue paper.


Here is the finished product as of now, if you're interested in seeing it in person, I'll bring it to the next Concert this Sunday. See you soon!

From trash to treasure...

I'm so excited, a friend handed over a 10 Gallon trash bag full of beautiful fiber strips--for me!
These pictures don't do justice to these lovely fibers. I can't wait to make something with them. I immediately thought how excited my students (children) would be to rummage through the colorful shreds, then I thought, how I want to hoard them and create a masterpiece all by myself... but no, I couldn't.

I also have an idea of braiding a long thick rope with a community of artists to make some out- door installation, with hundreds of people coming together (just like the fibers) in unity and making a circle or some other shape or structure. My husband said I was full of BIG ideas and not enough fruition. Well, what do you think?

I can't help it... I see so much beauty in the leftovers and think "what can we make of this?" "How can I say something poetic and public while concurrently allowing others to contribute and create a conversation with each other?" That's why I make and teach about Art making.

This summer I will find a way to bring these ideas and elements together, along with a group of creative individuals! Come back and you will see, if you have any thoughts to add please post me a comment.

Sleeping child

I was starting class and as the kids came in the classroom, they asked me "Is he sleeping?" did they think he was dead?

I think he could fall asleep only in the loudest and most uncomfortable places. When I put William down for a nap he'll just crawl out....so he finds a spot standing up or lying on the hardwood. Oh and I just love the pink boots!

The Arthouse Family

The Jamieson family is a family of Artists. We live in Noblesville, IN a little Historic town North of Indianapolis. We have our own Art business "Arthouse" where we live and we work; teach classes and create our own art.

Since we moved to Noblesville in August 2009, when William was just a baby we were so preoccupied renovating our 1800's Italianate while living in it, we haven't have time and money to get pictures taken. I feel like I've missed the baby years of my dear boy William. He's talking in sentences and jumping off anything as tall or taller than himself.

Once I meet Michelle Spitz artistic Photographer and part owner with her husband Scott of 2pedalsphotography I had to have her take our family pictures.

I'm not sure how long we'll travel this chapter of our lives here at the arthouse, but I thought it was important to have these special pictures of our family in our work in progress.

William is my youngest, he turned two this last January. He's amazingly funny and adorable. Elizabeth is my oldest, she turned six this last January-two birthdays only 6 days apart.

We find it critical to have special quality time with our kids outside of work, and since we live at our business it makes it that more difficult. So our little space upstairs makes for a family space for them and us, to play, talk, and read.

12 hours of Art

Most of my life I've created things. Children are always creating objects from bits and pieces they find on the floor, in the corners of their bedroom and in the cracks of the old wooden floor boards. Well, to say the least I never stopped creating, making things, objects, illusions in paintings, fiber balls from leftover strips of fabric. My husband William Jamieson is the same, well at least he understands why I must create most of the time. William is an artist too, a ceramic sculptor, he has his Masters in Ceramics and thrives on making objects just as much as I do. He just doesn't need to make them from everything such as; dryer lint, plastic bags, pieces of thread, to name a few.
Our children make and create too--sometimes together like in these beautiful pictures Michelle Spitz snapped (my new favorite artistic photographer) http://www.2pedalsphotography.com/ . She captured the intrinsic nature and indispensable quality of our life.
I love how Elizabeth is looking so intently at something as she gently holds her exacto knife between her fingers like she would hold her pencil.

Now her creative execution.

She's my muse, I want to be like her... to allow the creative spirit to catalyze a vision for myself. I love that, She can be anything, do anything, create anything. The days of tangible problem-solving are so rare.

My little William (two years old) wants to participate in creating and making messes too. Scratching the clay or squishing it between his fingers. Mostly he builds with his blocks and legos , he creates art with his toys by combining our materials with his, stacking the sofa cushions and using the sofa's new flat surface for a ground that his cars and trucks can drive on. Although, frustrating at times--because things can get untidy around the house, it's a freedom children need, for them to be inventors. Art is not always so formal, especially with children and that's what I want to grasp onto forever.

A great Artist once said,

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso

William and I used to make art together everyday, less than we do now. It's been more about laundry and dishes, or supper than critiques and late nights with loud music and uninterrupted studio time. Do you remember staying up so late generating ideas-and turning them into something visual and while in that euphoric moment you loose the meaning of time? Well, I sometimes stumble upon it at times and well...

Our life is different that most people we know, but we like it that way.
We live in a the big Arthouse
where art lives and grows.

My little student

My little girl is my teacher/muse as much as I am hers. She wanted to draw and paint as soon as she arrived home from school. I was just finishing up my adult painting lesson. I guess this inspired her!
She used charcoal and pastel to draw a light bulb and some sculpture we have on the mantel in the classroom.
I usually never show her or tell her how to draw something. Children are natural artists, with wild and unhindered spirits.

Although I did show her how to make gray, she really was really excited.
This light bulb is my favorite.

Coloration

I've just recently organized our family room book shelves by color. I really love this rainbow effect. I came across this idea from http://lovelydesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/zoe-and-fawn-giveaway.html she really has so many great ideas! I've been organizing everything lately and compartmentalizing all of my clutter. Since I am a collector and am constantly creating I have a need for all of the little things that I accumulate in the weirdest places. I even have a special place just for my thread that I waste from sewing projects. Well, "waste no more thread" I say. Anyway, here is our upstairs family space. The kids have the bottom shelves for their wooden blocks, which they stack and stick in the registers when I'm not looking. I love the sculptures they create and at the end of the day I can obsessively organize by color back into their proper place. It's lovely and practical.