What's Cooking Inside While it Cooks Outside

Yep, it's what we call the Dog Days. While the world outside bakes to a nice golden brown, I'm in the studio gearing up for Fall 2015 ...and beyond. underpainting 72 500

Ah, the pleasure of that first underpainting. Sometimes I don't want to cover it up.

CHAOS is on display at Ro2 Art in Dallas through September 12! Don't miss it.

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Black-Eye Susan and Shrinking Violet, acrylic on panel, 5x5 inches each (9x9 framed).

Save the Date!

Wyld Flowerz, an exhibition of new abstractions, will open at STASH in downtown Norman, OK on Friday 9 October 2015. More details to follow.

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Here's a different view of that underpainting, a few layers later.

I'm pleased to share the news that my relationship with Cerulean Gallery in Amarillo, Texas will continue into 2016. More news as the situation develops.

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I've been sewing quite a bit. I've begun volunteering with the Community First! Quilters, a connection made through the Austin chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild. These are my variation on the traditional flying geese quilt block - I call them flying bats. We see those here from time to time.

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This will be Tough Cookie. Right now she's only half-baked.

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I do get out sometimes, and go places like the Red Room Lounge.

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I do make dinner sometimes, like this caprese salad with marinated zucchini.

CHAOS! Small Works at Ro2 Art 2015.08.01

To inquire about purchasing the works featured below, contact Ro2 Art at  jordan@ro2art.com or (214) 803-9575 Lay of the Land, acrylic on canvas, 5x5 inches, 2015 by Sarah Atlee Lay of the Land. Acrylic on canvas, 5x5 inches (8x8 framed) by Sarah Atlee. $250

What: CHAOS 2015 - An exhibition of small works

When: 1 August - 12 September 2015

Where: Ro2 Art, 110 N Akard, Dallas TX 75202 (map link)

Opening Reception: Saturday 1 August, 7-10 pm. Free and open to the public!

Ro2 Art is pleased to present CHAOS!!! 2015 - a curated exhibition of small works featuring over 100 Ro2 Artists and guests. The show consists of work in virtually every medium – all presented on an intimate scale (12 x 12 x 12 inches or smaller).

After two memorable editions, the show returns for a third year, promising to provide an outlet for a wide variety of artists to present work to established and emerging collectors.

As in previous years, the artists represented by the gallery are joined by invited guests, creating a dynamic unique to Ro2 Art's CHAOS exhibition. The majority of artists are from Texas, joined by a number of notable artists from around the country and Europe.

See selected works from the CHAOS exhibition on Artsy.

Stone Garden, Grey Shelter. Acrylic on panel, 5x5 inches, 2015 by Sarah Atlee Stone Garden, Grey Shelter. Acrylic on panel, 5x5 inches (8x8 framed) by Sarah Atlee. $250

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For More Information

Ro2 Art gallery website

CHAOS opening reception event on Facebook

Ro2 Art on Artsy

Sketchbook Covers 2009-2015

A sketchbook is a mobile studio. A judgement-free laboratory. Something to do with your hands when you feel awkward in public. A snapshot of a time and place (some exposures longer than others). A companion. Each one is unique, and as such, each wears a different outfit. Here's a selection of customized sketchbook covers, some front, some back, 2009-2015. Most recent first.

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201506 back 72 500

201501 georgie 72 500

201501 back 72 500

2014 jennifer rooms front 72 500

2014 jennifer rooms back 72 500

2014 grey 72 500

2013 blue front 72 500

2012 mini 72 500

2012 front 72 500

2011 spam 72 500

2010 nuke front 72 500

2009 somavenus front 72 500

* I can't take credit for this particular cover. Sketchbook designed and built by SomaVenus. The back, pictured below, is all me though.

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