Wow, it's 2009!

Hello to all readers of this blog...

I took an unexpected journey last August that left me away from art and detoured my direction in life about 189 degrees. It's really true that you can't plan life, it does just happen while you're busy making plans.

My husband had a very serious motorcycle accident and spent a long time in the hospital and recovery. I'm very grateful to know that we have an incredible network of support and true friends and family. I'm very grateful that he is alive and recovering his life. I'm still sorting out the total impact that this event has on us/will have on us. I have only finished one painting during this period of 7 months, I have a lot of creativity to let go of!

I am ramping up to begin a production cycle for 2009. That's the good news that I'm here to share with you today!

I have two new gigs locally for April - one is virtual and the other is real time - both are in Scottsdale AZ

Xanadu Studios : I am so happy to have been accepted into the online store for Xanadu Gallery. I will be posting my original works, you can visit my profile page by clicking this link.
http://www.xanadugallery.com/Art/ArtistGallery.asp?ArtistID=203

Art Show and Sale April 11 from 9-6pm. @ The Home and Garden Expo Center - Scottsdale, AZ. The Home and Garden Expo is located at 13802 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 142, Scottsdale AZ, 85254-corner of Thunderbird and Scottsdale Rd. The Expo Center is open Monday-Saturday 9am -6pm. Beth will be at the Home and Garden Expo in Scottsdale on April 11 from 9-6pm.

I am continuing with Fine Art Registry, in fact I was featured back in October, you can read the article by clicking here: http://www.fineartregistry.com/featured_artist/cornell-beth.php

And with Fine Art America, I will be posting new contests and prints for sale soon! I was surprised to see that Universal Mocha had received over 400 hits in one week!?
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/beth-cornell.html

It was a really good time at Art Detour being at the Garfield Galleria, I saw a lot of friends and artists that I missed and didn't expect to see!! What fun! I met some new folks too, I hope to see you again at the local shows.

Over all I've given myself the green light to go forward and paint if for no other reason than it's what I do and it makes people feel good when they look at my work and it makes me feel good to get let it come out of my hands!

Art is an investment that never fails. Buy art from a living artist!

Thank you ~ Beth Cornell

August, new work and events!

Control and Chaos

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to post a couple of new paintings and some finished ones. I didn't get the cat lady finished as I had planned but one can't rush this process so hopefully in Sept.!

I finished Control and Chaos and to my delight it came out really well! Also... I put the finishing touches on the TRIO, wine bottle with two glasses, being sold all together. These are all hanging at Over Coffee in Surprise AZ until Sept. 1

New work just started: Untitled 

I hope you are all enjoying the last days of summer (I'm from AZ so I only pretend it's the end of summer!)  I am looking forward to being live in person at events happening in Sept. and Oct.

• Beth will be a vendor at the Phoenix Intuitive Arts event at New Vision Center in Scottsdale, Arizona onSeptember 6 from 10am - 2pm-ish. The center is located at 9659 N Hayden Rd. Scottsdale, AZ 85258 web address: http://www.newvisionaz.org
  

• Beth will be at the Sunnyslope 2nd Saturdays 
  Art Walk in the Fall
  Saturday, October 11 from 5 - 9 p.m.
  Please visit www.sunnyslopecommunity.org
  for full details and a map.
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• Via Colori®, The Street Painting Festival comes to Scottsdale Arizona!
  
• Via Colori® Scottsdale is Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19, 2008 in The Art District. It is free to attend and opens at 10:00 AM on each day. On Saturday, it closes with a street party that runs until 10:00 PM. On Sunday, it closes at 5:00 PM.
  
• Beth will be painting a 6' x 6' square, if you're interested in sponsoring, please see the web site Via Colori®for full details.
  

See you there!

Peace ~

Beth

July latest works...

July has been some kind of action packed month so far... lots of great networking oportunities and new work!

So here are my finished coffee cups:

TO GO: $125

Or TO GO Postcards from cafe press:http://www.cafepress.com/benicedesign.281876812

Sunflower Cup: $125

Zeller Scwartzkatz (wine bottle) (24x15)
One glass (one blue glass) (11x14)
Two glasses (two yellow glasses) (11x14)
These are sold as a group of three... $475.

Also from Cafe Press, unlimited edition poster print of Green Ship of Safety: 11x17

http://www.cafepress.com/benicedesign.273988322

And nearly finished, will have final pieces available by the end of this week:

Control and Chaos:

Crazy Haired Cat Lady:

This is a video of my latest projects, some are very nearly finished... will post more later this week!

Peace ~ Beth

Two local events in June-July

You're Invited!

• First Fridays: Friday June 6, 2008 - BIRTH a group exhibit at The Red Door Gallery - 4th St. and Roosevelt - Phoenix Arizona, Born into Chaos by Beth Cornell will be exhibited. Proceeds support Birth, the play, which is being performed as part of the Birth of Labor Day (BOLD) movement to raise funds for local organizations and awareness of maternity care issues.

• Celebrating Art of the West Valley lll a juried show at the West Valley Art Museum May 16 - July 27, 2008 Green Ship of Safety, acrylic painting by Beth Cornell
  
  



• An Evening of Fine Art and Wine: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7pm-10pm at the West Valley Art Museum. Bid on over 100 Museum-Quality works of art, Green Ship of Safety is included in this auction! Benefits the West Valley Art Museum, please visit their web site for details: www.wvam.org

Latest work 5_08...

I've been slowing painting the bottle in blocking layers, and it's going quite well! I really like this one. I was given the idea, by my husband, to paint two accompaning pieces both 11x14, so I began and they are coming out as glasses so far... so this will be sold as a "set of three" paintings - title yet to come forth...

Yes, you may have guessed that it was about time for some new coffee cups, two more have their blocking layers down and are well on their way to being born, the first is titled Sun Flower Cup, inspired by my lovely sunflowers that peek into the window where I work and the second is titled TO GO, I'm using a drab color pallet and white cup to represent how everything kind of blurs together when you're in a hurry and everything is TO GO... if you're interested in purchasing any of these paintings please email. They will be hanging locally as soon as the paint is dry!

Sun Flower Cup

TO GO

New works on the easel....

I am starting on two new paintings this week, one is inspired by a phrase that my friend Shay said, it was catchy and I got this visual so I'm painting it out... it's a fun painting to work on, it's a surrealistic depiction of an older woman who has let her hair go to the cats...

::Crazy Hair, Cat Lady:: or Cat Lady with Crazy Hair- - it's going to be a mixed media masterpiece! I am finding things to use in the painting so I know I'm on the right path here with this one... when I get it to a place of origin, where I can begin to talk about the process of how it's becoming, I'll take a photo, until then... just imagine it!

The other is a wine bottle, I don't have the title for it yet, it's Untitled for now... the client who commissioned One Bitchin' Kitchen asked if I had ever painted a wine bottle and while I had not - I have thought about doing so. We have a collection of fantastic wine bottles (all empty!!) from our time living in Germany so I picked my favorite one and am in the compsition stage of laying it out and blocking in the first layers of paint. A couple snaps:

Another painting that I will be finishing this week is Green Gal, she's been on and off my easel for just about two years - first appearance was in June 2006 - she was born in my studio in downtown Phoenix. Here is the latest and in my opinion best incarnation so far... finished piece will be published on FAR w/price later this week.

Peace ~ Beth