Just around the corner...

a favorite place (when I close my eyes)
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

Today is a day where anything seems possible. The sky is grey and the leaves are brilliant green. Flowers are blooming and bees are buzzing around. The air is cool and everything is a verdant paradise. Spring is here, no doubt about it. I love these days. It stormed in the night, bringing with it this cooler weather. It feels like something magical is about to happen just around the corner, the air feels charged and the music sounds even sweeter. I hope your Friday is treating you well.

Besides all this flowery talk of Spring, I managed to paint again this week! I am slowly but surely getting back on track. I told you I would have eight new miniature flashcard series pieces to share with you and I do! If you are interested in any of these pieces just email me at megancha@gmail.com to reserve your painting.

The "flashcard" series is a new selection of affordable miniature works on paper. The paper isn't perfect, there are some rough bits where the tape masked the borders. These works are about the process, the immediacy, the action of making. These are flashcards and the paintings are the answer. You provide the questions.

trajectory b
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
Sold

the vines
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

static
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

solace
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

restructuring
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
Sold

quiet voices
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

where two points meet
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

In other news, I also have a new 16x20" painting to share with you as well! This is just a quick studio snap shot. I am very excited to have worked on canvas again, this is the first canvas painting I have worked on since my Falling into Sound exhibition in November 2010.

this is the part (where she wakes up)
mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425
© 2011 Megan Chapman

I keep feeling like I am not painting enough, but when I look back I know that it is not true. Since January, I have painted twenty Maps of the night, and sold all but two of them. I have also painted these sixteen flashcard series paintings and have sold ten of them so far. I also painted the above 16x 20" work. Not to mention I completed the huge seven foot by five and a half foot painting commission as seen below.

Silence in the drifting
mixed media on canvas 7x5.5'
© 2011 Megan Chapman
commission/sold

All this was created while working and helping with the Fayetteville Underground, writing about art and beyond, maintaining my photography, and selling other works. I also happen to have a life outside of art (I do - I really do!!). I am writing this to remember. It is so important to remember, because it is so easy to forget and discredit. I would say that this has been a very productive three and a half months. Let's see what happens next!

As always keep fighting. The world needs your art.