Group Art Show: Sera Se Sol at Vino Vixens

Last night was fun. Danny and I attended the opening night of Sera De Sol, a group art show at a local Portland wine and coffee loung called Vino Vixens.

I had submitted 4 main art pieces to be hung the day before and was pleasantly surprised to find the back lougue of Vino Vixens much changed and filled with art, music and lovely belly dancers for the opening.




Danny snapped these shots of me hanging out by where my art was hung. The mood of the joint was enjoyable especially with such amazing live music.

We had the pleasure of listing to an amazing band: Nuestro Nuestro



They had a wonderfully refreshing energy to them- just very genuine with their music making, the sounds quite obviously deeply inspired by the lead's Cuban heritage. Danny and i really enjoyed the live drumming that accompanied it all.

and with the enchantress belly dancers swirling about it made for a true dream scape setting.

...The wonderful woman, Eryka Ryn, who put this event together said she found most of the artists via The 5th Annual Portland Love show, which i had put in my Posy Nymph painting. Just goes to show its wonderful to be a part of these occasions- as if the experiences and life lessons learned were not enough you also make wonderful networking connections while finding new sources of inspiration.
...The art will be up for 2 months! So feel free to check it out in person.
here is a list of all the awesome artists and their respective web pages:

Chelsea Rose www.chelsearosearts.com/

Chris Haberman www.facebook.com/chris.haberman

Erika Ryn erikaryn.carbonmade.com/

Endymienne www.iamasite.com/

Holly Patton http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22719&id=1017042059&op=6

John Payne www.jopaart.com/

Jon MacNair www.jonmacnair.com/

Liv Rainey Smith www.livraineysmith.com/

Lesley Burke www.lesleyaburke.com/

Treigh Love treighlove.carbonmade.com/

& Wynona www.etsy.com/shop/artbywinona

So thats about it. Today after work im going to run down to T.Ruth artspace gallery and watch it till it closes( i am still babysitting the shop till Tiffany starts feelin better.) Tomorrow i will be back in the gallery from 1:00pm-6pm. I will be working on some paintings, drinkin tea, listening to music and greeting all that enter the gallery. So if you are in the area please dont hesitate to come in and say hi and have a bit of a chat and some tea!
...other then that i hope for a mellow Sunday filled with lots of tea drinking( yes more tea!), patio time. I also want to go hiking( its been awhile with all of this rain!). We shall see what adventures the weekend turns up for us.
Much love and many blessings!
-Chelsea Rose
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Finished projects and new tie-dye in our shop!

So I finished my "Wind Spirit" painting over the weekend.

This is just a quick snapshot that Danny took while Sushi-cat and I were waiting for the first layer of gloss varnish to dry. The flash from the camera really washed out all the colors in the painting, but you get the idea. Hopefully today we will have some nice high quality details pictures of the painting. Its a 14"x14" acrylic painting done on stretched canvas. I'm sellin this one for $150.00 so let me know if you are interested and we will work out the details.

Otherwise, Danny also finished a major project of his:

Laughing Buddha screen print poster 11"x14"
This is a completely hand made, hand printed 5 color silk screen print poster made by Danny.
Its extremely limited eddition. He only printed 11 on Bristol paper.
To create this Poster he had burned 5 different silk screens, each one a layer that makes up the image. To get a better understanding what this process entails check out his flickr page where he documented the creation process.
He just listed these posters for sale in our online etsy shop so check out this link to see the listing.

Speakin of etsy, we are trying to revive our shop. During the summer we were so busy sellin our goods at all the local art fairs and farmers market we ended up neglecting our poor little etsy shop. But now that fall is here the rains have begun and we are trapped inside with not much else to do. So, we have begun diggin out all of tie dye, new art prints, screen prints + more and we are slowly photographing it all and listing it in our shop.
So, if you are a fan of Lucid Optic Lab tie-dye stay tuned because we will be listing lots this month!
The other day we listed a couple items:

Purple Ice long sleeve gypsy tie dye shirt
100% cotton
elastic and drawstring adjustable
size small
Bust: 38"
Hand tie-dyed with lots of love!
Selling for only$10
click HERE to see the shop listing and more pictures

The other item we listed was this one:

This skirt sold in one day!
But have no fear, more tie-dye is on the way.
So keep checkin our shop for more.

So thats the news as of late.
Now i have to figure out what my next painting will be. My dear friend Randy Wonder Tooth bought me a huge box full of 14"x14" gallery box framed stretched canvas and my goal this winter is to do a new series with all of them.
Perhaps next i will paint my Harpy drawing. Im also considering doing some experimenting with these trippy face mandalas that i have been drawing just recently. I will scan one in to show you soon.
Peace be with you all!
I hope you are taking your Echinacea and Goldenseal to keep all these flue yucks at bay.
Much love, always!
-Chelsea Rose
Chelsea Rose Arts.com




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