watercolor – Robyn Hill Hendrix

new art full of questions

May 17, 2011 By Administrator

This one insisted on being finished tonight. Would not let me go to bed. I was so enthralled with it I actually caught myself making weird little sound effects for it while painting. Apparently my tendency to talk to them is evolving…oh dear.

However, now that it’s “done” I’m wondering if it needs more brown “seeds” in the brown “scoops” that are surrounding the green “scoop.” (I’m trying to come up with new descriptors so that I don’t pigeonhole how one might interpret it. The seeds could also be eggs, or rocks, or eyeballs…or something else I haven’t even thought of yet.)

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 8" x 10"

Are the brown ones cradling the green one protectively, or are they getting ready to crush it? This one seems a bit dark and threatening to me (ok I’ll admit, I intended it to be kind of ominous), but I think you could also read it the opposite way. “Crowding” could also be “protecting.” But what if Greenie doesn’t WANT their protection? What if she wants her independence, wants to feel the fresh breath of freedom in the wind?

Hmm, did I mention I’ve begun reading a lot of feminist art lit in the past couple of weeks? Think there’s a connection? And do I need more eggs? 😉 IN THE PAINTING.

Recent purchases from Powell's Books in Portland

I’m working on organizing a feminist art reading discussion group hosted by WARM this summer, last Wednesday of each month at the Walker’s Open Field. Currently taking suggestions for articles or short books that would be good discussion material (and would be fairly likely to be accessible via the library etc); help me out if you’ve got any!

Art 4 Shelter Sale

May 9, 2011 By Administrator

Three lovely people picked my art off the wall at the Art 4 Shelter sale last week and gave $30 each to support Simpson Housing Services. Thanks so much to them, and to everyone who attended or donated artwork. It was a great crowd and seemed like a very successful event.

Here’s what I donated. They are all watercolor on yupo paper, 5″ x 7″

Fungi

Let it All Fall Down

No Room for Me

Have fun in your new homes, little paintings!

http://art4shelter.org/benefit.html

Local Artist Interview

May 2, 2011 By Administrator

Woah, blogging twice in one day. This is quite unusual. But I have a good reason. My interview submission for the Local Artist Interviews contest was just posted. Here’s your chance to learn more about all the murky quirky curly haired thoughts that go on inside my brain and spill out onto paper when I paint. And of course, I mentioned all kinds of Twin Cities art folks & orgs since I like to practice good art karma. Check it out!

http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2011/04/robyn-hendrix-watercolor.html

Eggy Easter art

April 24, 2011 By Administrator

Hey guys, I need titles for these, suggestions welcome! Tell me what they remind you of. “Scan0001” and “Scan0002” are not really very descriptive.

I suppose I could just leave them as “Untitled.” Hmm they are two separate paintings but the juxtaposition of one on top of the other is interesting…sometimes I think I should digitally collage the “characters” from my paintings together in new ways. Maybe animate them. That would be sweet. And time consuming.

I’m off to buy some new plants to keep me company; it’s become my yearly Easter tradition.

all my March event info in one place

March 6, 2011 By Administrator

My mom asked me to post exactly which of my paintings are in which shows in March, since she can’t be here to see them. And since yesterday was her birthday, I better do what she says (Happy Bday Mom!). So here it is, all the event info for March all in one place:

Climb, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20". Sold.

Climb is on view in the Grain Belt Bottling House as a part of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) member show Temporality, showing through March 31st. The building is open Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, and is located at 79 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN

Thirst, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20"

Seedlings 2, Watercolor on paper, 10" x 13"

: Incubators, Watercolor on Paper, 16″ x 20″

Thirst, Seedlings 2 and Incubators will all be showing in the SMARTS Arts of the Community II exhibit at Intermedia Arts March 11th-30th with an opening reception March 18th from 7-10pm. Intermedia is open Mon-Fri 10am-6pm and Sat 12-5pm.

We had a great turnout on Friday night for the WARM members show Temporality. Click here to see photos! I had a great time meeting lots of artists whose names I knew from emails and statements but hadn’t met in person yet. It’s great to see the excitement & potential of the organization growing. I have been really impressed with the excellent quality of our members’ work. We are, for the most part, a very professional and yet very unpretentious group. In short, we take our art seriously, but don’t take ourselves too seriously.

Now I’m getting ready for the SMARTS show at Intermedia. Framing in progress:

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Unfortunately I made a dumb move yesterday and broke the glass in one of my frames. The paint on the frame was kind of banged up anyway so I don’t feel too bad about having to replace it (especially since my piece in the WARM show was bought by fellow artist Claudia Poser! She and her hubby are so adorable, and I really love her artwork, so it makes my heart smile that she’s buying my painting). So I have two out of three done. Plus I was reminded why it’s important to know what you really need BEFORE you get the framing supplies. I ended up with some foam core backing that’s way too thick for the frames. Oops. Framing is such a pain, but it’s so exciting to see them all done. They are like my little babies, and now they are all dressed up and ready to catch the bus to go off to kindergARTen! Aww.

march madness

February 28, 2011 By Administrator

The website’s been updated! Check it. Home page info, resume, portfolio and artist’s statement were all tweaked or added to.

I have had probably the most productive 4-day weekend ever. And I still have one more day to go. We got the arranging of things pretty much done today for the Temporality show so tomorrow we have to do a little bit of painting and start hanging things up on the walls. It’s gonna be a really nice show. Come see it Friday night! 5-8pm. I’ve been tweeting and facebooking up a storm for WARM, possibly going slightly mad with multiple personality disorder. Fun stuff.

I also found out last week that three more of my watercolors were accepted into the SMARTS Arts of the Community II exhibition at Intermedia Arts, which will be up March 11th-30th with an opening reception March 18th from 7-10pm. So it’s another busy busy March for me, similar to last year. Love this time of year though, so much going on. And I’m excited to be showing all new work that’s never been exhibited before. I so completely adore the three pieces that were chosen for the Intermedia show and can’t wait to see them framed and up on the wall.

Orange Crush

February 22, 2011 By Administrator

Stress sucks, but it also can be great inspiration. Sometimes I wonder if we artists create more drama in our lives than is really necessary because we crave that dark-night-of-the-soul kind of inspiration.

Crushed, Watercolor on Paper, 8" x 10"

new watercolors

February 7, 2011 By Administrator

Here’s some newly finished work from December:

Red Berries, Watercolor on Paper. 16" x 20"

and the piece I just finished on Saturday:

Incubators, Watercolor on Paper. 16" x 20"

Still feeling unsatisfied with these titles. maybe “seed pods” would be better for the second one…or maybe I should just keep them untitled.

Finished my SMARTS entry yesterday. If I get in it’ll be the second year in a row that I have simultaneous exhibits in March. Must be a good month for me.

This is the one that will be in Temporality, the WARM members show, at the Grain Belt Bottling House March 4th-31st:

Climb, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20"

Would just like to point out they are much better viewed live & in person 😉 I’ll be sending along more show details soon.

new work in progress, with a side of something silly

February 2, 2011 By Administrator

Really really in love with this new painting I’m working on. Based on one of the drawings from my art house coop sketchbook project…

watercolor work in progress

Hoping to have it done in time for the SMARTS Call for artists for the 2nd annual Arts of the Community Exhibition. I might title it something like “Incubation” or “Incubators” or something incubating-related. Which makes me think about hatching baby chicks in 6th grade…

Oh gosh, while I am posting and babbling randomly I guess I should put this in to. I made a silly picture:

SnuffleARTagus

Springboard put this “I <3 Art Because…” sign in their spring workshop flier for people to fill in & post photos of. I had gotten into a goofy tweet conversation with Springboarder Noah about artimals (cuz in his pic he is an Aartvark…other good ones included the hippopARTamus and the plARTypus). The workshop flier sat on my art table for several more days, and I couldn’t think of anything that I could say about loving art that would be better than being a SnuffleARTagus. And the empty paper towel & tp rolls in my recycling were calling to me. So there you go. I made a goofy picture. Somehow I always end up taking weird photos of myself in my bathroom. I guess the lighting is really good in there.

Incidentally, Noah is teaching all ten of Springboard’s Work of Art workshops this spring, and they are awesome & super helpful so if you are an artist in the Twin Cities wondering what you need to move your career forward I highly recommend that you check them out. You can buy in bulk and save money! They are packed full of good info like how to price your artwork, marketing, copyright laws, using social media, etc. And Noah tells funny weird stories and does strange things like making a really big deal out of not liking strawberries when you bring them to class and then taking a video of himself eating the strawberry and not liking it. Practical art career guidance + meeting & networking w/other artists + sense of humor = win!

Hmm I did not intend this post to be mostly about Springboard. I intended it to be about how excited I am about my watercolor painting. Mleh. Gonna go eat something and go back to painting now.

Berries

January 16, 2011 By Administrator

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 2011

Here are a couple of smaller berries paintings in the new series I’m working on. Now that the holidays are over lots of new art opportunities seem to be popping up again so I hope to have an exciting and productive year! Plans for the WARM members show at the Grainbelt are going ok. I’m sure February will be a really busy month getting ready for it. I’m curious to see what kind of submissions we got for the “Temporality” theme.

I’m also nearly done with my sketchbook for the Art House sketchbook project; they extended the deadline and I’ll be mailing it in on Tuesday. Just need to get the last two pages done and I’ll try to scan some more of it before sending it off.

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 2011

Happy New Year!

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