by JaimeB Haney | flowers, garden, garden tour, gardening, irises
Irises were never really the star of my garden’s show. That is until this year. I’d had a couple of varieties for most of my gardening life here at this house. The basic purple ones and white ones. The white ones were kinda special because they were old...
by JaimeB Haney | A day in the life, art exhibit, Art Life, artist friends, Evansville, Exhibit, local places displaying art, Public Art Exhibit
Last Sunday, I hung 15 pieces of art at Penny Lane Coffee House with the help of two my artist friends. Vicki Wilson and Lori Rivera have become two of my closest friends and confidants. I was sharing the space with another artist friend Sandy Dodd. Her paintings are...
by JaimeB Haney | art projects, commission, commissoned artwork, My Process, work in progress, Works in progress, works on paper
Do you remember the two-man saw I was commissioned to paint earlier this year? Well, the same collector has commissioned me to create another really cool project. This time it was a fantasy style map of private hunting, fishing and recreational area known as Vagabond...
by JaimeB Haney | basement art studio, critters, funny, life, Scary
So there was a snake incident a couple of weeks ago. Let me set the scene. It was an evening like any other evening. After having just washed my hair I was minding my own business drying it under my salon style dryer. This has been my preferred method of drying my...
by JaimeB Haney | around my house, Koi, koi pond, Studio Gardens
A mink has found Studio Gardens. The little monster has single-handedly killed 8 out of my 13 koi fish. It’s been a massacre. I hadn’t noticed a decline in my number of fish until mid-late February. Not much for cold temperatures, I don’t go out to...
by JaimeB Haney | Abstract Landscape, abstracted realism, art studio, commission, commissoned artwork, custom, on recycled material, Paintings on odd things other than canvas or paper, work in progress, Works in progress
I’ve just finished another custom painted saw commission this past week. This time is was a 62″ long two man crosscut saw. It was pretty impressive. I was surprised by what good shape it was in. My client found me through Google from the last saw I painted...
by JaimeB Haney | Art Life, creativity, fabric, first attempt, sewing
Way back in the late fall of 2017, my dad mentioned to me on one of our weekly shopping trips that he would like to get a new quilt. The one he used was so thin that it wasn’t really keeping him warm. We looked at the quilts offered at the big box stores and...
by JaimeB Haney | art exhibit, art studio, Blues, gelatin plate prints, hybrid gelatin printing, library art show, local places displaying art, mono prints, printmaking, Public Art Exhibit, trees
This past Monday, I hung my first exhibit of 2022, “Winter Trees”. It consists of nine paintings of trees that I created from a process I’ve been enjoying lately. You might remember my last exhibit here, Delights of Spring. They were giant compared...
