yesterday's business

Title: yesterday's business
Kristine Mays, artist
medium : wire
size: 29 in. (width) x 32 in. (height) x 7 in. (depth)

now that's the magic number...

I've been working on numbers. I don't know if they will become a regular thing I do - like my hearts and stars or if I will do them for a limited time.

wednesday collage...

Life has been so crazy the past few weeks! I managed to complete some homework an hour before I needed to leave to go to my art class. I decided to create collages with the kids. Tonight I introduced them to Romare Bearden and showed them some of Picasso's work ( the three musicians). I took a box of scraps of random papers I’d been saving, a pile of magazine pages that I’d saved for such an event and some stuff like Starbucks sleeves and money envelopes from Chinese New Year. I threw in some wrapping paper scraps and an assortment of paper and I was good to go. The kids had a blast and I got a chance to relax for a few minutes and make my own collage.

teaching art to kids...

I've been teaching a group of kids in grades 2-5 art each week. We usually do a lesson coupled with some art history based on a specific artist. Last night I told the kids about pop art and showed them some of Andy Warhol’s work and had them color their own soup cans. I tried to explain Andy Warhol’s way of mass-producing things and how he used color kind of like a stamp rather than with detail. I demonstrated with my own picture. The kids interpreted this idea by coloring with reckless abandon, which could be seen as really cool or really crazy, depending on if you are a color in the lines kind of person…

wednesday in visuals

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lovely hearts charity exhibition

What’s it all about?
This exhibition will show artwork which celebrates all that is love, in all its aspects and invites artists everywhere to enter. All the artwork will be for sale.

Benefitting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
February 10- March 14th, 2007
Artstream Gallery
56 North Main Street
Rochester, NH 03867

The following pieces will be in this show:
careful of my heart
Kristine Mays, artist
medium : wire
size: 12 in. (width) x 12 in. (height) x 3 in. (depth)
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bountiful
Kristine Mays, artist
medium : wire
size: 9 in. (width) x 9 in. (height) x 3 in. (depth)




Artwork will be sold both in the gallery and online.

earrings...

This holiday season I was more creatively adventurous. I went back to my roots in many ways, one activity being making beaded earrings. At one point (many years ago) I was completely absorbed with beadwork. It was in the process of working with beads that I stumbled upon a variety of wire and began wire sculpture. Sculpture is still my first love and yet at times I do things like making earrings, sewing and drawing. I simply like to create.

giddy up...

This big boot is headed towards Dallas, a commissioned piece for someone's Christmas gift...

the peep toe

the peep toe
(it has a bow on the back of the ankle strap...)
Kristine Mays, artist
completed in 2006
medium: wire

satchel bag

satchel bag
Kristine Mays, artist
completed in 2006
medium: wire
12 x 12 in.

the button purse

the button purse
Kristine Mays, artist
completed in 2006
medium: wire
14 x 13 in.
SOLD!
This purse now lives in the state of Ohio...

the big red change purse

the big red change purse
Kristine Mays, artist
completed in 2006
medium: wire
11 x 12 in.