my feet on the dash

My friend Adrian Hatfield & I have both been chosen for an art show in Deeetroit!

2008 Scarab Club Silver Medal Exhibition: Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts Exhibition May 21st-June 29th, 2008 Artist Reception Friday, June 6th, 6-9 pm (During the Detroit Festival of the Arts)

About the Historic Scarab Club in Detroit The Scarab Club building, constructed in 1928, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a site of historical and architectural significance. The club features a main gallery, a spacious beamed lounge area with fireplace, artists’ studios, and a walled garden and courtyard. Over the decades the beams in the lounge have been signed by club presidents, supporters of the arts, and well-known local and international artists, such as Diego Rivera, Norman Rockwell, Marshall Fredricks, Marcel Duchamp and Tyree Guyton. Gallery Hours Wednesday-Sunday, noon - 5pm scarabclub.org / myspace 313.831.1250 The Piece of Mine That They Chose Is This One! :) And see some of Adrian's wonderful paintings HERE.

Two drawings from about a decade ago...

Elder-wise Eye, originally uploaded by redmeg8.

I've been cleaning my studio and re-discovering "old" work. It's quite nice. Makes you think, "hmm... not half bad" at times. And sometimes, you need that, you know?

Portobello Mushroom, originally uploaded by redmeg8.

Saffy Can Haz Cheezburger... Again!

moar funny pictures

Easy Green Things

Thanks to Anne Ruthmann for turning me on to this website!

Share & Share Alike

I've become thoroughly addicted to the insanely useful Google Reader. It's one stop browsing through all of the blogs/feeds that I want to check out daily. It's upped my perusing 100 fold, at least. It's so flipping easy to use. Eep - I sound like an advertisement. Sigh.

Anyway, I've added a side-bar element (on the left) here on the blog that lets you see the posts that I "star", or, think are awesome. I thought I'd share.

The direct link to my particular "share feed" is here:  http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06279673759061773910?hl=en

Enjoy!

PS> A tip: If you subscribe to your own blog, you can view how many other people are subscribed too. Use the 'show details' link in the upper(ish) right! :)

Readymade is online!

WOW! This rocks! I don't know if it'll be free always, but, if you've ever wanted to check the magazine out, but:

a) didn't feel like reading it at your local store because you have little $$, or,
b) never seem to remember to go pick up issues (or are just generally lazy), or,
c) always wanted to check it out, but you simply could never remember at a good time,

...well, then this is for you!
http://www.readymade-digital.com/readymade/20080405/?u1=texterity

I have a Wikipedia page... jealous?? ;p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redmeg8

That's right people. Watch out! :)

No, actually, the genesis of this apparent ego-stroking comes from the fact that I'm now an active editor on Wikipedia and they give you the option. Because I'm not just doing it for the pure fun of it, I figure it'd be good for folks to see a little of my credentials.

Why?

Well, last year I was charged with the maintenance and up-to-date-ed-ness of both the MEDICAL ILLUSTRATOR and THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATORS' Wikipedia pages (I'm a member of the AMI's PR committee).

Exciting, no?

No? Well, pthb! I quite enjoy learning the coding and making tables, etc. ;p

Opening reception for STILLEVEN

Discussing the drawing-a-day project, originally uploaded by redmeg8.

Tim Lowly just sent me a few of the photos from last Friday's reception in Chicago. Click HERE to see the rest!

There was a nice turnout with a lot of the Northpark U. students and one of my favourite medical illustrators: Dawn Scheuerman! She brought me pretty purple daisies and irises. So sweet.

It was nice balance to my Dad's memorial which was the day after. It almost feels like the show was a big gift from him... which I know sounds kinda weird, but, somehow it feels true to me.

Anyway, I'm still in a haze from my Dad's death and I know I haven't said much about it here. It's just hard to do it, do him, justice. Someday maybe I will.

My Dad. He was awesome.
1940-2008