At Blam! Studio... 

Headlines: Artist Studio Explodes! Lost Paint Set and Precious Earrings Found! For Sale: Artistic Masterpieces, $5 each!

A tornado passed through Raleigh today! It only hit this table...

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It's Labor Day at Blam! studio. This book artist was busy working on an order of 10 handmade boxes for the Raleigh Arts Commission... After the first 10 boxes were finished last week, it was discovered that the measurements were one inch too small... A week later, Set Two is almost complete. The work table at Blam! at mid-day today was a jumble of papers, boxes, tools, and a few unfinished books from earlier days. Actually, though it looks like a tornado went through, many artists create this way.. in all the chaos there is an order.. but step too far away and it all becomes a shifting mass of black holes in which all sorts of things get lost.  

The For Sale corner

Beside the work table are a series of book shelves, cupboards, and cobbled-together shelves where this book artist displays many of the artist books, boxes, letterpress editions, and assorted ephemera that are FOR SALE.  Though many guests are immediately drawn to this corner of the workspace.. not that many works are sold actually... oh well. When taking the photographs for this blog, the artist suddenly saw her long missing round portable watercolor paint kit! There it was!.. right beside the tiny tea set and apothecary bottles and the snow-globe (made last summer when the grandkids came to the studio for a Blam!-Camp day). Can you see it? There are also a pair of missing pearl earrings.. What was the book artist thinking that day?... leaving that stuff around like that... Anyway, it's a relief they're found.

What doesn't belong here????

Across the studio there is a window of drawings by the young grandson of this book artist. On that day, earlier in the summer, while spending the day with his grandma, the 8-year-old finished his third drawing and on hearing they were 'very wonderful!' he asked if he could sell them. The answer was "Sure...?" The next question was, "How much will they pay?" A price was decided and a bunch more drawings were quickly completed. They are now hanging in the window awaiting an avid collector. 

Artwork for Sale: by artists Sam and Lily, $5 each

The young man's Aunt Rachel has already purchased one to hang in her new house. It's a pair of cheetahs.

Cheetahs in a Red Desert, by Sam 2022