Deli'shoes Creations

Last year during the event Fantacity in the center of Perugia, I had a display of my Delishoes - shoe sculptures that really look like they are made of chocolate, but are not.
Here I am next to almost the full collection of them. Some are not on a chocolate these but look like animals, or other sculptural forms.
All exhibited in the marvelous underground Rocca Paolina in the center of Perugia.

Wool pins made by Stephanie

Here is one of my latest little projects, woolen pins.

The base of this one is made from wood, then covered with Italian wool.

The size is about 5.5 centimeters, 2 inches. 

And here is another version, a cat pin.

And another one....

They are perfect for sweaters, jackets, coats.

Write me if interested

stephanieseymourart@gmail.com 

Photographs in Holiday Faire, Los Angeles

Coming soon, on November 16, my Italian photographs will be on display

 at the holiday faire in El Rancho Cordillera del Norte in Northridge.

Painting animation

Un petalo rosa per non dimenticare

Il video della mostra collettiva Un Petalo Rosa Per Non Dimenticare. Le opere e fotografie di tutte le artiste che hanno partecipato a questa grande mostra. The video of the collective exhibition "A Pink Rose So As To Not Forget". The works of art and the photographs of all of the artist who have partecipated in this show are seen in the video.

Opening of show - "Un Petalo Rosa Per Non Dimenticare"

Il 19 ottobre alle ore 17 è stata inaugurata la mostra collettiva "Un Petalo Rosa Per Non Dimenticare" alla Biblioteca degli Armeni a Perugia. Una bellissima manifestazione, una collettiva con grande significato ed emozioni.
October 19th at 5pm the opening of the collective show "A Pink Petal So As To Not Forget" opened at the Biblioteca degli Armeni at Perugia, Italy. A beautiful event, a collective show with strong significance and emotions.

Ecco sono le foto dell'inaugurazione.

Here are the photos of the opening.

Alcune della artiste insieme al Sig. Lanzino.

A few of the artists together with Mr. Lanzino. 

Artiste presente alla mostra insieme al Sig. Lanzino della Fondazione Roberta Lanzino di Cosenza.
Some of the artists present at the exhibition together with Mr. Lanzino of the Roberta Lanzino Foundation of Cosenza, Italy.

Durante la ripresa per la Rai
During the filming for Rai Television. 

Durante la ripresa delle sculture della mostra
During the filming of sculptures in the show

Mario Scarpanti di Rai 3 al lavoro a filmare la stanza dei dipinti
Mario Scarpanti of Rai 3 TV filming the paintings 

Dipinti appesi dal soffitto, due insieme da guardare davanti e dietro. Tutti dedicati ad una donna uccisa. 

Paintings hang from the ceiling, two together to be viewed front and back. All of them are dedicated to a woman who has been murdered. 

 Una grande folla, un pubblico interessato a leggere e riflettere, a guardare in silenzio.
A large amount of visitors, an interested public wanting to read each note on the works of art, reflect and watch in silence.

 Tutti i dipinti 40cmx40cm anche se a vederli così sembrano più grandi.
All of the paintings are 40x40cm, even though seeing them from certain angles makes them look larger.

Ecco sono diverse artiste e mariti delle artiste a brindare Adele, qui al centro.
Some of the artists with husbands, toasting to Adele, here in the center.

Io con il mio dipinto "Domani negli occhi"
Here I am with my painting "Tomorrow in your eyes"

La gentilissima Sig.ra Lanzino, madre di Roberta che ha peso la vita a causa di
 un'aggressione maschile tanti anni fa.
The very kind Mrs. Lanzino, mother of Roberta who lost her life, murdered by a man years ago.

Dipinti appesi con morsetti, dal soffitto.
Paintings that are hung by the ceiling with metal vices.

FOTO.IT -- Perugia's photography group ACAR featured this month

In this month's FOTO.IT magazine, the members of our photo group in Perugia, ACAR,  headed by photographer and friend, Marco Nicolini, had the priviledge of publishing a sample of the photographs of the group to celebrate twenty years of the group's activity. Here is the Italian article along with the photographs of the groups' members.

My photograph, of the woman in the check jacket, was taken during the photography show in Bologna  of well-known Nino Migliori, while the woman viewed one of the photos of Migliori's  exhibition. The name of the photograph is "Coincidenze Migliori" (Best Coincidences, or Migliori Coincidences).

A special exhibition -- 60 artists for "Un Petalo Rosa Per Non Dimenticare"

The above is a new poster of all of the

 partecipating artists of the exhibition. 

Here is the Italian Translation of the following text which gives a description of the collective exhibition  -- Ecco la traduzione del testo che segue

UN PETALO ROSA...PER NON DIMENTICARE

Un'esibizione composta di 60 artiste  che hanno donato

dei lavori (pittura, sculture, fotografie, poesie) per questa causa così immensa e forte,

 per sensibilizzare il pubblico e dare supporto alle famiglie di donne e ragazze vittime

 di aggressione maschile che ha risultato nella morte di dozzine di donne negli ultimi anni. 

Adele Lo Feudo, artista e organizzatrice dell'evento sta lavorando insieme a tante 

artiste per organizzare e istallare una mostra con un forte impatto visivo con un' atmosfera,

 delicata ed allo stesso tempo molto forte. Le artiste sono state disponibili a donare i loro 

dipinti, fotografie, sculture ed poeti ed altre artiste hanno mostrato grande piacere  a presentare

 i loro talenti per contribuire a questo evento. Ogni pezzo creato sarà mostrato

 a Perugia, il 19 ottobre e poì a Cosenza nel mese di Novembre. Ogni opera è dedicata

 ad una delle tante vittime. 

Una nota, i genitori di una giovane ragazza che è stata uccisa all'età di 19 anni, 

Roberta Lanzino, saranno presenti da Cosenza. Sarà un'occasione speciale, una piena di forti emozioni, senz'altro per le artiste che hanno lavorato per creare la mostra e si spera, anche per il pubblico.

A PINK PETAL....SO AS TO NOT FORGET

A very special exhibition composed of  60 artists

 who have donated their work for this immense and powerful

 cause, to sensitize the public and give support to the familes 

of women and girls who have been victims of  male aggression 

 which has resulted in dozens of deaths in the last several years.

Adele Lo Feudo, artist and organizer of the event, has been 

working on the installation and organization of the artists and their works

 in order to create the right atmosphere, delicate and powerful at the same

 time.  The artists  were very willing to donate their paintings, sculptures,

 and poets and other artists showed availability in presenting their  talents

 in contributing to the event. Each piece created will be shown on the 

19th in Perugia and then in Cosenza in the month of November. Each piece

 is dedicated to one of the many victims. 

A note, the parents of one young girl who was murdered at the age of 19,  Roberta Lanzino, will be present from Cosenza. It will be a special occasion, one filled

 with great emotion, definitely for the artists who have worked to create the exhibition

 and hopefully for the public as well. 

Prova per un'amica!

I'm showing a friend how this blog works!
Now I will put in a photograph.
And then I will publish it.

Barcelona's marketplace! 

I Vinarelli

At 2.00 in this video, I am shown spraying one of my Vinarelli from last year. In the background another of my pieces created with watercolours and wine.


http://www.umbria24.it/via-alla-trentesima-edizione-di-vinarelli-lappuntamento-con-il-vino-e-la-pittura-torgianese/199318.html

Incontri RavviCINAti at Bettona, August 24

Tomorrow evening, August 24 at 7:30pm the event "Medicina Made in China" will host my photography exhibition "Incontri ravviCINAti" in Bettona, Italy. A very rich evening of a conference on Chinese medicine, then a buffet dinner which is offered by the Pro Loco of Bettona. There will also be a film and during the evening my photographs will be available for viewing in the room that leads out to the garden area.

All are invited, hope to see you there.  

i Vinarelli 2013

This is what it is like to paint at i Vinarelli! Hundreds of people walking by, and eighty or more artists painting on long tables in the middle of the town of Torgiano. Not an easy feat but possible.

Woman with wine, painted with wine and watercolours, acrylic details 

Green haired woman, watercolours, wine and acrylic detail on paper. 

"Medicina Made in China" -- Photography exhibition

A selection of  Chinese photographs from my exhibition shown in various Italian cities in Umbria, will now be exhibited on Saturday August 24 at Bettona during an event which the town presents again this year,

"Read, taste, see"

Here is the poster regarding the evening, as well as ones they have had this month.

Here is one of the photographs to be exhibited, two men smiling for their photograph during construction work in the beautiful city of Dalian, voted Best Tourist City of China,  2007. 

Incontri ravviCINAti, photography exhibition in Bettona

August 24 I will be exhibiting a selection of my photos of China, photographs

 taken during my stay in Dalian China. The evening will be very enjoyable

 with a dinner based on rice dishes as well as the projection of a film.

Oil painting of Anna

From a self portrait taken by Anna Kunst, a small oil painting finished today .

Eva Grimaldi and a painting

Strange coincidence this morning. On Yahoo home page there was a picture and article of this beautiful actress, Eva Grimaldi. Just last night I did this little panting of this unknown fantasy lady. I find there is a bit of a resemblance. 

La Sua Maestà La Rosa - Villa Fidelia

Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9, 2013 at Villa Fidelia, Spello, my photographs in a collective show at the lovely Limonaia. Here, a detail of a photograph.

A tiny little pencil drawing: Mila Meter

Just had a few inches of paper in front of me, and out came this tiny little pencil drawing: Mila Meter.
Fun to sit and draw, without knowing what will come up.

Scratchboard

A technique I enjoyed as a student in highschool, still a very interesting technique.
A special board covered with ink and then scratched into, achieving fine lines that define the image.
Here, after many years, three tiny drawings.

Little watercolours

Fun to do quick "sketches", color upon color, bright lively little ladies like these I did today with a good set of block watercolors on a small pad of paper.

Paintings, photography

Sometimes a painting inspires one to take photographs, and sometimes a photograph may serve as inspiration for a painting.
Here, a photograph of my dear friend, that I developed in black and white, served to then create my own color scheme in an acrylic painting on canvas paper. "Claudia", 16"x20", acrylic on paper.

First oil painting since I was 15 years old

I have been painting with acrylic paints for years.
When I was only 13 I was given a set of oil paints from my grandfather. I used them for a while and then, after working in an art store at 17 years old, I bought acrylics. This is what I used for many years.
Just today, after many years, I had the pleasure to paint with a new painter friend. We used oils.
This is the first oil painting I have done is many many years. At first I was a bit shy with this new medium, but after a while I see the difference of painting with oils, and believe I just may continue with them!

Painting how you are feeling

Just did this painting yesterday, Woman and Child, acrylic on paper, 16"x20". Never before in my life have I realized how much I am painting how I am feeling. And what I am feeling is the need for relaxation, calm, and doing two of the activities I love, swimming and walking.
I like to express calmness in artwork, things that relax me and others. I had taken a series of photographs at a swimming pool here, of parents with their babies in the water. It was like entering into a very personal intimacy with them, I almost felt like I shouldn't even be there with them. But they kindly let me photograph them, and I enjoyed it immensely.
This is a painting I completed in a short time yesterday, after working on a painting that took me weeks to finish, I felt the urge to just let myself relax with colors and shapes, and while doing it I was relaxing too.

Delishoes Primaverile

At Sweet Torgiano Cake Design, I presented the first cake I have ever decorated in this fashion, Delishoes Primaverile (Spring Delishoes). The dummy cake was created by cutting out a model from styrofoam and then decorating all of the pieces with  edible incredients based on powdered sugar, butter, food coloring.
Here are some pictures from the ceremony of the winners, and photos of my shoe in a store window in the town of Torgiano.

Here I am receiving my certificate of partecipation.

We were also given a bottle of wine from Lungarotti.

"Delishoes Primaverile" (Springtime Delishoes) my cake in the store window in Torgiano.

The store window.

Here is the store front from the street.

Me, holding my certificate.