Always forget how much I truly love this man. Get your Elvis fix on today with a little CC Rider - live rare footage.

Or

Elvis - CC Rider

The Winchester Gallery in Victoria will host a major retrospective of Ken Steacy’s work March8-28, 2009. Opening Mar 8; preview Mar 7, 10am-5:30pm; opening Mar 8, 1-5pm with artist in attendance. 2260 Oak Bay Aeve, 250-595-2777, www.winchestergalleriesltd.com

Read more about the comic art of Ken Steacy on page 12 of Focus Magazine, March 2009 edition. He describes how he worked as a graphic designer, but he wanted to concentrate on comic books. I just love his quote, “I believe that specialization is for insects, not artists, and that the arbitrary distinctions between Art and Illustration should go away forever.” (See more of Ken Steacy’s art at www.kenspublishing.com/PDF/Steacybook.pdf

See my website home page changes http://www.carollyne.com

I’m addicted to website updates. I got a website homepage facelift today. I’ve designed it to be more interactive, with blog feed from two other art news websites. Also added links to Twitter and Facebook.  It’s a good thing I can design it myself, and then “Dr. Ken” in my office did the programming. It’s like a nurse working in a plastic surgeon’s office, I can get it when I want, and I want it a lot! Already planning the next “lift!”

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While I’ve created a Facebook page (which means your personal information is not involved), I can’t figure out how to add to the darn thing. Good grief. And I know about using a computer. Pfph. Anyhow, while I’m figuring it out, please visit the page and become a fan. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carollyne-Yardley/51847819410

I worked a little more on the top of the dress and the chair. I’m starting to get a groove on this one, and between yesterday and today went from thinking the painting was finished to realizing it has only just begun. (4)

I started this one before we went on holiday, and had time to work on it a little bit while watching the 81st Academy Awards. This is in progress. (9)

Greetings!

I’ve returned from Maui fresh and inspired with new ideas, creatures, colours, textures - and I had an epiphany about the direction for my art (stay tuned). Here’s a brief overview with a few photos I thought best enveloped the trip.

Snorkeling was great, in particular: Mile marker 14, Black Rock at Kaanapali, Molokini Crater, and Kapalua Beach.

Other great adventures: Submarines, the Aquarium, the Sugar Cane Train, top of the Haleakala Crater (chilly-freaking-cold at 10,000 ft above seawater), premium golf courses, whale watching, Iao State Valley Park, The Old Lahaina Luau, Feast at Lele, and Grammy Award winning SlackKey guitar players (George Kahumoku Jr., and Uncle Led Kaapana).

Two big highlights:

1) Big Highlight 1: Snorkeling adventure to Molokini (the extinct volcano) and turtle town. The water was clear and the colourful fish plentiful. They chased us and we chased them. We had just enough time to swim around Molokini before they took us out to Turtle Town. The turtles came up to surface all around us.

2) Big Highlight 2: Exceptional day for helicopter ride with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters (West
Maui and Molokai tour). Best was seeing the humpback whales from above.

We ate at two places the Food Network chic Giada reviewed on her show;
Haliimaile General Store (Haliimaile), Mama’s Fish House (Paia). Other notable restaurants we ate at included: The Smokehouse, Gerard’s at the Plantation Inn (Lahaina), and The Waterfront Restaurant (Maalea). We usually finished off with a Lupert’s icecream.

The good food helped us coin the slogan for this Maui trip. Too much Pinkie, Not
enough Pant. I’ll surely fit back into my pants in a couple of weeks. Whoever said you don’t eat as much in hot weather didn’t make an effort. Now I know what happened to Marlon Brando. Hot weather, good food…and hula girls.

Mahalo, Carollyne.

P.S. I learned how to say this perfectly while there, and even after (gasp) drinking the whole Mai Tai (inside joke). Humuhumunukunukuapuaa, the state fish of Hawaii, is a Picasso triggerfish. Humuhumu means, “to fit pieces together” referring to it’s nest building habit. Nukunukuapuaa means “nose like a pig”. I’ll tell you they are quite beautiful, and there’s many of them, but they’re skittish, and won’t let you get too close like the other fishies. Otherwise, I would have posted nice pretty photo.

This is an experiment. It’s a bit reflective of work I did in 1996-1999, with weaving colours, and ovoid shapes. I began with the intent to draw a landscape scene with a horizon, and then add an event in abstract fashion. The style was inspired but Jack Shadbolt, but so far resembles more like Norval Morrisseau.  I think I’ll call it Turtle Moonwalker.