Abstract paintings...

Just had my last crit in the painting department today... weight off my shoulders...

I completely forgot to post images from the Just Slightly Groovy Show...

Two jellyfish pieces of mine

A piece about my parents relationship

It was a really great show, and a lot of fun to participate in ....

I know its been a While.....

Photos Courtesy of EYA 2010 National Juried Competition

I've just been so gosh darn busy... I just started up with summer quarter yesterday after a very short rather full three week break. I had first my own graduation then my younger brother graduation from high school that I had to attend down in florida. The following week I had a good friend of mine from LA come stay which was amazing to see her!!! A day after she left Savannah I had to make an Emergency trip up to Michigan to see my grandmother and I decided to make the best of it and drive back down to Savannah with a good friend from Michigan that also attends SCAD. We had a great time during the drive and stopped over in Nashville for the evening. I had never been, and I think for just one night it ranks quite high on my list of places I NEED to go back to.

During this hectic time I found out that I had taken Second place in the first Juried competition I had entered out of College for my photograph Rapture from my Female Ghost series. (what a confidence boost!!!!) So now Its back to the grind and getting work done. For my last painting class a SCAD I decided to take Abstract painting, I like abstract photography but I have never attempted Abstract painting, I guess because I don't understand it as well, so we shall see how this goes... ANyways now that I'm back to a regimen I will be posting a lot more.... later

New stuff soon to come

Sorry about not posting i will be putting new stuff up shortly Ive been super busy graduation is right around the corner. as in 3 days

Just catching my breath

This has been a whirlwind week of all kinds of different things... but the next thing on my list to tackle is my 30lb mold of a giant puffer fish ... oy .... but after all that I get to have another show at the Co-lab with some of my friends.... it will be good fun, and good foood and good drink. Very excited! The open studio last night was a blast just put up the panorama of my piece. Got really good feed back on my piece.. Well going to have dinner with my pops who is in town for the show last night...

What a weekend

My My, both the show and the sale were great successes.... I sold my first piece in a gallery!!! WHOHOO.... so it really was a great night. I had a lot of good feed back from friends saying they didn't know I did all of the work I had shown. I got compared to Alice Neal which was a great complement. Overall a good night, now its on to the next thing. My next big project involves a chandelier that I am decorating with caste pine cones, caste Horseshoe crab back and I think maybe a jellyfish or two. We have a Raku firing on Friday which I made five jellies for so hopefully that will work out well too. tis' all for tonight tata...

Show Time...

The ceramic sale today was a hit... Sold quite a few pieces and got a commission. Now its time for the BARE show.. so I'm heading down to the Co-Lab to label my stuff YAY.

Long day but worth it....

Heres' a few shots of the layout so far...

So today I help hang the Bare show that Is taking place tomorrow at the Co-Lab... STarted hanging around 2:30 and It went on and on but I ended up turning out quite well. A few people had bailed out of the show so mid day the room was starting to look a little bare itself. So i offered to bring in some of my paintings and they ended up putting all of them up. I was really excited about it, you would imagine. I just hope we have a good turn out tomorrow. I pooped though and whats worse is I have to get up early for the ceramic sale tomorrow morning. It'll be fun though once it gets going, I just loath waking up at 8 am.....

My latest inspirations...

Lately I have been really into giant squid, I know it sounds like a strange thing to be in to, but i love sea creatures. I've been rally books on them and had attempted a giant squid painting before( didn't quite work out) and now I am going for another go round. I mean there is so little known about these creatures and I guess thats why I find them so fascinating. Its only bee relatively recent that one have even been caught live. I guess most people know me for painting jellyfish, and dont get me wrong I love my jellyfish, But I love all sea creatures.

on another note getting really close to the BARE show at the CO-Lab. Hanging on thursday and Reception on Saturday. I super excited!!

Shows around the corner.....

This piece in titled "Float Away With Me" Oil and Inks on Canvas, Dimension variable

So it was only about a month ago that I had my first show at the Bean. It was a group show titled Passive/Tense. It was a great experience and a great turn out.I showed three of my Jellyfish painting and they got really great feedback. In just about a week I going to be in another group show titled Bare: a nude show. I'm really excited about this show because its right up my ally. We hang next week and the show is on Saturday. In this next Show I will be showing three of my photographs, Enlarged and Embellished Polaroids. Its going to be fun stuff.

paintings I've done in the past year

Have a look at my book I published on BLurb.

The Female Ghost by Samantha Heligman | BOOK INFO

Here are some of my images .....

My First Post

Well I have never had a blog before so here we go right. I am curretly living in Savannah Georgia, while I attend Savannah Collage of Art and Design. I'm almost done, graduation is right around the corner and I'm really excited to live and work as an artist. My mediums range from photography to painting (mostly mixed media), and lastly ceramics( which at this time I want to go to grad school for). Well thats it for now....