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....