Check out all the artists tonight (myself included) for Bay View Gallery Night. I'll be set up at a booth in the parking lot of the new Alterra Coffee Shop on the corners of Lincoln, Howell, & KK in Bay View (53207). New mini paintings, some larger paintings, and new jewelry will be available for purchase, starting at a low $5! And if none of the art suits your fancy, I'll be happy that you just stopped by to say hi. Hope to see you tonight! 5pm-10pm.
BVGN website with listing of all the participating locations, artists, and hours:
http://www.bayviewgallerynight.com/
Friday, September 28, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Live Painting & Upcoming Events
Last Saturday (Sept 8th, 2012) I set up my new easel and painted outside the shops at 757 N. Milwaukee Street for Shop Second Saturdays promotional event. There was very little foot traffic for the 3 hours I was there, but I managed to get a great start on the painting I've been meaning to do for a while now. After about a total of 7.5 hours of painting on this piece, I'm calling it done.
The beginning:
After 3 hours:
Finished piece:
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| "Single Track" Acrylic on wood panel, permanently framed with a used bicycle tire, 25" diameter, September 2012
Next week Saturday, Sept 22, 2012 I'll be painting live during the Wisconsin Ave Bridge Celebration in downtown Milwaukee. It's a free event - come check it out!
Friday, September 28th from 5-10pm I'll have a booth set up at the new Alterra on KK & Howell Ave in Bay View for Bay View Gallery Night. I'll have a bunch of my new work with me, including mini paintings, a few full-sized paintings, some mini tree block paintings, and some bicycle-themed jewelry and keychains I've been working on. Stop by and say hi!
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Kompost Kids Mural
It's no secret: I love to paint. So when the lovely ladies of the Kompost Kids asked me if I'd like to paint a mural on their new shed behind SweetWater Organics in Bay View, I was pretty ecstatic. The shed can be seen by Amtrak train-goers, as well as anyone who would like to participate in the community composting project. Here's the painting process, from start to finish in 3 painting sessions. Enjoy!
The Shed, pre-mural
Murals taking shape after 1 session of painting
More color and details added after session 2
Transforming Soils, Lives, & Communities
How much are YOU keeping out of the Landfill? Weigh your contributions HERE!
Finished shed murals after 3 painting sessions
The Shed amongst the compost bins
Monday, July 23, 2012
Art-O-Mat 15th Anniversary SwapMeet
I can't believe it's already been another 5 years since the last SwapMeet Anniversary. That was my first 2 week solo road trip including my first camping trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, first time to Winston-Salem, NC, first time visiting my sister and her family in NY, first time to Niagara Falls and my first time driving through Canada.
This time around the Art-O-Mat SwapMeet Anniversary is being held in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where they currently host one of the Art-O-Mat Machines. Join me if you're in the area on Saturday, July 28th, 2012, from 1-4:30pm. You can meet a bunch of the current artists, watch demos (including mine!) on how they make their art for the machines, talk with Clark Whittington about becoming one of the Artists In Cellophane, and create one of your own mini works of art.
As a special treat for all you other AIC artists at the meet, I've created a special edition of my tree painting blocks, entitled "Washington D.C. Cherry Tree", to swap with you. Here's a sneak peak of what they look like:
This time around the Art-O-Mat SwapMeet Anniversary is being held in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where they currently host one of the Art-O-Mat Machines. Join me if you're in the area on Saturday, July 28th, 2012, from 1-4:30pm. You can meet a bunch of the current artists, watch demos (including mine!) on how they make their art for the machines, talk with Clark Whittington about becoming one of the Artists In Cellophane, and create one of your own mini works of art.
As a special treat for all you other AIC artists at the meet, I've created a special edition of my tree painting blocks, entitled "Washington D.C. Cherry Tree", to swap with you. Here's a sneak peak of what they look like:
Sunday, July 15, 2012
"Full Moon Rising"
It's been a busy last month. Ran a new barefoot 1/2 marathon PR in 2:55:00. That was the Summerfest Rock n Sole on June 23. A week later I spent vacation time biking and running with family in 100+ degree heat. Last week I was kayaking and camping in the lovely BWCA. Not sure how many river miles I put in, but just to keep running in the mix I ran in between loads on the portage trails in my water shoes, sometimes with water still in them. Got in some swimming, took lots of photos, tested my painting skills using guache (opaque water colors), and made it out just shy of a few drops of rain starting to fall on the windshield of my car. Once home and unpacked I completed my new business card design from start to finish. And to top of the end of a great 2 week vacation, I painted this picture today. I'll be dropping it off, along with a few other works, this week to The Waxwing in Shorewood. Opening Night Reception is Friday, July 20th, 6-9pm for anyone interested in seeing my new works in person. They'll be on display for sale through September 18th or so. After that, contact me if you're interested in buying any of them - I will have my new website up and running by then! www.ArtByKelli.net
"Full Moon Rising"
July 2012
July 2012
acrylic on canvas, 20"H x 16"w
Monday, June 11, 2012
Live Painting June 9 Recap
For those of you who missed my live painting this past
weekend, here's a few of its stages taken over the 3 hour session. The completed
painting took about 6 hours total. I've been playing around with some yoga themes lately - this one features 3 different poses.
"Side Staff, Tree, Warrior"
by Kelli Busch, June 2012
Acrylic on canvas, 36"h x 20"w
Friday, June 8, 2012
Live Painting Saturday June 9
This Saturday, June 9th from 11am-2pm I'll be painting live OUTSIDE on
N. Water Street, 1/2 block south of E. Michigan (in between Fred
Boutique and Miss Ruby) for Shop Second Saturdays in downtown Milwaukee. Come check it out
and see what I'm working on these days! I'll give you a hint: the canvas is 36"h x 20"w, paint will be used, and people will be involved.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lake Minnetonka 1/2 Marathon 2012
A successful 2nd barefoot 1/2 marathon for the year! Finish time
2:04:52. 1487 out of 2450. Shaved 22 minutes off my time from the race
in April, 99% attributed to my pace "group" Laura Jester, my support team Paul Jester, and my barefoot partner in crime Steve Jester.
Without them my only other 1% chance of finishing this race faster was
the 100% chance of rain we were supposed to get by 10am (race started at
8am) that turned into 100% no rain for the rest of the day after
6:30am.
Oh, and did I mention that there was about a mile of gravel trail we ran on starting somewhere near mile 11.5? I lost 2 minutes to this section. Laura and Steve managed to keep their pace and finished 2 minutes ahead of me. Paul was kind enough to stay with me and make sure I didn't need to be carried back to pavement. It wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't already have blisters on my toes from incorrect running form.
Overall it was a really great day. I had lots of fun running with my siblings, and I'm pretty sure Steve and I were the only ones running completely barefoot. We even had an unofficial race spectator specialist tell us we were part Kenyan. My goal for the next race (Summerfest Rock 'n Sole on June 23) is to run it barefoot under 2 hours, and hopefully without the blisters.
Oh, and did I mention that there was about a mile of gravel trail we ran on starting somewhere near mile 11.5? I lost 2 minutes to this section. Laura and Steve managed to keep their pace and finished 2 minutes ahead of me. Paul was kind enough to stay with me and make sure I didn't need to be carried back to pavement. It wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't already have blisters on my toes from incorrect running form.
Overall it was a really great day. I had lots of fun running with my siblings, and I'm pretty sure Steve and I were the only ones running completely barefoot. We even had an unofficial race spectator specialist tell us we were part Kenyan. My goal for the next race (Summerfest Rock 'n Sole on June 23) is to run it barefoot under 2 hours, and hopefully without the blisters.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
"Treeple"
"Treeple"
acrylic on board, 5'x4'
painted by Kelli Busch and Greg Schoeneck live during Art Milwaukee's "Wedding" Gallery Night After Party event at the City Center, April 20, 2012.
"Wedding" event you ask? That's right. The wedding of 10 artists on 5 canvases in the time span given of approximately 3 hours. Each pair of artists were put together to create a unique work of art together on one board.
Attempting to capture the different stages of our painting, I took a photo roughly every 15 to 20 minutes. You'll notice there are only 5 photos; after only about 2 hours of painting we were asked by a couple if we could stop because they liked the piece so much they wanted to buy it how it was in its current state. Eager to acquire the painting they put cash in our hands and our paint brushes took a bow, signing the lower right corner to make it official.
acrylic on board, 5'x4'
painted by Kelli Busch and Greg Schoeneck live during Art Milwaukee's "Wedding" Gallery Night After Party event at the City Center, April 20, 2012.
"Wedding" event you ask? That's right. The wedding of 10 artists on 5 canvases in the time span given of approximately 3 hours. Each pair of artists were put together to create a unique work of art together on one board.
Attempting to capture the different stages of our painting, I took a photo roughly every 15 to 20 minutes. You'll notice there are only 5 photos; after only about 2 hours of painting we were asked by a couple if we could stop because they liked the piece so much they wanted to buy it how it was in its current state. Eager to acquire the painting they put cash in our hands and our paint brushes took a bow, signing the lower right corner to make it official.
Stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3:
Stage 4:
Stage 5, finished piece:
Saturday, April 7, 2012
13.1 miles Barefoot COMPLETE!
Today's race was the South Shore 1/2 Marathon located in Milwaukee, WI. My goal was not just to finish, but to run the entire 13.1 miles of bike-path pavement while barefoot. Not in those "barefoot" running shoes, not minimalist shoes, nothing. No shoes at all. And although I did carry my minimalist shoes with me for that "just in case" satisfaction, I managed to complete the whole course skin to asphalt, step after step. Speed was not my concern, however I made a secret deal with myself to try and finish under 2.5 hours. I crossed the finish line in 2:26:19 with a smile on my face, no blisters on my toes, and no glass stuck in my feet. Lake Minnetonka 1/2 Marathon here I come!As a side note, there was 1 other person running without shoes, and 1 person running in sandals who was transitioning into barefoot but didn't want to risk it for his first 1/2 marathon.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Running Fool
Next weekend I will take part in my first scheduled 1/2 marathon for the year. If anyone is interested in watching, it is the South Shore 1/2 Marathon in Milwaukee, WI. The run starts at 8:30am on Saturday, April 7th. It's a 13.1 mile out-and-back (meaning we turn around at mile 6.6 and run the same route back to the start/finish line). It starts and ends at the South Shore Park Pavilion in Bay View (2900 South Shore Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53207) along the Lake Michigan coast line. The route heads south along the Oak Leaf Bike Trail - there are a few spots that come close to S. Lake Drive, so spectators who don't want to be too far from their vehicles can watch at those spots. We'll run through Bayview Park, past St. Francis HS into Sheridan Park, past Cudahy HS into Warnimont Park, and make our way past the Seven Bridges area in Grant Park before we turn around and run that route in reverse order. I expect this race to take me about 2 hours 15 minutes to run, faster if I'm having a good day and the weather cooperates. If you want to see me at several spots along the course, you'll have plenty of time to drive between viewing areas. Wish me luck!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
"City Commute"
The Tool At Hand: Milwaukee Challenge
Guidelines: Create a piece of artwork using only one tool.
Exhibition date: Saturday, March 17th at Sweet Water Organics in Bay View WI.
Here is the finished piece I created for this challenge:
Title: "City Commute"
Date: March 2012
Size: 24" x 32"
Materials: Acrylic paint, 16, 20, and 22 gauge wire on stretched canvas
The One Tool: American Painter Golden Nylon Round #3 Paintbrush
Concept Idea: To create a bicycle silhouette made out of wire using a paint brush as my tool for shaping the wire. This wire sculpture will then be attached to a stretched canvas which I have created the scenery/backdrop for by using that same single paint brush.
I spent about 4 weeks working on this piece. The background was first painted black, and I worked the rest of the colors up from that. The brush I used was very small; I picked it so I would be able to get a slightly detailed painting, but also force myself to use many layers of paint to build up the colors of the scenery. Once I had the painting completely finished, I started working on creating the wire bicycle sculpture. My original idea was to just have the silhouette of the bicycle attached to the painting, but after I finished the bike and held it up to the canvas I realized it needed to have a rider to give the whole piece a sense of action. Luckily I had chosen a small brush, who's thin handle provided a starting point to wrap the wire around to create hair for the rider. Safety first - the rider was also given a helmet. The final touch of wire added to the piece was the radio tower I attached to the top of one of the buildings. This helped connect the city scape in the background to the wire bicycle rider in the foreground.
No piers, wire cutters, or tin snips were used (or harmed) in the making of this piece. Guidelines adhered to; mission accomplished.
Guidelines: Create a piece of artwork using only one tool.
Exhibition date: Saturday, March 17th at Sweet Water Organics in Bay View WI.
Here is the finished piece I created for this challenge:
Title: "City Commute"
Date: March 2012
Size: 24" x 32"
Materials: Acrylic paint, 16, 20, and 22 gauge wire on stretched canvas
The One Tool: American Painter Golden Nylon Round #3 Paintbrush
Concept Idea: To create a bicycle silhouette made out of wire using a paint brush as my tool for shaping the wire. This wire sculpture will then be attached to a stretched canvas which I have created the scenery/backdrop for by using that same single paint brush.
I spent about 4 weeks working on this piece. The background was first painted black, and I worked the rest of the colors up from that. The brush I used was very small; I picked it so I would be able to get a slightly detailed painting, but also force myself to use many layers of paint to build up the colors of the scenery. Once I had the painting completely finished, I started working on creating the wire bicycle sculpture. My original idea was to just have the silhouette of the bicycle attached to the painting, but after I finished the bike and held it up to the canvas I realized it needed to have a rider to give the whole piece a sense of action. Luckily I had chosen a small brush, who's thin handle provided a starting point to wrap the wire around to create hair for the rider. Safety first - the rider was also given a helmet. The final touch of wire added to the piece was the radio tower I attached to the top of one of the buildings. This helped connect the city scape in the background to the wire bicycle rider in the foreground.
No piers, wire cutters, or tin snips were used (or harmed) in the making of this piece. Guidelines adhered to; mission accomplished.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Socks: 1 Year in the Making
You read that right: 1 year in the making. Last year for my birthday, Zac bought me a sock knitting loom. I was all excited and picked out some fun colored yarn to start the project. Starting the project: not so easy. Read the "instructions" that came with the loom a few times through, thinking perhaps they forgot to send a page with the info on how to start the socks. Good thing we have internet these days, and multiple websites with information on pretty much every subject you could ever want. This time, YouTube was the most helpful, since other people found it necessary to provide some instruction on how to use this loom. "Cast on; got it. Knit in the round until you reach the desired length of the ankle part of your sock. Ok, this shouldn't take too long."
Fast-forward about 10 months.
"Alright, well since I have no idea how much yarn I've already used, and how much more I'll need for the rest of the sock, I guess I'll make these ankle-length socks." (That equates to about 3" completed in the last 10 months.) Back to YouTube for the lesson on how to knit the heel. "That makes more sense than the instructions they sent. This should go pretty quick." Heels on both socks finished in approximately 2 evenings.
Continue knitting in the round for the arch of the foot until you reach 2" less than the desired length of the foot. "Crap. That's 7.5 more inches. This is going to take forever."
Fast-forward to February 2012.
"Ok, if I can just get the 7.5 inches finished before my birthday, I'll declare this project successful." 4 inches, 5 inches...."this is taking forever"...6 inches..."So much for finishing before my birthday."
That brings us up to March again, almost exactly 1 year from when I started this project. Finished up the last 1.5 inches of "arch" this week, and hopped back on YouTube for a refresher on how to knit the toes. Both toes completed last night before and after watching a few episodes of Star Trek. Today I lost an hour (daylight savings) but woke up and sewed the toes together to complete my 1 year sock project.
Bad news: socks take a long time to knit.
Great news: finished knitting my first pair of socks, and THEY FIT!
Fast-forward about 10 months.
"Alright, well since I have no idea how much yarn I've already used, and how much more I'll need for the rest of the sock, I guess I'll make these ankle-length socks." (That equates to about 3" completed in the last 10 months.) Back to YouTube for the lesson on how to knit the heel. "That makes more sense than the instructions they sent. This should go pretty quick." Heels on both socks finished in approximately 2 evenings.
Continue knitting in the round for the arch of the foot until you reach 2" less than the desired length of the foot. "Crap. That's 7.5 more inches. This is going to take forever."
Fast-forward to February 2012.
"Ok, if I can just get the 7.5 inches finished before my birthday, I'll declare this project successful." 4 inches, 5 inches...."this is taking forever"...6 inches..."So much for finishing before my birthday."
That brings us up to March again, almost exactly 1 year from when I started this project. Finished up the last 1.5 inches of "arch" this week, and hopped back on YouTube for a refresher on how to knit the toes. Both toes completed last night before and after watching a few episodes of Star Trek. Today I lost an hour (daylight savings) but woke up and sewed the toes together to complete my 1 year sock project.
Bad news: socks take a long time to knit.
Great news: finished knitting my first pair of socks, and THEY FIT!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sneak Peek
Here's a sneak peek at part of the art project I'm making for the "Tool at Hand: Milwaukee Challenge" put on by the Chipstone Foundation. Finished piece will be on view for the public to see on Saturday, March 17th from 1-5pm at Sweet Water Organics, 2151 S. Robinson Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207 (Bay View neighborhood).
Sunday, February 12, 2012
One Week Painting - Feb 12, 2012
Here's a recap of my first "One Week Painting" I completed at the Art*Bar in Riverwest.
Last week's painting, done by someone else:
Start of my painting:
Finished painting:
View from the floor:
Last week's painting, done by someone else:
Start of my painting:
Finished painting:
View from the floor:
Drinks for You, Paint for Me
Here's the deal. So the Art*Bar has this canvas that gets painted on by someone different every week for the entire year. The painting morphs, changes completely, and in the end, is probably about an inch thick with paint by the end of it all.
I have been invited to paint on this canvas on Sunday, February 12.
If you'd like to come hang out, have a drink, watch me paint or even distract me so the picture turns into something completely wild, I'd be more than happy to see your smiling faces. I'll be there at 4pm and stay until I'm finished (perhaps by 8pm, maybe later). Stop in whenever you can, stay for as little or as long as you want. If you ask nicely, I'll keep the paint on the canvas and out of your hair.
Hope to see you there!
ArtBar is located in Riverwest, 722 E. Burleigh, Milwaukee, WI 53212
I have been invited to paint on this canvas on Sunday, February 12.
If you'd like to come hang out, have a drink, watch me paint or even distract me so the picture turns into something completely wild, I'd be more than happy to see your smiling faces. I'll be there at 4pm and stay until I'm finished (perhaps by 8pm, maybe later). Stop in whenever you can, stay for as little or as long as you want. If you ask nicely, I'll keep the paint on the canvas and out of your hair.
Hope to see you there!
ArtBar is located in Riverwest, 722 E. Burleigh, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Getting Ready
Top priority on my list of things to do this weekend: finish up the 6 mini paintings I started a few weeks ago. It's strange how excited and enthusiastic one can be at the beginning of a project, and then work gets in the way and all the things you really want to do get pushed off til another day. Yesterday was that "other day". The best part is I have most of my creative energy in the morning, so when I got up, I got right to the painting. Ivory insisted on helping.
A few hours later and a walk down to the lake in between, the end result is 6 similar, yet different, small paintings that will be heading over to Shorewood in March to be sold at a new shop opening up called Waxwing. I was excited when the owner approached me at an art fair asking if I'd like to show/sell some of my art in her shop. Accompanying these mini paintings to the shop will be a few pieces of my jewelry. More details later about the grand opening party/reception for the shop, but pencil in Friday March 16th if you'd like to check it out!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Starting Off 2012
It's been a busy month, to say the least. After reading "Born to Run" I've decided to take up barefoot running. I was already signed up to do the Lake Minnetonka 1/2 Marathon with some family members in May, but now my goal, provided training goes well, is to run it barefoot. And I'm not talking about wearing those Vibram 5 Fingers barefoot shoes; I mean actually bare skin touching the ground. I've started training for this outside, when it was 40 & 50 degrees earlier in the month. Now that there's snow and much salt (and other random chemicals) on the ground, I'm running barefoot at work in our underground parking garage. So far it's going pretty well. Well enough for me to have signed up for the Summerfest Rock n Sole 1/2 Marathon in June. I plan to do that one barefoot as well.
It's also been a busy month for art. I've had 5 paintings up at the Briarwick Apartments rental office (coming down this weekend), and an assortment of my Trees and Grid Painting series hanging on display at the Riverwest Co-Op & Cafe through January 29th. All of these are for sale - if you are interested in any, let me know. Just finished up this week is the newest installment of Little Bits: Trees paintings to be shipped to NC for distribution in Art-O-Mat machines somewhere across the country. Here are some photos of a few of the pieces in that shipment:
It's also been a busy month for art. I've had 5 paintings up at the Briarwick Apartments rental office (coming down this weekend), and an assortment of my Trees and Grid Painting series hanging on display at the Riverwest Co-Op & Cafe through January 29th. All of these are for sale - if you are interested in any, let me know. Just finished up this week is the newest installment of Little Bits: Trees paintings to be shipped to NC for distribution in Art-O-Mat machines somewhere across the country. Here are some photos of a few of the pieces in that shipment:
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