pamela brooke designs

here are some paintings ive created in the past coupla weeks or so:


ovals: nature  30X30


white bird pop  11X14


words have power  22x30



love the world  20X20


hopefully home  42x42


and there's always more coming.  as always, if you want more info or wanna buy something just email me at pbrooke@mac.com!

Once again Im finding myself up at 3AM working feverishly to get another hanging ready. I had a showing at a new coffee place here in Portland last month....Muddy Waters on 30th and SE Belmont. I took it down three days ago. I get a call tonight and a guy from the cafe tells me that the artist who had the December space hung a bunch of art not like any of the art in his portfolio and that customers are coming in asking for me to bring my art back! Im like totally flattered, but it means Ive got to work all night to get some new pieces ready. Many need to be varnished and sides painted and then a list typed up with prices and little strips of paper with my name and number attached, etc, etc, etc. On top of this I have to get two pieces I recently sold online dropped off at Art Media (the art store in downtown Portland) to be stretched. Then they have to be varnished and packed and shipped by Thursday. I am supposed to be buying some google and yahoo search marketing ads but I first need to update my website which has to be somehow finished by friday. I know I should not be complaining, Im very lucky to be selling my art and to have people ask for me, but these bones are tired!

Here's some new work I have up on ebay this week:












im going to bed. I'll type out the list for the Muddy Waters show in the morning.

Oh! I signed up for this conference! Im so excited!




My son and I are taking this together. He is planning on opening up an art store/gallery where he will be showing my art as well as several other artists and artisans. I will talk more about it in future posts.

well, its about time! Finally a positive aricle in the Seattle Times about selling art on ebay!

Home is Where the Art Is

Ok. So what is up with me? Im showing at the Pi Rem Art Lounge in Portland in Old Town. www.pi-rem.com July 6 - 29

Im also at the Noah's Bagels on Hawthorne til August. I just talked to a woman who, after eating her bagel, decided she wants to buy 3 pieces! Get this, turns out she grew up in NYC's Upper West Side about the same time I did. She on W77th, me on W72nd. Crazy, huh?

This is a big week for me. Im buying a new computer and camera. I am so excited! Ive been working on a relatively small screen monitor for years and often I have 3-4 different programs up at once and at least 2-3 browser screens and I never have enough space so it can be pretty frustrating. Im getting an Apple iMac with a 20" screen with an extra G of memory and a Fuji S9000 10 megapixel camera. Im going to get a mac consultant to come in and show me around.

I need to re-learn how to take pictures so they come out at the right resoution not just for the web but for larger prints. I am going to start offering prints, but I dont know how to take what comes off my camera and turn it into a digital file that will allow me to make actual size prints. I'll check craigslist for a photographer to teach me.

Gotta run. here's my latest:

This one is up at auction on www.artbyus.com



These two are hanging at the Pi-Rem Art Lounge in Portland

here's some of my latest stuff:















back to the canvas...i'll be back to write words eventually.

Work space seems to be an ongoing issue for me as I amasss more supplies and they take up more space. Im using the kitchen table to lay things out for my collage pieces, but its a small 36" round table and it's not big enough. Right now my "studio" is in the dining area...and my computer and TV is in the other end of the room, or living area. Its always in a state of flux and it is really a problem. I'm the most disorganized person in the world. I might even be at the point that I need to call in professional help! The total size of the room (dining room and living rooom is about 35' long and 15 widh. The dining area is determined by a set of floor to ceiling plain square columns and on each side is a wall that comes up 4 feet. Then to make things more weird to figure Ive got a corner fireplace but on one corner its the door to the kitchen...then add the windows and I end up with very little wall space.

I have lots of shelving and stuff but what I really need is a big long table to do the collage work... anywhere to assemble things. I will say that having a fireplace is nice. This winter its been a lifesaver cause I ran out of oil a about a month ago.

anyway, gotta run. The painting above just sold on ebay.

i have sold several of these. especially to children's clinics, pediatricians offices and several individuals. this one is a bit looser, more painterly than the others.


Hurray for Willie Nelson! Read here: http://www.wnbiodiesel.com/

This is my latest and currently for sale on ebay.



Now, I really love this piece. It just glows. I have it listed as a three day auction, but if no bids are placed by the time there are 12 hours left I will extend til 5, then 7, then 10. It has a reserve of $200.

Oh, and by the way, if you are in Portland and find yourself in the Alberta Arts district I am being shown until the last wednesady in February at the Fuel Cafe. Its right on Alberta, I believe on the corner of 15th. The prices range from $40 for my smaller pieces to $700 for the larger more labor intensive pieces. Its going very well as I have already made some sales, one on opening night! Im trying to build up more of a local presence. Im too much of a hermit, so Ive hired the absolute bestest assistant an artist can have. She rocks! Within the first few days of working for me she has arranged three shows and she is shlepping my art to various galleries and cafes around the area to a stellar response!

Well, I better go. I am working on a new Words Have Power piece and will post it when its done. Here's another original painting for your visual pleasure. Be back soon...at least sooner than I usually post!




This is one made from an ad I found in an old copy of L'illustration of the Paris Exposition of 1937. Absolutely fabulous ads! Anyway, I used some collage techniques I learned from a Claudine Hellmuth video. As soon as I can figure out how to link to stuff I will show you how to order it. For a self taught artists such as myself art videos can be so helpful! Gotta run!

pamela

im on a huge creative surge, here's the latest:


This one is up for auction on ebay at $600. I dont usually start out so high,but one can try, yes?. You can find me on ebay by putting "pbrooke" in the search and then be sure to click on the store icon to see what else i have up.

and


This one sold over the weekend for $305

ive got 6 different canvas going on at the same time! Thats a record for me! But I find I dont like to work fast with these collage pieces. I love going thru all my different papers..ive paper from countries all over the world and im also having a blast buying stickers. Its like being a little kid again. Im just having so much fun! I have all my old magazines out looking thru them all for collage elements. Gotta do something with them! Anyway, i will be back!

went thru files on my computer this week and got inspired to work on a few ideas. to update my old old work and give it a new spin. These are all 24X30 on canvas panel so they need a frame.

Ok. Here it is, Not quite done yet, Ive got some simple white curtains coming in and the blinds are being tossed. i hate em. There's still the landscaping to do, but the house is painted and the response has been over the top. People love it! Its had a helluva reaction. Nothing understated about this house!





New work:







i'll be back!

Gabe and family came by today to pick up the gas can and for the kids to stretch their legs and do a bit of runing around in the yard and kick out the jams. Gabe and I agreed on a color, well, several colors for the house.





The colors wil be a cobalt blue thats almost purple for the body, trim will be gold ochre with a ting of yellow and a rusty sorta red. Cadmium red with about 30% gold ochre. And a tiny bit of olive somewhere. Its going to be absolutely fantastic. you'll see.

Ive been going thru my old watercolors I created back in 2002 and 2003 and have decided to sell a few of them.

Check out my ebay store

I have learned much since then, I'd like to go back to working with watercolors again. I have a great collection of gorgeous colors from Daniel Smith and Holbein brands.

I find the heat really affects my creative ability. I dont feel like painting and I miss it terribly. So Im going thru some old watercolors and plan to list some new old stuff on ebay directly to my store.

Bought a few hundred bucks worth of canvas from www.canvasplace.com. A guy named Rupen owns it and he's a really nice guy. The canvas are always a good price and they have nice flat staple free edges that are so easy to paint..as opposed to rounded canvas where its more diffcult to paint the edges with a clean line. The surface of the canvas is smooth with just the right tooth. I also picked up some new Lascaux mediums from Dick Blick and some of their Violet Perlacryl. Its an outrageously beautful iridescent acrylic, there's no equivalent.

Tomorrow my DIL and I drive around Portland getting ideas to paint my house. Right now we are thinking cobalt blue, yellow ochre and a rusty orange. Sounds odd, but its actually very warm, inviting....its gonna be great! I live in a pretty funky area so it will fit in fine.

We are building a new deck too. Very busy around here these days.

My grandkids came by last nite. They're both boys, ages 5 and almost 2. Gage, 5, has discovered rock n roll. So, I went through iTunes and looked for something to get his little motor going. Found something perfect! Its the iTunes 60's collection with Wooly Bully (now that's one a 5 year old can love!) In-a-gadda-da-vida, Wild Thing...he's gonna love 'em. Unfortunately his parents came back just when we were getting it downloaded. (It seems to me that the absolute worst time to be logged on to the internet is from about 5-7pm, seems like everything takes a lot longer to download) Anyway, he'll be back soon. I have a few songs Ive collected that he really enjoys, his favorite is the song, "Run for the RoundHouse, Nellie." Its a song written by my grandfather, Willard Robison...and sung by him. Its a little weird to have Gage sitting in my lap and listening to my grandfather's voice! I was his age when my grandfather would sing it to me and I would sit on his lap, or next to him on the piano bench while he played the piano.

Some of the stuff Ive painted in the past two days:









Large Red Floral






Red Floral Branch


Papered Window'







they are all up on ebay.

here's the link to my ebay store:

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Art-of-Pamela-Brooke

Gotta go, dont know when I'll be back...

check out my new website: http://www.pamelabrooke.com/

i hope to be able to show my recent work here. i am an artist (my medium's acrylic right now) and have had great success with selling my art online. i think this blog stuff is very cool, im glad ive finally jumped on the band wagon! as soon as i can figure out how to post an image i will!