blue reid - new stuff



	3/3/2007 I just got into an amazing show located in Seattle Washington called "Unclad". The show is supposed to travel to a, yet unspecified, gallery in Portland Oregon. The entire show is on-line and the works are very strong and tasteful. Check it out! http://uncladart.com/art_2007/artists.htm
	2/26/2005 So, I started a piece that I've been wanting to do for years. I am so excited. It was very hard to let my model go home at 11 pm; I was still wanting to work. Even being a foot model is exausting. It's 72" x 42" It may end up being my only peice with an actual name. I've been refering to it as "Two Six Foot Feet". Kinda Dr. Suess-y.
	1/15/2005 This was going to be the piece that launched me into great new heights. I entered it in the Crocker-Kinglsey Biennial International Exhibition - rejected. Oh well. Nuff said.
	1/14/2005 I just got back from my reception at the Lincoln Arts Center tonight. Very fun show. Lots of people I had never met before and artists with whom I have never shown, so it was all new. The show will run until the end of Feb. and all the artists involved are supposed to change out the work at least once during the two months - so well, that's twice the fun! Man, just look at the difference in the photos from this one to the one below. (I've been taking them in to Cali Color and replacing the photos since I last wrote this portion) No one should ever let me have a camera! It makes me think I can take pictures! Clearly, this is not the case! (This photo - done at Cali Color in Sacramento; other lame ones - my garage)
	1/5/2005 It was one of those nights when you just can't care anymore because there's just nothin' happinin' and then that's usually when; if there's a chance that something good can happen; it will when you don't care anymore. So this piece was a product of one of those sessions - everything else from the night is (in the words of my high school Biology teacher) in the circular file.
	12/21/2004 I finished the quirkiest little piece tonight. My model and I were setting up for a new piece and kind of goofing around and, as a joke, she just sat straight forward with her hands in her lap, but something about it just hit me. It was so strangely average that it looked forced and therefore dramatic. I loved it. We've been working on it for a few months and I finally finished it tonight. It was one of those nights were my model was ready to go home and I was nearly finished and then I just wanted to do ONE LAST THING...aaaahhh *@#!&. Killed it completely...model went home and against my own good judgment, I kept working (it was a background problem, so I cut myself some slack). So, the empty chair modeled for me and I brushed off as much of the pastel as I could and began again and 10 minutes later, Voila - done. So weird, but I tell you; mistakes are sometimes the best part of what I do. Maybe admitting that will be bad for business, but it is the truth. I love the piece so much more now and the background is better than I imagined - I wanted it to not matter or take away from the piece, but ground her. I think it does that. The pose was so great and I really loved the figure and I was so unhappy (to understate it) when I thought it was a goner. So, yea, back from the dead (in a non-zombie sort of way).
	10/28/2004 There was a good turnout for the "Ribbons of Hope" juried show to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, hosted by the Artful i Gallery and A Sow's Ear Gallery. This is their first in what is to become an annual event, and word has it that Sutter Medical Group will be involved next year. I found trying to do a piece for this show very difficult because I have so many loved ones that have been affected by breast and other kinds of cancer. I had a total of seven pieces that I worked on for this show trying to do one that I felt would honor such an important cause. I ended up throwing five of them away and entering two. I guess they liked one of them because I ended up with first place.
	10/09/2004 Yea! I won a ribbon! I received the Past President's Award at the Northern California Artist's League's 49th Annual International Open Art Exhibition. Show is on from September 17th to October 17th. It's at the Sacramento Fine Art Center on Gibbons Road in Sacto CA. Stop by and see the show if you can. A lot of great work there this year.