Silkscreens	Oils/Acrylics
Photographs	Mural

The 16×20″ paintings on wood are $550 each, the 2′x3′ paintings on canvas are the same; 3′x3′ paintings on canvas are $800 each. The silkscreens on paper are $100 each and the photos are $20. Please drop me a line if you’re interested in seeing anything in person – it’s always difficult to tell if you really like something from a photo.

I’ve talked with many of you about my new series of paintings, but I wanted to tell everybody how excited I am about these new pieces. Please click on any of the thumbnails above to see larger photos.

They’re 11″x14″ on wood panel, with silkscreen and enamel. I’d first started working on these maybe three years ago, silkscreening layer upon layer upon layer. I was never really happy with them, and then I screened an opaque cream layer over almost the entire surface – and then I really didn’t like them!

So, I put them in a stack in the back of a closet and pretty much forgot about them until I was doing some cleaning about two months ago. I found them and thought, well, at least I can re-use the wood panels… So I started to sand them down and found, to my great joy and surprise, that the sanding process brought out a beautiful combination of layers, colors, and patterns.

After sanding all five of them, I decided to do a single layer of silkscreen on top, in black – it’s the line drawing you’ll see with the text from a chant inside, “I am love and you are love, we are love, all is love.”

I was really happy with them and walked out of the studio thinking they were done. A few days later I was sitting a five day silent meditation retreat (yay!) and suddenly saw them with additional detailing in enamel which would bring a beautiful contrast between the creamy matte background and a more colorful and shiny foreground (setting up background/foreground contrast is easy when you work representationally, you can just do it with content – not so easy for us abstract folks).

So – I hope you like, they’re priced to move at only $150 each – send me an e-mail at sadiesketch@yahoo.com if you’re interested (I’m happy to tell you more about them or arrange to show them to you if you’re in NYC).

Thanks for reading and looking, Sadie

And for you true Fraggle freaks (I love you one and all), here’s a favorite Cantus clip (he shows up about 3 min in if you’re impatient and want to scroll ahead…) -

I’m a little fried right now, so I’m not going to edit and post everything, but here are some of the very preliminary sketches for the SUNY Albany Hillel mural. 

I’ll try and get the others posted soon, but it may not happen until I’m back from Elat Chayyim on the 30th, we’ll see… 

Quote of the day “Singing opera made me good at painting.” – Homer Simpson

Out wandering today, mostly in SOHO, a bit in the Village – first day of snow, and pretty cold for much of it (seemed to get warmer as the day went on…).

Fell asleep last night watching Zeek sleep (there are new pics of him too in Flickr for those of you who just need more cat pictures). Is there anything better than watching a cat sleep? Moving from light sleep to deep he gives one long exhale then doesn’t breathe in for a long time. His paws start to twitch – I always wonder what he’s chasing – what is he trying to destroy, the little devil? His ears twitch – chasing dream birds? dream mice? dream nth dimensional cat toys (those things he chases when awake that we mere humans can’t see).

Speaking of all my moms, in all our lives, I spent the evening with about ten tonight, women who I have the privilege to spend some time with once a month at the BJ/SPSA shelter.  Thursday isn’t my usual night, but they always need extra hands around the holidays, and I wasn’t traveling, so I was happy to help out.  Last night I was out with some friends watching them blow up the balloons for the parade, and we got into a “what are you grateful for” conversation, and I thought I’d come up with a fairly decent list, but tonight I have a whole new realm to add. 

I got to the shelter early, but about half our guests were already there waiting.  I was confused, but ok – whatever.  It turns out the bus driver who picks them up from their day placement didn’t feel like waiting around so he picked them up and dropped them off an hour and a half early.  Which means that they had to spend an hour and a half sitting on wooden pews and couldn’t go downstairs until one of the volunteers showed up.

In my list of things I’m grateful for, it didn’t even occur to me to put ‘the ability to move around freely.’  I didn’t have to ask permission to leave my apartment and head into the city, I didn’t have to sign any paperwork to leave when my shift was done, I just walked out the door and got on the subway.  So right now I am incredibly aware of, and grateful for, the simple freedom of being able to move around the world as I wish.

Completely unrelated – for someone who didn’t used to cook (hells bells, for someone who lived in an apartment in DC for four years without having the gas turned on for the stove!), I’m getting pretty good at this.  I made a killer lasagna today – zucchini, carrots, onion, garlic, ginger, fresh oregano, mozzarella, provolone – I’m bringing leftovers to Romemu tomorrow night, so if you weren’t thinking of coming, you might want to re-think that… 

Sending blessings and peace, and much love.  Have a good night, wherever you are.

P.S. – I happened to be randomly on that corner a couple of weeks ago – the statue is really lovely, it’s definitely worth a visit.

After a lazy Sunday morning (and I do mean lazy), I spent the afternoon wandering around Park Slope. By the time I got started I was already starting to lose the light, which was a little frustrating, but there were still some good shots. Plus it got me out of the house and focused (no pun intended), which I really needed. There are 47 shots in this set. If you’ve got some extra time, here’s an oddly fascinating video on Beijing’s New Subway.