2008 August : Jill Berry Blog

Well, I am not a techno blogger and can’t manage to attach the Ojai class information here nicely. It comes out with lots of gook at the bottom, but the info is there. Cut and paste the registration form directly into an email if you like. Decorate your bathroom with the ascii text [...]

Positively Negative

Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Sometimes pages of paint get crazy. They just go off and running and pretty soon you have acrylic chaos. I took one of these crazy pages and looked at it like you might look at the clouds: trying to find the hidden pictures and what it might want to say. I painted the negative spaces [...]

Ojai in September

Posted on August 20, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I am headed all over in the next month, including Ojai California. I wrote about this cute pink place earlier, and you can scroll down for a picture. There are two classes: two days of painting on paper, my true addiction, and three days of making books from the pages. Five days of making art [...]

Somerset Studio, Anew

Posted on August 17, 2008 - Filed Under About me | Leave a Comment

Here is the piece for the newest issue of Somerset Studio. I do not think this experience will ever get old, opening a magazine like this to see your own work, and I would recommend it! I first did it by answering an open call on their website that my friend Rosalba practically forced me [...]

Cathedral of a Woman’s Day

Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | Leave a Comment

This is the book I made from the page below. It is an homage to the daily task of women, starting with the sunrise in the garden, moving to the juggling act of house, children, husband and art, to the actual husband (depicted here as a martini glass with a face). The last two pages [...]

Art Unraveled 2008

Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Art Unraveled in Phoenix was heaven. Despite the monsoons, despite the fact my husband got laid off the first day I was there, despite Frontier Airlines every attempt to dispute my luggage, it was wonderful. I met so many kind and interesting people everywhere I went: breakfast, classes, the hallway, the (hot) elevator, the lounge, heck, [...]