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well...

i know this guy....

he has the bluest eyes i have ever seen...

he also has some pretty great artwork...

you should totally check it out :)

and if you happen to know of anyone hiring a graphic designer in birmingham, al please let us know!

http://taylorgonzalez.wordpress.com/

:)

YOU ARE INVITED....................

This is the invitation to me and Katie Calhoun's art show on August 20th!!

and guess what...............

we want YOU to come to our show!!

Here are the details incase it is too small to read......

Thursday, August 20th

@ The Townhouse at Mt. Laurel

23 Olmsted Street

Birmingham, AL 35242

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

www.laurieannejohnson.com

www.katiecalhoun.com

HEADS UP!!!!!!

ART SHOW!!!!

LAURIE ANNE JOHNSON and KATIE CALHOUN

AUGUST 20th, 2009

Birmingham, Alabama

Katie and I are so excited to announce that we are having an art show! BUT we need YOUR MAILING ADDRESS so we can send you an invitation!!!!

please email your mailing address to laurieannejohnson@me.com!

THANK YOU!!!!

check out our artwork!!

www.laurieannejohnson.com

www.katiecalhoun.com

new painting! :)

"Filled With Light" - Oil - 30" x 40"

I painted this painting for my high school art teacher and dear friend Amy Henry! It was such an honor that the woman who taught me to paint wanted one of my paintings hanging in her house!! She is also a very talented artist and has a great photography business going on!! Check out her work HERE!!

i like to doodle... :)

Give me crayons and a paper table cloth and I will go to town on it............. :)

April 9, 2009

Hello! 

I wanted to let all of yall know that I have new paintings up!! 

I had such a great response to “Red Birds 1” that I decided to make it into a series... so now we have “Red Birds 2” and “Red Birds 3”!!! 

To see the titles and sizes of the paintings click here.

YES, all my paintings are FOR SALE! :) Contact me for more information on any painting.

I hope yall enjoy!!

January 20, 2009

I am back in Sweet Home Alabama! I had the most incredible time traveling Europe and really enjoyed spending my last semester of college in Florence. 

I am now a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Art degree! (War Eagle!) I am now working part time and painting the rest of the time. It feels so good to be back in my studio! 

Making art in Italy was a really good experience for me. It was a much needed break in my art education experience. I was able to pretty much start over without having expectations from professors who knew how I have painted for the past 4 years. It was like a breath of fresh air! 

I experimented a lot in my paintings. I was limited in my resources and decided to take advantage of those limitations and really push the materials I did have. Mixed media and vivid colors ended up being a strong theme in my paintings.

All in all, my time in Italy was a fresh way of looking and painting for me. I am very excited to apply what I discovered in Italy to my paintings now that I am home!

November 5, 2008

I have some exciting news! 

I had an art show in Florence! The art students in the Advanced courses had the opportunity to create artwork for an exhibition called “Art ‘n Food” that was held at a local restaurant in Florence called Gonzo. It was very exciting to know that a piece of my art was selected to be in a show in Italy! The show will be up for about a month longer.

My painting “Seeds” is 80 cm x 80 cm and my statement is below.....

My painting is inspired by the idea of the source of life. For me the source of life is clearly stated in Matthew 26:6 which says, "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?". This verse talks about the source of life in two different aspects. The first one is that God provides life for us and for the birds. The other idea is that He sustains that life with food. The seed represents the life that has been provided for us by God and also represents the origin of food. I am intrigued by the idea that not only humans eat from the seed but the birds use the seed as their life source as well. I believe that much care and thought goes into providing food in order to have life. I express this idea in my creative process which is very elaborate, slow and thoughtful. In these paintings I express my personal beliefs about the relationship between humans, nature and the supernatural through the process of creating.