Andrea Zuill’s Blog

  Tiffany has a new kitty and huge cat food bills.

New print:

  Kind of a tough cookie. 

New Print! The Doom Girls:

  The Beauty Pageant. Where Little Girls learn poise, confidence and leadership.

The Beauty Pageant, NEW PRINT at The Doom Girls:

  Most of you know by now that I have opened a store at Big Cartel called, Badbird’s Art .   At Badbird’s Art I have listed some of your old favorites and some new prints that you can only find at Badbird’s Art.  The Big Cartel store is about not keeping all your eggs in one basket.  You know, what if Etsy disappears?  I don’t want to even think about it! If there is a god, please don’t let this happen!

  I have now opened another store at Etsy.  My new store is called The Doom Girls.  It has one theme; evil, bratty little girls.  Some of you already know that I create oil paintings that I sell through my galleries in Texas, and S. California.  These paintings are almost all about weird little girls.  I really wanted to have a Etsy store to further explore the cranky little girl theme. 

If you feel so inclined, click below to check out The Doom Girls.

 When I was little the movie Bambi was hands down my most favorite movie.  Sure, I cried when Bambi’s Mom died, but what intrigued me was how cute all the animals were.  Even as a small child I was fascinated by how the animators captured the essence of a baby deer.  I loved Bambi’s long, hard to control legs.  The scene with Bambi on the ice was priceless test.

Here is my version of a fawn.  I really wanted to get the fawn’s small body with the spidery legs right. 

My new print, Fawn, is all legs and ready to go at my New Store:

  New Print!  Woopty Doo! 

Nothing matches the grace and beauty of nature’s supermodel, the Beaver. 

You can find this print at my NEW Big Cartel store:

Right on time.  Who’da thunk it?  A nice little Easter Chick for you.  Have fun!

Click on the image for the full size pattern.

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 On my trip to Texas I was able to spend some little time exploring the town of Las Cruce, NM.  I stopped by a cool quilt shop called Organ Mountain Quilt Shop.  I bought a bunch of fabric and a book called,  Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form, by Carol Gilham Jones and Bobbi Finley.  The beautiful quilt on the cover is what caught my eye.  

   Tile Quilt Revival book gives a nice history of this rare type of quilt.  The instructions on how to create your own tile quilt is very clear and quite easy.  And, to my extreme excitement, this quilt is best done by hand!  EEEEEkkkkkk!

So, to sum up this book,  wonderful and easy techique,  interesting history, beautiful patterns included, hand work prefered. 

  After getting back from my Texas trip , I was in the mood to quilt.  I decided to create a small quilt.

  This quilt is 15″x19″.  I’m not sure I like this size for my quilting.  It just doesn’t seem graphic enough.  The embroidery seemed too small yet when I made a sample using my typical 6 strands of embroidery floss the stitches where overwelming.

  This is the entire quilt.  I added a bar of printed fabric to the left side, because I needed color. 

  I just got back from my art show in Marfa, TX.  When my Husband and I take this trip we try to stop by our friend’s house in Silver City, NM.

   We had car trouble just outside of Tucson, AZ.  Our alternator died.  Praise Jeebus for Pep Boys.  They have rescued us more than  once. 

   We arrived in Silver City the next day.  Silver City is a very historic town. 

   We stayed with Cecilia.  She’s a good friend and artist.

  We met a few of her friends.

  Silver City is a blend of old Mexican families, White ranchers,  Artists and has a large gay and lesbian community.  Silver City has it’s own unique flavor and customs.

*Silver City is known for flooding mainly during monsoon season.  The downtown is especially prone to flash floods.

  Silver City is also know for their mining.

*Actual historic photo of The Ditch after a flood in downtown Silver City, NM.