Sofia Arnold

Show Announcement!

This is one of the paintings that will be in the group show When Animals Talk at the Tory Folliard gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

September Truffle
acrylic wood panel
9"x12"

 Artists included: Stephen Anderson, Sofia Arnold, Mark Chatterley, Laura Dronzek, Beth Edwards, Martha Glowacki, Michael Gross, Laurie Hogin, Mary Jones, Flora Langlois, Gina Litherland, Michael Noland, Judy Onofrio, Kendall Polster, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Brook Slane, Leo Sewell, Fred Stonehouse, Tom Uttech, and Karl Wirsum.

The show runs October 16-November 28 with an opening reception from 5-9pm on October 16th (which is also gallery night in Milwaukee). Visit www.toryfolliard.com for more details.

We See This All the Time
acrylic wood panel
24"x18"

this might make my grandma chuckle

Here's a skirt.

Used to be a shirt.

I think it still needs a little work.  But not much, because believe it or not, I'm not just sitting around making old shirts into new things.

In the Year 2000

I'm living with my parents for a few months (which causes a combination of happiness and blushing when I think about it too long) and this morning I discovered a box with some of my high school clothes.  This is the skirt I wore to my homecoming dance my freshman year, which was nine years ago.

It's handmade, could you tell?  I'm sure no one noticed the safety pins and loose threads in the dim lights of the cafeteria.  I think I paired it with a velour tank top.  Let's just say that in high school I was too skinny, had some heavy orthodontia, and when all was said and done I think I was voted "weirdest hair" my senior year.  My date's mom drove us to this dance, and I spent the week before and after the dance trying to avoid running into him in the halls.

I loved this purse!  It's made out of plastic, says "BULGE" on the front, and looks like a robot face.  Those were probably the three main criteria I had in mind while purse shopping at that age.  Just give me an iridescent plastic wallet, and I'm set.

Ah, yes.

I should admit that I tried on the skirt.  I was technically able to zip it up.  It will be perfect if I ever need to get a job as a crafty-looking prostitute.  

Learn To Draw

I love these Before & After drawings on the website for the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

If you're anything like me, you probably can't decide which ones are better!

You can see the rest of the gallery here.  

Piles

Scooter parking!

I've been doing graphite drawings in my sketchbook for the past two weeks.  I'm not ready to show them yet, so instead here is a drawing I did over the summer:

Valley Sound

ink and colored pencil on paper

22"x22"

Here's a detail of the haystacks:

My mom took some really nice pictures of amish haystacks

You can see them on her site here.

Around here (I'm still in Northern India) people make giant piles of dried cow dung (which is later burnt as fuel) and cover them with dried grass to protect the dung from the monsoon.

Some of them are quite beautiful, and it's especially nice to see a whole little village of dung houses.  The tops often taper into a little point, which bends over like the top of a Hershey's kiss.  Actually that's a pretty gross analogy, now that I think about it.  Sorry.