Laurie McClave

Girls Gone Wild at Tasty in Seattle

2012-02-19T18:17:00.000-08:00

Lumi Goddess of the frost

The second annual all girl art show in Seattle's Phinney Ridge neighborhood

kicked off their opening on February 10th with Tasty Gallery showing off 11 local females and their wonderfully creative vibe! A great time was had by all who attended the festivities!

Owner Sheri Hauser and I at the opening party

Some of the other artists with Sheri Hauser... Redd Walitski (pink hair)

is one of my new favorite artists!!

The goddesses on the Tasty walls

The Brave and The Morrighan

both pictured here, sold on opening night!!!

For more info on the show and the other artists participating

Check out the Tasty Website

How to get everything rolled into one......

2012-01-15T00:43:00.001-08:00

I ask you,.... why is it so crazy hard to get all my ducks in a row? I cannot seem to get all my social, marketing and creative paths to work in sync.... I am trying my hardest to make this seamless and effortless. I see people that can do it and I am astounded! I must be missing something important...
I have a few tech-type geek friends ( I won't name names, but you certainly know who you are)
that just laugh at me and shake their heads when I do not understand their psycho-tech-geek-speak.
I am sorry but all I want to do is create new works of art! New lovely visions with simple instruments that I understand, like the pencil. Remember that tool? That, I understand.. it is simple and straight forward and it understands me.. it knows what i want it to do, Just DRAW! It is so forgiving,.... not at all like web stuff. and computers.. the language of which is so lost on me.. maybe because I am just not that in to math... 0100101 blah blah....Shhh go to sleep now and think about all of this later... or better yet! Don't

A New Print Release and a New work in Oil on wood

2011-12-28T19:13:00.000-08:00

Leopard Girls

Just released Limited edition print

Shop site

I just released this limited edition print last week after selling the original to one of my favorite new collectors..Thank you Janet xo I cannot wait to see them in their new home..

That is how it is with all of my babies, paintings that I make with my mind, heart and hands. While I am working on them I never really know if I am going to love them, or even like them for that matter... then there is a point when they become like my children and I love them no matter what.

xoxoxo

This is the same with my newest creation... I actually fell in love shortly after I started drawing her on the wood panel... She instantly came to life and became my favorite love.... the curve of her hip and hair and her little whip tails, set against the stormy sky.... ahhhh love!

I hope whomever takes her home loves her as much as I do.......

The Morrighan

Raven Goddess

Shop site

YEP that's RIGHT!

2011-12-03T08:22:00.000-08:00

Source: stumbleupon.com via Laurie on Pinterest

2011-11-28T09:02:00.000-08:00

HOLIDAY SALE!!!!!

2011-11-28T08:47:00.001-08:00

Please visit my sites below for Huge Deals on my original artwork! The perfect time to add something to your collection..... Don't see your favorite? Ask me!

My Bigcartel Shop Sale!

My Etsy Shop Sale!

Newest Works available!

2011-11-15T21:47:00.001-08:00

Coleoptera and Lumi works in oils on wood panel are now available through me....

Art at the Moulin Rouge Teatro Zinzani!

2011-10-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

http://teatrozinzanniseattle.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/art-at-the-moulin-rouge-tent-part-deux/

Please Join me for a one night only event of spectacular Art Food Drink and Entertainment!

Pretty in Pink

2011-10-07T21:53:00.000-07:00

Leopard Girls... new work available now at Red Raven Gallery

Superstar from Zazzle.com

2011-08-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Superstar from Zazzle.com

painting progress

2011-08-05T23:35:00.001-07:00

Painting video # 2 Forbidden

2011-08-05T23:34:00.000-07:00

Painting video # 1 Forbidden

2011-08-05T23:33:00.000-07:00

Aquatic Symbiotic Tote Bag from Zazzle.com

2011-08-02T22:49:00.000-07:00

Aquatic Symbiotic Tote Bag from Zazzle.com

Ravens of Summer Etsy Feature

2011-07-21T11:14:00.000-07:00

Thank you Butterflyintheattic for the great Feature treasury... I love Ravens :)

self gravity

2011-07-20T19:13:00.001-07:00

The Beginnings...

2011-07-20T00:16:00.000-07:00

Red Raven Gallery

2011-07-15T23:52:00.000-07:00

Coming soon... Red Raven Gallery will be opening it's doors the first week of September 2011, Spearheaded by several local women artists including myself......

At the Red Raven Gallery you will not find paintings of Seagulls and sailboats... what you will find is an ever changing collection of New and eclectic figurative work from the most talented painters and sculptors in the area... We will have artists working in the gallery everyday, to answer your questions regarding their process and their work and to help you make your art acquisition a pleasurable experience... A different approach than your typical gallery atmosphere offers. Having artists in house keeps the art prices reasonable as well.... also something to be enjoyed!

please follow the red raven blog
http://redravengallery.blogspot.com/2011/07/newest-little-gallery-in-pnw.html

Tickled Pink all woman show

2011-01-21T22:48:00.000-08:00

Come to Seattle for art walk and see my Brand new work in person!!!

My New Resident Gallery in the Southwest!

2011-01-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday POP Gallery

Here is to many many more years of Philanthropy and love of art and artists!

and a special thank you to everyone that attended the Closing reception for the POP gallery On Love show New Years eve!

Press Release January 1-1-2011
Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Sharla Throckmorton-McDowell

POP Gallery celebrates it's 4th year! It is with sincere gratitude to our collectors, artists, colleagues, fellow gallerists, community of Santa Fe, and the greater art community of the world that we send this note of appreciation today. With every day we respect your support, press, feedback & partnerships all along this journey. We embrace the new year ahead and welcome the opportunity to bring interesting and exciting new works of art to the city. POP Gallery continues to raise the bar locally and draw established and emerging Contemporary and New Brow artists to Santa Fe from around the world. Our vision is rooted in providing art lovers with a thought provoking alternative. Rising from the underground world of tattooing and graffiti, comics, cartoons, pop art, illustration, and surrealist artists, the art showcased feeds of the blend of influences and energies well cemented in today's culture. In essence, POP Gallery continues to represent a celebration of mediums and ideas, the dynamic union between independence and spirit, the emergence of sub-culture on a contemporary platform.

POP Gallery, the pre-eminent Santa Fe pop culture showcase, is the launching pad for some of the world's most influential and important visual artists of the last 20 years, home to some of the Southwest's most exhilarating exhibitions and events, one of the country's first galleries dedicated to the brand new "new brow" aesthetic, and the halls where pilgrim hipsters come to worship at the feet of the culture-clerics, was humbly and appropriately born as a small but trendy shop just off the historic plaza, within the cloisters of an adobe style building. Here the original impetus was selling emerging and established pop art, animation & illustration, but soon POP Gallery burst rather ceremoniously into public and media awareness when world-renown allegorical Cartoonist/ Vic Lee aka Lynden St. Victor was chosen for the gallery's debut exhibit, "Poparazzi" in March 2007. A media-frenzy ensued, instantly embossing the familiar "POP" logo into our cultural psyche, and quickly POP has become THE gallery in which to be shown or be seen. POP exposed and promoted the unbelievable range of visual talent fermenting in this "New Munich". Soon US first-timers with names like Marie Sena, Brandon Maldonado, Brice Tahyi, Ryan Singer and many more soon-to-be nationally recognized artists would find their first successful exhibits in the heart of Santa Fe's plaza district. By 2011, some of America's leading cutting-edge art and culture journals such as "Juxtapoz", "Hi-Fructose", "Art Business News" and local NM art & culture magazines "Pasatiempo", "The Reporter", "The Santa Fean" , "IQ", "Albuquerque Journal North" have taken notice and even trumpeted the gallery and the artists who were emerging from this suburban, "underground-zero" into national prominence.

In 2007, Michael McDowell, POP Gallery Owner, fiercely believed in the fundamentally powerful relevance of this group of artists who used the visual vocabulary of popular culture (cartoons, rock posters, advertising, graffiti, tattoo) to communicate and express themselves in a way that broke through the worn ivory tower elitism of the then pervasive over-intellectualized art institutions. So he began to implement his grand vision for POP as the leading proponent of these brave underground art rebels by taking his own leap of faith and establishing the gallery with his wife & partner Sharla Throckmorton-McDowell. Motivated by personal challenge and a need to make this vision be a successful reality they began renovating a small candle shop into a salon style visually engaging hip fusion exhibition space for this pop-culture revolution. The newly improved cultural showcase opened to much fanfare and excited expectation with a "Grand Opening" exhibition entitled, "POP Goes To The Dogs", a charity event to benefit Assistance Dogs of The West, which included all of the POP regulars plus names like Diego Lukezic, Amy Nelder, Bradford Brenner, James Lofton, Cait Willis and many more.

Setting the bar high has led to key exhibits each year for the quaint gallery with such names as CJ Metzger and Miss Mindy, Kathie Olivas, Carrie Ann Baade, Julie West, Clifford Bailey, Thomas Barbey, Aunia Kahn, Daniel Martin Diaz , Michel Balasis and some of the most legendary Art openings in the city's history with exhibits like POP Femme Sugar Coated Strange, POP Native Vinyl, Memento Mori and POP Gallery On LOVE, all tied to local charities including Southwest C.A.R.E. Center, Read Across America, Santa Fe Children's Museum, and Bienvenidos Outreach, which gathered together some of the world's most prolific young artists like Kristen Margiotta, Julia Martin, David Ho, Catherine Zacchino, Trevor Mikula and so many more, which has helped build POP Gallery's mythic status, as patrons come from all over the world to visit this iconic little space.

Now POP moves on to a greater level of influence as it seeks to continue building partnerships with local charities, supporting the arts in our community while hosting world-class events in order to promote it's artists though venues around the globe and across the internet. With this new mission firmly in place POP looks forward to providing exciting announcements in the very near future. Be sure to check back with us so you don't miss anything!

Link To POP Gallery Video Dec 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdezBJXf64

Cheers!
Michael & Sharla

Michael McDowell
Sharla Throckmorton-McDowell
POP Gallery, Owner
133 West Water Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.820.0788
Sharla@popsantafe.com
www.popsantafe.com

Laurie Mcclave painting time lapse #2

2011-01-05T09:48:00.000-08:00

new video time lapse of my painting progress for the new series Faces of Eve!!!!

The faces of Eve project

2011-01-05T09:45:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone
I am creating a series of paintings for several upcoming shows around the country.
The series will deal with the perceptions we hold of women and their different iconic personalities, strengths and weaknesses...
for example... the saint, the lover, the martyr, the mother, the sinner and so-forth...Some people would lump the martyr and the mother together, but that is another story....
I will use symbolism both animal and political to describe these traits in my own unique style, some have described as fantastic realism...
My technique..I paint with oils and oil mediums on wood and canvas and the techniques I use are mostly traditional borrowing from the old masters of Renaissance painting. I start to paint from the support up in thin layers starting with a graphite or charcoal drawing. The colors I use are also based on the traditional but with a very saturated twist. I like to draw the viewer into the story by way of symbolism and color..
My muse? She is the woman in both classical art history and our Popular social culture...
I will be drawing upon iconic images from both , art history and popular culture to pursue this goal.
I will use the money raised to pay for my supplies to complete this series such as, canvas, wood board, paints, mediums , brushes and the printing of limited editions.

The faces of Eve

Hi, I'm a Tea-Partier

2010-10-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

2010-07-21T13:29:00.000-07:00

cutest little phone skins

Paul Frank...ART ATTACK CONTEST!@@

2010-06-16T19:22:00.000-07:00

Today....
I did an out of the ordinary thing. I entered my work in a contest...
So Please, please take a moment if you are reading this and vote for my work there... I stand the slimmest of slim chances of winning some art supplies or, at least getting noticed, foot in door kind of thing. Every little bit helps, so go and check it out !

Vote here

Postcards or ACEOs available now on my Red Bubble site!

2010-03-17T08:24:00.000-07:00

The Red Bubble has now started making postcards! Now you can get my artwork in 4x6 archival high quality prints!

WOOT!

And they are totally affordable! not only that, they give you a break when you buy in multiples and they let you mix and match!
You can still get all my other images in Greeting cards and prints as well and at wonderful prices!

Head on over and check out my site and the other artists on the Bubble :)

Who does she think she is?

2010-03-13T10:51:00.000-08:00

This is a question I feel sometimes burning my backside, other times I ask myself that question. In those moments of self doubt, I am wondering why I have a talent (my best talent) for something that is not a stable, viable source of income. In the world of fine visual art some artists do make it, but the slice of pie is skinny... and if you broke that down to the ratio of women that do well enough to make a living.... even skinnier! So some doubt is perfectly reasonable...... then I saw this video... I know this is 20 years old, but not a whole lot has changed and that, I feel is very sad.

Who does she think she is?

I love what I do and I love my family. I would not want to trade that, just make it better. More on that later.....

This is my latest canvas... just finished. she is called 'The conundrum of Wrath

2010-02-10T18:31:00.000-08:00

What is DivaRouge?

The Red Diva... The woman of dreams.... The quiet muse, forever entombed in oil and canvas.

I love her, and I love her drama, her secret life.....

Divarouge the art of Laurie McCLave 2010 fine art by divarouge

2009-10-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

Divarouge the art of Laurie McCLave 2010 fine art by divarouge

2009-10-12T22:36:00.000-07:00

Please visit and show some love to a new friend of mine on Etsy...She runs quite the business and does these amazing little jewelry pieces with a vintage twist. her Blog is a 3 ring circus with her art and many of her hand picked finds from other artists! gotta love it! Thumbs up to TARA!

4th Wall Gallery

2009-10-12T14:12:00.001-07:00

Check out the Gallery that my ladies are in for a bit! I love the collection they have so far and am proud to be a part of it!
4th Wall Gallery

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2009-10-10T22:20:00.000-07:00

Come and visit my shop
I make Limited edition prints from my original paintings