Where's Jane

I don't have enough time to maintain this blog any more, but I still make things. Visit http://JaneLeBlanc.etsy.com for artwork that I sell.

I've opened a shop called The Black Sheep where I sell felting supplies, my artwork, and some antiques and vintage stuff. The store is located in Center Barnstead, NH. Visit the store online at http://ShopTheBlackSheep.etsy.com and my antiques/vintage at http://ReFineryNH.etsy.com

Also, because I make things from recycled stuff so often, I started a blog called The Black Sheep Blogger 

I just have a little announcement: I'M GRADUATING THIS SUNDAY!!!! Yipeeeee, finally after 8 and 1/2 years I'm getting my BFA. I just finished hanging my artwork for the annual student art show, ahem.....my work happens to be hanging in the main gallery! If anyone is in the Manchester, NH area, take a look at the show. It's at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. The show starts Sunday and runs through July 17th. The artwork is located in three of the campus buildings. Sneak preview: Random Thoughts, collage on board, 28" x 30"?, $850.

Stowe, Vermont

I'm in Stowe, Vermont this weekend. It's raining, but that's ok, there's a bunch of us ladies sitting around quilting, sewing, and bitching. It's a Stitch 'n Bitch weekend getaway after all. But I'm here on a buying trip. There is a really good antique shop up here that I always get really good buys on assemblage supplies, ephemera and stuff.

This is Sweet Pea

A new addition.

New Hampshire Weather

I had no electricity or water for three days. No internet! Luckily we had heat from our propane stoves. And I could charge my phone in my car. This photo is of Derry, NH. It didn't seem this bad in Deering, but it must have been, a lot of us had no electricity.

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A few pictures of my studio

This is a new assemblage I'm working on of a circus theme:

 

Here's Twitchy enjoying the heat:

  

...and this is a winter window view from my studio

Collages for the day

Some more small collages today. Visit http://www.janeleblanc.etsy.com/ to purchase my collages and assemblages.

 

The Voyage

5" x 7" collage on paper

Purple Tricycle

5" x 7" collage on paper

Dale Copeland, Assemblage artist

If you ever get a chance, take a look at Dale Copeland's work. I love her assemblages.

Big Toad

Big toad on my coffee table

Things in my studio

Why'd you wake me up

This flower is in my apartment

New Collage

I haven't left the studio all day. I've started a new collage and thought I'd post my progress.

Yellow Blinking Light

Well, my computer is dead. Dead, dead!

I tried to turn it on and only get a blinking yellow light on the "on" button. Everything is in that computer (I'm on my laptop now). But I saved everything in that computer. Okay, a lot of it was backed up, but a lot of it was not.

AND, my old camera works with that computer. My laptop does not. I have an Etsy store and need my old camera to take pictures of my stuff for sale. My new camera is sucky and I can't get good pictures.

poor, poor me......

Some of my new assemblages and collages:

Collages from 2007

These collages where made from bits of paper from old books. The faces are made by cutting up images and pasting them down, layer after layer, until they look like faces.

Here is a little collage I did as a study. Hope you like it.

Back in the Swing

After a very difficult 2008, I think I'm finally back on track. I've added some new art things to my etsy.com store janelanglois.etsy.com and started a new store so I can "destash" some of my collections, refinerynh.etsy.com.

I love robots.....

I saw some of Gordon Bennett's robots while I was visiting my nephew in Brooklyn. I fell in love with them, here is his website. http://www.bennettrobotworks.com/

I want one.....

I think she's done. I was going to add a white wash to her dress but I like the way it is now. What do you think? The black stripe on top of the canvas is just the edge of the canvas and not part of the painting.