Wowza! I just love this alphabet! See this and more of Allison Cole’s art here at Land of Nod!

Check out Allison Cole’s amazing bedding from Land of Nod! There are lots of goodies to be had! Enjoy – Jennifer

…. when this week’s Land of Nod catalog showed up in my mailbox! Allison Cole’s Knightly Night bedding, wall cards, alphabet rug and her most excellent, funny little cloud pillow! Enjoy! – Jennifer

Wow – we have arrived, unpacked and the booth is coming together! I am blown away by the talent that surrounds me! Come see us tomorrow or Tuesday at PRINTSOURCE 2014, NYC (401 7th Ave, corner of 33rd). We are in booth E3… and it would make me smile if you stopped by!

– Jennifer

Allison writes:

“I was recently invited to participate in a group show at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA called Seven: A Performative Drawing Project. Seven different artists are given one of the seven walls of the main gallery to paint or draw on. The whole process is recorded with a digital camera taking photos at different intervals that will eventually be compiled into a stop-motion video, recording each artists process. It is a tremendous opportunity and I was honored to be invited to participate.

I wanted to share my process of the creation of my mural in the photos below. It was a wonderful experience to take what started out as a small ink drawing and translate it onto a large wall with paint and big brushes.

I’ve never worked this large before (15 feet wide, 10 feet tall) so I thoroughly prepped and planned before beginning on the project. My printmaking background definitely came in handy for this – I approached everything in layers. I started with many different ideas and eventually settled on the diamond girl character, and colored and mocked up my ink drawing in Illustrator.
The first step in painting the mural was mapping out the hair and face with the aid of a projector and painter’s tape to get the scale and placement correct. I rolled the the navy blue paint for the hair and the yellow paint for the face and neck onto the wall. Next, I created a white underpainting with gesso for the areas of the hair that would become the leaves and flowers. I painted the colors on in order just like I would if I was screen printing: white, yellow, pink, gray, blue. Part of the fun of the process for me is seeing what will happen – the final mural did not turn out exactly as the original drawing, but I’m pretty happy with all of the little changes that happened along the way.

I loved the whole experience and I hope I have an opportunity to paint another mural or large scale piece like this again sometime soon!

The show is up through August 9th, with the closing party August 8th from 6-8pm, please check out the Montserrat Galleries blog for more info:
http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/montserrat/”

We’re proud to have 7 of our artists’ collections featured on fabricworm.com’s modern fabric & coming soon sections!

Carolyn Gavin

Silvia Dekker

Allison Cole

Suzy Ultman

We are up and running at Booth 317 at the Javits Center in New York. Come visit us! – Julia

Rachael Taylor

Allison Cole

Lisa DeJohn

Allison has some wonderful fabrics for Camelot Fabrics. See more here.

Allison writes:

“I just wanted to share my new collection for Oopsy Daisy, A Through Z, now available online. The collection includes wall decals, growth charts, personalized canvas wall art, placemats, and night lights. Each letter of the alphabet features a different animal!”

See more of Allison’s treasure boxes here.