print media and mountain laurel

Mar 20

mountain laurel Seven days till we depart for High Point's Spring market, and I haven't completed the art for the press kits or handouts. Yikes! Been pretty much dug in all weekend with one objective; to complete this project. Well, the weather's been awesome and I keep sneaking out. Spent the morning at the lake. Today's the first day of spring, and it feel's like mid summer. Hallelujah! But, it's 2:41 pm, and it doesn't look like anyone's going to offer a miracle today.

I'll catch up on a couple of blog posts and try to "get my mind right". I love using all these wonderfully creative computer tools (photoshop, iphoto, digital cameras, Illustrator, etc, etc) to create marketing pieces, but with the turn in the weather (and a very cold winter, I feel like I've been sent to my room till I complete my homework! Oh, here's a pic of what is probably my favorite flowering plant, the mountain laurel. It seems to thrive on our northern banks overlooking cypress creek. I'll try to remember to take and post a pic of the flowering part that should take place before long.

Robin Wade

Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.

robinwadefurniture.com

print media and mountain laurel

modern solid walnut love seat

Does the "slow studio" need to slow down?