We Want Your Arts!

The Owl needs owls! 


Actually The Owl wants any and all fun art pieces you might have to offer: cute animals, robots, zombie fish, platypuses... platypus.... uh, hmm... How do you pluralize platypus? I googled, and didn't find a proper answer. I did find a fellow blogger that is also facing this puzzling platypus plural, take a look at her ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE baby platypus picture! (This paragraph has way too many Ps...) http://desperatelyseekingseersucker.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-is-plural-of-platypus.html


ANYWAY...


We've acquired two super cool beauties to hang in the dining room already, and we want more! Besides art for the walls we're also interested in art for the tables. Pieces will of course be credited, and (if you want) they can even be listed for sale! If you're interested in either selling us some awesome art, or displaying art to sell to our customers, please get in touch!! You can (obviously) do that right here, or on our Facebook, or Twitter, pages. You can also get me on Google+ or by email. Just put Owl Art as the subject or hash tag :)


We'd love to have a constantly evolving decor, so art sold to our customers, or on loan for a limited time would be fantastical. That said, I'm sure there are pieces (like the ones posted here) that we will fall too in love with to ever part from. 


Here's the two permanent paintings (again with the Ps...) we have so far:

This beautiful triptych is by Jenalea Johnson Check her out on Etsy

And here we have Aaron modeling a Horned Owl by Etsy User Keena






If you want to get in on the Owl Art early we'd love you to post samples on our Facebook page! Just tag yourself as the creator. This would also be great for digital art or (my personal fav) MS Paint style creations. You'll get exposure to our growing audience, and we'll get to see a preview of art we might like to buy. A little disclaimer, we can't buy all the art we'd want for our permanant displays all at once (we're just starting out and we don't have unlimited monies); so don't despair if we don't pick your piece right away! We just might want it in a few months ;) 


I can't wait to see what y'all got in store for our walls. We hope we can display lots of local art from here in Greenville, but indie creatives from all over will get an equal shot at The Owl. In furtherance of that goal, prepare to see me repost this randomly to get the word out ;)


Hoot. 

I'm addicted to owls.

I've been trying to draw an owl to go along with my updates about our-soon-to-be restaurant The Owl, but apparently my hand hasn't been connected to my brain. After several attempts that were fated to the trash bin this was the best I could come up with:

It's an owl. Sort of. That was a few days ago. I kinda like his eyes, but the rest of him needs a lot of help. He doesn't even have any feet! And are those feathers or a rockin' headband? I really need a non-track-pad method of drawing. Anyway...

I'm feeling super antsy (What does that mean? It makes me think about ants in pants. And that makes me think about pants on fire. And that makes me think about stop drop and roll. Rolly Polly. I used to play with rolly polly bugs aka pill bugs when I was little).

What was I talking about?...Oh yeah... I'm feeling super anxious to be done with work at The Bookstore so that I can really start getting stuff done for The Owl. Since I can't devote much time to Getting Stuff Done yet I've been soothing my nerves by buying any-and-every owl related item in sight. And some non-owl items that I've justified as "office supplies." Here's some of the owl items I got:

A pencil case, good for keeping a wide variety of small and/or rolly items; A giant eraser, good for mistakes made with a pencil; A hang-on-a-doorknob note pad, good for telling folks 'I'm busy interneting so don't bother me;' And metal owl bookends, which are in great need of some books to end.

This is Sebastian. He has a face, it's just hard to see in pictures. His eyes are very owlish, so it seemed appropriate to include him.

Here's some of my "office supplies:"

Those are Smencils. They are awesometastic. The highlighters are fruit scented, they are not as awesometastic as the Smencils, but they are still pretty yummy.

This giant pack is actually supposed to be for teachers to use in classrooms, but it was full of so much owly goodness that I couldn't resist it!

After posting all my fun photos I decided I'd try to draw my owl one more time, and this time I tried a less realistic approach. 

So she's blue and purple, but still only vaguely owl like. Oh well.

Others reasons why I quit my job include

Opening a restaurant!

This is from my husband's blog :)

abandonist: The Dewar: "Tomorrow I'm supposed to get in touch with someone we spoke to on the phone for a minute at the landlord's office. Apparently he can help us..."

EDIT: For some reason this little tiny post has gotten more attention than I expected so I thought I'd add a little something to spruce it up :)

This was one of the first stick people I drew with my mac. A lot of people seem to think the brown thing is a poop. It's not. It's a worm. If you look closely you'll see that he has a face. I'm not really sure why I drew him, but I didn't want to erase him, so now I have to explain him.