November Free Print Challenge

Latest artwork: Bast of the Rising Sun



FREE PRINT CHALLENGE*
If you buy TWO or more prints products on my website's store page (www.lynnetteshelley.com/store.html) STARTING NOW and lasting the entire month of November, you will be entered into a drawing to win a FREE signed and
matted giclee art print from me.

I will draw a name randomly from any sales that ...I make from NOW through November 30th and announce a winner during the first week of December via a direct email to the winner.

Please note, the purchases must be from Art Prints directly from me on my store page (and not through any of my print-on-demand sites like Zazzle, Redbubble etc.)


FREE PRINT WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK PURCHASE*
If you would like to purchase ANY original artwork that I may have, I
will also include a FREE signed and matted print (now through November 30). You can see myartwork at www.lynnetteshelley.com and if you would like to inquire about a particular item, I can let you know if it’s still available and the cost.


Upcoming Art Shows
If you live in or near Philadelphia, you can also see my artwork in person at the following upcoming art shows:

November 1 through December 31, 2009
Group Art Show at
Triumph Brewing Co.
117 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA;
215.625.0855.

November 4 through November 30, 2009
Solo Art Show at Infusion Cafe,
7133 Germantown Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19119;
215.248.1718.

Part of the Mt. Airy Focus on Local Arts juried art exhibition from Friday Nov. 6th 6pm-9pm and Saturday Nov. 7th 11am - 6pm.

December 3, 2009 through March 4, 2010
Solo Art Show at Sankhya Yoga School & Wellness Center,
1206 North 5th Street,
Studio C,
Philadelphia, PA 19122;
267.234.0196. Reception TBA.

*The actual FREE PRINT will be determined by customer's choice of available print items.

New Ebay Auctions and New Web Store Items

Just a quick note that I have new items up for auction on Ebay, including latest original, "Deer Woman", which is based off of the Native American myth. Click here to see my Ebay listings.

Also on my website's store page, I have new prints up for sale for 30 dollars each, as well as some entirely new offerings - ACEO Art Cards. ACEO cards are collectible, baseball card-sized artworks. But to make things a little bit different I am offering ACEO "Six Packs" of different themes - I have an ICON Six-Pack (featuring works from my ICON artwork series), a WONDERLAND Six-Pack (featuring works from my Wonderland series) and a Creature Feature Six-Pack, featuring six of my creature artworks. Each Six Pack costs 20 dollars plus 3 dollars shipping. Check out the new store page here.

I also have a couple of art shows coming up that I'll be posting about shortly..... stay tuned!

The Philadelphia Experiment: New Music Festival

Hi all
I am hosting the following festival that's coming up in October. Hope to see some of you there!




THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT: NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Featuring Cheer-Accident, The Red Masque, Make A Rising and Fern Knight

October 24, 2009

Venue:
The Rotunda
University of Pennsylvania, 4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-573-3234.
http://www.therotunda.org

Additional Info:
7 PM. All Ages.
FREE but donations for the bands requested
(Pay-What-You-Want Admission).

Hosted by The Red Masque

Contact:
Lynnette Shelley (lynnette@theredmasque.com)


The Line-Up

HEADLINERS
CHEER-ACCIDENT (Chicago)
Official Website: http://www.cheer-accident.com/


Photo by Corinne Halbert

For over 20 years, Cheer-Accident have been a creative, interesting force in rock music. They constantly strive to surprise their audience and themselves with constant reinvention. Fear Draws Misfortune (released January 2009 through Cuneiform Records) is their 16th release and arguably their best release and their album which strives the furthest towards a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio techniques and the excitement of a visceral, live, well-honed rock band. Which is saying something. It is a strongly compelling and high-reaching album that uses a wide variety of ideas, styles and studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive and ambitious album of art-rock. The basic band is a trio who between them perform on vocals, keyboards, trumpets guitars, bass and drums, but they are augmented by 15 additional musicians who, each in their own way, bring their own musical gifts to the album. Fear Draws Misfortune reveals a fortuitous intersection between Cuneiform and Cheer-Accident, both of whom have long admired the other and both of whom finally decided to do something about it! This long overdue marriage, which neatly coincides with a timely (and quite lengthy) cover-feature article in December 2008's Signal To Noise magazine, promises to hurl Cheer-Accident into wider recognition.

"I could easily fill a page talking about any given minute of this album, but suffice it to say that if you've ever loved Magma's apocalypticisms, Neu!'s ghosts in the machine, or Beefheart's Dada boogie—or at least dreamed of watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir fall down a very long flight of stairs—it might be for you." — Monica Kendrick/Chicago Reader

"...[Cheer-Accident] meld difficult, angular rock with absurdist lunacy in intentionally disturbing ways that are just brilliant." - Alternative Press

"There are few ensembles that can make noise sound both as mysterious and as strangely inviting as Cheer-Accident." - Delusions of Adequacy

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THE RED MASQUE (Philadelphia)
Official Website: http://www.theredmasque.com



Photo by Matt Romano


Founded in 2001, The Red Masque is an original avant rock band from the Philadelphia area. Part art, part alchemy, the group's experimental songwriting style is both angular and eerie, accented by freeform space rock improvisations, intricate acoustics, dark atmospherics and chunky riffs. Unconventional and eccentric in musical form, the sophisticatedly sinister The Red Masque fuses together such disparate musical references as horror movie soundtracks, rock-in-opposition, progressive rock, experimental, zeuhl, heavy rock, gothic, psychedelia, space rock, and kraut rock. The Red Masque's compositions are as intense as they are unique.

The band is currently signed with RER USA and released their third studio album, "Fossil Eyes" in August 2008. The Red Masque's live download-only album, "Stars Fall On Me" is scheduled for release in November 2009.

"From Pennsylvania hails a quartet without limitations to their purposes and without shame regarding norms and dogma within new rock." - Tarkus Magazine

"In the Nu-progressive rock underground, few bands are as respected and feared as Philadelphia's The Red Masque. Without irony or kitsch, the whirlwind that is Masque ... stalks the darkness of Hammer Horror ambience and cursedly complex musicianship (think Gong meets Bauhaus) with only feedbacking noise, sound-collage clustering and the howl of vocalist Lynnette Shelley to light its way." - A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper


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MAKE A RISING (Philadelphia)
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/makearising



Photo by Ryan Collerd


Tunneling its way out of the West Philadelphia nether worlds Make A Rising is a band that is beyond unique. The quintet's debut record is a swirling mix of violin, keyboard, guitars, drums, saxophone, trumpet, bells, whistles, and assorted noisemakers - all swelling together for subversively addictive pop gems. With orchestral crescendos combined with off-kilter vocals and fast-changing tempos Make A Rising is the sound of chaos, bliss, bravado, nerves and naivety - avant chamber rock at its most dynamic - like Daniel Johnston singing Beach Boys songs interpreted by Naked City.

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FERN KNIGHT (Washington D.C.)
Official Website: http://fernknight.com/



Under cellist Margaret Ayre's orchestration, D.C./Philadelphia quartet Fern Knight transfigures her acoustic Medieval-tinged songs with contrasting layers of 60s improv, 70s prog rock and NWOBHM - retelling the band's collective history.

Juxtapositions of the arcane and modern in her music and life drew Margaret to pen the band's fourth album (vhf), Castings, a song cycle exploring how the ancient divinatory art of the Tarot and the well-worn archetypes contained therein continue to flow through present day society.

The core quartet is rounded out by Jesse Sparhawk (harp/electric bass), Jim Ayre (Flying V/drums) and James Wolf, published Sun Ra scholar (violin). Margaret also co-scored a new soundtrack to 1970 Czech new wave film 'Valerie and Her Week of Wonders' for a ten-piece ensemble that included Jesse and Jim called The Valerie Project (Drag City).


Festival Website and Info: http://theredmasque.com/fest/index.html

Now on Ebay

Finally took the much-belated plunge and am having my first auction on ebay.

Check it out here.

Up for auction is a signed and matted giclee art print of my artwork ICON III: The Rabbit.

New Artworks!

Been experimenting with incorporating paper collage in my artworks lately. These latest three all use paper cut outs that I layered onto the backgrounds. For those of you who came out to my in-store appearance at Simply S.O.T.A. (State of the Arts) in New Hope in late August, the Gold Bird was the piece I was working on while at the store.


The Ascension of Leo


The Gold Bird


March Hare

I still need to upload all of my Dragon Con photos. I'll see about doing that soon.

New Items in my Etsy Shop

Just got back from Dragon Con earlier this week and have been busy. I need to take the time to upload some photos from the event (hopefully later this weekend). In the meantime, I added up some post Dragon Con sales to my Etsy shop today.
Please take a look here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6835013

Included are some signed and matted giclee art prints, as well as a couple of original artwork items. I’ll be periodically changing these items up so please keep my shop bookmarked. As always you can also check out my online store on my personal website at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com or you can email me at redeye@designbyredeye.com to inquire about original artwork sales.

I also just booked a new show for First Friday in October. More details to come!

WIN A FREE PRINT

Hi all
I am starting a little contest this week. A lucky random winner will receive one FREE signed and matted giclee (archival) art print from me mailed to your abode. There will be various prints to choose from. Details below:

Please email me at redeye@designbyredeye.com with the following information:

1. Your name
2. Your mailing address
3. Your top three favorite artworks of mine in order of preference (this is just for marketing purposes to help me determine which prints I should bring to art shows etc).

***** Contest Deadline is September 8th.
**** Winner will be notified via email on September 11th.

*****View my artwork online at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com

Thanks and good luck~
Lynnette

New Website Launches

In the past couple of weeks I've launched four new websites, and I've got another one still to be launched in a little bit. But here's a little bit of info about each project.




http://marthamayererlebacher.com

Martha Mayer Erlebacher is a neo-classical artist who works out of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. I was had the privilege of getting to see her studio in person during the course of working on her website design, and can only say that her works are amazing to see in person - from the sheer size to the technical details. She wanted a website that was very modern and minimalist in design, the better to focus the viewer on her artworks.

Some examples of her paintings are below.








Also launched this week is Canadian progressive and psychedelic rock radio host, Lino D'Intino's revamped website at www.progressiverockradio.net. Lino's old site was a Frankenstein of old code so it was scrapped and replaced with a simple but cleanly-coded site with a space theme. On the new site, listeners can stream many of his archived shows, as well as check out his resource section on progressive, psychedelic and kraut rock. Check it out.



I also recently revamped the progrockdiner.com, another progressive rock radio program broadcast out of Fairfax, Virginia by Debbie Sears. Check it out.



Also this past month I launched two smaller websites for a educational non-profit More Pass Plus, Inc. and a Florida mystery novelist, Mary Kohnke.





I am working on a website now for a kitchen remodeling company but that most likely will not launch until sometime in September.

Upcoming Events: State of the Arts and Dragon Con

THIS SATURDAY, I will be giving an in-store art demonstration at Simply S.O.T.A. (State of the Arts) located at 26 N Main St., New Hope, PA 18938 from 1 PM onwards. I’ll be working on the March Hare from my new Wonderland series as well as selling matted and signed giclee prints and a few originals. So if you are in the area, please stop by and say hi.

A few days later I pack up my rental car and head south to Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA (a 16 hour drive for me!), one of the largest fantasy / sci-fi conventions in the world (attendance is estimated between 35-40,000 annually). I will be bringing 33 original artworks for sale, as well as a large selection of matted and signed giclee prints. Dragon Con runs from September 4-7. For more information about DC, see their website at http://www.dragoncon.org.

More information about all of my upcoming events, please visit my website at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com

I am also going to be announcing a contest here shortly where you can win a FREE signed giclee print from me. Stay tuned for details!

Latest artworks:


A Little Bird Told Me


Minerva


The White Rabbit


Queen of Hearts


The Mad Hatter

Revamped Website; Signed Giclees for Sale

The Cheshire Cat


I revamped my art website a little earlier this week, and added in a new FEATURED PROJECTS section that includes my ICON series as well as my new WONDERLAND series, which is inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. So far I've completed the Queen of Hearts and The Cheshire Cat. I am planning out the Mad Hatter now.

In addition, I completely scrapped my old web store, which was confusing, and simplified it. I am now offering for sale select signed and matted giclees (archival art prints) directly through my site (purchase through Paypal) for $35. You can also specify whether you want a cream or black matte.

Check out my new store here.

Later today I am off to deliver some giclees for retain at a shop in New Hope, PA. More info later.