cherry fullam art

11 April 2012

ductapery and other such nonsense

over the winter, my son and 2 of his cousins, plus the son of a close friend all had birthdays at about the same time. that's a lot of birthday presents, people...which equals a LOT of money. i remembered my sister in law saying my nephew wanted a wallet for his birthday. genius procrastinator that i am (think absent-minded professor) decided they ALL would get wallets...and i WOULD MAKE THEM. i had no idea what i was doing. i looked at about 8 bajillion tutorials and i didnt like how any of *those* wallets ended up. thus, my time-saving efforts fell to my artistic nature and i created my own template. so i made 4 wallets out of duct tape. the end. cool story, bro.

...not really...

a few months later, the dayton circus was throwing a fundraiser for sideshow 7(a FREE weekend long art/music festival in dayton) called DAYTON CRAFTY-CON 2012. im not crafty...unless you count in a macgyver kinda way...so i volunteered to be a floater. the end. justkiddingnotreally...

one of my INCREDIBLY crafty friends lissa lush (of lissa lush makes stuff) said, "why arent you vending at crafty-con?" to which i replied, "im not a crafter." to which she threw back, "didnt you make some duct tape wallets a few months ago?" i tried to explain to her that it was a fluke. i had to! i only made 4! im not a crafter! it's a mistake! these arent the droids youre looking for!

fast forward two weeks...im losing sleep. scrambling to put together enough stuff to vend at a craft show. whatwasithinkingnooneisgoingtobuythisineedcoffeeeee!!! i made prints of my paintings. i made magnets of my paintings. and i made EIGHT wallets. nine if you count the one i made there. i sold ALL of them within an hour and the ninth one was sold before i finished it. next thing i know, im making stuff like *this*. it's not exactly painting, but i like it.

i'll be posting in a few days about another project. try not to miss me ;)

27 April 2011

so i guess it's been a while...heh...

having a facebook page for my art has caused me to neglect my blog. not to mention...life in general.
great show coming up this weekend. see you there!

03 September 2010

LADYFEST 2010...be there

03 June 2010

the afterglow

sideshow V was a blast. it was so great to be around so many amazing artists of so many different mediums. one of the absolute BEST parts was meeting people id "met" on facebook but never in person.

for instance, kidtee hello has gotta be one of the least pretentious people ive ever met. she encouraged me to get involved in sideshow in the first place via 2 am facebook chat.

her: hey cherry! have you emailed your sideshow application yet?

me: OH CRAP! is it too late?

her: lol no dear. do it now.

super nice chick. super great photographer. its art, man. if you havent looked at her work yet, you need to get on that.

also got to meet and work with ali marshall. can you say girl crush? jewelry making, wet felting, and hilarity all in one former rollergirl. simply amazing.

every single one of my good friends came out to see the show, if they were able (shelly had her own thing going on). it was hard work, but good fun. the only thing that sucks about such a great thing is the post-show letdown. it was so good i just wanted it to go on forever. already cant wait for next year.