Ruelles update

Hello!
So my show at the Maison de la Culture NDG has been up for about 3 weeks now and it's going really well. I've sold quite a few of the pieces (so my recession-induced fear of never selling anything ever again has been unwaranted), and many people have been writing in the comment book, signing with their name and the alleyway they belong to.
My sentimental favourites (of the comments) are the ones written by grade-schoolers in their best cursive lettering.
I had a little interview with the neighbourhood paper, which you can see here.

Vernissage

It went really well! Way better than I could have thought, what with it being about minus 20 degrees outside and everything. People kept coming into the gallery in a deeply frozen state. There were about 80 people there overall, and they all seemed to be having a great old time. It was awesome having this show right where it belongs in the heart of NDG because then all my neighbours got to come out and take a look.

Now I am quite recovered from the no-sleeping craze which preceeded the show I am trying to get my footing again... as in what do I do next? Well. Right at the moment I am a few hours away from getting onto a plane for a little trip to see my grandmother, so I suppose I will have time to think it over. For now, though... I had better go and pack!

Up for air

I may seem to have dropped off the face of the earth for the last little while, or perhaps you may think that I have been eaten by a large predatory carnivore... but in fact I have merely been hibernating in my studio, working on my exhibit at the Maison de la Culture NDG.

It opens this Saturday!

I have already begun setting up, and am extremely excited for the vernissage. I will probably have some photos then, and more to say as well! For now, I am still in a sleep-deprived daze, having rediscovered the pleasure of all-nighters in the studio (oh, the good old days of portfolio all-nighters in university) when you get so muddled by fatigue after individually gluing bricks onto a collage for 3 hours that is suddenly seems like an amazing idea to listen to an Alanis Morisette CD at 4am.

Until Saturday, then, because I still have some work to do. Perhaps more tiny little bricks. Excellent!

angry bunny

I am having so much fun drawing bunnies!

By the way, my website is now up. I am on the path to computer literacy!

Go visit it at: www.andreakastner.ca

Goodnight

This is the first finished piece from the story I was working on in Newfoundland. Someone sent me this amazing story about a bunny- it has been so much fun working on it, sketching everything out, and so now I am trying for 2 or 3 more finished panels this coming month.

And what about my website? Well, it is ALMOST done. Check it out at www.andreakastner.ca

But here is some great news: I got another show! This one is at the Maison de la Culture NDG, right in my neighbourhood. It will be in late January 2009. I will keep you posted!

Pulse article

Here we are on the cover of this week's Pulse Niagara. Cool!

some photos from the show

And also one of the little ones up close.