For Sale!

Anyone interested in some original artwork at discount prices??? Check out my link here http://picasaweb.google.com/annahazel/Artwork?authkey=lCvAM1RTaos# and email me if you are interested in anything whatsoever (as long as it's not been sold yet) at annahazel@gmail.com

sad happy

I've known for a while that my record player was going, but when the needle went... man it made me sad. I just bought a new record and can't even listen to it. $3.99 at End of an Ear on South 1st.

For 19.95 plush shipping and handling, I am happy again.

Also, I found some old school ZZ Top in someone's trash pile. woot

It's been a while

So this is the progression of my Cactus Cafe project. It all began when I had to choose something "architectural" to paint for my watercolor class, followed by the desire to do a study of the subject in preparation as a print. Now I know one person in particular who has been waiting for me to photograph the final outcome of the watercolor for a long time... so here it is.
1. copper plate etched and aquatinted
2. first pull without aquatint
3. Final product
4. watercolor

Mulberry Banana Bread

3/4 c butter

1 1/4 c sugar

4 eggs

2 c mashed bananas

3 1/2 c flour

4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda
2 c mulberries

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with mashed bananas, blending well. Fold in berries. Dust two loaf pans with flour and turn half of batter into each. (or use Pam) Bake in moderate oven 350 degrees for 1 hour or until tested done.

Eat, it's delicious... or you can just do the banana bread part... because this recipe is the best I've ever had (compliments to Sarah Hazel.)

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

One prerequisite for being Anna Hazel is change. Growing up I always hated change, but now that I am finding my own way into the world I've found that change is necessary. My good friend Magdalena told me a while ago that she noticed that I don't stick with anything for more than one year, and it's pretty much true. One year in Austin and I am ready for a change... which I think will come in the form of a new home and new roommates.

All of the sudden, I get anxious, and I know what time it is. What is going to be new? Will I like it? Will I hurt people by doing it? Will life ever be the same after one more year?

Taking a chance can hurt but more often than not the world will keep on turning and it might turn out alright. I recently cut my hair in the back yard, worked through problems with a teacher, started working at the Cactus, told someone something important to me, and drank half a bottle of whiskey. Monday I'll head out on the road to California with my good friend Emily, and there's two people I'm going to miss a lot this summer, and I just don't know what to do with myself.

POSTerART

My friends, the Abby Birds, asked me to make a poster for their upcoming show hosted by 101X Homegrown this upcoming Wednesday at Club DeVille. This is what I came up with: ...

12x15" watercolor and acrylic on paper
completed April 27, 08

Meet the Parents

During Christmas break this past year, I went home to "meet the parents" of my room mate and friend, Melissa. We did all of the regular things: stay at her house, show me around her home town, antique shopping, dinner with the family on the River Walk, visiting of high school teachers...

Okay so bla bla, other than it amusing me that I stayed with her family for a few days, here is a watercolor I think I am finished with. It's a house close to Melissa's old high school that used to be a drug house until the police in that area buckled down on it. Now, the house is just old and falling apart, with No Trespassing signs, barbed wire etc.

grooming

Furniture can be found anywhere at any given time. Say for instance: the alley behind my house, random side streets and especially around the time people are moving out to go home for the summer. This past week I found several sweet items.

1) new dining room table
2) beautiful couch
3) end table with two matching dressers

Unfortunately these things are thrown away for a reason. The couch is a bit stale, so I rented a steam cleaner from HEB but it still smells a little. Good thing is now I know it is clean. The two matching dressers were great (Ethan Allen pieces) but I couldn't move them by myself and in the morning when I went to transfer them to my backyard, they were in the process of being loaded meticulously into some guys tiny hatchback. How they both fit, I will never understand. As for the table, it was fine. I just didn't like the color or the particle board showing on the top, so it's been painted.

Problem number two with picking up unwanted items: you have to either find a place to store them, or be willing to replace something already in your home... or have a garage sale and sell them for less money than you spent fixing it up.

... I think I am turning into my mom ...