This Christmas, we were so blessed to be welcomed into our friend’s beautiful home in St. Paul, OR (about 30 mi south of Portland). I spent the summer of 2010 living with them and learning about their organic farm and winery. My time spent there continues to shape and inspire me to live generously, steadfastly, and beautifully. The scene is from a picture taken on the fourth of July. If you are in the area go to a tasting at the amazing Lady Hill Winery. Visit: http://ladyhill.net/
Recently I have been focusing my attention on a Mansion in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. A friend of a friend is opening a cigar shop in this former home and restaurant. He wants a drawing of the house to hang in there when it opens as well as put on stationary as a letterhead. Here are two drawings I have presented to him in the hopes of getting the commission. The leftmost drawing is a (not very accurately done) freehand architectural drawing done in pen. The rightmost drawing is a more accurate graphite rendering of the building as one sees it from the street.
Eichstatt
This is a painting of my husband Joseph. We had been talking about how when we are apart we miss each other and wish the other was there, but that when we are together we wish we were alone. This painting is about an individual's identity versus an outsider's idea of their identity, the danger of having an idealized portrait of someone in your imagination, and the need for caution when viewing an other.
Cyanotype
I printed low-contrast the Cyanotypes quite by accident. I don’t know how it happened because they were done in the same batch as others that came out high-contrast. They were exposed to the same amount of light as the image in my post from yesterday. Yet, they came out very differently. I have paired them with other prints of the image that I did last week to compare. What do you think of the low contrast? I’m not sure if I like it or not. Its sort of eerie, but also looks a bit sloppy.
Available for order on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/151411399/dappled-walkway-cyanotype-print?ref=shop_home_feat
Mary Bloch 
