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I'm pleased to write about a co-worker of mine, Carrie Hamilton. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. Besides doing daily graphics for the newspaper she also is a fine artist by heart.

Here are some of her sculptures that are on display at YorkArts She won an award of distinction for her work "Passage and Presence: Figure Series," composed of several ceramic figures in this weekend's YorkArts fine art juried exhibition.

Artist statement: I am making art to communicate the restless journeying of life, how the body inevitably decays, and how we as humans are all intrinsically flawed and broken. I am continually amazed at the many products and procedures intended to keep the body looking and feeling younger. Through my artwork I am examining the notions and stigmas related to old age, this is evident in my piece Passage and Presence. The piece is a series of small busts whose bodies are in various states of decay. Particularly I am interested in the way that the mind may be decaying while the body remains intact. Or how a broken body may be hindering further development of an ever-aging mind.

I love sharing my art with family and friends. So, when holidays and birthdays roll around don't be suprise if my gifts are of my own creation.

Here, are two paintings I have given as gifts.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art might have a fantastic collection of European and contemporary art, but it is far more famous for something else altogether: the location of Rocky's inspiring stair workout.

Personally, I don't like contemporary art, but the plug hanging from the ceiling caught my eye.

I'm huge fan of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. I've done past illustrations mimicking his style. This paticular piece is a bit boring, but it was the only Lichtenstein I saw.

I think I might do a sketch of this sculpture. I really like the movement in the figure and clothes.

I'm so excited one of my closest friends just got us tickets to see Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

She is such a wonderful artist and her personal life is just as colorful.

I'm taking my sketchbook along too to do some drawing studies.

There is also a Cezanne exhibit at the museum.

To learn more about the Frida Kahlo go to http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/278.html

Two very different topics but are related through art.

This is a watercolor of two of my cats I did about 3 years ago.

Here is an acrylic painting, my husband did for me of an ultra sound taken when Mr.Vincent was just a whee little thing.

I had this art bin since my college days. And some of the stuff in it is also from those days.

One of my favorite items in this bin is my craft puncher, it's that pink circular thing in the bottom tray. I have used that countless times for different crafts and projects.

I also love my watercolor crayon set. They look like crayons, but when you add water they turn into watercolors.

I use this case when I want to travel light. I store my paint brushes in this case, because it can accomodate my longer brushes.

Christmas is soon coming, so I decided to start on my Christmas gifts early. My goal is to turn out three paintings for various family members. No, I'm not cheap, it's just my parents, and grandparents already have everything and I know they'll appreciate these paintings more, unless they turn out crappy...

Oooh one more thing, if you look at the top left corner you can spot one of my four cats, her name is Sparkles and she is a fiesty little lady, Actually, she is not that little she's the fattest of the bunch, but she has a tiny head...meow...

My friend Christine sent me her pictures of our chalk drawing.

Here is the begining stage. I'm blending the the yellow and orange colors to create a smooth blend. This took some time getting the blends even and consistent with one another.

I'm working on another section of the drawing. Our technique for the drawing was starting in the center and working our way out. We would also lay down the color first and then add the black borders. I used a squirt bottle occassionally to dampen the chalk, this makes the chalk heavier when wet and less like to blow around.

Almost done, I think we ended up having about 30 minutes to spare at the end.