Emily Winfield Martin's Blog, page 4

A Savage Beauty

A Savage Beauty   14"x11"  

This is another favorite for me -- I wanted to do my own version of the classic Odalisque painting.

I'm going to try to preview a new piece every day 'til the show goes up on Friday!

A Lady and A Monkey

A Lady and A Monkey    11"x14"  

This portrait (or double-portrait) is one of my personal favorite paintings in the upcoming show!

I'll be previewing work from Wolves & Wonders up 'til the opening on Oct. 9, although there will be some pieces that will remain under my hat 'til after it has opened (I like a little element of surprise.)

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If you are in Portland, (or close-to-Portland) I hope you'll consider coming to the opening!
I've been working on this all year...and we will have wine & treats to entice you further.

More previews forthcoming!

Kimonos on Paper

I've been painting these small kimonos on paper for my (rapidly approaching) show in October. I love painting these -- it's nice to work on little pieces interspersed with larger, more involved things. I hope that by some magic, I'll conjure all these dream kimonos by painting them & they'll arrive in a trunk on my doorstep. At the very least, I'd like to make my favorites into a set of postcards...they seem just right for notes.

I've been posting them on Instagram as they come along, and I'll keep posting peeks & previews of the show both here & there!

Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise    9"x12"

This fancy little bird is part of Wolves & Wonders.
I'm going to try my best to preview more of the show here before it opens Oct. 9th!

The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves    16" x 20" 

I think I posted a progress photo of an earlier incarnation of this painting -- it's changed a lot since then! The painting is part of my show, Wolves & Wonders, which opens at Land on October 9.

The show was inspired by Angela Carter, variations on Beauty & the Beast, the East & the West...lots of things. Stay tuned for more lions & tigers & wolves & ladies!

PS: And thank you for your lovely and kind comments on the NY Times list post. So exciting and so unexpected.

 

The New York Times List!

If you get a call on a Wednesday afternoon, telling you that a really unlikely-seeming thing has somehow happened & your book is on the New York Times Bestsellers List you will have to try very hard not to fall down. If you are me, then you hop up and down talking on the phone to various excited people you love for a few hours, being excited together. Then I hopped some more. Then I tried to work, but it was very hard because of all the hopping.

The next day I got this enormous & magnificent delivery from my agent via Fieldwork Flowers. What a gem she is & what a bunch of beauties. Those cosmos!

The Wonderful Things You Will Be debuted on the list (meaning it landed there its first week), and it still seems very surreal. I hoped people would like it! That's my main hope for anything.

So excited, as work carries on...on my next picture book, as I finish an art show, as the beginning of fall drifts in.

Hooray!

The Wonderful Things You Will Be is Out Today

Today's the day!

All these wishes & balloons & babies are finally out in the world. I thought to celebrate its release, I'd post some of my favorite bits of the book. The baby endpapers above are my favorite endpapers ever (or, at least, among my own endpapers.)

The band (The Missing Teeth!) is my personal favorite of all the spreads. If you look closely, there are a few little details that make me very happy!

This tree weirdo in the big, giant, foldout surprise Costume Party spread is my favorite character.

The Play is my other favorite spread.
(The truth is I have a lot of favorites.)

Here are a few favorite places you can find it:

BuyOlympia

A limited number of *signed copies* at Powell's

Barnes & Noble

And, if you're close, the Book Party at Green Bean Books!

I'm so happy it's out. I hope you love it!

Book Party, 8/29!

Hello there!

I wanted to let you know about the upcoming book party at the wonderful Green Bean Books this Saturday, August 29th, at 2:00 pm for The Wonderful Things You Will Be (which is out tomorrow, I can't believe it!)

If you are in or around Portland, come see us! Green Bean is the sweetest bookstore in the known universe & we will have cupcakes, treats, signed books, a reading, and hopefully lots of balloons.

(This photo was taken during a twine/helium tank test to get the lay of the land. Fingers crossed the system works!)

Meanwhile

We've decided that everything will be so diffuse nowadays...little bits here and little bits there, scattered all over the internet. When I'm not here as much, I'm somewhere! These are a few photos from Twitter (@MsEmilyApple) where I check in most days.

And now there's Instagram, too. As of last week, so it's brand new. Another place for the usual suspects: painting bits & fat cats & book things & old things & flowers etc!

(The last photo is a peek of the fancy secret red curtained gatefold flaps in Wonderful Things. Only a few weeks left to wait!)