Wednesday, September 8, 2010

sawaya in illustration invitational show opening this week in portland

an illustration exhibition called DRAWING ATTENTION will open this sunday, september 12th at the Doll Gardner Gallery in portland, featuring primarily children's book illustrators. if you are in town on sunday from 12:30 to 2 p.m., stop by the gallery on sw oleson road for the opening reception with the artists. hope to be there myself! it looks to be a fun show.

i will be exhibiting original paintings from my two children's books: How To Get Famous in Brooklyn and The Little Ant/La Hormiga Chiquita. the show will be up through september 26th.





in other news, i'm going to be in an art show in long beach, california in october...watch for upcoming posting about this with all the details.

and i have just finished the cover painting for the arabic pastry cookbook. hope to post that image soon after getting the publisher's okay! it is quite a lovely piece done in record time. 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Just love your illustrations, so vibrant! Wish I was in Portland to come by and meet you.

linda dalal sawaya said...

hi anita!
thanks for your note! yes, it would be lovely to have a cooking visit and some arabic coffee! inshallah, some day! ahlan wa sahlan!
did you see i put a link to your fresh levant blog on my alice's kitchen cookbook blog?

wishing you all best!

linda