We've got a busy season ahead.

Daphne moved back to Tennessee to support family there, but we are forging ahead with our partnership. New paintings arrived a few weeks ago in the mail, a gorgeous desert collection. We're making new prints (many people have requested the "Blooming Cactus" as a print, and it's a little jewel). 

Anna will do a small show at the 29 Palms Inn Oasis on Sept 15-16, the Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition. Daphne will arrive for a whirlwind of shows in October: The Other Art Fair in Santa Monica, The Beverly Hills ArtSHOW, and a two person exhibition of our personal work at Blue Azul Gallery in San Diego. Hope to see you all at some point.

Anna and Daphne

(New prints on heavy watercolor paper waiting to be embellished. Our printer is Marshall Vanderhoof, we highly recommend him. At the Brewery Art Lofts in LA.)

We had a wonderful show at the Other Art Fair, and now are preparing for our two traditional shows in Spring:

The Brewery Artwalk
Saturday, April 7, 11am - 6pm
Sunday, April 8, 11am - 6pm
2020 North Main St., #235, Los Angeles
www.breweryartwalk.com

The Beverly Hills ArtSHOW
Saturday, May 19, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, May 20, 10am - 6pm
We are in space #336, on Crescent Dr. and Santa Monica Blvd.

Both are free, family friendly, and fun! We would love to see you there.
Feel free to write us through this website (contact) for more information.

Daphne and Anna

Hi Friends and Collectors of Hill&Stump:

We are excited to announce that we have been juried into "The Other Art Fair," presented by Saatchi Art, Downtown Los Angeles, March 15-18.
http://la.theotherartfair.com/

Hill&Stump will have a booth featuring our California inspired work (desert, chaparral, West Coast influenced trees and flowers). Of course, our other work can be made available with a bit of advance notice, just ask!

Here's the link to get into the fair for free:
la.theotherartfair.com/comp
Use code: AnnaStump

If you'd like to come to the opening event (free with RSVP) on Thursday night, March 15, 6-10pm, please click here:
http://la.theotherartfair.com/rsvp

You can also use this invitation:

The past few months we've been working on a commission for a collector who wanted Sweetpeas. She has a memory of gathering these fragile flowers in a field for her mother. We decided to work on two versions at the same time, and they turned out very differently. Our collector sent us a photo of the space the painting will hang in, above a gorgeous wooden bench in her home. We "photoshopped" in the paintings so she could see how they looked.

The collector chose the "Dark Sweetpeas in a Field." It was wonderful to work with her to express this memory of her mother. The "Light Sweetpeas" is available! 

Sometimes it's best to explain our process while we are actually making work. That's just what we did at the Brewery Artwalk on October 21 and 22. Before the weekend we each started a composition and Daphne poured a clear layer of resin over the base painting. Below we are holding the "starts."

Throughout the weekend we painted as people watched and asked questions. The resin surface is very smooth, so it's like painting on glass. We use acrylics and water-based metallic paints.

Below we are holding up the paintings as they developed by the end of the weekend. Next they will get another clear layer of resin and the opposite partner will get to work on top. (We can't pour resin in front of people because the fumes when wet are, let's say, less than healthy.) This process will continue until we are both happy with the results. Stay tuned for the finished paintings.

We hope you had a good, safe summer. We were busy organizing several new studio spaces (two smaller spaces in San Diego and one in Los Angeles), traveling, and of course, painting.

We will be showing our Hill&Stump Florals once again at the Brewery Artwalk in Downtown Los Angeles, on Saturday and Sunday, October 21 and 22, from 11am to 6pm. The address is 2020 No. Main Street, #235. The event is free and family friendly, but bring your walking shoes--there are lots of stairs!

Unfortunately, the Beverly Hills ArtSHOW falls on the same weekend as the Brewery, so we won't be at the ArtSHOW this time. But please visit our friends there!

We also have a set of paintings displayed at the Loft at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. 

Through our solo exhibition at the Laemmle Santa Monica, we have been commissioned to create a work based on "Single Sunflower." Our collector fell in love with this painting after seeing it at the theater, and contacted us to paint at least one, and possibly two, additions to it for her bedroom. We thought it would be fun to document the process of creating the new paintings. We will update as we go along in the next few weeks...

Our collector sent a photo of where she wants the paintings to hang.

We sent her back four sketches of possible compositions, with both 2 and 3 panels. The "Single Sunflower" was Photoshopped into the bedroom.

Our collector chose this option, with the possibility of adding the third painting. We decided to paint the two new paintings together, knowing that we can always sell the third one to someone else.

Our first pass at the two new paintings: raw color and a layer of resin. We've got a long way to go!

Next pass and resin layer. Colors are getting closer although this photo makes the background look black rather than deep purple. Below is a close-up to show details. Next layer will add metallics.

And... finished! Now to see if our collector is also pleased... Finished size is 24"h x 54".

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Our collector sent us a photo of the paints installed. Pretty much looks as planned, no? 

We have moved from one large studio in San Diego into two smaller spaces, one in San Diego (where we do the bulk of our work), and one in Los Angeles (where we can show and store work). Exciting changes! Here are some photos of work on the walls in the LA space, which is in the Moon Huts in El Sereno, just east of Downtown, near Cal State LA.