Mod home

Someone with a mod home, commission me for a home portrait!

Firefly in Charlottesville - poster display

Hey! This is a community center almost, a restaurant with no pretension and friendly folks, a neighborhood place like I’ve not seen in Charlottesville. I’m happy to have been asked to install posters there so come on by starting tomorrow, Friday October 15th.

https://www.fireflycville.com

oooh large format posters now possible

I do get asked about larger posters, such as 30x40 or the classic movie poster size which is 27x40 (though they can get much larger, especially the older ones.)

I think I can comfortably offer 24x36 which is similar proportion to the 13x19 native format I work with. Of course I need to job out the printing, at least for now though I am considering purchasing a roll-fed printer (which takes up a lot of floor space - something I do not have) Price will be around $300? These are art prints: they are not mass produced on a giant four color press, they are printed on matte white paper and have that same saturated silkscreen-like Big Color.

No I do not ship to Texas. Also do not order from Texas.

For obvious reasons. Sorry.

Posters in the wild! Thanks for sending the pix, love it!

This is mid century mod cool

I never did manage to connect with this hotel, which is awesome btw, we stayed there many years ago. But I like this image. Yes its mine :-)

Loving the yellows

It’s tricky getting this printer to render a decent yellow - unless it is a warm, saturated yellow, like sunflower yellow. I’ve been trying to find the right place for these monarch butterflies. Hey! Farms around here are increasingly planting sunflowers. This is a super summery scene. Very happy.

It debuted at the gallery this morning and it sold almost right away :-)

We were in DC this weekend

We hiked Rock Creek Park. There are so many parks, and views of/from water - it’s a very livable city and fun to visit.

Old Town Alexandria

There is so much that is picturesque there but perhaps it’s greatest beauty is in the blocks and blocks on cobblestone streets lined with history. Hard to choose which exactly, so here are some images of actual or almost actual houses in Old Town.

This is a fun one. I made it for the November races which will be here soon enough.

There’s even a matching coffee mug

Lolz

Bobby Lee today

In the style of Maxfield Parrish

‘The’ illustrator of his time. Pinancle of 1920s glam. Known for his famous ‘Parrish Blue’

Combination of watery brush work, collage, digital

Today is the day

“Surrender

I, Robert E. Lee of Lexington, Virginia do solemn, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Union of the States thereafter, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithful support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves, so help me God.” –— REL 1865

“Boom” —REL 2021

and the horse he didn’t ride in on (this dude never set foot in Charlottesville, nor id ‘Stonewall’ or any of ‘em)

Cool story - my poster on Hulu

A movie/series (?) is being shot right now in the area and my poster will be in a scene in the background. So, I was contacted by Hulu for permission and the tiniest of payments to license it for this one use. I feel sure it will be on the wall of some dreadful ethics-free pharmaceuticals executive or something, perhaps a K street lobbyist or a Pay for Play coin operated congresscritter.

Oil stick painting, on paper from 1992(ish)

Around this time I made an enormous (for me - 6’x4’ composed of 2’x2’ sqare canvases) red painting on the oil well fires during one of those George Bush wars. No photo of it easily accessible. So there’s this. It was a smoky ember quality that seems sadly appropriate as we approach fire season.

Copyright Barbara Shenefield. OK?

Ransomware attacks

are everywhere and I get ransomware fishing emails through this account regularly yet Squarespace cannot be bothered to filter them out. I supoose there is a chance this website will go away? Or moved to a new URL, stay tuned. Squarespace used to be a great platform until it was sold, of course, cashed in; and now it’s rent-seeking penny pinching and all the rest that Silicon Valley and Wall Street are about. Sorry for the rant. It wasn’t the best week, for democracy for most of us.