new website design

I've been meaning to re-design my site for what seems like forever now. Well, more like six months or so... When I started the classic movie art and the flapper doodles, I changed my business cards to look something like this:

Kate Gabrielle

www.kategabrielle.com

www.kategabrielle.etsy.com

www.kategabrielle.blogspot.com

www.silentsandtalkies.etsy.com

www.silentsandtalkies.blogspot.com

www.flapperdoodle.etsy.com

www.flapperdoodle.blogspot.com

kategabrielleart@yahoo.com

Whoa! That's a lot of websites!! Then a lightbulb went off... Wouldn't it be easier to just have links to everything on my main site? Yes!!

So now, www.kategabrielle.com houses all of my links. From this landing point, you can jump over to any of my blogs or etsy shops, join my mailing list, visit my twitter, flickr or youtube accounts, or send me an email. I've included a short bio (along with some fun trivia) and a list of upcoming shows and recent awards. All of this is jam packed into a tiny little site now. Voila! My business cards will now read simply:

Kate Gabrielle

www.kategabrielle.com

kategabrielleart@yahoo.com

So anyway! It would be fantastic if you would take a look at the new site and let me know what you think! I designed it myself (I do a little web design on the side) and I'm pretty happy with my new, unconventional layout.

giveaway!!

Would you like to win an 11" x 14" print, three 8" x 10" prints, a pocket mirror and three notecards?? Then just head on over to my Silents and Talkies blog, here, for instructions on how to enter!! Hurry up, the giveaway ends on July 15th!

STOLEN

LINK TO THIS POST: http://kategabrielle.blogspot.com/2009/06/stolen.html

Yesterday at my art show on Bleecker Street in New York City, FOUR of my original paintings were stolen! To be honest, the money part doesn't bother me in the slightest-- but the idea that a mean criminal has four of my paintings-- two of which were my favorites! -- in his possession gives me chills. This was my third run-in with credit card fraud, but the very first time that the artwork stolen was of such enormous value, both monetary and sentimental.

My parents and I suspected the guy from the start, and as he was waiting for my dad and I to pack up the paintings my mom started chatting with him about how I was only 22, I wasn't making much money off of this, I'm really a sweet girl, etc. discreetly trying to stress how important it was that he shouldn't steal from me. What a low life to actually go through with it after that.

The robbery was reported to the New York Police, and I am officially STILL the owner of these paintings. They are legally mine. Do not buy them from anyone, even a reputable seller. If you see them, immediately report it to the New York Police department.

I will be painting new versions of these paintings, and when the originals are found I will keep them.

To all artists doing outdoor shows in the New York area: be on the lookout for two young, slim, middle-upper class Middle Eastern men at your art shows. They were a criminal team-- one rides around on a bicycle looking for artists who use old fashioned credit card imprinters, and then the other swoops in to meet the bike guy and to purchase the artwork. The man on the bike was wearing a t-shirt and the man who paid had on a black windbreaker, a preppy plaid and khaki outfit and they both had short cropped hair. At first they said they were on a budget, and bargained me down on two paintings. It would be wise, if people resembling this description try to purchase an expensive item from you, to try to run an authorization first before letting them leave.

The Kiss won Fourth prize!

I'm a little late in posting this, only because I was waiting to get the photo that was taken when I won the award... On Memorial Day weekend, I won Fourth Place in Oil/Acrylic at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit for The Kiss! I'm always a bundle of nerves when I  go to pick up my artwork, and it was such an unbelievably wonderful feeling to know I won a prize! 

I'm usually really selective about what pictures I post online, (or I should say, really self-conscious) and this is no different, not fond of the messy hair, baggy pants, strange "did you get the photo yet? this thing is heavy" smile, etc. but I'm still so excited about the prize that I thought, what they heck, I'll just post the photo :)

Thanks so everyone who came to the show! I'll be there again on Labor Day weekend, and this Sunday I'll be at the Bleecker Street Fair if anyone is in the area!

Featured on Funky Finds

Today I was featured on the Funky Finds blog! Click here to read what they wrote :)

Monroe Monroe Monroe Your Boat

My original idea for this one was Marilyn Monroe, but then as I was getting my paints & canvas ready I remembered President Monroe... fantastic! I like this SO much better, because three pictures of an early American President on a pink and green striped background is SO much funnier than the same painting with Marilyn Monroe.

Monroe Monroe Monroe Your Boat

8" x 16"

Available

Dalicatessen

This is the biggest piece I've done so far, except for the Handy Warhol panels. It was one of the most detailed, intricate and painstaking pieces as well.  If someone asked me which of my pieces I'd consider my "masterpiece", I'd have to say this one. Okay, masterpiece is a little too grand, but you know what I mean :)

Dalicatessen

24" x 36"

SOLD