Mary & Cindy Block Clocks - Contemporary, Pendulum Wall Clocks

Without being too personally revealing, I would like to offer this post as a kind of gratitude-offering for the people I have been honored to creatively collaborate with recently and for all of the creative endeavors happening all around me.

This series is called the Mary & Cindy Block Clock Series. They are a collaboration between me (Mary) and my mother-in-law (Cynthia). She painted all of the pretty flowers, real and imaginary, on 3x3-inch squares. After living in a shoebox for over a year, I layed them out, designed, dreamed, painted and made them into block clocks. I'm happy with how they turned out - I think our unique forms of creative expression combine quite nicely into a wall clock. My mother-in-law, like all of the Potts clan, is creatively gifted and particularly gifted at painting and drawing. Her flowers and heart flowers! are absolutely dreamy.

There are 6 of them, each one-of-a-kind and $45 each. They are available at our etsy store and at our website, InfinityArtsGallery.com.

#1 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

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Also, these designs are some of my first pendulum wall clocks made using 100% recycled sdf (sustainable design board) and non-voc milk paints. The flower blocks are painted using acrylic paints. I hope to post a separate blog about our earth-friendly new clocks very soon.

-Mary Preiser Potts

Infinity Arts at Crafty Wonderland this Sunday!

Hi there, I've been busy, busy, busy on a multitude of things - aside from writing blog posts! So, I wanted to stop in and say that if you live in or near Portland, you can come see us at Crafty Wonderland this Sunday from 11-4 at the Doug Fir, located on East Burnside in Portland. Along with 40 or so other great artists, we'll be selling handcrafted contemporary clocks and art just as on the website, but if you come to Crafty Wonderland, we'll offer you a ripping local discount!
See you there! Mary

www.infinityartsgallery.com - New And Improved With Art Prints For Sale

Among many other projects, I've just put up the 7th (?) incarnation of my web gallery: http://www.infinityartsgallery.com/ ! I'm excited about its sleek new layout and can't wait to continue populating it with handmade, recycled and beautiful artsy goods! It still abounds with art clocks and funky mixed media wall art, but I'm most excited to finally be offering art prints and photo prints for sale! Right now, I am offering a selection of Justin's work, but hope to include some of my own in the future, too. Here's a small selection of my favorites...

"Face Shape" by Justin Potts / Available as 8x10 & 11x14 photo print or 8x10 & 11x17 art print / purchase

"Leaves in Transition" by Justin Potts / Available as 8x10 & 11x14 photo print or 8x10 & 11x17 art print / purchase

"Walkaway" by Justin Potts / Available as 8x10 & 11x14 photo print or 8x10 & 11x17 art print / purchase

"Lighthouse" by Justin Potts / Available as 8x10 & 11x14 photo print or 8x10 & 11x17 art print / purchase

"Eye of God" by Justin Potts / Available as 8x10 & 11x14 photo print or 8x10 & 11x17 art print / purchase

Going Green Update

In the last post, I outlined (somewhat dramatically?), how Infinity Arts is making the transition to green art. Well, 2 weeks after the post I would like to talk about a few steps we've taken in that direction. First of all, we went to several garage sales and spent $4 on 3 high-quality purses that we intend to paint on. I've been working on building Justin's new website - http://www.justinpotts.com/, which showcases his music and art - more on that later, but I haven't gotten very far yet on the purse and that is the reason. I have the colors picked out, the design mostly sketched and one side started. I don't know that this is an ultimate solution to what we're searching for, but I'm excited to do it and see what I end up with. I'll photograph it when it's finished.

Last Friday we visited a fine little showroom in se Portland called Endura Wood Products, where they build accessories and furniture and cabinetry from sustainable and reclaimed wood products. I went in looking for wheatboard, not having any idea what it actually looked like. It doesn't seem very easy to buy - at least not retail - but, I did fall in love with something else. It is called Kirei (kee-ray / Japanese for "clean" and "beautiful") and it looks like this.

It is totally beautiful and I would so love to work with it. It costs $160 for a 3'x6', 3/8" sheet. Here is how the website http://www.kireiusa.com/ describes what kirei is:

"Kirei Board is an engineered panel product constructed from the stalks of the Sorghum plant grown around the world for food. The stalks left over after harvest are heat-pressed with a non-toxic adhesive to form lightweight, strong, unique Kirei Board."

Awesome! And, that grain - how the mind turns over that beautiful grain... I'm not certain yet what I'd like to do with it - but, at that price, it's got to be something spectacular!

Today, I was buying wooden cutting boards at garage sales and thinking what a wonderful surface they are for painting.

I'm excited that we've taken some steps forward and can't wait to post some photographs of these projects as they are completed.

Happy Monday!

Mary

An Infinity Arts Feature Has Bloomed At Indie Quarter

We would like to thank the folks over at Indie Quarter for featuring our wall clocks and art yesterday - Indie Quarter is a UK independent design blog with lots of cool handmade items. Click here to check out our feature!