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Two Windows. One Choice.

angi@duirwaigh.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

You never realize just how much stuff you've invited into your life until you have to pack it all up and haul it somewhere. Today I'm packing up life in cardboard boxes, time to move. I marvel at the ways passion and devotion can equate accumulation: books, records, ticket stubs, playbills, love letters, photographs, receipts for purchases both large and small.

I've spent ten years in this h [read more...]

Love Is...

angi@duirwaigh.com — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

We arrived back in Taos, and our beloved studio, just last week. You should have seen us trying to steer the Uhaul trailer in and out of the snow (and ice) packed driveway. But we managed, without having to phone AAA (which cannot be said for the long trip from Atlanta to Taos when our gas gauge quit working and we ran out of gas. Oi!)

Then it's boxes and bubble wrap and the undoing of all we'd done [read more...]

More from the Graveyard

angi@duirwaigh.com — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Many of you know that my favorite place on earth (aside from Wonderland, Oz, and Cirque du Soleil) is the graveyard, especially the Eastern European Graveyard.

While Silas and I were in Europe in December, we spent a very VERY cold day inside the walls of a beloved cemetery. My body was fairly miserable but my heart leaped with glee.

We wanted to make sure we had captured the graveyard in winter, so as to add to our project Guardian: Cemeteries and Their Sentinels (seen here: http [read more...]

Tickled

angi@duirwaigh.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

At last, at last, home again!

Before we can even get into the myriad of projects we've lined up for ourselves this year, there are all the boxes, peanuts, bubble wrap and the stuff stuff stuff that we moved here from our home in Georgia.

But today, after attacking the towering mound of cardboard, I decided to leave off and just PLAY for a while. I've always wanted to make a mood boar [read more...]

Fashion Candy

angi@duirwaigh.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

So as I wake this morning, hungry for a little eye candy to start my day, I stumble onto these fashion photos that just make a girl glad she's a girl. Know what I mean? Alexander McQueen certainly does.

These frolicsome frocks make me want my own catwalk. Can you feel the sashay? Would it be wrong to dress up for the chihuahuas and the vacuum cleaner?

Delish! True Dish!

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While the Gettin's Good

angi@duirwaigh.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The Winter issue of DIGITAL STUDIO will soon be leaving the stands. Replaced by the spring edition (which, I am happy to report, we're in as well!)

But this feature on Duirwaigh Studios has lots of bells and whistles, including several full-page prints. Buy, kiss, and fondle yours before they're gone!

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New Art

angi@duirwaigh.com — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

While some of you are aware that we've been in Georgia since mid-December, addressing a Series of Colossal Blessings disguised as Series of Unfortunate Events, what many of you don't know is that we spent the fall creating new art.

Typically July - November is the busiest time of year for us, as most of our publishing partners are asking for art they can launch the following year. This year was no different, except that when Thanksgiving finally rolled around, instead of resting after t [read more...]

Noah's Duirwaigh Ark and THE FLOOD

silas@duirwaigh.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

When it rains it pours, literally.

It's raning it's pouring the Old Man is Snoring.

Rain rain go away.

I'd been putting this off as long as I could. But since we've returned to Kennesaw, we've had to face some pretty devastating news. Remember the disaster/emergency relief declared for the south last fall? Rains came down and hard, weaving a path of wet destruction for many. Including us. It washed out our roof, our garage, our car, and half the walls in our house.

No [read more...]

The marionettes!

angi@duirwaigh.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I promised more delights from our trip to Europe, and I also attested to the fact we have waaaaay too many images to possibly post in one gathering. So I've had to break up the yummies into their own goody baskets.

As you know, I'm in Kennesaw, preparing for our final cross-country move (I hope!) and also trying to save the roof on our house, so I really have NO time for the extravagence of Photoshop. Only, what? I WILL DIE IF I CANNOT PLAY!!! So each morning it's into Photoshop to giv [read more...]

I'm baaack!

silas@duirwaigh.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I'm back from Europe. Back from the edge of illness. Back from the bowels of holiday travel. But still dancing the line of sanity, thank you very much.

Though we wish we'd been able to update regularly, that's been the teensiest bit impractical. Let me spell it out for you this way:

Thanksgiving - Silas and I watch the Macy's parade from our living room couch in Taos where I am busy hacking up my left lung. Never found out if it was H1N1 or what, but it was entirely unpleasant. < [read more...]

New Year! New Visions!

silas@duirwaigh.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Happy New Year!

And to celebrate, Duirwaigh is moving, which means packing and sorting and SELLING.

You may be scratching your head. "Wait. Didn't they do this already?"

Yes and no. Let me clarify:

May 2008: First moving sale. Nine HUNDRED and eleven auctions on ebay. This was to clear the path in our home and gallery warehouse so we could actually see the floor and begin the real work.

October 2008: Second moving sale. Because once was not enough, and [read more...]

Agents of Mercy

info@goblindesign.com — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A little while ago I had the opportunity to have one of my illustration featured on a CD cover of a solo album of Flower Kings mastermind Roine Stolt. The Flower Kings are one of the major players in today's revived progressive rock scene and many of their numerous albums impressed me with their creativity and strikingly engaging music.

Even though nowadays my listening habits have moved to about 90% classical mus [read more...]

Rare goodies on eBay!

angi@duirwaigh.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Duirwaigh is hosting a huge sale on ebay !! Take advantage of our upcoming cross-country move, by bidding on original art, sculptures, illustrations, and collectibles. Many of the items are from our own permanent collection and have never before been on the market.

Also, for you fantasy fans out there: love faeries? myth? magic? Many rare color proofs, giclees, prints and cards from our old website are available on ebay for a limited time. INCLUDING a RARE DEMO of the first-ever Kn [read more...]

New e-Courses!

angi@duirwaigh.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Crave a deeper connection to Soul? Need to ignite long-banked fires of creativity or reignite the flames of inspiration? Yearn to discover your life purpose and unleash it upon a welcoming world? Feel the need to infuse community with a potent sense of communion?

I, too, am on that journey.

To that end I'm putting together a series of e-courses, wherein a group of us sojourners (soul + journey = sojourn) can explore these topics on our quest for passion and presence in [read more...]

Soulcraft

angi@duirwaigh.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm rereading one of my favorite books. It's not one of those charming fairy tales I love so much, unless of course you consider your self and your soul as fairytale fodder. (Who doesn't, right?) It's called SOULCRAFT, by Bill Plotkin. And if you're involved at all on a spiritual journey that's included times of intense darkness, this book is essential. Similar to the many offerings by soulful author Thomas Moore, t [read more...]

A Pile of Projects...

info@goblindesign.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

There is a pile on my desktop, well, actually more on my screen. We are in the digital age after all. The reason why there was so much silence (oh so deceptive) was because we are buried deep in so many projects and as often in fall - the deadlines approach wearing a black cloak, holding the hour glass in one hand and the c in the other.

So there is a little sneak peak now on what is right now on my desk. Various calendars for 2011 are in the making, Alice in Wonderland (have you seen t [read more...]

More Art

angi@duirwaigh.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It's official. We spent Halloween in our studio, pushing toward the final stretch of publishers' deadlines. Although I'd have much preferred a concert or costume party, or even a date with Silas to the only movie theater in town to watch Where the Wild Things Are, I suppose it is somehow befitting that we work on deadlines on All Souls Eve.

I did, however, console myself with a White Russian, though I'm sad to report it had nothing whatsoever to do with Mikael Baryshnikov.

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Pixiekin is Here!

angi@duirwaigh.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Tis official. The 2010 Pixiekin calendar is here and available!

Once again, we've teamed up with Paulina Cassidy to create a scrumptious feast of pixies, fairies and critters from the quirky land of Pixiekin.

Silas and I created the design, and from cover to cover the result, if I do say so myself, is fetching. And I'm not just whist [read more...]

Reds and Greens

angi@duirwaigh.com — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Some days (all, really) it's the little things that make the biggest difference. We get sidetracked by big issues, big bills, big talk about little fears. And the clearest way for me out of that impossibly restrictive mindset, is to indulge delight.

Even the littlest, seemingly inconsequential dalliances with delight can shift my mindset, my perspective, which in turn can compl [read more...]

Tour de la Fridge - XII

angi@duirwaigh.com — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

See the dust? Told you our fridge needed cleaning. This might explain the tiny, twin sneezes I hear in the night.

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