a little surprise after-school artmaking activity for the kiddos....gonna make valentine's cards & goodie bags!

Dear @ahmadandahmed and @DIYNetwork - check out this panoramic shot of our big, sad yard and think of the possibilities!

Putting everyone's names in the hat & getting ready to draw the two #EverThineEverMineEverOurs winners - !

I bought my first pair of @TOMSshoes today!!! One for one...really, is there a better business model? I think not.

In progress......The Qur'an up to p. 240 of 446 & approx. 4 inches in diameter

San Diego friends! Save the date and bring your kiddos by for this fun FREE after-school art event (or 'art party' as mine like to call these things....) later this month at Love Child!

This is in memory of my grandpa Joe, once an avid photographer. He passed away last night, leaving behind my grandma Nehi, their eight children (including my mom), fifteen (?) grandchildren and....wow, I don't even know how many great-grandchildren. When I was a kid, I thought this photograph of his was absolutely amazing.

@zenpeacekeeper Here is the newest hamsa hand ('breath') I mentioned-the sketch & the color/collaged pc in progress!

breath. #webelongtoeachother

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." - Mother Teresa. Wishing you all happy holidays, and much peace and happiness in the new year.

Look at these gorgeous business cards I just had done at Moo! It's my first time using them, and I'm very impressed.

The piece about my thumbprint portraits in this month's 'Arts & Power' Issue of Riviera Magazine! (And it's not too late to commission one as a gift! See here for details: http://www.cherylsorg.com/Riviera_Magazine___Thumbprint_Portraits.html)

As I was lighting the candles on my birthday cake today (all FORTY-THREE of them), Hugo commented that he and Esmé should have gotten me a real baby dragon as a gift, so that it could blow fire and light all the candles at once. Kids!

Et voila - finally an image of the new sleek square thumbprint portraits!

With a couple of months until the holidays, I am offering a new version of the thumbprint portraits as a gift idea.....sleek, clean and modern - and more affordable! Instead of the entire thumbprint shape, these new portraits will focus on the central identifying loop / whorl of the thumbprint and will be done in a square format on a 20" x 20" piece of 1/4" thick white plexi, which will float off the wall with the help of a couple of small strips of plexi affixed to the back. They will also be created using adhesive on the backs of the strips of text & image - no tape! Super clean, and will photograph beautifully, which means prints of the portraits can be easily created.

The deal: Portraits will be $500 each (plus shipping, if not local), AND will include one free high-quality color print you could frame and keep, or give as a gift. (Say you're doing one of your child - you could give the print to grandma & grandpa!).  Part of the proceeds from the sales of these portraits for the holidays will fund the purchase of materials for a couple of events I'll be hosting to make cards and gifts for girls who are survivors of sex trafficking at safe homes here in San Diego and elsewhere in the U.S.

Above you can see a mock-up.....I'll post photos as soon as I complete the first one in this new format. E-mail me at art@cherylsorg.com if you have any questions!
(Thumbprint portraits are still also available in their original full form - framed or unframed - in two different sizes.  Please visit this page for the details:  http://www.cherylsorg.com/thumbprint_portraits.html)

With a couple of months until the holidays, I am offering a new version of the thumbprint portraits as a gift idea. Sleek, clean and modern - AND more affordable! Instead of the entire thumbprint shape, these new portraits will focus on the central identifying loop / whorl of the thumbprint and done in a square format on a 20" x 20" piece of 1/4" thick white plexi, which will float off the wall with the help of a couple of small strips of plexi affixed to the back. They will also be created using adhesive on the backs of the strips of text & image - no tape! Super clean, and will photograph beautifully, which means prints of the portraits can be easily created.

The deal: Portraits will be $500 each (plus shipping, if not local), AND will include one free high-quality color print you could frame and keep, or give as a gift. (Say you're doing one of your child - you could give the print to grandma & grandpa!)

Here is a mock-up.....I'll post photos as soon as I complete the first one in this format. E-mail me at art@cherylsorg.com if you have any questions!

'when they can't get out of the banana hole'....J.D. Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. With thoughts in mind of all the suicides we've heard about recently - teen suicides, suicides resulting from bullying and homophobia, military suicides, I've made this piece using the sto...ry of the suicide of perhaps my favorite literary character ever, my literary 'crush' if you will, Seymour Glass. I know all too well the despair and utter sense of hopelessness that leads to this act and understand completely why it happens - you truly don't at all know or believe that it will ever be better, that you will ever feel anything but pain, that you matter, or that your death will affect anyone. It is so, so sad when someone reaches that point. Here is to the prevention of further senseless deaths, and even more importantly perhaps, to the eradication of hate and bigotry. xo Cheryl

New show opening this Thursday....my new Murakami/wave piece will be in it! A lot of really great work in this show. Local tweeps, I hope you can stop by the reception for a glass of wine!

The original stitched drawing of mine ('Untitled' - from the 'Connections' series) that is featured in @pattdiigh's book 'Four-Word Self-Help', is available for sale for $200. The image is approx 8" x 13" on a piece of canvas approx 17" x 17", unframed (unless you request framing @ addit'l cost). Here is a photo, w/detail!