Recent Art Show Photos
Posted: April 20, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acrylic, art, artist, artwork, audrey hepburn, cameo, canvas, caricature, caricatures, crafts, custom, etsy, frida, fun, garden, gift, gift idea, gift ideas, harlow's, illustration, judy garland, marilyn monroe, midtown, momo lounge, paint, painting, photoshop, raw, retro, sacramento, silhouette, silhouettes, unearthed, watercolor Leave a commentHere are some promised photos from the RAW:Unearthed art show I was in this weekend at Harlow’s in Midtown Sacramento…
It was such a gorgeous venue I wish I had more photos of the garden full of my artwork lit up at night!
Here are the photos from the professional photographer they had at the event…
Email Rosaurajohnson@gmail.com if you see anything you like!
Everything here is under $90!
Pictionary Pen Pals
Posted: April 14, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: agricola, art, artist, artwork, board game, board games, carcassonne, designer board games, draw, drawing, friend, friends, fun, funny, game, game night, german, german board games, idea, note, notecard, paint, painting, pen pal, pen pals, pictionary, settlers of catan, watercolor Leave a commentI haven’t posted in a while since I’ve been prepping for a big art show on Saturday (I’ll post pictures!) so I’ve been a hermit crab lately. But now I have 488 pieces of artwork finished, packaged and priced!
But, I also haven’t seen my friends & family much because of this show either! Not okay… so I’m sending out some cards and wanted to share this one for fun…
Some background history… My friend Megan Cannon and I are Pictionary geniuses. Not because we’re that smart- but rather we are both the exact same amount of ridiculous. If I believed in the super natural I’d swear we are telepathic. Once I drew a stick figure, colored the face in black and she guessed Morgan Freeman. We won that game like we always do. Our friends don’t let us play on the same team unless we whine loud enough.
Anyways I was missing Megan and wrote her this note… hope it inspires some of you to start playing Pictionary Pen Pals! Enjoy…
If you think you’ve got it figured out leave a comment!
PS I’m itching for a game night now that all of our friends are finally on the Settlers of Catan wagon… Now we just have to introduce them to the rest of our beloved collection of German designer board games!
New Silhouette Trends
Posted: March 30, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acrylic, art, artist, artwork, audrey hepburn, breakfast at tiffany's, broom, bubbles, cameo, cartoon, cow, crafts, custom, dinosaur, disney, elphaba, etsy, fossil, fossils, fun, funny, funny face, gift idea, grass, hipster, illustration, little mermaid, paint, painting, photoshop, pleisiosaur, prince, princess, retro, sample, shark, shoes, silhouette, silhouettes, spray paint, stars, stencils, vintage, wicked, wife, witch, woman, women Leave a commentLately I’ve been obsessed with silhouettes and look for them all over!
Here are some I’ve been working on with hand cut stencils and spray paint… and I’ve been having fun with hole punches!
These will all be up for purchase at my RAW art show coming up soon but if you’d like to purchase any of them just email Cameoland@gmail.com.
These are only the paper versions, there are also tons of canvas and tile silhouettes and some are being covered in resin so they really POP!
Artwork for My Upcoming Show
Posted: March 24, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1970s, 2011, 70s, acrylic, april, art, art show, artist, artwork, audrey hepburn, breakfast at tiffany's, cameo, canvas, caricature, cartoon, cow, crafts, crooner, custom, dinosaur, downtown, elphaba, etsy, flowers, frank sinatra, fun, funny, gift idea, gift ideas, girl fight, graffiti, greece, hand cut stencils, harlow's, heels, hipster, illustration, italy, kelly, love, marilyn monroe, momo lounge, moose, motorino, nixon, paint, painting, peace, peace sign, peacock, photoshop, pisa, printmaking, prints, rat pack, raw, retro, sacramento, sample, scooter, seventies, shoes, showcase, silhouette, silhouettes, singing, space, spray, spray paint, stencils, stilettos, tagged, vintage, watercolor, wicked, woman, women Leave a commentI’ve been a hermit crab working away nonstop on tons of artwork for my upcoming show!
There will be lots of artwork that is never before seen (other than by Nathan and our cat Elphaba) and will all be on sale with special promotions only for this show!
Here are some photos of work I’ve done and some that are in the process of being finished! Enjoy!
& P.S.
Here’s the link to buy tickets supporting me!
http://www.rawartists.org/view-artists/userprofile/RojoCameo
And here’s the link with all the information:
http://www.rawartists.org/sacramento/unearthed
A Beautiful Mess
Posted: March 18, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acrylic, apartment, art, artist, artwork, bedroom, bedroom at arles, brethren, canvas, card, caricature, caricatures, cartoon, clean, condo, crafts, crafts fair, etsy, funny, illustration, mess, messy, organized, paint, painting, procrastinating, romantic, sacramento, show, tia, van gogh, vincent van gogh, vintage, watercolor 2 CommentsSince I’m preparing for a big art show/sale I’ve been cranking out tons of artwork and packaging/pricing lots of art pulled from the archives (closets) and so- my home is A MESS.
Amidst all this I had two men come to check on our water sprinklers and fire alarms for our condo associations safety check. They asked about my artwork since I’m sure this was one of the stranger condo units they had seen and I apologized for the hurricane that had blown through our place.
One looked around and replied, “Yes, but what a beautiful mess.” and the other said, “Yeah, it seems like there’s an order to the madness.”
They were only here for three minutes but made my day.
My boyfriend Nathan has often looked at the messes I make with wonder and awe. He’s always said it is a mess, but everything has its place and there is a system of mess. He doesn’t always get the system but he knows there is one. I’m the only one who can clean it because it would take me forever to find anything if he or anyone else ever ‘helped’.

This always makes me think of a card I received from my Tia Silvia (aunt) years ago that I still have somewhere… (Though I will not spend hours digging through memorabilia to put it on this post) It is a cartoon version of Van Gogh’s ‘Bedroon at Arles’ painting with clothes strewn about and basically an artist’s mess all over and it said “What Vincent’s room really looked like”.
Since I was little I’ve been messy, but organized. There has always been an ordered chaos (though my mother wouldn’t let this excuse my messes)… And now though no one is giving me a hard time about my mess (Nathan is a saint) I find it comforting to know that I’m not just lazy- I am simply a part of history with my brethren artists and the messes they created.
So, though I’ve been procrastinating putting our home back in order I’ll put it off and continue creating artwork for a few more days…
After all it is such a beautiful mess…
Alzheimer’s Illustration
Posted: March 15, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, art, artwork, blue, blues, brain, capitola, care giver, dementia, developmental disabilities, disabilities, disabled, elderly, glasses, greif, home care, ihss, illustration, imagine, imagine supported living services, nursing home, old, older, painting, photo, photoshop, profile, sad, sadness, santa cruz, screenprint, sick, silhouette, supported living, theraputic, therapy, watsonville, wheel chair, wheelchair, woman, women Leave a commentThis was a Photoshop project I did in an illustration class recently. It is dedicated to Rhoda, a sassy 84 year old woman I was a care giver for in Watsonville this year. My thoughts are with her right now because she’s been in the hospital with pneumonia. Hope you feel better soon Rhoda Roo!

UPDATE:
GOOD NEWS! She just got out of the hospital and aside from needing to up her physical therapy she’s fine!
Hawaiian Baby Shower Invitations
Posted: March 10, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aloha, art, artist, artwork, baby girl, baby shower, cards, coconuts, custom, cute, etsy, flowers, girly, glitter, glittery, hawaii, hawaiian, hibiscus, invitation, paint, painting, palm trees, rhinestones, ribbon, sea, sparkly, tropical, watercolor Leave a commentHere are some rough drafts for some baby shower invitations I’m making!

Photos of Greece & Italy
Posted: March 9, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aegean, antique, arancini, art, artist, artwork, athens, beach, beaches, bicycle, bicycles, bikes, black and white, boat, bridge, buildings, burano, cafe, carousel, cat, cats, charming, coast, coffee, collumns, colusseum, corfu, cute, cyclade islands, cyclades, domes, door, doors, etsy, euro, europe, european, ferry, firenze, flag, florence, flower pots, flowers, food, for sale, gift, gift idea, gift ideas, gondola, gondolas, gondole, grecian, greece, greek, greek islands, hellas, hostel, il colosseo, ionian, ionian islands, ios, islands, italian, italy, lamp post, lamp posts, laundry, lucca, motorino, ocean, oia, perissa, photo, photograph, photographs, photography, photos, photoshop, piazza, piazza di spagna, piazza napoleone, piazza san marco, pictures, pisa, pizza, plaka, pumice, red beach, retro, roman, romance, romantic, rome, salame, salami, santorini, sea, spanish steps, stairs, sunrock, trevi fountain, trip, trunk, tuscan, tuscano, tuscany, vacation, vatican, venice, venitian, view, vintage, water 4 CommentsI’ve recently been tinkering more and more with Photoshop and am trying to teach myself though there is SO much more to learn than I’ll ever need I think!
Let me know if you’d like a copy of any of these.
Email Cameoland@gmail.com
Enjoy my favorites!

My favorite lamp post of Athens... I drove my friend crazy taking pictures of lamp posts all over Europe!

Serena & I in Lucca, Tuscany. Ready for a night on the town... Though this sleepy town had no night life so we were back in our hotel by 9 and then were stalked by the overnight hotel desk clerk! He slipped notes under our door and left wine!

Another photo I don't know why I love so much. I think I love how the water is just teasing you a little bit.

I could swim in these flowers. They were everywhere and so vibrant when crawling up the chalk white walls in Santorini.

This photo is completely unedited. Just loverly. We were there while Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 was being filmed- I wonder why they'd want to shoot here? 🙂

These mountainside doors were all over Santorini... People carve out beach homes since pumice rock is soft enough to do this!

Red Beach- so gorgeous and there were tons of Greek artists selling their work on the 2 mile hike to get to the beach! I was in heaven.

View from our hostel. We were ironically in a room with a painting of a character from an opera named Rosaura!

Crumbling brick, potted plants AND adorable drying clothes?! Why isn't this my view from my bedroom?

Serena & I's favorite hang out... Piazza di Spagna (The Spanish Steps)... and we both agreed we found Italy's best salame pizza ten steps out of the Spanish Steps metro station (order from the window in the wall in the alley and enjoy)

Or view from our room in Rome on Via Emanuele Filiberto - got a discount from my aunt's ex Italian boyfriend Marco so we stayed in a nicer place than normal!




































































































































