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Take It Or Leave It

Beehive Society | Party Mixtape Show | September 19, 2014
Take It Or Leave It by Chelsea Loren Edwards
If you were in the bay area on Friday night, September 19th in the Mission District of San Francisco there was an awesome one-night-only show of 32 amazing artists, including yours truly. The Beehive Society (← Check them out!) put on a fabulous party and will be continuing to do more fantastic gallery events in San Francisco.
 
Here is the final piece posted up for the Party Mixtape Show put on by the lovely ladies at the Beehive Society! The piece is titled Take It Or Leave It and is acrylic on wood. The shows theme was neat because every artist put in a song and then the songs were mixed up and each artist got a new song back - hence, mixtape. The song I received was Take It Or Leave It by Cage The Elephant. Go listen to it! ♫ ♪

I got very inspired by the stripes from the cover of the album and thought the sound of the song was very 60's-70's influenced. It reminded me of some of The Beetles' work. I also thought it reminded me of some love sonnets I have read in the past where the poets were trying to woo a woman. The sonnets usually read how that life was fleeting and the woman should lay with them (even though in those days, women wanted to make sure they were married) because soon (youth is fleeting) they would both be dead.

The show was amazing and all of the artwork came out phenomenal. My only sadness is I don't have a better camera because the picture doesn't do it justice! Take It Or Leave It was lovingly taken home by a wonderful couple at the show, but there are still prints available!

If you are looking for some awesome art, go to The Beehive Society's new shop! The rest of the works from the show are there as well, and you can still purchase an 8.5" x 11" print of Take It Or Leave It.
Acrylic on wood traditional painting.
The flyer The Beehive Society put together for the show.
The teaser I did for the show of the actual piece.
Close-ups of Take It Or Leave It painting.
Digital version - when you buy a print this is the version you get. I painted this version first actually and then painted a separate version of the acrylic on wood.
Digital print teaser.
Thanks for viewing!
Take It Or Leave It
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Take It Or Leave It

Take It Or Leave It is a piece made to show at The Beehive Society's Party Mixtape Show and is acrylic on wood.

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