I often get this phrase as an excuse or reason for people who love my work but don’t want to buy one. So, for those fans with full walls, you can get my images on mugs, rugs and tshirts. At for the next couple weeks I have a 35% off coupon for Society6.com.
THIS is my page on Society6 and THIS is the promo link.
And if you wanted something a little more unique, I realize I did not post my monthly newsletter with my latest experiment.
Tomorrow is Black Friday and I’m a retailer so I’ll be at a show in Palm Springs. Today is Thanksgiving so I wanted to find something to be thankful for:
The flood got deeper as I continued the setup
This Thanksgiving I am thankful that:
In September I attended the Riverside Art Museum fundraiser ‘Art Bark in the Park’. Selected artists had been given a metal dog to paint on and they were auctioned or sponsored as a fundraiser for the museum.
The reception was held in White Park in Downtown Riverside one warm evening. There were a lot of dogs there. I was really surprised how many.
All dogs were well behaved!
Oh look. Jeni and a Beagle. It inevitably has the poem about dogs painted into it.
Some dogs were painted on the back too (mine is the colorful one in the middle)
The crowd matched the amount of dogs
No on had to pick up after their dog! The perfect pooch.
One up for adoption
None of them used the tree…..
There was a huge variety of decoration
…and they all found a new home…
Yesterday I attended the reception of the Chaffey Community Museum of Art Membership show. Saw a few friends, one of who won an award.
The little on at the bottom left (orange and purple) was an award winner by my friend Joe A. Oaks. The blue and white one near the middle with the fruit on also won an award.
Second from the top right in the corner (going towards the left) is my collaborative piece with Helen Pietre
The show was sponsored by Ontario Elks
Quite a crowd
This won best of show. It’s made of pieces of silk.
Women Painter’s West‘s current show is called ‘Falling into Place’ which is being displayed at the San Fernando Valley Art and Cultural Center Gallery. I had one painting juried into the show and helped my friend Jan Wright by taking all our work in (she has two paintings in the show) and she will pick up the unsold paintings at the end of the month. We also were able to attend the reception together.
I just thought the juxtaposition of the most and least expensive (mine) paintings in the show was neat.
The Cloud Appreciation Society newsletter is always interesting, but this one is especially because of the cooking demonstration, where a panini toaster is used to show how clouds are cooked up.
I started working with Sm’Art gallery I think 3 years ago, maybe 4. It was a strange start. I received a cold-call email that sounded good, not the usual scam stuff, but the attachment wouldn’t open. After some thought I replied. It was a real offer, Alana had managed to have an email blast sent to the local attendees of ‘Art under the umbrellas’ show.
I signed up for the co-op gallery – we share the rent and working in the gallery. I have made many good contacts and friends over the years, taught a lot of classes (Alana was instrumental in the design of the ‘Painting for Absolute Beginners’ class and the contact that let to a season of intermediate classes, the contents of which become follow on exercises for ‘Absolute Beginners’.
At the end of October, Alana decided to close the gallery. A combination of factors came together at the end of the lease and we had our final evening. Here are a couple photos from the first 20 minutes before the crowd got there.
Just getting set up. Holly had created some ‘Day of the Dead’ paintings.
Sitting around chatting. We did quite a bit of business that night, especially Janice – who is the one with the gray shirt, on her device.
