Etsy store

Thought I’d fill part of the void by putting a few more things up on my Etsy store.  The Folded Flamingo was created for a lesson for a class I was teaching a few years ago, a repeat of one of my earlier watercolors.

 

Riverside Dogs

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…

Pets and animals show.

On Friday I hung a group show featuring work of pets and animals at the Vanguard Gallery in Moreno Valley.  It features the following artists (just in the order they are on the wall):  Sandy Zelasko, Mike Holder, Kelly Vela, Jeni Bate, Terry d’Chacon, Kay Levie, Diane Morgan and sculpture pieces by Janice Osborne and Alana Marston.  The show will be up through June 28th.

From the right: 4 paintings by Diane Morgan, 3 photos by Kay Levie, 1 painting by Terry Chacon. Under, a basket of prints by Mike Holder

Four paintings by Terry Chacon on the right, to the left, a photo by Kelly Vela, two paintings by Jeni Bate and two of Janice Osborne’s glass sculptures

From Right, 2 paintings by Terry Chacon, 7 photos by Kelly Vela, 2 paintings by Jeni Bate and 2 glass sculptures by Janice Osborne.

From the left this time, 4 photos by Sandy Zelasko, 3 paintings by Mike Holder, 4 photos by Kelly Vela.

Four glass animals by Janice Osborne.

Four horse pieces by Alana Marston.

Opher- goodness sake.

Local Neighborhood gopher

We sometimes get animals at art fairs.  The least favorite is boy dogs attached to owners who are oblivious to the fact that we’re outdoors and even the best trained dog can make an honest error being unable to tell between a lamp post and a booth wall or even a chair or desk, and fail to monitor ‘activities’.

One of the better ones some years ago was a herd of pet llamas in the park at Yorba Linda.  Fortunately the city employees with the fair explained that this was the only* bad day of the year to bring the herd to the park and the owners led them home.

Birds are ever present and can sometimes fly or walk into a booth and take a look around, but they usually leave their credit cards at home or say it really wouldn’t match the decor in the nest.

Local Neighborhood gopher

Last weekend we could see we were in gopher territory by the state of the lawn, but we were surprised to get a visit from below.  I guess he was just acting like he owned the place.  At one point the crowd gathered round him included a boy of about 5 and I was delighted that the youngster got to enjoy wildlife up close.