Monday, October 25, 2010

Yucaipa Vision Quist Art Gallery ‘Art on the Lawn.’

I ‘am a little later on blogging this but about a week ago October 16, I participated in Yucaipa Vision Quist Art Gallery ‘Art on the Lawn.’ I have to say that I was a little nerves doing that show for when I woke up it was fog down and a little cold but by the time Bruce and I load up and drove up the street to the show the sun was coming out and the weather turn out to be really nice.  
There was some awesome work and I got to chat with some of the artist who stops by my booth. One of the artist was  Roger C. who told me that events like this was nothing but a artist social club for him, his sales came out side of these events. That got me to thinking, was I wasting my time and money?  I figure I was here so I just need to hunker down and greet the folks that came in and get a little drawing beside.
Y’all know people are funny, I don’t usually draw or paint with folks around for I am still a little nerves when it comes to draw around folks but I wanted to draw to pass the time so I got my pad and pencils out and as I drew...


I found that some folks were coming up behind me to watch me draw and when I would turn around these some folks would get really nerves and run. A few would come up to me and ask me question or tell me what a good job I was doing…. Over all it was a good day and I did sell and networking beside. Not back for coming back into the art world after staying away for about 15 years, but that’s other blog…


Here are some pic's of my booth:


This is just after the sun broke though and i was open for business






Here I stood on the front porch for the gallery to take this pic.



and yes that is me and in the back to my right is my loving hubby Bruce who was a big support all the way.

Friday, October 22, 2010

1st place...

Yesterday (10/21) I submitted my painting “Postcard from the Gulf” into the Yucaipa Art Assoc Monthly Juried Show and to my big surprise I won 1st place. What to go… now tomorrow I will mail it off. Now too look for another pic to paint.


Thursday, October 21, 2010

Postcards from the Gulf


The other day I was checking out the home pages on FB when I came across ‘The Illustrated Garden Val Webbs art studio’ talking about “Postcard from the Gulf” and I e-mail Val to see if it was to late to join and to my surprise it’s not so I went and found an old watercolor post card from Daniel Smith Co. that I could paint on, but wait! There are so many animals out there which one to paint?

So I went on the net to study the gulf and the animals that was hit the most and I found that the ‘Brown Pelican’ also called ‘American Brown Pelican’ was one of three animals that are still on the endanger subspecies list, and hit really hard by the oil spills so I had decided to start painting this beautiful bird... 



 

Here is the 1st stage of the painting...
 




Here is the 2nd stage of the painting....

 





 
Here is the 3rd stage of the painting... 

 




Here is a pic of the hold postcard...

 


Monday, October 4, 2010

Adopting a Pet

Howdy all I was just talking to a friend about my recuse pets that I have and she told me that she was thinking about adopting a pet but had not thought it out all the way on who was going care,clean up after the pet, feeding, etc and that got me to thinking so I went on pet finders and here are some links that I think will help us all of us with our pets…

http://www.petfinder.com/before-pet-adoption/

http://www.petfinder.com/after-pet-adoption/

http://www.petfinder.com/journal/index.cgi?article=695  

http://www.petfinder.com/after-pet-adoption/bringing-home-new-cat.html

 

If you are thinking about adopting a pet or know someone is please pass these links on ... Thank You.¤ (¯`'·.¸()¸.·'´¯) ¤