Man Visiting Art Gallery

Man Visiting Art Gallery
12 x 16  Oils on canvas panel

Another photo from using the Blogger navigation bars "NEXT BLOG".

Admiring An Art Show

Admiring An Art Show
7.5 x 14  Oils on panel

These are people at an art show. Maybe they'll buy something?


As with almost everyone of my paintings, I think that I need to "fix" something. SIGH

Couple Studying art in Museum

Couple Studying art in Museum
12 x 16   Oils on canvas panel

This couple can't get much closer to the painting they're scrutinizing, can they? I think that they don't know what the artist was/is trying to "say" in this painting. If I were the artist I wouldn't have any idea why they're curious why or what I was thinking when I made the painting. I'm usually clueless anyhow. I just paint and paint and paint. Lots of color is mandatory.

Man and Couple looking at modern art

Man and Couple looking at modern art
12 x 16   Oils on canvas panel

 Another composite from several reference photos.I am greatly amused by the man at the left seemingly working hard to understand what he's looking at.  The fellow on the right seems amused by the other fellows dilemma while he himself has no clue either.

New York Inspiration - Looking at the art

New York Inspiration - Looking at the art
11 x 14   Oils on Masonite Panel

I saw a photo on an artists blog and it seemed a natural to make a painting. 

Women in museum looking at sculpture

Women in museum looking at sculpture
12 x 16   Oils on Masonite panel

The title "Women in museum looking at sculpture" might be more accurate as "Women in museum ogling sculpture". :-) At least the lady with the brownish sweater has SOME class and is studying my painting of "A Dollar An Hour".

Five People Looking At Art

Five People Looking At Art
12 x 16   Oils on Masonite panel

This painting is a composite of four or five reference photos. The lady on the left is laughing aloud at her companion (a MAN!) The three ladies on the right are contemplating the meaning of the center painting. 


All of them are totally ignoring my painting "Flameno Dancer With Red Fan". Obviously, they don't recognize good stuff when it's close by.

1st Place in the Rogers Art Guild 2011 Art Show & Sale!

$150.00 plus shipping

Two Wolves In The Snow  16 x 20  Oils on canvas panel

This painting was one of five that I entered in the Rogers (AR) Art Guilds 2011 Art Show & Sale.

This year we had only 44 paintings entered almost half the number entered last year.

This was a really fun painting, especially adding the snow falling! It was daunting to make the snow as it involved "splattering" my painting with really thinned blueish grey paint.  I learned of a technique on the Art Instruction blog. A person asked how to make "falling snow" in a painting.  Mike Callahan gave the answer that helped me most plus he included links to three of his paintings as examples.  Mikes website is http://www.mikecallahanart.com/

Rogers Art Guild 2011 Spring Art Show & Sale

The Rogers Art Guild 2011 Spring Art Show & Sale is going to open Tuesday April 5th and run through Saturday April 16th in the Rogers Public Library, 711 South Dixieland Road, Rogers, AR 72758-4033. A map can be found here. 
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We will be hanging the artist's paintings Monday April 4th. The artwork will be judged for ribbons and prizes Monday April 11th.  On Saturday April 16th we'll have our "Meet The Artists" reception.

Come see us if you happen to be in Rogers, Arkansas in the first two weeks of April.

I'll make some photos to post after we have the show is installed. (Hopefully my camera will remember how to focus?)  :-)

Solo Art Show and Sale April 2011

Forty four (44) of my paintings are on display in the Zephyr Blevins Gallery inside the Rogers (AR) Little Theater. You can read about the Rogers Little Theater at their website here. It's a really cool place to visit for a live performance of just to look at the way theaters used to be built.  


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Melissa and I spent about two hours and got the job done without much trouble.  The paintings are hung on chains that hang from near the ceilings. The hooks that fit into the chains to hold the paintings are JUST small enough to fit through the chains links.

I'm posting a few photos now and will post some more later when we take better photos. For some reason both our cameras had focusing problems.  They're both "point & shoot" so why didn't they focus?  One of t hose sweet mysteries of life, I suppose.

In the theater lobby

Inside the gallery

Ken B hanging paintings

Beautiful Melissa amused by my "portrait of a chicken"

Melissa making photos of the exhibit

Almost finished setting up (the frame of the mirror is tin!)

First Place in the Rogers (Arkansas) Art Guild Fall Art Show!

First Place in the Rogers (Arkansas) Art Guild Fall Art Show!  May 3, 2010

My painting of a Creole Dancer inspired by some photos in Jilly's Menton Daily Photo blog received the First Place Award at the Rogers Art Guild 2010 Spring Art Show & Sale today!  Woooo hooooo for Jilly and me!  See the original posting here.

Trust me when I tell you that the painting looks MUCH better in natural or "good" lighting. The lights and yellow walls made everybody's photos look funny.

This is my first award in a independently judged "real" art show and I am VERY VERY pleased to have received this prize considering the other works in the show.

What have I been doing, anyway?

I haven't made a post to this blog in a while because I've been posting to my "studio blog". I've been "building" a 36" square canvas and four (4) custom picture frames.  I need to go to the "lumber store" and get more wood to make a few more frames.

I heard from a "reliable source" in one of my art clubs that one of the art-show judges considered "gallery wrap" paintings to be unfinished and shouldn't be shown in a show/exhibit.  So . . . . I'm putting frames on my gallery-wrap canvas paintings for the art show(s).  I guess that I don't mind too much.  I'm not a fan of gallery wrap paintings myself, but they seem to be popular in magazines & such. 

Whatever!

Art Shows Dilemma

I belong to two art "clubs" in the area (NW Arkansas) and both are having a judged art show about the same time. :-)

Show "A" allows 3 submission.. Up to 2 of the 3 might be chosen to be displayed in the show for judging and one possible award. I have to choose 3 paintings to submit for show "A".

Show "B" allows from 1 - 5 entries per artist. All entries will be displayed and judged for awards. I have to choose 5 paintings to submit for show "B"

After much agonizing and going back and forth I've made a "list" of 10 that I'll be choosing from - see the images below.

Please take a look at the ten paintings then tell me which 3 for show "A" and which 5 for show "B" - any painting can't be in both shows!   :-(

#1 - RR Crossing On Smith Ridge Road

#2 - Two Dollars An Hour

#3 - Last Bus to Zurich

#4 - Flamenco Dancer with Red Fan

#5 - A Couple on a Park Path

#6 - Farmer Reading His Newspaper

#7 - Lady With Yellow Scarf

#8 - Harvest Time - Gleaner #1

#9 - After The Ice Storm

#10 - Cupcakes

Which three (3) would you choose to be in the juried (to be entered) show?

Which five (5) would you choose to be in the other art show?

Leave a comment with your "votes"!  Thanks for looking.  :-)

What's Happening?

I HAVE been painting, I just haven't gotten any to a point where I want to publish a photo for the world to see.

Friday, October 17th, our Art Guild participated in the Rogers (Arkansas) Third Friday Artwalk. From April until October historical downtown Rogers stores and shops stay open until 8 PM. There's musical entertainment, crafts vendors on the sidewalk and etc. Our guild was assigned the first floor of a vacant store and we put out our work hoping people would come in and maybe buy something. 10% of all our sales goes into our "scholarship fund" to be awarded to two Rogers' high school students. ANYWAYYYYYYY, only a few people came in and only a few very small items were purchased. I'm thinking that most people came in to get out of the cold for a few minutes. We raffle a painting for a dollar a ticket and it did so poorly that we're going to try again next week. The temperature dropped into the 40s with a brisk wind and people either stayed home or went home if they were at the Third Friday event.

October 29th through November 11th is our Guild Fall Exhibit and Sale which will be located in the Rogers Public Library. We'll be selling our raffle tickets and 10% of proceeds go to the scholarship fund. Maybe we'll do better in two weeks than we did in one stormy night. :-) We even have a reception where people can meet the artists and enjoy (I hope) some light snacks.

This week I've been making some picture frames for a friend in the Art Guild. The frames aren't perfect by any measure, but they look good, they're substantial and by golly they're pretty inexpensive! I have learned that I want to buy a power hand sander!

How do other artists transport several (some 20x30) from home to show and back home? I stacked them up in the back of our Subaru with blankets in between. But a couple of paintings still got scuffed. HOW DO YOU DO IT? HELP!!!!