Season’s of Martis Postcard
The coordinators of the upcoming Seasons of Martis plein air show sent me a jpg of the postcard for the show–
Another image of the actual postcard–
Month: September 2007
Paul Dorrell’s Blog
I recently added an RSS feed link to Paul Dorrell’s Blog to my daily ‘reading list’. His post today really struck a chord with me as I was at one time a CEO of a small software company…the entry starts like this:
“What many people outside the arts don’t understand, is that succeeding in this gig takes as much discipline as it does for the CEO, Athlete, Lawyer, Doctor. In many cases it takes more,….”
You can read the rest of it here—
http://pauldorrell.com/blog/2007/09/21/friday-tips-the-discipline-of-the-artist/
Mighty Art Demos
Although I usually don’t mention every web link to my website, I thought this was of note. I received an email from Bet Borgeson, the editor of Mighty Art Demos and Tutorials mentioning they have a link to the art demo on my website.
After perusing their site, I thought I would mention it here as a great resource for artists. There is a plethora of links to artists demos in various categories. You can search by Medium, Category and Artist’s Name. Although Bet, didn’t ask me, I reciprocated with a link from my website to their’s. Thanks Bet for a great Internet resource. Below is an image of my acrylic demo.
Seasons of Martis
I have been accepted into this new plein air show near Truckee California. The event takes place October 5-7, 2007, with three days of painting by over 20 noted local and regional artists at locations throughout the beautiful Martis Valley as part of the month long Seasons of Martis celebration. This event is being sponsored by North Tahoe Arts and East West Partners through the Tahoe Mountain Resorts Foundation. A list of participating artists and the locations at which artists will be painting during this three day event will be posted on their website soon. The final display and sale will be at:
Seasons of Martis Exhibit and Art Sale
The Village at Northstar, Truckee CA
Sunday, October 7th, 4-7 pm
Awards for the ‘Best of Show’ will be judged by a well known group of California artists, including Zee Zee Mott and Jean LeGassick. Other awards include ‘Artist Choice’ and ‘People’s Choice.’ A portion of the proceeds from the public sale will go the Truckee-Donner Land Trust and North Tahoe Arts.
Below is one of my studio works of nearby Truckee River…
If you are wanting an excuse to visit Tahoe, come up and see the show! For more information, see their website.
“Meet the Artist” at Sandy-by-the-Sea Gallery Follow-up
I mentioned in my last post that Sandy-by-the-Sea Gallery in Carmel is hosting a “Meet the Artist” each Saturday evening in September. I did my event last night.
We headed down to Carmel mid-afternoon. I wanted to stop on the way at Pebble Beach to visit Brian Blood and his wife and painting partner, Laurie Kersey. They were having an open house as part of the Monterey County Artists Studio Tours. Brian and Laurie just moved to a home in Pebble Beach, and their place looked wonderful. We only spent about 15 minutes and had to head to the gallery to get set up.
I was going to be painting in the gallery, so set up my easel and paints. I had started an 8×10 seascape in the morning, working maybe 20 minutes or so to block in the general shapes, etc. It’s a good thing, because I forgot to bring the photo reference, so had to complete the painting from memory! If there was enough interest, we would auction off the painting I completed that evening, or another painting, so I also brought along a Lake Tahoe scene painted just Thursday.
Carmel turned out to be pretty ‘dead’. The summer tourist season had pretty much ended, and not many were around. Probably throughout the evening a dozen or so wandered in and out of the gallery while I was painting.
I finished the 8×10 seascape with an hour to spare. It turned out quite well…one of my better small seascapes. Maybe I should paint from memory more often! I brought a spare canvas, so Sandy, the gallery owner asked me to start another seascape. Again, I painted mainly from memory, but using some of my other works in the gallery as guides. I got about half done with that one before it was time to pack up.
Below are a few shots towards the end of the evening.
Working on the second painting. Notice the first painting just below my arm sitting on the easel.
The paintings to the far right are some of my works hanging in the gallery.
Working on the second seascape.
After we packed up, my son wanted to drive to Moss Landing and eat at Phil’s Fish Market and Eatery…one of the better seafood places on the coast. It was a great dinner but we were so full brought about half of it home!