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Tag: artist life
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Fall Pop Up Gallery Recap – Oaklyn Library
This past Thursday was the Fall Pop Up Gallery at Oaklyn Library in Evansville, Indiana that I co-hosted with my friend Lori Rivera. All summer long, we’ve painted for this show so we’d have new paintings to sell. We planned out marketing it with various ways like our newsletter, social media, blog posts and local…
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Red Geraniums painting process
Red geraniums are one of those summer garden classics. My mom always grew them and I also grow them, I just love them. Add another classic to the mix, a terracotta pot, place them on the front porch with an American flag and well that to me is as American as apple pie. Nothing says…
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Tree with birds nest painting process
Time really does go by so fast. It’s a good thing I constantly have my phone with a camera with me or I’d probably forget most everything that happens. Paintings for instance, I paint them, photograph the process, present them to my collectors list and social media as available and then move on to the…
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Publicity and the Creative Business
Last week, to my surprise, I was on the front page of the Life Style section of a local newspaper called the Posey County News. Of course, I did know there was an article about me coming out I just wasn’t expecting quite the spectacle. My friend Pam Robinson interviewed me on the phone a…
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Artist Spotlight – Jon Fuchs
Every now and again I call upon my artist friends for an interview for my blog. Today, I’m spotlighting my friend and watercolor artist Jon Fuchs. I met Jon years ago, probably at an art show that we were both had a booth set up at. Jon is great guy and an imaginative artist with…
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Vagabond Aged Map
Do you remember the two-man saw I was commissioned to paint earlier this year? Well, the same collector has commissioned me to create another really cool project. This time it was a fantasy style map of private hunting, fishing and recreational area known as Vagabond that he’s a member of. This collector might just have…
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Does art have to have meaning?
I was recently asked ‘does my art have a message or a meaning?’. I didn’t take long to think about because my immediate response is yes. Here’s what I said. “Often it does. Although, I think most of the time its meaning is only known by me and honestly only meant for me. I don’t…