My Art Ventures archive

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This is 12x8 mixed media piece was done a couple of years ago.  I titled it "Night", and scratched the title into the black band under the Bear.  (You cannot see it in the photograph.)  The image came from a childhood memory of when I was about 3 or 4 years old and my father moved our house on a flat bed truck to the ranch he purchased.  In rural Wyoming this was not the norm, but it wasn't all that unusual either.  However, it was strange for me as a child to see my home on a truck going down the highway ahead of the car I was riding in with my mother and brother. Much later, in my late forties, I dreamed I was standing on top of the house being pulled by a truck, and my father was swerving, trying to knock me off the roof.  In addition, there was a bear below the house.  Interestingly, it was not a nightmare....it was only fascinating, and it required me to "balance".

The end of April.

In December I set up this blog, really just to see how to do it.  I didn't really announce it to anyone, and I didn't post anything again.  Now that it is Spring and I am finished with my winter hibernation, I am ready to communicate. In fact  I may actually tell people about my blog and do regular postings!

Monday morning I will hang work at the 1st Community Bank lobby in Taos, NM.  It is right on the Plaza and so it gets quite a bit of traffic.  There isn't a great amount of area for art, so I will hangs smaller landscape work, about half watercolor and half oil.  

After attending a marketing conference in L.A., I taught myself how to publish an e-zine.  It took awhile for me to set it up, given my technology weakness, but I am hopeful the next attempt will be easier.  Mostly I did it to advertise 4 mixed media workshops I intend to have in my studio this summer.  I will have to learn how to link up my e-zine email to this blog!

The workshops are 2 days and limited to a maximum of 6 persons.  The dates are:  June 12th and 13th, June 19th and 20th, July 17th and 18th, and July 24th and 25th.  Since announcing the classes this week, the first class is nearly filled.