Friday April 29... I'm hanging out in Sun City with my pal Elissa. We've been friends since '83 and she's a wonder! Yesterday we drove in to San Diego, scoped out the site for the ArtWalk, found my space right in front of the fair office building, and found that I'll be parking my rv about a block from my booth! Can't get closer than that!
I'm still not on WiFi so I can't post pictures yet, but maybe tonight if I find an internet cafe in Little Italy I'll be able to get some photos posted. What a cute neighborhood; my booth is a few blocks from the most Italian/quaint part of this section of downtown, but I am mentally attracting ONLY people who will buy my art! Also a fun thing about this fair is a "passport" where visitors have to get 5 stickers from various parts of the festival and one of the main ones is right next door to my booth! He's a whimsical sculptor and I'm looking forward to meeting lots of fun artists at this event!
Please stay tuned ...
xoxo suzi
I live here
In the watertower
Friday, April 29, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Heading to San Diego
I've been juried into the Mission Federal ArtWalk show this coming weekend in Little Italy, downtown San Diego! One of 300 artists (do I stand a chance of making any money???) I hope to shine like a star and prove my mettle (Is that right???) and make enough money to keep paying rent on my watertower in Mendocino!
CoCo is all loaded with paintings, mostly on the passenger side, so I hope I'm not too weighty on the right; the refer has stopped working, so I borrowed a huge styrofoam cooler from the Scotts and will get a block of ice somewhere along the road to keep any produce I find on the way nice and fresh. Kinda like life was on the boat in Hawaii... we always got a block of ice for the cooler and everything stayed nice and cold all weekend.
I'm heading to Sun City and my pal Elissa, friends since mid 1980's. She'll take me to San Diego on Thursday so we can scope the fair, the parking, the whole area and I'm feeling less stress already, just knowing my friends will be there to support me! It's great. I LOVE my friends.
Pictures will follow soon! So stay tuned for the next installment! Girl on the move!
CoCo is all loaded with paintings, mostly on the passenger side, so I hope I'm not too weighty on the right; the refer has stopped working, so I borrowed a huge styrofoam cooler from the Scotts and will get a block of ice somewhere along the road to keep any produce I find on the way nice and fresh. Kinda like life was on the boat in Hawaii... we always got a block of ice for the cooler and everything stayed nice and cold all weekend.
I'm heading to Sun City and my pal Elissa, friends since mid 1980's. She'll take me to San Diego on Thursday so we can scope the fair, the parking, the whole area and I'm feeling less stress already, just knowing my friends will be there to support me! It's great. I LOVE my friends.
Pictures will follow soon! So stay tuned for the next installment! Girl on the move!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Plein Air Paintout in Winters, CA
I just returned from Winters, CA, where I painted Weds thru noon Saturday with a group of extremely talented artists who had gathered for the 4th annual Brigg's Plein Air paintout that involved alot of the town of Winters. We had green green and more green because spring was bustin' out all over... blooming nut and fruit trees, redbud, and barns, farms, gorgeous scenery. here are some of my paintings for your enjoyment!!!
Here I am about finished with the following painting of an oak tree.
This is the underpainting. I had white Wallis paper, and put down some pinky-orangey pastels and squirted on some rubbing alcohol that I then mushed around with an old paintbrush. Once this was dry, I began to add layers of the greens that made up most of this scene. It was a beautiful day!
Big Oak, dry pastel, 9x12, $375
This was the first painting I did on Wednesday of the old silo at the Turkovich farm. The workers were tractoring out debris from some recent flooding of the creek below.
I painted Stormy Creek from inside my rv since the wind was so fierce it would have blown me over! I turned around and saw the barn below and got permission to drive out closer to capture The Good Earth seen here:
This creek at Nicholson Ranch was just lovely and I painted it after the Big Oak. I think the finished piece is hanging in the Winters Visitor Center.
The third painting on Thursday was this orchard in bloom with tractor tracks filled with water. I found it on my way back to the gallery when I thought I couldn't paint another thing that day and couldn't resist capturing the light here. I brought this one back to Mendocino.
On Friday we went to Berryessa Gap property and I painted this little vineyard scene with a Redbud bush and creek both using my artistic license. This painting is at the Berryessa Gap tasting room in downtown Winters and is also for sale.
This is the pizza oven for Putah Creek Cafe, and my effort during a "quick-draw" event on Saturday morning from 8-12. The restaurant owner offered to give me $200 in food trade, but since I don't live there, I just laughed and then this painting sold right after it was hung in the Briggs Gallery.
Here I am about finished with the following painting of an oak tree.
This is the underpainting. I had white Wallis paper, and put down some pinky-orangey pastels and squirted on some rubbing alcohol that I then mushed around with an old paintbrush. Once this was dry, I began to add layers of the greens that made up most of this scene. It was a beautiful day!
Big Oak, dry pastel, 9x12, $375
This was the first painting I did on Wednesday of the old silo at the Turkovich farm. The workers were tractoring out debris from some recent flooding of the creek below.
I painted Stormy Creek from inside my rv since the wind was so fierce it would have blown me over! I turned around and saw the barn below and got permission to drive out closer to capture The Good Earth seen here:
This creek at Nicholson Ranch was just lovely and I painted it after the Big Oak. I think the finished piece is hanging in the Winters Visitor Center.
The third painting on Thursday was this orchard in bloom with tractor tracks filled with water. I found it on my way back to the gallery when I thought I couldn't paint another thing that day and couldn't resist capturing the light here. I brought this one back to Mendocino.
On Friday we went to Berryessa Gap property and I painted this little vineyard scene with a Redbud bush and creek both using my artistic license. This painting is at the Berryessa Gap tasting room in downtown Winters and is also for sale.
This is the pizza oven for Putah Creek Cafe, and my effort during a "quick-draw" event on Saturday morning from 8-12. The restaurant owner offered to give me $200 in food trade, but since I don't live there, I just laughed and then this painting sold right after it was hung in the Briggs Gallery. Paint The Town! Shaunie Briggs put together a really fun paintout with artists from Tahoe to Mendocino! Great weather, good friends, lots of creativity!
My next adventure is San Diego for the Art Walk show in Little Italy end of April-May 1. Please come see me there!
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