Thursday, October 13, 2011

New Paintings and Show Schedule

Dancing Horses II, 11x14, original $145, prints $35.



Longhorns III, 20x50, original (no prints) $1500.


Here's my show schedule for the rest of the year:

October 15-16, 2011 Galveston, Tx Artoberfest

October 22-23, 2011 Spicewood, Tx Art Fair

October 29, 2011, Elgin, Tx Farmer's Market

November 5-6, 2011, Sun City, Tx (Georgetown), Hill Country Arts and Crafts Fair

November 12-13, 2011, Covington, LA, Three Rivers Art Fair

November 19-20, 2011, Gruene, Tx, Market Days

November 26, 2011, Comfort, Tx, Christmas in the Country

December 3, 2011, Elgin, Tx, Holiday by the Tracks

December 10-11, 2011, Austin, Tx, Cherrywood Art Fair










Friday, August 12, 2011

Cowjunto Music

My design won a cow! Well, not a real cow. I painted one for the Austin Cow Parade. It's now on display in downtown Austin at 5th St. and Congress Ave. The cow is a play on words on conjunto music - Tex Mex music featuring accordions and bajo sexto (12 string sort of guitar). You can find a video of me and some accordion players playing "cowjunto" music with the cow at the Cow Parade preview party on youtube - search "cowjunto." I've posted 20 photos here, so look at the older posts to see all the pictures of the cow in progress.





























































































Cowjunto Music

My design won a cow! Well, not a real cow. I painted one for the Austin Cow Parade. It's now on display in downtown Austin at 5th St. and Congress Ave. The cow is a play on words on conjunto music - Tex Mex music featuring accordions and bajo sexto (12 string sort of guitar). You can find a video of me and some accordion players playing "cowjunto" music with the cow at the Cow Parade preview party on youtube - search "cowjunto."


Sunday, January 30, 2011

Show Schedule

Feb 19-20 Gruene Market Days, Gruene, Tx

Mar 5-6 Art in the Square, Frisco, Tx

Mar 12 Georgetown Market Days, Georgetown, Tx

Mar 26 Seguin Market Days, Seguin, Tx

Mar 31-Apr 3 Round Top Antique Fair, Round Top, Tx

Apr 8-10 Burnet Bluebonnet Festival, Burnet, Tx

Apr 14-16 Old Settlers Music Festival, Driftwood, Tx

Apr 29-May1 Denton Art and Jazz Festival, Denton, Tx



Here are two new paintings. The one with the horses was completed just a few days ago - I entitled it "On Fire." Actually I didn't get the background right - it was too dark. Sometimes in that case I just wash off paint to lighten it up - yeah, wash it in the bathtub, as I have really high quality paper - but I just didn't want to lose my intense colors. So I added some gold to the horses to make them stand out. (A paragraph from "How an Artist Thinks" - the blog in my head.)
The painting of the longhorns was done before the one with the horses. Four people who have seen it said it reminded them of the scene from Lonesome Dove when the herd was caught in a thunderstorm and the lightning rolled off their horns. That makes me pretty proud - that's what I was thinking of when I painted the painting.