Grant Park Market

Hey all! A little switcheroo.... A friend of mine, Katie, runs the Grant Park Farmer's Market here in Atlanta and she asked me if I'd like to have a tent one weekend. Well, spur of the moment, we set up last Sunday and loved it so much we're gonna give it a go this Sunday also. November 13 from 9:30a.m. - 1:30p.m.

It is a great market. If you like dogs, you'll love it. If you like kids, you'll love it. If you have either or both, bring 'em. Let's just say in the 4 hours we were there I took well over 500 photos of doggies from which I will do paintings for my galleries. Granted, some were blurry and a number of them captured the end of the dog I didn't want to paint - but it was so fun. Everybody is happy and laid back and the goodies are great.

This Sunday, Fran and I plan to take lots of little paintings and examples of our commissioned pet portraits. Mostly, we'll have things at a Farmer's Market price point like the holiday card I made (above). It's a hand-pulled linoleum block print.

And it will be a gorgeous day to boot! Hope to see you.

Atlanta Arts Festival

We are so fortunate in Atlanta to have arts and craft festivals almost year round. I don't go to as many as I used to but I miss so much when I don't. I plan to attend this one tomorrow morning! Piedmont Park is beautiful, the weather is gorgeous - should be great for Atlanta Arts Festival. My friend, Margaret Taylor, will be there with her handmade, reclaimed wood furniture and home decor.

Have a great weekend!

Jubilee, sculpture approx 3' x 3'

Hello art lovers! I am finally trying to get back into the merging my blog updates with my daily art making routine.

Of late, I have gotten and new, big studio space not far from the house. It has given me some freedoms and a new environment for my muses. It is a grand place and you're welcome to come by anytime M-F 10-6. I will not always be there but it will be open and you are welcome to poke around. I am in a building that is mainly used for showing the work of Dryads Dancing. The work is functional items from picture frames to dining room tables made of reclaimed wood from barns and houses. The stuff is awesome.

And I have been busy painting and making some sculpture. It has been invigorating to work in 3 dimensions, not to mentions beat on things with a hammer and such.

So the result of my first foray into assemblage in years is Jubilee. Let me know what you think. He is available for sale at Hanover Gallery in Chattanooga.

And here's another bit of great news. I have been asked to join Catherine Kelleghan Gallery here in Atlanta. I am very excited about this new opportunity to show my work to a new set of clients and Catherine is great to work with.

Ok, now I have to get back to creating. I'll be back to continue catching you up and to upload new work.

Have a wonderful weekend.

THE HOLIDAY SHOW!!!

Here is just one of the goodies I will have at the show this weekend.

2010zonopostcard -


Come one, come all! come to shop or just visit. It is a great time every year! We have some who come for the free food (it is that good). I hope you'll find a time to drop by. It is casual and I will be there the whole weekend!

Skyline, ACEO, 2.5 x 3.5, oil on paper original

My good friend Nick Orban has been doing these for a while now. This is my first ACEO but I rather enjoyed it. I've been down with the flu or something and so very small paintings are about all I'm up to right now.
This is done from a photo I took around the time of the '96 Olympics. Can't you just feel the Atlanta humidity? The buildings are not really that far away, it is just the haze.

Okra, 6 x 8, oil on panel

SOLD
I once heard a comic say that boiled okra had the consistency of a combination of gravel and drool. I may have to agree...but...I found a great place to have lightly fried whole okra pods - a restaurant in Atlanta called Six Feet Under. The name is a play on two things. Fathom, a nautical term, equals 6 feet and the restaurant serves seafood. Secondly, its location is across from Atlanta's famous Oakland Cemetery. Such greats as Bobby Jones and Margaret Mitchell are buried there. I've painted there many times, it is truly beautiful. Check out the web site.


Another favorite:
Blimp, 18 x 24, oil on wood


Speaking of Atlanta, this is from around 14th Street and the connector looking toward Georgia Tech during the 1996 Olympics. There were blimps everywhere! I love blimps. And if that's not enough, we live near the small airport that launches the blimps for big events in the area. They have to fly over our house to get downtown and at that point they have not gotten to full altitude. Every so often, we would hear this deep hum and over the trees would come the nose of one of those big suckers! Our Brittany spaniel (aka a bird dog) would look up and then get into his prettiest point position. It was hysterical every time. They are supposed to point to help you locate the quarry. But since this vessel took up the entire sky, the point (lit) was unnecessary.