I missed my June post, and the 4th of July has passed! Wisconsin has been the recipient of very unusual weather, just as many of you have had. Floods and many rainy days have been followed by cool weather and only a few hot days. Our Art Studio is in a large manufacturing building, with two floor
s converted into Studios. Jay and I have it fixed our Studio to the point that we each are enjoying many mornings or afternoons there. With a fan, and window ventilation, it's been quite comfortable most days. I love hanging out there, and working with my photos, matting, backing, and framing them. It's fun to chose which ones I'll put up in Spectrum Gallery this time. We are having a Nature and Garden Show starting this weekend and running through August. When Debbie and I went to Vegas a while back, I also was able to get some really good fruit and vegetable stand pictures. This one is entered into the Garden show!
s converted into Studios. Jay and I have it fixed our Studio to the point that we each are enjoying many mornings or afternoons there. With a fan, and window ventilation, it's been quite comfortable most days. I love hanging out there, and working with my photos, matting, backing, and framing them. It's fun to chose which ones I'll put up in Spectrum Gallery this time. We are having a Nature and Garden Show starting this weekend and running through August. When Debbie and I went to Vegas a while back, I also was able to get some really good fruit and vegetable stand pictures. This one is entered into the Garden show!
We have enough inventory now to have visitors! It was great fun to have Ania and Missy come up and look around. They found pictures they really liked, too! You can come, too, if you're in the area by arranging a time with me. Here is a picture of the girls deciding which photographs they liked the most. And the next photograph is yours truly, in my favorite spot, matting and framing a favorite piece of mine.
I'm happy to report that Jay encouraged me to enter some of my pieces in the Wustum Art Museum's Multi Media Summer show, and we were BOTH lucky enough to each have one chosen I am so excited to be IN a Wustum Show! We'll find out later in July what the judges thought. The show will open the end of July, so if you're in the area, stop into the Racine Wustum Art Museum http://ramart.org/ . They have a very high quality show on right now, featuring area teachers, students and accomplished artists. Here is yours truly, happy as a lark in my studio area, matting and framing one of my new photographs. Soon I'll have the web site going. It's not an easy task for me, and I am procrastinating, but the sooner I get the site up, the sooner I can have more exposure of what I am thoroughly enjoying!
The photography shoots are really enjoyable. I've been to San Antonio, the Caribbean Islands, California in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas. Closer to home, we've made trips to the Chicago Botanical Gardens and to the Boerner Botanical Gardens in Milwaukee. Right in the Racine area, I've had some very good photographs taken at Hawthorne Hollow, a local nature preserve, and in Milwaukee at the Art Museum there. If you haven't been to the Milwaukee Museum, you're missing a real treat! The architecture is boggling, and there is so much more than one picture can show.
I hope you take time to enjoy where ever you find yourself this week, the sites, the people, and all the living things around you! Namaste!
