Jackson Hole was nice & visited Yellowstone for the first time with artists friends Justin from Montana & Yoshi from Oregon. Planned to hike the Tetons are, but smoke filled the basin.
Oilfield Monthly – August 2011 Cover Featuring My Artwork
My ‘Casing Sway’ image was used on the cover of Oilfield Monthly for the August 2011 issue.
Credit was placed on the inside of the cover with somewhat of a write-up* on page 10m, and full-page ad from Frame-It! gallery in Midland that represents me.
* Correction: The quote
Thanks for finding beauty in the hard working men of West Texas!
was from the blog here, by ‘Mandy’ – see full quotation
Impala…
Impala! – New ‘old vehicle’ 😉
First Place Ruidoso Art Festival
Last weekend I received first Place in Photography at the Ruidoso Art Festival in New Mexico. THANKS! 🙂
This is the forth award for 2011:
1 Best of Show
2 First Place in Media (Photography)
1 Best Booth
Best in Show! Arts in the Square – Frisco Texas
Today I was awarded ‘Best in Show’ for the Arts in the Square in Frisco Texas. There are many fantastic artists here and I am really honored. Thank you to the organizers and volunteers, the show is looking great! Although I’ve received awards in the past, this is the first with a substantial cash award as well.
Sitting in my Holiday Inn room drinking a glass of Barefoot wine to celebrate 😉
Accepted to Corpus Christy Festival of the Arts & Omaha Summer Arts
Corpus –Â March 25-27
2nd year
Omaha – June 10-12
1st year!
Accepted to Lubbock Arts Festival – April 7-10
Second year show for me – really love indoor shows… especially in West Texas 😉
Thumping down the steps… :0
Got up about 6 am this morning and was hustling down the outside steps to help Marcella. Guess I got about halfway down then THUD – slide – bump – slide – bump – slide – bump – slide – bump – slide to rest at the bottom. Sorry about all the noise Crestview neighborhood, but it hurt! After a bit of yelling and Marcella asking if I was OK, managed to get up and hobble over. Was swollen all across my lower back and iced it down to a small grapefruit. Went back to bed for a while.
Still feels like a log strapped across my back & painful numb, but I can walk and touch my toes so guess I’ll be alright 😉
…Looks like the first step I hit was one I repaired this last weekend and it held – so good job me 😉
Accepted to the Cottonwood Art Festival on May 7-8, 2011
This is a new show for me and I am really happy to be attending!
See the Cottonwood Art Festival website.
Sublimation Equipment has Arrived! :D
Just got everything off the truck and will spend the day making space in my studio for the heat press and converting my old Epson 4800 printer to the sublimation inks. This will allow me to do my own in-house printing of the ceramic tile coasters, mouse-pads, cutting boards and some t-shirts*. So I hope to get caught up on outstanding orders of these items in the next few days 🙂
* My current t-shirt designs (Brushy Truck, vw Bug, Old International Pickup, Mean Green Ford, and Salida Chevy are screen-printed on 100% ring-spun garment-dyed cotton and I intend to continue to having most of my tees screen printed. However, I will have the ability to do ‘one-offs’ and small quantities on a microfiber blend white t-shirts until I’m ready for the larger orders for each new design.Â
In contrast to printing with archival inks directly to my limited-edition canvas and fine art paper prints, the sublimation inks are printed on a roll of transfer medium then heat pressed directly into the target material (coated ceramic tile, rubber mouse pad, glass cutting board, t-shirt, etc.). The inks go directly from a solid to gas – staining the material for a durable image for use: wear, water and so on.
