Well, there is definitely no rest for the weary artist,
traveler or traveling artist. No sooner had I picked Martha Flores up at the
Airport – SeaTac Airport, when we were off to the Pottery Store in Seattle to
buy more clay and pick up some glaze for our good friend Terry Johnson. Terry,
as many readers, may recall has been helpful to us in our various art projects
in so many ways from using his space and equipment to glazing and firing in his
kilns and on and on.
When we have business in Seattle or are coming and
going from the airport or diving on the coast, we try to make use of the drive
to get tools and clay we may need from the Pottery Store and kill two birds
with one stone. We had time and considered visiting a gallery or two, but
Martha was a bit weary from traveling and it is a long ride home to Wenatchee. So;
home we headed.
Having arrived home still with plenty of time I cajoled
Martha into riding with me to pick up her artwork from the Wenatchee Senior
Center, as some of the artworks I had been searching high and low for in our
house (all three floors, behind doors, under beds in storage rooms etc…), were
as I had finally concluded at the Senior Center.
And, of course the reason I so desperately needed to
find these pieces was so that I could set up the show at the NuArt Gallery in
East Wenatchee that I have been preparing to install. And, find them we did…
the Dancing Zebra painting in particular was needed for the NuArt show, as it
is the ‘Dancing Zebra’ show. Once that
was done, we had more yet to do.
Or, at least I was able to get poor tired Martha to
hang in there with me to do a bit more about town, like pick-up the T-Shirts
with the Embracing Cultures logo on them from Silk Screen Printers and Embroidery.
The shirts came out fine and while we
were there I visited with Carl in the print shop and got some interesting
photos of the silk screen process and machinery. That was cool… thanks Carl for
letting me into the work area to get those shots.
Then, it was off to Terry Johnson’s studio at Terry
Signs to deliver the dry glazing material we picked up for him in Seattle and
while I was there I took a few more pictures yet of the new and interesting stuff
Terry has been working on while Martha has been away.
As I said though, the artful task for today was to
take the artwork to Gary Done at NuArt. And, so I did and we had fun logging in
all the art and talking about classic cars as the Classy Chassey Parade which
is coming up quick. Gary was eager to hear about my ’65 Mustang and the years when
I restored it and had in the parade a few times and some car shows. 
What I was eager to hear about was that a number of
people had come to the gallery after Martha had been there Painting while dancing,
or was it dancing while painting, live on Thanksgiving weekend, asking for the
Dancing Zebra painting. We hadn’t left it there at the end of that show, from
which Martha’s Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qGR5qiAB7E was made of her painting live, as she wanted to do
some final touch up before calling it done. 
I really hope some of those interested parties
return and decide to give the Dancing Zebra a good home. I took a number of
other really great pieces down that should make for a good show and draw some
attention and find good homes as well. Meanwhile, if I could just find the flowere photo O mine that Jill at the Cashmere Chamber of commerce is interested in, I would be a happy camper or campy artist.
And, so another fine day was spent in artful
paradise and now to prepare the paperwork from another gallery that would like
to exhibit our artwork… wish us luck.
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