Spanish Dancer, White Tails and Strange Mushrooms

 

 

 

 

 

Well, it’s been a great and busy week or so for the art and art projects of Rod and Martha. So much so that I am only now getting to writing this blog.

Monday of last week I finally got a chance to meet Koross Hoseini the phenomenal nature photographer whose work fills the Pelican Gallery in Leavenworth. His wife Sherri who runs the gallery agreed to carry some of my photos and the Monday before Thanksgiving was the day to deliver and meet Koross. He is a real friendly guy and I really enjoyed meeting him.

During the week, we found out that Two Rivers Gallery wants us to do the monthly TV presentation for the gallery on KWCC’s Laura Herrera Show. That was a hoot doing it this month and should be a fun gig going forward.

Of course, with Thanksgiving and the weekend Dancing Martha event at the NuArt Gallery looming we spent a fair amount of time preparing for that event. None-the-less I did get an outdoor photo adventure in on Black Friday. As much as I appreciate everyone out there shopping at the galleries on that day, I myself just had to get out and about and enjoy nature. And, Friday last presented a great opportunity to get out into the Sage Hills west of Wenatchee to see nature at work in her recovery from the fires of September.

The lower hills and ravines were full of deer early in the morning. I saw over a dozen of them in groups of three to four.  I stayed plenty far from them but was able to use my zoom to get some great close-up shots of some of these white tails. As the morning progressed they all seemed to be heading for higher ground and so did I, though I was looking for vistas and new growth of flora more than fauna. The higher up I got the greater the vistas and opportunities to take some panoramic shots.

The way the grasses and fungi sprout up out of burnt ground provided some interesting photo ops. The hills covered in a thin re-growth of green sprouting from blackened earth made for what I think was a beautiful contrast of color and texture. The rock outcroppings that would have been more obscured by sage before the fires presented some additional visual eye candy for this photographer.  I was pleased to find some positive responses to these photos from the folks at the Chelan Douglas Land Trust which owns much of the area that I photographed.

And, while I was out trudging around in the mist and rain taking pictures, Martha was over at Simply Unique, where we both now have some of our art and photos, for their grand opening. As soon as I got down from the hills I visited there to get a photo or two. Folks were exploring and enjoying this new venue for art and antiques. I hope we and all of the other venders there do well.

But, the big event of the week for us was the Dancing and Painting live event at the NuArtGallery in East Wenatchee on Saturday. That was a whole lot of fun from which I made another Martha Flores Dancing Artist movie which is on Youtube and GoWedia. We had a young artist who goes by the moniker of David V35 there with us and he was also painting live… though not dancing. He is a very talented artist whose work I really like. Look for future joint events with David V35 and Martha Flores / Rod Daut.

We had a free raffle there at NuArt and lots of people put their tickets in the drawing box. The lucky winner was a young lady from Puyallup and a 12” x 18” print of Martha’s signature piece “Flowering Consciousness” will be picked up by a relative as soon as we can get together on a time and day.

We were also fortunate to sell a serious piece of Martha’s art “Despair” that I had only just got framed up a few days prior to the event. I had a good feeling about that piece and sure enough it sold. Gary Doan related that the lady who bought is a repeat customer at NuArt. I really am glad it found a good home with someone who really appreciates art.

This Monday we recovered from the frenetic weekend staying in. But, that didn’t stop Martha from creating a few new masks and from putting a few more touches on the Spanish Dancer and horse painting she did while dancing on Saturday.

Yesterday was all work all day on a multi-page art show proposal for a large regional museum gallery show. This turned out to be pretty involved and is waiting to be completed.  It’ll get done… no worries on that.

Today, before sitting down to write this blog we had a very fruitful meeting with a young internet marketing specialist named Mike Endsley who is helping put together our strategies for getting Martha’s art out to the world in 2013. I’ll keep you posted on that.

Well, enough for now, have a very artful day and think a bit on the words of St. Francis of Assisi who said, “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands his head and his heart is an artist.” I like that.

 

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