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Earthday / Birthday, Recycled Art, Dancing Zebra Show and Cutie Pie Portrait

Well, while Martha has been in Texas enjoying the grand kids and having a Happy B-Earthday, I have busily working away at our various art projects, submitting apps for shows and securing her another art show.

As to the art projects, I created pedestals for the giant tropical birds she and the other members of the Embracing Cultures Parade Float Project have created and rebuilt the pedestal for my giant steel eagle.  Earlier in the week, I did a little research online to find a place that sold fire retardant for the birds as that is required for the parade. Luckily I found a site that sold it and we will be in compliance in time for the parade on the first weekend of May.

And, as I write this the salmon I made from Styrofoam and paper Mache which the eagle will clutch in its claws is drying in the sun and I will finish painting it and install it as soon as it’s dry.

Next a rocky crag above a river just under the eagle as it comes in for a landing fish in claw. I’m so happy with how this project is coming.

During the week, I submitted our forms to part of this year’s Icicle Arts Recycled Art Show. Our giant birds are made from 90% reused and recycled materials and will make great entries I think for the show. Wish us luck in the judging.

And, now that I’m thinking about it another organization wants Martha to donate a piece for a good cause out in Yakima… now where is the email with the info on that… I might be starting lose it. Oh well, I’ll find it and get something to them.

 Also, this week I learned of an individual who was seeking art by Hispanic artists for a gallery show later this year. So, I updated Martha’s artist resume and history of exhibits and sent it off along with some photos to Juan Alonso. We shall see what comes of it.

Meanwhile, Gary Doan the owner of the NuArt Gallery in east Wenatchee got back with me about having an exhibit of Martha’s Dancing Zebra and some other newer painting in his gallery and asked that I install early this week. You betcha Gary

And, now it’s time to get back to that Salmon. But before that I think it's time I get started on painting a portrait of this little cutie.

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link to blog on glass balloons, and the mission district art

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Dancing Zebra, Dallas Tornados,Steel Eagle and Art About Town

Well, it’s been an unusual week for art. On the weekend before Martha left town, I stopped in to visit Gary over at the Nuart gallery in East Wenatchee, and began cooking up a plan for a Martha Flores Dancing Zebra Art show. In a week or two I will take her Dancing Zebra painting which she created there last November, to the gallery and let Gary build a show around that piece. That should be good and it was really an eye catcher the day she painted it there. I stopped in to visit Terry Johnson over at Terry Signs who had made a banner for the younger members of the Embracing Cultures group to carry in front of the float. That should add a nice touch.

 As the week came round it was time to get to work and Martha took off for Dallas… yes Dallas where the luck of the Irish was upon her as she flew on the day of the tornados. Well, she flew as far as Sea Tac anyway. Nearly twenty-four hours later she was finally off to Dallas.

Meanwhile, as Martha was bogged down in SeaTac airport trying to get to Dallas which was shut down due to tornados, I did get a bit of work done on my Steel Eagle for the Embracing Cultures float for the upcoming Apple Blossom parade. But, the next couple of days were slow going as I had to devote myself to that yearly exercise of doing taxes…YUK! A few things I was able to distract myself with was finding out a bit more about metal work and joining a newsletter for Jessica Dietz ‘s ‘Weathervane Artistry’.  I’m looking forward to getting to see her video when it comes out as I really want to learn about working with metal, so that later I might redo my steel eagle with a metal skin or just do another one all together or some other metal piece. I’m thinking of that dinosaur at the south end of town…

Another fine distraction was looking at submitting an application for this year’s Icicle Prize which is again a recycled art show. We didn’t win last year, but it was a lot of fun and the piece we donated to the Icicle Arts Gallery in Leavenworth is on the flyer for this year’s prize. A lot of people still comment to us about it. It’s a good permanent piece for the gallery and it gets some air time periodically and gets to be seen. Which is nice.

By Thursday I really needed a reprieve from taxes and I got one just in time before I lost my mind. Thankfully our friend and fellow board member at Two Rivers Gallery called and had me come down to docent at the gallery in the afternoon.  

This gave me an opportunity to take some photos of the April show before First Friday. At the end of the day Jan Theriault came by and we had a cold one at the pub across the way. We were both interested in the ice ‘sculpture’ or so it seemed to be on the beer spigot.  Enough so, that we both took pictures of it. I told him about having done a photo shoot in there a month or two ago.

Friday was of course First Friday, and true to form there was a crisis of sorts at the gallery. One bank of gallery lights in the west wing of the gallery had stopped working and it was up to me to check it out.  So;  first thing in the morning, and gratefully so as I could then avoid getting back to those pesky taxes a bit longer, I went on over to the gallery to work on the lights. But, alas the junction box was fried and a new one had to be ordered.

While in town I made a point of changing out the large photo I have had over at Amanda’s Books for quite some time. I have been meaning to change it out for months, but just haven’t had the time. It was good visiting with Bob who is Amanda’s dad and co-owner of the book store. I got the new photo in and took a few pics of the place as it has changed quite a bit since the last time I was there.

I haven’t been in to see some of the other art in town and knowing I might not come back out for First Friday on Good Friday, I went around and got some pics of the work at the Robert Graves Gallery at the Wenatchee Valley College and out to the Cashmere Arts and Activities Center in Cashmere and back in town to get pics of the shows at Café Mela, Lemolo’s and 4South. It was an interesting coincidence that both 4South and CAAC are each featuring photographers presenting photos of Europe. But m ore of these works for my other blog Arts in the Valley and Beyond in the Wenatchee World Online. Enough for now.

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Nudes, Eagles, Sea Lions, Flowers and Fruit, the Family Tree

Well, while I have been busily working away on my giant eagle project for this year’s Apple Blossom Parade, Martha has been busy making more beautiful nude sculptures out of clay at home and working with the kids at one of the local schools in town on a Flower and Fruit project. The kids had a great time and made some really nice artwork that they were really proud of.

Martha, also, did a tree mural inside the home of a local family which they intend to use as a means of displaying photos of members of their Family Tree. What a nice idea. They really liked it and it should serve the intended purpose quite well. I think one or more of the family members may be interested in taking some art lessons down the line.

And, along the lines of Martha’s art classes and such, we worked on and developed a flier for the upcoming Playback Theater project that she and her good friend Susan Evans are putting together. I still need to make the flier for the art class she will be teaching at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center in May… I better get on that.

For me, having installed the Seal and Diver sculptures at Orca Scuba Center, our local dive shop, I got the bug to get back in the water.  So, I worked on my dry suit so as to be able to make it out on the boat with all my dive buddies. 

The guys have really missed my company over the past year while I have been working on so many art projects and writing so many art blogs and sadly not diving. As it was I still needed to borrow a dry ‘dry suite’ as mine still leaks.

But, make it I did and it turned out to be good for ‘research’ on my eagle project as well, as I saw a number of them and got some pics of one seated atop a rocky atoll in the San Juan Islands.

Our skipper Phil Jensen did a great job of getting us in close to some sea lions also on this rocky atoll where I got some good stills and some video of them which I posted on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKdJKFCJOA&list=UUNvpiC1XcVKVH-EiXJCMCsA&index=1&feature=plcp  .

I got a number of great pics while out on the boat... too many to put in one blog, but some I think I need to print and frame a few of these new nature photos.

On the way back from Anacortes we made astop to get some more art viewing in... ok we really stopped to eat.But as it turned out they had some art on display at the pub in Mount Vernon where we ate. They even had some cool looking chalk art there.

Well, enough for now and back to work on that eagle, Apple Blossom is a coming.

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