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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Industrial Art, Tulips, Zebras, Dancing Artists and Clay Pick-up
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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Sunday, April 22, 2012
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
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
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… 
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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.
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.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
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