Blog Stuff for 2024/2025!!!
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 01:31AM Oddly enough, "Feud: Truman Capote Vs. the Swans" series has started on FX TV. Prior to that show starting, I chose to bring my fine art twin matching photographs of the beautiful white swans out of retirement, and display them at the elegant Glenville Sr Center for all to enjoy! The timing!
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 12:25AM February is here. I cannot get over how fast time is flying by!
February is also much closer to spring than fall!
February also seems to always be the busiest art month of the year for me. I am participating in the @creativefebruary art challenge ( Do it every day this month and post! ) that's being managed by Saratoga based artist Takeyce Walter. This year for the challenge I am creating "My Little Book of Haiku." Everyday I will be posting a Haikua - a classic style of Japanese poetry aimed at capturing a moment of keen perception in a short form. Since posting my first one, people are sending me their Haiku. Let me tell you that I have unleashed an Army of Haiku poets!!! Stay tuned on that...
So, last year was my very first year participating in the creativefebruary challenge. I posted a photo of mine each day. One happened to be of the Rolling Bones "38 Special." It caught the eye of another participating artist, Roya Jenner. She then reached out to me to request permission to reproduce my image on her iPad using Procreate software. So my first year ended with an art collaboration with Roya in the createfebruary art challenge. Roya was kind enough to send me two framed "'38 Specials," of which one will go to Rolling Bones on Feb 9/10, and one will go into my auto art collection.
I submitted one of my Tombstone guys, "Ringo," to Schenectady's Bear and Bird Boutique Gallery for their upcoming "All In" Art Show February 10 - March 24, 2024. It may be a small gallery, but the artists work there is cutting edge. Very inspiring.
Eric Ayotte has also put out an art challenge in February called "Fun-a- Day." I'm in. I was part of Erics film class a while back and enjoyed the experience at the Schoharie River Center in Burtonsville. I discovered my favorite view of Schoharie Creek there, especially if it is running high. It's a mean body of water.
The Saratoga Holiday Inn is hosting my "NO SPEED LIMIT" HOT CARS ART SHOW February 8-11, 2024. Thank you GM Kevin! I will show my photography along with art of Roya Jenner, Stu Eichel and Robert Selkowitz. And the salty Rolling Bones posse is in town that weekend. You'll find them on the art wall, at Bookmakers, or at the cow barn.
Wiawaka wants me back for Georgia O'keeffe Weekend in July. Until last year, I had never been to any events at Wiawaka. It's a historic and gorgeous piece of lake front w/ boathouse directly on Lake George. Georgia OKeeffe was a guest as a young adult; cause for celebrating her life all week at Wiawaka. I happen to have visited Georgia's beloved and now historic home in New Mexico - "Ghost Ranch," and have since developed a photography show out of that visit. So I'll be showing it at Wiawaka again this summer. July date TBA.
Friday, November 10, 2023 at 08:35AM The Print and Printmaking Museum is hoping to have a sale in December 2023. Date TBA. Signed and numbered prints for $30 make excellent Christmas presents. Yes they do! Get one framed at your favorite frame shop and Bam! A one of a kind present. No cookie cutter present for you!
Friday, November 10, 2023 at 08:28AM Once again I'll be decorating a tabletop tree in honor of Mom's at Schenectadys NENY -YWCA on Washington Avenue in the historic Stockade section of Schenectady. Decorating will be especially poinant this year due to current life events. The Festival of Trees opens December 2 - December 23, 2023. Decorated trees can be viewed at both the YWCA location and next door at the Schenectady Historical Society. It's a great fundraiser and family event to attend! 
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 12:23AM July/ August My photography and writing had been accepted into three magazines this summer! I'm in the Summer Edition of "Simply Saratoga" with an article on Lake Luzerne, the Amsterdam magazine "We call This Home," again with an article in Lake Luzerne plus a large photo of the Rolling Bones 38 Special being spotlighted. I sent the Rolling Bones guys off from Galway NY on their annual trip to the to Bonneville Salt Flats with a load of magazines. I'm also in " Your Hometowne." We all appreciate each other and what we bring to the table. 