T.T.F.N.
Well fellow bloggers and lurkers I bid you adieu for a couple of days. Actually more than a couple of days. More like a week and a half.
Tomorrow morning I’ll head down I-26 for the three hour trip to Summerville, South Carolina for the Flowertown Festival. I’ll be camping at Givhans Ferry [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Posted in Art Shows, Family Stuff, Posts by Dad on March 28, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Posted in Advocacy, Posts by Dad on March 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Teach Your Children
I got an interesting e-mail from Gretchen, Simon’s mom, earlier today. She was contemplating the post I made the other day in regards to whether or not to use a bidding format to sell our artwork. Here are her thoughts:
I wish I knew how to answer this. My kids [...]
Posted in Art by Ben and Bennie, Art for Purchase on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New Artwork by Ben & Bennie!
Title: “Layla”
Size: 8″ x 10″ canvas panel; standard frame size,
Price: SOLD
PLEASE NOTE: this is the finished product from last weekend’s post about how Ben and I work. I have to admit that “over worked” this one just a tad. I ended up having to [...]
Posted in Family Stuff, Jessie on March 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tiny Dancer
This is my lovely daughter getting ready to walk on stage for her dance competition yesterday (they finished second).
Posted in Blogged by Ben, Family Stuff on March 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Note to self: some paintings are best viewed from afar…particularly if they haven’t dried yet.
Posted in Art by Ben and Bennie, Art for Purchase, Posts by Dad, Special Moments on March 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A New Painting by Ben & Bennie
Title: “Forever Young”
Size: 8″ x 10″ canvas panel; standard frame size.
Price: SOLD (please read the stuff after the next paragraph)
Completing this ended up being an emotionally uplifting experience. I received a phone call today from one of Ben’s doctors commenting about the blog. [...]
Posted in On the Palette, Posts by Dad on March 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
On the Palette
Cadmium Orange: I finally got my butt in gear to make some headway into completing the paintings I want to take with me next weekend. It’s very difficult to hole up in the studio when it’s cloudless and nearly 80 degrees outside. In fact we are now running the air [...]
Posted in Art Shows, Posts by Dad, Thoughts on Art on March 21, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Motivation
There’s nothing like the stress of a deadline to kick an artist’s creative ass into gear. I know very few artistic individuals that do not have at least a healthy dose of procrastination to their personality. In fact I’m sitting here trying to count exactly how many I can think of….let me get [...]
Posted in Family Stuff, Posts by Dad on March 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
For Our Northern Neighbors…
Dogwood buds about to burst.
Our huge Bradford Pear tree.
Yellow Jasmine, our state flower blooms over our arbor.
Posted in Art by Ben and Bennie, The Boys at Work on March 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Collaborating With Ben
This morning while studying some of Ben’s latest paintings for images that might begin to take shape Joan made a clever suggestion. Why not show on the blog how this process actually works? It immediately hit me how we could very simply pull this off without an elaborate video production.
To begin [...]
