If you are going to be in the area, I hope you will come see me. I am in booth 23.
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Art View: I Get Around
I get around. No. Seriously. I do.
This year we are doing about twenty-five shows between April and October from Texas to Michigan and up and down the Mississippi River Valley. Because of all the getting around we do, this year we began a project to video document the artists and people that we meet around us. The videos are far from professional, but like my friends, I prefer to think of them as authentic. The result is that you will get to meet some really wonderful people and fantastic artists that you may not know are out there.
At least that is the hope. You get to decide. Where possible we will include links to their websites, Facebook pages and their other social media.
You can see more about this endeavor on my Vintage Painter Youtube channel.
Writer, poet, photographer and teacher Charles van Heck.
A little help from a friend
Lebanon, Missouri
One of my favorite clients at the 2013 Deep Ellum Art Fair.
Powderhorn Art Fair in Minneapolis
First of all, next year, there is no way we are doing an art show every weekend between April and September. NO WAY! We are exhausted.
I’m sorry we haven’t been able to post much this year. Not even pictures but with only five shows left this season I wanted to make a moment and let you know of one close to home in Minneapolis.
The Powderhorn Art Fair is this weekend. Of the three major art shows in Minneapolis this weekend – Uptown, Loring Park and Powderhorn, I like the cool grassy, tree-lined park overlooking the lake of Powderhorn best.
Especially if it is as hot as they are predicting this weekend.
I will be in Booth 102 overlooking the lake and, hopefully, under a tree. Come see me.
Cheers,
Chrissy
Artists: The Creative Entrepreneurs
“Artists want money so they can make more art; entrepreneurs want money so they can make more money.” – Andrew Horwitz
Receiving my “Best of” Ribbon at Spring Green, WI Art Show. (Summer 2012).
I’m not sure I completely agree with the entire article but it raises some good issues.
Tragically, I do think we live in a culture that believes, “because artists don’t hold the making of money as their highest value, [artists] must therefore be simple and naive.”
Talk about stereotyping!
The truth is, I do everything any other self-employed small business entrepreneur does. I manage my cash-flow, I create a brand, I promote my business and search for the right market that allows me to sell my work for a profit.
And I work hard.
And, like any other good business owner, I reinvest my profits back into my business so that I can continue to grow.
Ford makes and sells cars, Nucor makes and sells steel and I make and sell vintage and Americana themed oil paintings and murals.
I see little difference in our goals, just our Visions.
Dig it : Pre-Raphaelite babes
Know your Pre-Raphaelites! There will be a quiz. Maybe. Just be prepared.
See more paintings online here.
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I was watching a documentary hosted by Andrew Lloyd Weber, who looks like he could be toad of Toad hall, the documentary was about Pre-Raphaelite painters and it was beautiful. I can’t believe it took me this many years to discover this style, because I can now see this movements influence in everything that’s happening in fashion right now. It’s such an indulgent-teenaged-girls-wet-dream style, reminds me of candles, tarot cards and diaries. Although I can see the tackiness and predictability in it, I dig it.
Food for thought
There are a lot of reasons to love street art. It is more than simply the scrawl of anarchists and bathroom stalls. Check out this fantastic article about street artists taking over a soon to be demolished building in Paris.
And if it is Paris why is so much of the work in English?
Hmmm…
Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!
“Working the Fields”.
Everything has a story.
For Christmas, I’d like to paint yours.
Repeatedly, I’m asked where I get the ideas for my paintings. The truth is my ideas come from you.
The source material from all of my paintings come to me as commission work, personal genealogy research or are donated to me. As such, I know the family and history of almost all of my paintings. I may paint them as impressionism with, or without, a flair of contemporary pop-art or in a realism style but at the end of the day what I paint is based on what I know about the people, the place, the mood and my personal style.
I paint using oil and canvas in a master’s style – no computers, no tracing. Only old school technology.
Find a favorite vintage photo from your family and let me turn it into an original sepia painting!
Order a two figure, sepia painting in my impressionism style before October 31 and have the original painting before Christmas.
20″ x 24″ $600 unframed + $65 S&H = $665 (Normally, $900)
16″ x 20″ $400 unframed + $55 S&H = $455 (Normally, $600)
Lady with Horse Original: Sold. No prints available.
Canvas and paper prints available for an extra charge. Framing available. 50% down due at time of order with the balance due at delivery.
Because of time constraints only 8 are available at this price. Below are some samples. Cannot be combined with other offers.
…or…
Donate a favorite vintage family photo and if I use it as source material for a painting I will give you a free canvas print of the painting.
Click here for more details.
Wedding Kids 15″ x 30″ Oil on Canvas Framed: Recovered and re-purposed barn-wood. Handcrafted. $350 + S&H (Originally $700) No paper or canvas print available. Details at http://goo.gl/VTGzGe.
Lady with Horse Original: Sold. No prints available.
My sepia painting “Working the Fields”.
Plowing the Fields Original: Sold. No prints.
Original Painting: Escanaba Beach Combers. Not Available. Sold.
Front Porch Love Letters Original: Sold. No prints available.
Backyard Bikers (Paper Print) Paper Print Matted, 11″ x 17″, $25 + $3.99 S&H = $28.99 Canvas Print Not Available Details at http://goo.gl/Xrvqwe.
Albuquerque Adventures: The Lost Art of Neon
New painting: Hot Neon. The original is in a gallery in Michigan. Canvas prints can be ordered through my website. Click here to order paper or canvas prints.
As we had an appointment in Nob Hill to meet with the Mariposa Gallery we decided to drive part of the historic Route 66.
It was my partner that spotted something shiny and he asked “do you mind if we stop here?” There was some neon in the window and a sign outside the door that said “Neon Art Gallery”.
We knocked at the locked door and waited for an answer. Peering into the darkened windows of the gallery, we patiently called the phone number on the window.
A few minutes later as we stood gazing and awkwardly pointing at the beautiful neon in the windows a man came to the front and let us in. This is how we met the local historian, certified electrician and neon artist Robert Randazzo, the owner and sole proprietor of Absolutely Neon.
He was born and raised from a Sicilian family in Brooklyn, New York. He learned how to work as a young boy helping his family around their bakery and as he matured decided to study as an electrical apprentice.
Thank goodness for anyone that appreciates neon.
He earned his chops working on neon up and down New York City’s famed Times Square in the 70s and 80s.
He has resided in Albuquerque for 27 years and repairs, designs, installs and maintains neon work all over the country. Over the years Robert has tried to bring in new artists excited about learning the lost art of neon but had a hard time finding anyone that has the same kind of interest or “fire” within to continue on creating the beautiful lit up “works of art”.
It turns out “Absolutely Neon” is a museum of sorts showcasing Robert’s work and 30 year history of creating neon art. He gave us a full tour and talked about his life making neon and all the interesting projects he had been involved in over the years. Much of the neon you see in and around Albuquerque was installed or maintained by Robert.
If you are in Albuquerque and want to meet a unique individual that uses the pragmatic process of combining glass, gas and electricity to create something artistically mesmerizing and powerful be sure to go to Nob Hill and tap on the windows.
Robert and his work is worth the time.
Here is a video clip from Roberts web site highlighting neon along Route 66.
MY HERO!
We were running a bit late on the last day of the Broad Ripple Art Fair.
A little help from a friend
Normally we would have pulled the van next to the booth before the show started, unloaded the boxes we needed for packing up at the end of the show and then went and park. Because we were late we missed the window of opportunity and were dreading the several blocks it would have required of huff it all in.
THANKFULLY the great volunteers at Broad Ripple Art Fair had a solution!
Thank you Indy for a great experience!
Three for the Road, Now 35% off through March 31.
Save 35% on the original oil painting “Three for the Road” plus free shipping through 3/31. Now only $585 (Originally $900).
I will even pay the freight through 3/31. Click here for details.
Original Painting: Three for the Road
The Vintage Painter 