"A Day at the Races"16" x 20" Sold Giclee available
Today is set up day for the Duluth Fall Festival, the weather is nice and the weekend is going to be perfect weather.
Setting up my mini gallery is like setting up a circus tent by myself it takes a long time but time flies when you are sweating in the hot sun. There are 760 vendors at this festival the largest I have ever attended. This should be an interesting weekend with the lack of gas in Atlanta hopefully people will decide to come to Duluth rather than drive to Al for the football game.
I hope many of you reading this blog will come out and support me and the other vendors this weekend. I have a couple of new paintings for this show. Next week I am going back to painting a larger size painting for the Nashville Show. I was given a large hardwood panel by a friend and former teacher. I am going to paint on that but unfortunately it will be too heavy to hang in my booth. I can put it on a easel outside the booth but hopefully I am going to sell it in Nashville.
I am planning on painting a harbor scene from British Columbia in anticipation of our upcoming vacation. Shelly and I take our vacation in November during the off season which is great due to lower rates and no crowds. We have a few large goals which are to be totally debt free and see the world. We have to be debt free in order to afford to see the world.
I choose to be an artist for many different reasons but the best part is the freedom. Freedom to create what I want when I want. Most of the artist you will meet in this world are past or present are free spirits independent thinkers. I have always been a free spirt who follows the beat of a different drummer.
It makes my heart feel good to see my son evolving into the free spirit of his father. Chris my son and I traveled over the summer together to Ky, Tn and Al exhibiting in shows and we had the best time together. Chris is a great kid and I really enjoy his company. His younger cousins think of him as a big brother. They hang on him play jokes on him and which really makes me laugh.
I love living in Georgia but I miss my family in TN, however Georgia is home and has been since 1983. I am growing tired of the crowds in Atl but as far as a city is concerned it is a nice place to live. When Shelly and I eventually sell this house we are not going to move too far away. We have property in North GA just 45 min away we will live in Jasper still near our family and the mountains.
~ mike
Setting up my mini gallery is like setting up a circus tent by myself it takes a long time but time flies when you are sweating in the hot sun. There are 760 vendors at this festival the largest I have ever attended. This should be an interesting weekend with the lack of gas in Atlanta hopefully people will decide to come to Duluth rather than drive to Al for the football game.
I hope many of you reading this blog will come out and support me and the other vendors this weekend. I have a couple of new paintings for this show. Next week I am going back to painting a larger size painting for the Nashville Show. I was given a large hardwood panel by a friend and former teacher. I am going to paint on that but unfortunately it will be too heavy to hang in my booth. I can put it on a easel outside the booth but hopefully I am going to sell it in Nashville.
I am planning on painting a harbor scene from British Columbia in anticipation of our upcoming vacation. Shelly and I take our vacation in November during the off season which is great due to lower rates and no crowds. We have a few large goals which are to be totally debt free and see the world. We have to be debt free in order to afford to see the world.
I choose to be an artist for many different reasons but the best part is the freedom. Freedom to create what I want when I want. Most of the artist you will meet in this world are past or present are free spirits independent thinkers. I have always been a free spirt who follows the beat of a different drummer.
It makes my heart feel good to see my son evolving into the free spirit of his father. Chris my son and I traveled over the summer together to Ky, Tn and Al exhibiting in shows and we had the best time together. Chris is a great kid and I really enjoy his company. His younger cousins think of him as a big brother. They hang on him play jokes on him and which really makes me laugh.
I love living in Georgia but I miss my family in TN, however Georgia is home and has been since 1983. I am growing tired of the crowds in Atl but as far as a city is concerned it is a nice place to live. When Shelly and I eventually sell this house we are not going to move too far away. We have property in North GA just 45 min away we will live in Jasper still near our family and the mountains.
~ mike
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