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Home Grown

October 21, 2014 by dnart

I had another great year at the Fall Foliage Festival last weekend. Since the show takes place minutes from my hometown, I get to see my family and friends and my wife and I get a little extra help getting everything together for the weekend’s festivities. I spent Thursday night preparing roughly 50 paintings for the 3-hour voyage and loaded the car early Friday morning. That evening, the rain cleared long enough to set-up my tent. To my surprise, I […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows • Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Art show, black bear painting, Fall Foliage Festival, Virginia, Wood panels

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Slippery When Wet

September 18, 2014 by dnart

The Fall Foliage Festival Art Show is less than a month away and I’m pumped. With more ideas for new paintings than time to complete them, it’s been hard to sleep. Thankfully this amazingly cool weather we’ve had lately makes spending evenings in my garage studio easy. Last year this festival was a lot of fun for me and despite the terrible luck I had with the weather (it rained all day both days of the event), I actually sold some […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows • Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Art show, Fall Foliage Festival, Virginia, Wood panels

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Betsy, Your Art is Showing

June 17, 2014 by dnart

I have been busy recently in my studio and am happy to report that I have submitted work to two shows so far for the month of June. The first venue is a familiar one – The Carrack celebrated its third anniversary and hosted another community show. Over 60 local artists participated. Me and my ladies (wife + daughter) stopped by the reception on Saturday and had a cold one while we listened to DJ Mike B and took in the […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows, Durham • Tags: abstract, Acrylic on Wood, acrylic wash, Carrack Modern Art, Durham, Wood panels

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Respite Rocks

March 6, 2014 by dnart

Last week I made it to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh for the first time. The museum has a really nice permanent collection and a 164-acre museum park with lots of outdoor sculptures along its walking paths. My wife loved this sound suit by Nick Cave. I would say it was one of my favorite pieces in the collection as well. I would pay a lot of money to see her run around wearing this. On a […]

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Wings on These Things

December 3, 2013 by dnart

My pace has definitely slowed down over the last month, but before Thanksgiving, I was able to finish two pieces. Twins and Double Vision are both 14×14 acrylic on birch panels. Both of these paintings feature more of my bird characters. I broke down segments of the bird into flat blocks of bold color and repeated lines and patterns. Then I toned down the color with an acrylic paint wash. In addition to taking the edge off of the color, […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows, Durham • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art, Bird, Color, Paint, Twins, Umber, Visual Arts

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Booth #128

October 17, 2013 by dnart

Last Friday we packed up and headed north to Virginia to the Fall Foliage Festival. My packing job wasn’t the most professional, but we made it work with beer and diaper boxes – two things we always have on hand. I had sent my tent and panels the week before with my in-laws, so we only had to worry about transporting the artwork and everything made it safely. Friday afternoon we checked in and set-up. This is the first and […]

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Let the Festivities Begin

October 8, 2013 by dnart

A few weeks ago I went to my first “Art Salon” hosted by the Carrack and Mercury Studio. The Art Salon is an open call to artists in the community to bring in both works in progress and finished pieces for open discussion and critique. I didn’t take any of my own work. I was just there to check it out and observe. There were a broad range of artists there, in style, age and medium. It was an interesting […]

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Try to Catch Me with My Art Showin’

July 16, 2013 by dnart

Since becoming a full-time working artist, I’ve been applying to a lot of shows and art festivals. I was pretty pumped when I found out that I was accepted to the Virginia Fall Foliage Festival this October. Not only because it will be my first festival, but also because it is held near my hometown and its a festival I’ve been going to for years. I’m psyched to finally get to participate as an artist. The thing about applying to […]

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First Fridays in Raleigh

July 9, 2013 by dnart

As part of the First Fridays Gallery Walk in Raleigh, I showed two of my watercolor pieces in the Just Art: Redeeming the Discarded exhibit at Cobblestone Hall. As part of the show, each artist was asked to contribute a work to a silent auction to help raise money for the Salvation Army. In keeping with the theme of the discarded, I picked up an old painting at the Durham Rescue Mission for $5 and painted over it to create […]

Categories: Art Shows, Raleigh • Tags: art auction, fundraiser, Just Art Show, Raleigh

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Category Archives: Art Shows

Home Grown

Slippery When Wet

Betsy, Your Art is Showing

Respite Rocks

Wings on These Things

Booth #128

Let the Festivities Begin

Try to Catch Me with My Art Showin’

First Fridays in Raleigh