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Tent Buster

February 25, 2016 by dnart

Back in 2013 I took a notebook of sketches to a hardware store and loaded up with supplies to construct my version of display panels for my EZ-UP tent. The price tag on manufactured walls to display art was way too high and I just didn’t have the budget to stomach it. My solution worked and has served me well over the past few years, but there were some issues. The biggest issue was that I couldn’t fit the panels, […]

Categories: Art Shows • Tags: Art show, David Norcross Art, DNart, Durham artist, Fall Foliage Festival

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Good Morning Captain

January 15, 2016 by dnart

Around the first of the year I saw the artist call for the Winter Community Show at the Carrack. I have plenty of paintings that I could have submitted, but where is the fun it that? My wife asked me why I always want to paint a new work for every show, but I never really thought I had a choice. When an idea comes to mind you have to see it through. And so the next week was filled […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Art Shows, Durham • Tags: Art show, Captain Kangaroo, Carrack Modern Art, David Norcross Art, DNart, Durham, Durham artist, NC art

The FFFn Weekend

September 30, 2015 by dnart

The sky has been stuck in neutral gray and it feels like its been raining for a week, which can only mean one thing. It’s time for the Fall Foliage Festival in Waynesboro, VA. Fingers crossed the weather will have this gloom out of its system by next weekend and we will get clear skies. I really love the FFF and am excited to get my tent out, set up shop and unpack those paintings I had tucked away in […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Art Shows • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art show, Canvas, David Norcross Art, DNart, Fall Foliage Festival, Virginia

Art Calls and July Jams

July 21, 2015 by dnart

Being an artist is much more than just spending time alone in your studio. The real work is finding places to show what you’ve been working on. Step 1. Find all of the galleries near you that you can deliver your work to. Step 2. Look at their previous shows and figure out what kind of work/artist they deal with. A lot of times galleries function as co-ops and mostly work with their members, so that eliminates at least half […]

Categories: Art Shows • Tags: acrylic on paper, Acrylic on Wood, Art show, DNart, Durham Art Guild, Durham artist, NC art, Raleigh, Visual Art Exchange

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Two Shows and a Class

February 10, 2015 by dnart

I’ve had a great start to 2015. It has been very busy and productive so far, which is causing my weeks to blur together. I can’t believe that it is already mid-February. What have I been up to? Two shows in January and one studio class at NC State (go Wolf Pack) have kept me in the garage, on the inter-webs, and the highway. My first show of the year was Contemporary South, at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh. A friend […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Art Shows, Durham, Raleigh • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art show, bird painting, Carrack Modern Art, David Norcross Art, Durham, NC art, Raleigh, Visual Art Exchange

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The Black Cat

January 11, 2015 by dnart

Back in 2007, when I was living in Charlottesville, Virginia, I stumbled across a skate shop called Black Cat. The storeowner was very down to earth and a really cool dude. On my first trip, I just looked around, but on my second trip I picked out a mint green Krooked board with a design by Mark Gonzales, AKA “The Gonz”- a professional skateboarder, artist and owner of the Krooked company. Initially, I had no idea who he was or even anything […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows, Throwbacks • Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Art show, Black Cat Skate Shop, David Norcross Art, Durham, NC art, Virginia, Wood panels

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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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Tent Buster

Good Morning Captain

The FFFn Weekend

Art Calls and July Jams

Two Shows and a Class

The Black Cat

Home Grown

Slippery When Wet