By request: Release of new Giclee Print 'Three Gamble's Quail'

 

 'Three Gamble's Quail' will be available upon request as a giclee reproduction on paper, matted to sizes 

11*14 in, 16*20 in, and 22*28 in. The prints can also be framed. Contact me at mbrummermann@comcast.net . 

If you e-mail by tomorrow afternoon around 5 pm I can bring the piece to the Green Valley show on Saturday.   

Continental Mall at Green Valley Fine Arts and Crafts Show

My next show, the first one in 2012, will be outdoors at the Continental Mall of Green Valley. It's a very pleasant spot under Palm and Olive trees and the clientele has the time and patience to check everything out, go home to measure their walls and come back to make their purchases. Here be-backs will actually return!

The show site is right next to the Continental Exit of Interstate 19, but coming from NW Tucson, I enjoy  the scenic road that takes me by the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Old Tucson, through the Tohono O'odam reservation past San Xavier Mission, huge piles of mine tailings (less scenic, of course) and miles and miles of beautiful desert.


So come visit us in Green Valley! It's a well juried show with about 40 artists and will last from Wednesday Jan 12 to Friday, Jan 14.

Additions to the Collection: Architecture

 In 1998 I traveled from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, painting little Plein Air oils and slightly larger watercolors of Missions and other interesting sites. I camped in my van and got quite used to the permanent turpentine smell. The collection above shows watercolors from that trip and also some famous Arizona buildings. All are now part of the Flickr gallery here. 

In 1999 I actually moved to California for 2 years and studied the work of the California Impressionist school surrounded by the actual landscapes that inspired those painters.  I also had the opportunity to meet and paint with most of the members of PAPA (Plein Air Painters of America).

A New Assortment of Greeting Cards

A clear gift box contains a collection of 7 horse portraits on cards with envelopes. Similar portraits, then in black and white, made up the first series of watercolors that I remember painting. They were inspired by Blutke's  Lipizzaner portraits in charcoal but I used black Pelican Deckfarben, diluted to make them transparent.

2011 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair in Tucson - looking back

It was a great show - I was too busy to leave my booth for three days - so all my people watching was done from there.

 

Contrasts abounded - especially on the sidelines outside the main show. That's Tucson!

2011 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair

Street Vendor, Watercolor

It starts tomorrow! My Booth is # 618!

From Friday Dec. 9 to Sunday Dec. 11 hundreds of art and crafts booth will line 4th Avenue in downtown Tucson. While the jury for us, the artists, is as tough as at Tempe, businesses along 4th Avenue are allowed to have their own booths, so there will be some retail. In addition, scab shows in private lots add more eclectic choices. 

Musicians are roaming along the sidewalks, there are performances on several stages and lots of food in side streets. For me one of the most fun things to do (besides selling lots of paintings) is people watching!

Did I forget to mention dog watching? This guy is actually a working dog....

2011 Tempe Festival of the Arts on Mill Avenue

This Friday, the Tempe Winter Festival of the Arts begins. Over the last decade, this show has developed from a street festival with a lot of imports and resale into a great art and crafts festival  with eclectic but mostly high-end articles made nearly exclusively by the attendant artists. 
There is great, often loud life music, performers and food (usually out of reach for us who have to stay with our booths).
The public enthusiastically turns out in great numbers and many people spend a whole day or more among over 400 booths. Most customers come for years, report how their last purchases look in their homes, let us know when their walls are full...
While set-up and take-down may be a nightmare for many artists, this show is professionally organized by a staff that cares and makes us 'old-timers' feel like family.
So I should be happy that my van is loaded and I'm ready to drive to Tempe and set up my tent (at night) to be ready for a great weekend - except that the weather forecast of rain, wind, and low temps makes me feel that I'd rather sit at home at the fire place or even at the University Insect Collection in my often too cozy office.
Oh, well, the people of Tempe have surprised us before with record attendance and sales during rainy shows.

The pics are from last December. My booth is the one with the round top and paintings