Dec
Year End Review with The Texas Artist
A few 2007 stats that I’d like to share with you:
We shipped art from Washington state to Washington DC, including Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, California, and Texas.
I exhibited my work in thirteen different shows including a one artist show at the Booth Western Art Museum Borderlands Gallery in Cartersville, Georgia. I was also invited to speak about my art and show it to three different art associations.
I completed fourteen original paintings 18×24 or larger and approx. 35 - 6×8 original oil “postcard” paintings. This was accomplished while still teaching art at Saint Jo Elementary 20 hours per week (except summer) and teaching private small group lessons to an average of 12 students per week.
Two of my images were selected to be reproduced as vinyl wraps for use on the City of North Richland Hills’ traffic signal boxes.
I was “Artisan of the Year” for Art Splash on the Square in Graham.
Lana Sweeten-Shults of the Wichita Falls Times Record News did a full page feature about my art entitled “The Colors of Texas.”
My “Postcards from Texas” original paintings go out weekly to just over 500 “subscribers” all over the country. Nineteen of the thirty or so that I have e-mailed thus far have sold. (See my website for those still available.) Edward Southerland did a story about my “postcards” that appeared as a full color two page article in the fall issue of Texoma Living! magazine based out of Sherman.
My wife, Donna Rose, and I became grandparents for the first time in April to a beautiful baby girl named Lillian Dawn. Nothing else really compares to this!
We are looking forward to a great 2008 and hope your year is filled with God’s richest blessings, as well.
