Come and visit me at the MN Arabian Fall Festival this weekend. Oct 1-3, 2009. At the MN State Fair Grounds. I will have my booth inside the horse barn at the south enterance, next to the Barn Office.
I will have my HUGE MUST SEE LIVE painting of Prince & Malia there. 40×60!! And I will be having a drawing for a $250 gift certificate.
I hope to see you there!
Oil on Canvas
9×12
SOLD
Mary Jane Keller from Brookside Resort on Two Inlets Lake with me holding my Plen Air painting of “Burt the Bear.” Burt was named after Mary Jane’s husband (Dave)’s Dad Burt.
Every time I walked past Burt, I thought about how cool it would be to paint. Problem was, the sun rarely ever hit him. He was just about always in the shade from all the trees. So, I started the drawing , then came back about 2:30 that afternoon and laid in the basic color which took about 30 min. Then I sat there and waited and waited and waited, for the sun to move so Burt would be hit by sunlight. Then it was just after 3:15 & I painted like a mad woman locking in all the shadows and keying up all the lights & a flicker of highlights all in 15 min. few……… that was a lot of work!
Stewie
I just had to post this one. My friend Natalie got creative when clipping Stewie. Stewie totally looks like a zebra. I laughed so hard I had to share! I just love this! Natalie – you totally have a gift!
Oil on gessoboard
4×4
$100
Even so I would prefer not to eat a bell pepper. For some reason I have a terrible food allergy to these, oh well. Even so, I found this one looked so cute! I am thinking that I just need to hang out near the garden and pick them to paint, the hand them off for someone else to eat them. Ha ha ha
That is enough for the peppers for now!! I need to paint something I can eat when I am done. 
Oil on gessoboard
4×4
$100
Even so I would prefer not to eat a bell pepper. For some reason I have a terrible food allergy to these, oh well. Even so, I found this one looked so cute! I am thinking that I just need to hang out near the garden and pick them to paint, the hand them off for someone else to eat them. Ha ha ha
Next one is a red bell pepper!
I had been working on a program from Jack Canfeild & Paul Scheele – Effortless Success in there they suggest to hold a “Come as you’ll be party.” I thought that would be fun. So, since I teach the art marketing class The Art of Selling YOUR Art at The Atelier, I already have a bunch of students who have went through my goal setting workshop. I invited a bunch of them to the party telling them that now that they have their 5 year goals, and are working toward them, now come to my party as though it was 5 years from today and bring photos of you accomplishing your goals, places you have seen, awards you have won, and any props that can help tell your story of how you achieved your goals, what it feels like now that you are there, etc…
We all decided to make it a pot luck dinner. So when everyone arrived we all sat a big table, as though we were old friends who got together as a reunion and talked and ate. It was so much fun! I started each topic of discussion. Picking an area of topic such as “Relationships, Success, Personal Growth, Health, and Misc.” I brought a 3 ring binder full of photos of me (photo-shopped) into my goal photos. Such as ones of me in my figure of a size 4, all sculpted. And then I talked about how I achieved this goal. Once I got it started, others joined into the conversation on what health/ fitness/ etc. goals they also achieved and we clapped & cheered at others as they talked about how they did it. We continued on each topic this way until everyone had their turn. Then we went to another area. I also brought trophy’s and ribbons (which I changed the dates and award title – and added my name to it) – they were great visuals.
At the end of the night, everyone was upbeat, motivated that they could really SEE achieving their goals now. People got ideas on HOW to acieve their goal from others. There was higher clarity then before. Even so I have been working on goal setting and achieving for years, I even got excited about putting the photos together and talking about them. I think there was a lot of energy just in the prep work of the event. Then when the event came, even more energy came. After the party, now when I view my 3-ring binder I get even more excited as I have already check some of the items off my list.
If anyone is thinking about hosting a come as you’ll be party – I HIGHLY suggest it!
19×26
Oil on Canvas
$3500
I had stopped over to see my friend Kyle, when I almost ran right into this huge deer mounted on his wall. It was just stunning & I could not stop looking at it. Finally I had to ask if I could come over to paint it. So, when we both had the same evenings off, I would stop over to work on it a few hours here, and a few hours there, all under the very dim light from his kitchen. I wanted to capture that same look I saw that first day I saw it.
I hope you enjoy as much as I do!
9×12
Oil
$950
This is the painting I was doing while I was at the Region X Arabian horse show last month. Freedom is owned by my friend Cassie, and he is the sweetest horse ever!
Ben and Swoop
Me and Ben
Christine Mitzuk and her family and friends
Jesse Wollin
Joe Burns
Jon Burns
Kari Johnson looking cute. 
Kathy Nomura says “Ta Dah! 5 years is easy!”
Trouble
The painting that took 9 months to complete…
Me, Sara and Andrey, Debbie & Kristen
Baby Audrey! Isn’t she just so cute… awww…
Biog Bad Tim and Christine
Tim and d’boys
If anyone has any more photos from the show – I’d love to post them – just email me! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here are a few photos from DAY 2 of the show – there were many more I forgot to take photos of – sorry!
April Hansen & I next to drawing of Richie Rich
Aunt Frankie – Neil & Mom
Lili with John Nutzman and me
Brother Steve Jr and Lili. Here it looks like Lili is saying something like “Psst… Hey buddy, wana buy a watch?”
Malia Weinhagen next to the portrait of her and Price
Malia and Shelby Weinhagen and friends
Aunt Mary & Uncle Doug with Lili
Kathy Vetsch
Melissa Beaudry next to Richie
Sarah and Steve
Leslie, Tony, Hazel and Baby Josephine Stoy
Leslie and Hazel next to the portrait of them from last year.
Hazel & Josie meet Nicoli Petrov
Hazel meets Arwin.
Hazel has left the building.
