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Color Trend thoughts from desgners.

Posted in Color, faux painting on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m doing informal interviews with the designer I come across to see what they think about color trends for 2008.   Yesterday I met with one designer and she said that Blues are in, especially when mixed with Chocolate brown. She said earthy colors are still popular and she thinks the bright European colors don’t fly [...]

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Art promotor

Posted in daily life, fine art on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just received a really nice compliment from an art promoter today. I just got back from showing her my artwork and she said that my paintings were better in person and that they actually looked like the photographs. More often than not she finds that the pictures are better than the artwork [...]

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Color Trends and Color of the year

Posted in Color, tagged on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Pantone, the leader in color forecasting, has picked ‘Blue Iris’ as the color of the year for 2008! Blue Iris represents the harmony and play between the colors blue and purple. If you combine the the calm, dependable , business-like aspects of blue with the spiritual and mystical – meditative qualities of the [...]

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Silent Art Auction Donation

Posted in daily life, fine art on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just donated a painting to the Metropolitan Educational Theatre Network. They are coordinating a fundraiser in April and will be performing the Tony Award winning story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn “Big River.” It’s an educational non-profit organization which has been providing [...]

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‘Green’ Antimicrobial Paint

Posted in Products on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just read a great article about ‘Green’ Antimicrobial Paint from Paint Square Magazine
This is the something we should all be paying attention to these days.

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It’s amazing what people request

Posted in daily life on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have this wonderful client who constantly comments on my work jeans, as so many people do, and  that they think they are cool. For me, I’m usually just excited about putting on some cloths that don’t have paint on them once in a while. Anyway, I ended up painting a pair of jeans [...]

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New Painting

Posted in daily life, fine art, tagged , , , on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been working my tail off getting ready for my art show and I’m so happy with one of my latest paintings. It’s called ‘Flowering Butterfly’. I’ve been working so tight lately especially with my video diary’s and their heavy dialog that I found it to be a blast to let loose on this [...]

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Faux painting market

Posted in Products, faux painting, tagged , , , , , on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s interesting the different opinions I found when I was reading the January issue of Paint and Decorating Retailer magazine. It is a great issue and me and my company were included throughout the articles and the question was all around the faux painting market.
One person made the point that the business has [...]

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Preparing for the Sheryl Bordon Show

Posted in Publicity, daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, it’s so exciting to be getting prepared to tape more segments for the Sheryl Bordon Creative Living show. She just had her new set built at their new facility. I only got a tour of the space during construction but I could see where it was going. In the past they had to [...]

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Recognition and exposure in Art Buzz

Posted in Publicity, daily life, fine art, tagged , , on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m so happy to announce that my work has won recognition and exposure in Art Buzz, the premier visual arts showcase publication – Art Buzz, The 2008 Collection. You can get see more information from the website http://www.artbuzz.org/
I don’t know exactly what painting or paintings were picked but I [...]

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