Patience Grasshopper

Yesterdays snapshot in the studio...liner work

I'm working on a tight deadline trying to finish a new painting for the upcoming art show this Saturday. What upcoming art show? CRISSCROSSING CORRIDORS at GALLERY AT MIDTOWN. Check this event invite on Facebook and you'll see a whole slew of stuff going on at this new art venue as well as a list of the artists who will be showing such as:

7-10pm Art Exhibition featuring all new works from Dallas artists:

Carmen Menza, Suzy Moritz, Cori Berg, Becky Deed, Bob Poe, Cindy Gray, Kevin Obregon, Beth Gandy, Trent Mann, Anthony Atkins, Judith Seay, Linda Bourgault, Emil Cerullo, Liz London, Hal Samples, Deanna Wilson, JD Evans, Patricia Rodriguez, K.D. Hafley, Douglas Winters, Jill Nonnenmacher Stephen Hackley, Alan Smith, Lisa Cardenas, Greg Hale, Linda Chidsey, Melissa Ellis, Frank Sowells Jr, JMR, Renee Vandevere, Bereniche Aguiar, James Zamora, Kiki Curry, Nan Phillips, Artist DIY, Steve Lawrence, Lorand Fekete, Frankie Garcia III, Steven Hamilton, Andrea Davis, Hatziel Flores, Abel Garcia, John Sparks, Christian Millet, Maureen Womack and Ken Womack

This will be a brand spanking new canvas that's never been shown before so if you want to check it out come out on Saturday! This is what is consuming my week. I really need to go to the gym but the studio might win this war today. I have more commissions trickling in and a general feeling of being needed as an artist so needless to say all is well and busy in my beehive. Happy hump day everyone!

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