February 1st: Fall In Love With Your Bike

One of the pieces from Affordable Art Thursday "Where It Comes From"

Today is a new month, we all survived 31 days of the New Year and now it's time to flip the page and do it all over again. I did a lot of painting this month which is normal since it's my JOB now. Yesterday I completed my first Affordable Art Thursday mission and offered up 2 paintings for $75 each. They were painted carefully and nicely just as I would paint on my larger works and in reality these should be priced at about $125 for materials and hours that went in it but I wanted to keep the price under $100 at least for these initial ones. The piece up above is still available and this one sold pretty quickly

"Some Grow Up, Some Grow Down" collected by Jessica Wells

I will put all the availables in an online photo album and any would be collectors can purchase at will. Some will be different sizes and price points, all will be high quality paintings in my style. Just a reminder this project helps fund my big summer art show by allowing me to buy materials and TIME to work on the bigger works. It's like Kickstarter but when you donate you walk away with a piece of art along with knowing you're funding a big dream by your support.

Today is installation day at the Texas Theater, I've been hustling over these vinyl records and finally have a little stack ready to hang for the glam themed art show and screening tomorrow night of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. DJ Woodtronic and I will be djing after a fab drag show and it's costume time so let's play dress up! I'll be riding my bike TUCO over to install records this afternoon and I can't wait because I miss my bike something awful. Heres a record that I finished yesterday that sold within seconds of posting

Some of the records have fun glitter added!

I've just about completed all my projects on records, a commission left for a friend and then it's on to canvases!

Be sure to check the TIGERBEE ARTS page on Facebook so you don't miss collecting a piece you might want at an amazing price! Hope to see some of you Saturday night at the show!

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