We're over half way there!

Another backer has pledged $100 privately, so we now have $310 in total!

Here's a sketch of one of the buildings that I will be painting. Holly House used to be at the north west corner of Highways 86 and 22. Now we have the biggest Arco in the country at that location!

BIG NEWS. We have our first $100 backer. We are now officially 33% funded. Woo Hoo!

We're making some progress. Imari and John have painted a couple coats of white paint on the front of the building in preparation for the revamp. I've had $40 pledged on kickstarter, but also $60 pledged personally, which we may put on kickstarter towards the end if it the funding is going to go through. Plus one other person is apparantly going to pledge $25, so that's a total of $125 - so we're 25% of the way there!

The mural is 12.5% funded!

Mural funding update: It doesn't look like it yet, but we're actually 12.5% funded. An few people have said they's like to contribute, but don't want to put their details on Amazon. We've worked out a way that we can accommodate this. If you'd like to contribute by check, let me know by email, and send me a check (I won't cash it unless the project is going to work.) If we are going to achieve the funds, a day or so before the deadline, Imari will fund the total of the checks herself, then I'll reimburse her.

So, using this option, we've got $75 pledged so far - not bad for a couple days. At this rate, it might just work!

New Project - a Mural

OK, I did it, I got the go-ahead from the West Shores Chamber of Commerce to paint a mural, and have set up a project on kickstarter to get funding for the paint.

Read all about it there!!! And tell all your friends! This is a community project and I am not getting anything from it except my name on the wall. So could you....

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/712301646/west-shores-chamber-of-commerce-historical-mural

County Fair

Over the weekend we were blessed with a lack of rain at the show in Palm Springs. Southern Riverside county and Imperial county, however, got drenched. This morning I went to Imperial Expo to pick up four paintings I had entered at the County Fair. All had won ribbons - two seconds and two thirds, which generated a small check between them also. The luckiest part of all though, was *not* getting stuck in the mud in the parking lot.

Here's one of my winners, with all the ribbons! And yes, that's a reflection of me in the glass ;-)

Just a couple little ones....

Sunset - four seagulls on the left, and Manhattan Beach Sunset on the right. They're both 12"x4" acrylic on wraparound canvas.

Here we go!

Hey, finally getting time to do all that online marketting I never have time for.

The phone is still out, but some friends (angels) are letting me use their wireless connection.

Of course this gives more time for painting.

Here's the latest baby that I can show you. I'm also working on some pieces for 6x6x2010 for Rochester Contemporary Gallery. These I can't show you as they go on sale anonymously.

I'm thinking I will start working on a oil painting later today.

Friday I take down my solo show in Whittier Gallery:

OK, well, I guess I have a lot to learn about blogger, as in how to get an image to be inserted where I want it instead of at the top.