Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair Oct 8-25

In less than a month the Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair will start, this is the best art and craft show to do your Christmas shopping. Find link to this show below in my link section.

I will be releasing my 1st  Christmas print of Gatlinburg and Christmas cards (same image). This print is from one of my scratchboard art, painted with a Wacom tablet and photoshop program. I will also have new black and white prints some are framed in great black frames, 8 x 10 matted prints( Giclee ) for $15.00. A real bargain for the Christmas shoppers.

Come early and stay late Hours M-S 10-7  Sunday 10-5

New scratchboard print and cards

"Miss Annie Too"

Available as 5 X 7 matted print

and as Greeting card

Christmas Print Finished

Wheeee! this is load off my mind, I have been doing this painting in my mind since last year, Christmas print. I will post image later probably the 1st part of October, just before the show Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair, Oct 9-25. I am very pleased with the final image. I have also printed 5 x 7 Christmas cards. Forgive me for not posting the image now, but I have had some people steal my ideas, I would like have this one for a surprise for my collectors. It will be worth the wait.

Another Christmas Moo (Scratchboard Art)

The 1st image is "A Christmas Moo" both of these giclee prints are available as 5 x 7's matted in black, matted size is 8 x 10, sold matted or matted and framed.

matted size 8 x 10 cost

$15.00 each

framed size 8 x 10 cost $40.00 each, plus shipping. Black frame.

Christmas cards are also available from both images $4.50 each

I will have these these pretty Moo's in Gatlinburg at the Oct 8-25, Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair. Perfect gift for the Holstein cow lover on your Christmas list.

I finally got back to doing some scratchboard art

After about 25 years I decided to do some scratchboad, it has been a long time, it came back fast, thank goodness! I finished a cow face for Christmas cards and 5 x 7 prints. I am quite pleased. This is the year I will do a Christmas print from scratchboard. That should keep me busy for a while. I guess as artists we do need a change of pace to keep us fresh.

They are calling for rain for the next 3 days here in East Tennessee, good time to work. Just wish I did not have to the grocery store thingie...and cook.

Working on matting and framing 8 x 10's

I have spent the last 2 days printing and cutting mats for my New 8 x 10 series. These will be available framed or just matted at the Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair Oct 8-25. I will have new cat prints, foxes, bobcat, waterbirds, bears, horses, landscapes and maybe a cow and chickens. Photos will be posted later closer to show time.
I don't know about the rest of the world but Tennessee is hot and if we have as much snow as we have had rain, look out for the winter, I love snow good excuse for big old pot of soup and a lot of painting.. Keep cool.

Tomorrow my day in Gatlinburg and the mountains

Tomorrow is a kind of working, fun day at Gatlinburg and the mountains, I will taking some reference photos for a Christmas print I will be releasing at the October show. I will also have Christmas cards of this image. It is one of those paintings that gets stuck in my mind, I know just about what I want to paint but need it to be authentic, so I need the photo shoot. We need a day out anyway. Nice lunch out. Feed our souls on mountain air.

We had to go out for a while today it has been 94 at times here in east Tennessee today, That's damn hot! Boy, bring on some cool weather. Soon.

New Cat Prints

Silver is the first image and Tux is the black and white tuxedo kitty. These will be available

as Giclee 5 x 7 prints. More kitty's will make their way to my feline collection. Own one or more of these precious feline's, they mat and frame 8 x 10 size. $15.oo each with a white mat. $6.00 to ship USPS.

2nd picture of booth

My New Greeting card display, worked really well.

Booth Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair

NEW Tote Bag (Wanna Make My Day?) White sells for $22.00

Booth at Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair.

Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair Set-up

Thank goodness with the help of our great neighbor Becky we got there early and the unloading was really great with the help of great porters at the show. Our new booth is really close to the tunnel and was a breeze to unload all the booth stuff there quickly, so B could take the truck and trailer to the parking lot. We are almost finished with set-up, last minute things to do on Friday morning, which means about 2 hours. When you do a Gatlinburg show you go to work early (especially if you drive back and forth from home every day) Tourists town!

I will take a photo of my booth and try to get it posted this week. I had ordered new card racks one is horizontal and the other vertical, they hang on my Pro-panels easily. I will still use the table spinner for my boxed cards.

This is our 1st show since last November, so B and I have some sore muscles and joints. We found out 2 weeks ago B has a hernia, so goes old age. I am trying to make him take care but you gals know how men are....no more said. Wish us luck and blessings with the show.

Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair July

Finally the trailer is unpacked and repacked, we are ready to go, of course clothes have to be washed and ready for 10 days. At least we are home every night to sleep in our very own bed..Yipeee!
NEW for this show will be Greeting Cards, Tote Bags (white) with "Wanna Make My Day " image on them, hand-painted porcelain jewelry, 5 acrylic canvas paintings gallery-wrapped. We have a new booth number this year 206 w. Looking forward to a nice show and seeing old friends again.

REMEMBER July 17-26 at the convention center downtown Gatlinburg TN. Hours 10-7 each day and Sundays 10-5.

Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair

Be sure to mark your calender's for July 17 -26 and spend a day at the Craftsmen's Fair in beautiful Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Held at the convention center. Great shopping with artists and craftspeople, unique and very unusual fine art and crafts. I will have lots of New originals and New greeting cards. These cards make wonderful matted and framed art (8 x 10 sizes. )

Great gifts, images are either from my acrylics or watercolors or my photos I have re-vamped using Photoshop or my Wacom tablet. I just love the different look you can create with these using these tools.

new card images

Wanna Make My Day? card

Let sleeping bears lay card

High in the smokies card. Don't forget I will be at the Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair July 17 - July 26 at the Convention Center. You may purchased any of my art work at my booth during these 10 days. Don't miss this great show.

Beautiful Trees Card/Print

New 5 x 7 card blank inside. Also available as a black and white print.

Another photo I have reworked in Photoshop, such fun.

Cabin in the Cove

New card from one of my photo's I do love working with Photoshop, really gets my creative juices going and yes I know that Mother Nature does it best, I just like doing it different.

eating from the garden

As most of you know East Tn., was hammered with storms the last couple of days. Today it missed our section, Thank You God. We ended up at dark yesterday with a small lake in the front yard, our corn blown over and both ends of the garden flooded. Well today I went to pick our first mess of beans, discovered our potatoes were uncovered by the hard rain. The corn is still down, hopefully tomorrow we will get it back up. On the brighter side we had a great mess of green beans, new red potatoes, cucumbers and onions, the only thing that did not come out of our garden was tomatoes we had. Lots of beans yet to eat.

I am hoping the very bad storms are over for a while for everyone. Some people have had some bad damage in our area, down trees, lightning and high wind.

Tomorrow we will try to get the yard mowed.

Dirty Paws photo

Our feral cat "Dirty Paws"

I think he is about one year old, he is even tamer

today than yesterday.

Great day to be alive

This a beautiful day in East Tennessee, since most of our Saturdays have been on the wet side. This is really nice, worked in the garden, B mowed the yard. Last evening we had a mess of new red pototoes out of the garden.

We have feral cat (He's yellow tiger striped) who comes to eat every morning and evening and if we are on the porch he comes to visit. Most nights he sleeps in one of the chairs. We have named him Dirty Paws, our white porch has become polka-dotted with kitty prints since last winter. Last summer we had a momma cat that had 4 kittens under one of the yard barns, our neighbor's dog chased a yellow kitten up one of our trees and of course crazy woman that I am. I chased the dog off with a few chosen words and a big stick. Much to our neighbor dismay. He's getting tamer by the day, maybe one of these days he will let me pet him. He has been a good chaser of rabbits and squirrels, out of the garden so you could say he is earning his food. Now if he could just take care of the bugs.. I will try to get a picture of him to post soon.