Hello there, how is the progress on the AYSWIS project proceeding...?🖌️🌞☝️

Here is a very nice note that Nancy Sewell got back when she shared a link to our website with the people on her contacts list: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ "Thank you for keeping me in the loop with this dynamic and intriguing project. It definitely is Bondo at his most creative best - and that’s saying a lot! I lov

Hi All, Our AYTWIT website is finally live. We have had 142 visits to the site in the last 36 hours, 22 from Facebook. Please be sure to post the flyer and a link on your social media pages to boost traffic and build interest for the show.

Thank you all for your time & talents brought to Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? - from Karen & La Venta & New York Food Company. We look forward to an amazing event in the fall! Personally - I am sooo excited to see everyone’s works! I know everyone has been creatively challenged & worked so h

I was rushing against a self-imposed timeline, due to upcoming travel and other deadlines. In total, this piece took me about 80-100 hours from start to finish over the last month. That included research, planning, gathering supplies, creating sketches, testing colors and values, underpainting, over

Anthropomorphic cat art story pretty much done. Hopefully I can refrain from fiddling with it while I wait to get it framed and delivered to LaVenta. The actual size is 17x24.

Hi there, just so you know that I can give a hand on image clean up / photo touch up, if there is a need, please don't hesitate just take a picture of your painting as the best as you can, then email it to me, I will be more than happy to help as my sincere support! Dealing with images is one part o

Please try to keep your artist statement under 150 words or it will not fit on the labels. Thanks

Here's a hint as to my finished painting, still wrapped in wax. But the whole thing? Sorry, I'm waiting for the reveal!

Someone asked "how do you know you're done?" After so many starts and stops and questioning myself, I think I am DONE! And for no other reason, than I think it's "enough" fiddling. I'm ready to move on to another painting! Now, to frame it, do my profile, label info etc. It's another challenge

Can someone please answer that eternal question, "How do you know when your painting is done?". I thought I was finished but then I keep finding ways to tweak it.

If only it were as easy as going out to a sushi bar and doing research! This challenge has pushed me to the limits of my patience, and I am definitely growing as an artist. First off, I chose to go extra large, which is a big deal for pastelists, as the sanded paper grinds down those precious little

Hi All, We have had 358 visits in the last 7 days, 56 from Facebook. A link to our site is now on the PV Library website: https://www.pvld.org/artinourlibrary/calendar Please keep sharing! I have had several requests from artists who would like to join our Forum. I would like to hear from our me

Here's my Conté sketch of Pope Francis ascending into a South Bay evening sky, after a rain squall. The painting is 24x18" oil on linen. Don't know yet where this is going, but I'm having fun with all the pleats and folds of his white cassock. The zucchetto is a nice touch... From Beliefnet: "T

I have decided to stop painting and call it done. This has been "an awfully big adventure" for me! Instead of just painting what I see or conjure up in my head (which I do a lot) I researched and thought, and thought, and thought some more and then more for many days and nights about what I was go

Just when I think I am approaching being done - I see a whole new area that needs to be changed or perfected! Thank you to all of our artists for sharing their struggles & processes & sneak peeks! Gives me the inspiration to dig deeper & strive for more. Quite the challenge to fully explore these cr

Don't want to reveal the whole thing. Besides, it's not done. So here's a bite of the Hotel in the Old Apple Tree (hotel not shown).

Get ready for a trip from Hell!

I'm so happy and excited I finished my painting. It was the longest I time I spend creating an art piece, about 55 hours of labor. The rule was to go in a different than our usual, well, I decide to go the opposite direction. If you think about my paintings, the first thing that comes to mind is my

Label and Artist Statement done! The label asks for a price... I wanted to put all reasonable offers considered but there wasn’t enough room!

"I Danced with God but I Stepped on His Shoe" has morphed a bit from dancers on an abstract background, to dancers in the clouds, and now those clouds have developed some lightning, rain and a rainbow...lots going on! I must get to the finishing or this could go on for weeks! I am really having fun.