Still going strong and on Facebook

Hello all, I know it's been awhile. Sorry for not being more regular here, I've been very busy. For the past year and a half I've been in Destin, Fl at Sawyer Art on HarborWalk Village. This is Sawyer Art kiosk on the cover of Destin Magazine and I'm there in the grass painting. Anyways, I've been working and displaying there all this time as well as doing juried shows along the Panhandle. I'm still painting en-plein air and doing commissions. I have to say, this has been the best year I've ever had. But it took a lot of work, full time work. I'm making a New Year's resolution of posting here more regularly this coming year. There's a lot going on and new things coming up next year that I'll post in the folling entry. For now, Happy Holidays all!!

The Painter's Keys

Happy Holidays to everyone!! Man, another year gone by, and I was just getting use to this year. I'm wishing the following year to be the best ever for all. All the shows for the year are over and the new year's schedule is upon us. With a new show at ADSO themed "Play that Funky Music" http://www.artsdesignsociety.com/ I'm ready with something that is yet again not my normal style of work.

The Via Colori 2007 Street Painting Festival was awesome!

I managed to produce two 24" x 36" gallery wrapped canvases plein-air that generated $1400.00 in the silent auction for their charity event. I was totally stoked watching

the bidding wars take shape. I posted the two images above.

I've posted a link in the header of this blog for The Painter's Keys http://painterskeys.com . This is a great website for artists. I recommend signing up for their twice weekly newsletter if you haven't already. Robert Genn is a great artist, awesome writer and a pioneer both in the world and online. Thanks Robert for all the support and information you share with us all.

This year I have finally decided, after nearly 40 years of creating, to learn alittle about Art History by reading about some of the Masters. I started out reading about Claude Monet, then Van Gogh and now Picasso. One thing that I'm learning is that I can relate to these guys. I feel their passions and understand their drive to create. I could have hung out with these artists like I do today with my group of fellow artist friends. I can't imagine reading about them without having the experience of being an artist first. The praises, the rejections, the trying times and the satisfaction of releasing the image in your mind, or in your vision onto canvas. There is no feeling like it. I know what they talking about, I understand. Here is a link to a website that I was made aware of recently that everyone needs to watch and listen to, this is awesome:

http://www.don-mclean.com/articles/vincent.asp click on the slideshow with Don Mclean soundtrack. There are several versions on the internet, well worth checking out.

The third image "Monet" is the start of a series of paintings I'm doing in watercolor on canvas of those Masters that I read about. The style is Cubist of the artist and of some of their work set in the background. I'm excited about this series and hope to be doing a show of them later next year.

I want to thank everyone for an awesome year and for being who you are. The journey wouldn't be the same without you all in it.

Brad

The Fall Season of Shows

Many shows this Fall season has left me falling behind in my posts. I'm currently in two shows both put on by (ADSO) The Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach.
http://www.artsdesignsociety.com/ The En-Plein Air show at the gallery
Oct. 26- Nov 10th and the 24th Northwest Florida Fair Fine Art Show Nov. 2-10. I recieved a third place award for the Plein Air scratchboard posted here. I also recieved a 2nd place award for the other image above at the Fair show. So get out and see these shows before they are over.

This Sat. & Sun. Nov. 10th and 11th from 10am-4pm I'll be at Seaside, Florida for thier 11th Annual Italian Street Painting Festival "Via Colori" http://www.sowal.com/photos-100205.html It is going to be Awesome!! I had to be a part of this charitable event.

As some of you might know, I am the Luncheon Committee Chairperson for (ADSO) which means I set up the monthly Luncheons and line up the guest speakers, etc... Over the past couple years I've brought in many wonderful artists and art related businesses to the group. This month I will be bringing in Paul Lombardo of DoveTails Art & Frame http://www.dovetailsartandframe.com/ of Navarre. Paul and his wife Tina have been promoting a featured artist a month in their gallery along with live music and wine tasting. Bringing Art Culture to this small Emerald Coast Community. They have a new show hung now and the reception will be this Friday evening Nov 9th from 6-8pm. So if you are in the area come on by. The Luncheon this month will be in the evening at the (ADSO) Gallery as a pot luck dinner. I'll post times and dates later but it's looking like it will be on the Friday Nov 30th @5pm~.

The 2007 Navarre Beach Fall Festival of the Arts turned out great!! It's estimated that we had 12,000-15,000 patrons pass through the festival that weekend. We also had an art competition called "Paint Santa Rosa" in which we went out to 3 locations and painted previous to the festival and then entered our work for awards. The show is now hanging in the Dragonfly Gallery in Milton, Florida until the 10th of Nov. One of the locations was at the Santa Rosa Zoo.
http://www.thezoonorthwestflorida.org/ That was an experience I would like to try again. I didn't realize just how many species they have on display there, unbelievable!! Check out thier site.

Well as you all know I can talk about art and art related stuff forever, so I'll stop for now. Coming up I'll talk about some educational reading I've been doing to increase my art history. I'm finally getting started after about 40 years of painting LOL.

Thanks for all your support for the Arts.
Brad

Still Going Strong

Hello All!!

I wanted to send out this post to let everyone know that I'm still here and still going strong!

I've had the worst luck with computers this year it seems. With hard drives crashing and power supplies going bad and oh yeah...the processor stopped working. I was able to save my files but I've yet to get a system up and running to download all my website files to. So my site hasn't been updated since March of this year. I will be working on that soon.

I've been busy doing the themed juried shows, festivals and plein-air painting. I have several shows coming up in Oct. that I'll post information about soon. I've also found some great locations to promote and sell your work. One being Geronimo's Outpost on Pensacola Beach, a marketplace for Gulf Coast merchants & artists. They feature an artist demonstration every Sunday afternoon from 4-7pm. I'll be demonstrating this Sunday the 30thof Sept. during their Grand Opening. So come on by if you are in the area. Also I've found a great gift idea for artists. And that is using their artwork image on wine labels. "Something Vino" http://www.somethingvino.com/ is the winery that can do just that...use your images as the wine labels!!! This is an awesome way to promote your work while sharing a fine wine with your friends. So definately check this out!

I will have more info in the near future about up and coming shows. Thanks for your support. Brad

Meet The Artist

Hello fellow patrons, Welcome to the New Year!

Starting off with the most recent shows first. This Friday afternoon the 26th, I, along with stain-glass artist Wanda Veal http://www.docksideglass.com will be displaying at the Art Shack in Navarre, Fl. Details are on the link in the header. These two images are examples of the style of work I will be displaying. These are plein-air (painting outdoors) paintings where I've been using a looser style of pallet knife, rags and a water spray bottle. So if you are in the area come check us out! Also I would like to announce that you can now take classes at the Art Shack, so look at the class schedule on their website.

The Arts & Design Society (ADSO) http://www.artsdesignsociety.com/ Has several shows coming up and on going now with the show "Color Effects" in their Gallery. Go to their website for the show listings to enter or when to come out to show your support and see the shows. I'm busy working on pieces for these up & coming shows.

Over the past weekend I attended 3 Gallery Receptions, the Artel Gallery http://www.artelgallery.org : a Themed juried show about Illumination, I was showing support as my pieces didn't make it into the show. It is a great show!

The Barbella's Studio & Gallery http://www.barbellasgallery.com , with featured artist Valerie Aune http://www.valerieaune.com/ displaying in the Main room and Hall. Awesome Pensacola artist!! I had to to have one of her prints so I purchased one.

and a Grand-opening of the newest gallery "Gallery 331" (contact info is on my Dealers page of my website at: http://artbybradgreek.com/Dealers.html ). This Gallery has a collection of some of the top artists of the area, a wonderful selection. The Grand-opening was packed with artists and supporters. Several pieces sold and everyone had a great time! Gallery owner, Paulette Morrison, really knows how to put on a show! Also she featured her son Brandon Morrison, an Atlanta artist and musician. You can view his work both from his band "Moresight" http://www.Moresight.net/ with a link to his Myspace site under "IBlet" A sample of his work is on their CD cover. I spent alot of time sharing thoughts with him about the business. His music is also great!

As you can tell, things are going strong and I'm in the midst of it. I appreciate all of your support, Thank You. Brad

Sale-A-Bration

Hello and Happy Holidays!

To start off with I would like to invite you to the (ADSO'S) Arts & Design Society's http://www.artsdesignsociety.com Christmas Party and Art Auction at their Gallery on Sunday Dec. 3rd. 1pm-4pm, There is also alot of great art works there for sale, Great for gifts!!

I'm currently showing at the Bonifay Art Guild http://www.bonifayguildforthearts.com in Bonifay,Florida. Five of us Plein-air Painters are showing there until Dec. 8th. We had a reception on the 21st of Nov. and had a Paint-out while there. It was a great day for painting Bonifay!

Yesterday I entered a painting into the Pensacola JazzFest 2007 poster competition and another painting into the Arts Council of Northwest Florida http://www.artsnwfl.org poster competition. So we will see how that goes, the competition is always very tough with all the great artists here entering.

Announcement: The Collector's Art Club that I mentioned in my last entry has had to regretably shut down. They had published a 500 limited edition Lithograph of my image "Idle Time" http://artbybradgreek.com/NewReleases.html for the Collector's Club.
The project just didn't draw enough attention to continue, so the owner of the Club had to make this tough decision. They were gracious enough to let me continue with my edition since it had already started. So I still have the prints on hand to offer. Sorry for the confussion if there was any.

On Nov. 17th in Pensacola was Gallery Night. As a participating patron and showing in one of Pensacola's fine art galleries, Barbella's. I was asked to set up and do a demonstration during the event. With dark coming on earlier in the evening, I knew I would be pushing the envelope with a night time plein-air painting. I arrived early to capture the first image at sunset. By the time I started the second painting it was totally dark. I had very little light coming from a near by porch light, but most of my work and pallet was in total darkness. With my pallet knife and who knows how much paint, I started pileing it on. Not able to judge the colors I was mixing or how thick I was applying the paint. I posted the images above so that you can see the results. I may have to try this again LOL.

On Dec. 8th there will be another reception at Barbella's http://www.barbellasgallery.com . I will be in attendance for support and to meet patrons and fellow artists. Who knows, I might even slap alittle paint on a canvas.

There are several shows coming up soon and alot more that has just passed. I've been very busy trying to stay involved in everything, supporting causes and other artists, painting and managing the properties I take care of.

Thanks for all of your support and again...Happy Holidays!!!

Brad

Greater Navarre Beach Arts Association Art Festival

I know it's been awhile, computers crashing, family members across country having medical problems and a ton of other things going on all summer. Hopefully all that is over and I can get back on track with keeping my site updated and this blog going on regular entries.

First I would like to introduce you to a new Art organization that just started up in Navarre, Fl.
The Greater Navarre Beach Arts Association (GNBAA). http://www.gnbaa.org/
We are sponcering our first Arts & Craft Festival on Navarre Beach from Oct 13-15th, 2006. Visit the website for more details about the Festival and the Organization. It is also part of the Santa Rosa County's Beaches to Woodland Tour
http://www.beaches-rivers.com/ . I will be on location with a booth, set up to paint the festivities. Hope to see you out there.

I've been painting and showing on a regular schedule all year long, that hasn't slowed down any. I'm currently showing at the Arts & Design Society (ADSO) in Ft. WaltonBeach , Florida http://www.artsdesignsociety.com/ , Barbella's Studio Gallery in Pensacola, Fl. http://www.barbellasgallery.com/ , the Dragonfly Gallery in Milton, Fl., Art & Frame in Navarre, Fl. and the Fostoria Art & Frame Gallery http://www.dressyourart.com/HomePage.html in Fostoria, Ohio, (My home town). I have scheduled to do a Solo Show in the spring at The Fostoria Art & Frame. Jo Faeth, owner of the gallery has a great knowledge of the art business. I'm excited to work with her and to show my work in my home town.

I've been working on some new styles of plein-air paintings (painting on location, outside). Using the palette knife mostly and rags to blot in colors, shapes and backgrounds. I will be doing a short class for the " You Gotta Have Art" program, on Nov. 4th at the ADSO workshop from 9-12 and 1-4. So if you are in the area, sign up for that, it should be fun!

I also had an image published through the Collector's Art Club based in Ft. Walton Beach, Fl.
http://www.collectorsartclub.com/page/page/3280641.htm So check this out, it has a pretty cool concept.

Alot of shows still to come this year, so I'll keep you posted on those in the next entry. Thanx again for your patience and support.

Brad