Spring 2019 100 days

The verdict is in for Spring show. While I have not received all of my Yes's or No's, I do have some news about the shows we are participating in next Spring.

We will leave at the end of December for a short two weekend swing into Florida. I have two shows, one in Estero Florida and the other in Naples, Florida the following weekend. Both are highly rated shows! I am excited to see what both of them bring in the way of new collectors. I am extremely grateful for  a wonderful dog sitter that is willing to stay with the fur babies while we are away too!

Then I take a break, except for painting!

(AND another trip to India for 3 weeks!)

March 9th and 10th ~ Orange Beach Festival of Art, Orange Beach Alabama~Accepted!

March 15th~17th~ Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival, Fairhope Alabama~Accepted!

March 23rd & 24th ~ Gulf Breeze Celebrates the Arts, Gulf Breeze Florida~Tentative

April 6th & 7th Art in the Pass, Pass Christian, Mississippi~Tentative

April 27th& 28th Melbourne Art Festival~ Melbourne, Florida~ Tentative

May 4th &5th Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival, Amelia Island, Florida~Tentative

Thus begins the Spring 100 days. At least it should have begun a couple of days ago!

Today, Friday marks 14 weeks until the Arts and Crafts show here in Fairhope.

98 days................In the meantime, I only have 19 days until we leave for Florida!

So, I hope you're willing to put up with my posts for a while!

Same drill guys, I will be giving away a painting valued at $195.00 at the end of the 100 days.

Every like, comment, and share is a point towards the winning painting.

I am giving bonus points for those that follow the blog, register as a follower and comment!

This painting above is the final of the four created for my Africa series.  A lovely couple here locally have purchased all of them for their living room. One of the owners is Gib Leonard.

Gib Leonard helps run Buy a Brick Foundation which supports and feeds a lot of children the only meal they may get every day.  He is on Facebook and would love for you to check the Foundation out and perhaps donate to feed the kids. Back to this painting, When Gib and Leigh came back this year, they had a photo taken in a restaurant of a painting. I was not quite sure what kind of animal it was, but after some research, I found out they are Painted Dogs. A fascinating animal, they are about 50 pounds and the patterns on their coats is so beautiful! They have red, yellow, brown, white, and black on their mottled coats. No two are the same, each one has it's own distinct coat. They are endangered, with only about 7,000 left in the wild. Their habitats are shrinking, and they are hit by cars frequently on the roads that cross their territory. They live in subpopulations ranging from 2 to 276 mature individuals. They mate for life and have between 2 and 21 pups. They are purely carnivorous. They typically hunt antelope. They cooperate to hunt with everyone getting a portion of the prize, even those left behind because of puppies or sick. They greet each other joyously when they return. Interestingly, they lack dew claws and only have 4 toes per foot. They also don't howl like other dogs.

Beautiful and interesting as well,  their scientific name, Lycaon pictus means Painted Wolf.

This couple also had me paint a Lion of Judah for them, to go with their African animals.

This one measures 24 x 24

Days 1 & 2 of the Spring 100 days 2019

Both paintings are SOLD!