Painting Friends

Don Parks & Taylor Collins are out here on the Green painting with me on the front stoop of the Century Club.

Rain, RAIN - GO AWAY!

Taylor and I were NOT deterred by the rain, we went out and found a spot on the Green that was dry enough to shelter us from the slight southerly breeze, that was the Century Club. From there, we had a great view across the western Green of Nos. 10 & 8. The day was dreadfully dark and dank, watercolors could not dry to do any glazing, so, only one layer across my 8x10 officially stamped canvas for the Old Dover Days Plein Air competition. I am just now looking at this canvas, 3-1/2 hours later and it is still too damp to work on.

We'll start tomorrow morning EARLY. The sad thing is, that I have every intention of getting a good portrait of the Old Superior Court going, too. I have the sketch done, just need to transfer it to the canvas and start painting. That's really the one I want to enter. It is going to be BOLD. This one of the Nos. 10 & 8 will just be in my The Green collection for next year's show.

I look so beautiful in Kelly's cap, too, 100 Years of Fenway, it was my Christmas present to him. He'd say I was cute.



Here's Taylor painting!

Good Morning! Let's go paint on the GREEN!

The painting contest starts today!



The Contest:
·        Your canvases must be stamped prior to painting in this event. 
·        You may bring your canvases to the Kent County Tourism office located at 435 N. DuPont Hwy in Dover to be stamped.  Our office hours are Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 4:30 p.m.  Also, I will be on The Green in downtown Dover on Saturday, April 27 from 9 am – 11 am (weather permitting) and can also stamp your canvases at that time.
·        Our registration form states two (2) canvases are to be stamped for this event.  If you would like to have more than two (2) canvases stamped, you may do so.  However, only one (1) completed and framed art work (on a stamped canvas) may be submitted for judging and exhibit at the Biggs Museum of American Art.
·        Bring your completed framed art work to the Biggs Museum of American Art (located at 406 Federal Street, Dover) on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 between the hours of 4 – 7 pm.
·        Attached is a form from the Biggs Museum.  The Biggs Museum staff has asked artists to complete this form and bring it with their completed and framed art work in order to expedite the check in process on May 1, 2013.
·        We (Kent County Tourism) will also host an informal “Meet & Greet” reception for the artists from  6 p.m. – 7 p.m. on May 1, 2013.  You may drop off your completed work earlier in the day and then return for the “Meet & Greet” or you may attend the “Meet & Greet” and drop off your artwork at the same time.
·        At the “Meet & Greet”, we will have American Historical Theatre re-enactor Gilbert Stuart in attendance to meet the artists.  Gilbert Stuart was a colonial portrait painter most famous for his Lansdowne portrait of George Washington.
·        A public performance of “A Visit with Gilbert Stuart” will follow from 7 – 8 p.m. if you want to attend
·        On Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6 – 8 p.m. is the public opening reception for the exhibit.   Prizes will be awarded at this time.  The exhibit is on display through Sunday, May 5, 2013.

This is a NEW BLOG

There's not too many entries here, yet, but the other pages here on my Jancolors website have a few years going back. Please browse those, I do specialize, you see.

I've had quite a fun day today, overcoming some web design hurdles. It is quite geeky and I won't bore you with it, but basically, because I was having a hard time blogging from mobile devices, the updates & posts just weren't happening regularly. I don't seem to have the luxury of sitting at my desk in the studio as much as I used to do. Yet, I still have lots of things to say and show you.

Also, there was this SEO thing, you know, search engines LOVE BLOGS. But my crazy way to work around it wasn't doing anything for this website. Today that got fixed.

I really thought I'd have to dump Rapidweaver for WordPress, but I think I'll keep this site on Rapidweaver because I found a helper plugin that gives me what I need! Loghound has a plugin called Rapidblog for Rapidweaver and I am very pleased.

There, that was only a moderately geeky explanation!

I still plan to set up some new WordPress sites, it really is the best. You just have to stay on top of the updates!

Now- testing from mobile!

Okay!

Old Dover Postcard

Here's another test post, this time from the web.

Testing with the first one!

Today, I found the plugin RAPIDBLOG and I'm giving it a whirl. How does this look?



This was a motif I sketched for notepads last fall.