Hoosier daddy?

What a beautiful day it was, the air, finally, was cooler and less humid, it made for a perfect walk around Melbourne's Fall Fest. There are some talented people making and selling cool stuff, and it was a joy to walk with my best man and see all the arts. The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. Ananda Coomaraswamy 


We had to stop by the SLOW gallery, on Municipal, and see if any of my jewelry has sold. It hasn't, but it was fun to chat with Chris Maslow, and look at Frits Van Eeden's work displayed there. When I initially took my hand painted jewelry in there, I was a little nervous, ask Katren, she'll tell you, because it's always a risk to be rejected, and told "Sorry." And, I felt like I talked too loud, I hardly even looked around, I was so relieved he accepted my work, that I practically ran out of there! So today was a do-over, and it was a pleasant one at that.


We walked up one side of the street and then down the other. When we were heading back, we noticed a window with art inside that looked very similar to what we had seen in the SLOW gallery. Lo and behold, it was Frits's studio! I'd never met him before, but it didn't take long to realize the guy with a paint brush in his hand was the Artist. What a pleasant fellow, we chatted a bit about his work and I left his gallery with a smile on my face. I just visited his website while writing this blog and found he is an Internationally known artist! See some of his vibrantly painted work at fritsvaneeden.com


I started writing my blog this morning about how cool it is to see art on the internet. Since I'm always in Blogger, I usually start with my friend, Carmen's blog, she is part of the Daily painters group, and paints beautiful little pieces. CarmenBeecher.blogspot.com and from her favorites I then go to Karin Jurick's blog, Karin has been painting 100 faces from mug shots. She calls it BUST-ED, and even though they are small paintings, they really capture the core of the person. See these at KarinJurick.blogspot.com


Just the other day I watched David Kassan doing a live finger-painting demo with an Apple ipad. That was really impressive, and also time saving because they were able to reduce a 3 hour painting session to about 7 minutes. I loved watching that video as I didn't even know there was such a thing, an ipad, get out! Talk about saving money on paints and art supplies. If you'd like to see it you can go to intherealartworld.blogspot.com 

So blogging and gadding about in the blogosphere is indeed enlightening and free, I told my mom the other day, "Ma, I've been blogging almost every day." and she says, "What kind of shoes do you wear for that?" but I daresay that it can't take the place of standing in front of a real work of art. 


On the walk back to our car, my man says to me, "Knock knock". Of course I had to answer, "Who's there."  He says, "Hoosier."  "Hoosier who?"  "Hoosier daddy!"