A Group Show is hung

Be Careful, Boys!
Margaret Hunt
Jeffery Callaham
$4500

Big things are happening with the Art Guild of Columbia County...news coming shortly...in the meantime we have taken back over the Gallery space in the the Columbia County Library Atrium.

Beaches
Margaret Hunt
$150

With less than 24 hours notice we hung a group show in this very large space. We includes Meredith McPherson, Cyndy Epps , Nancy Cannon, Wayne Parker and myself.


Cyndys' and my art work combined in one of the big cases really set each other off well, I think!
The work in this case includes acrylic on canvas by Cyndy, Mixed Media Collages and plexi paintings by Margaret. Prices range from $150 - 185.

Meredith McPherson's wonderful Calligraphy Artworks - $500
More can be seen at her website Voice of Flying Ink


Hunting Island Lighthouse
Margaret Hunt
$150


A group of watercolors by Margaret Hunt and Nancy Cannon
$150 - 185

Coral Reef
Margaret Hunt

Art After Dark

The Art Guild of Columbia County held its annual Art sale and auction last nite. Always a nice occasion...lots of people show up for the art, entertainment and of course food and wine:>





SOLD!! I am so excited that this watercolor sold...I just took it because I wanted to have four pieces of art in Art After Dark and its the newest watercolor that I have done...and SOMEBODY bought it...woohoo:>


Primping Lady Nolly to hang at Art After Dark ....made little rollers for her ribbons out of scraps of batting..they worked perfectly. I steamed the silk ribbons and then stuffed them with the "rollers" and left them over nite to "set"....You know a girl has to roll her hair I mean her clothes before her debut at Art After Dark:> She is also sold...or should I say on layaway!!:>


Spent most of the week getting "Be Careful Boys" done so it could hang for the first time at Art After Dark.



I should have taken more pictures but its a hard spot to take pictures of before the sun goes down. All the glare from the windows. There were a couple of racks made from lattice that the art quilts and a few of the smaller watercolors hung on.

Some more of the art work. Not sure whose ...there were 42 artists plus local "celebrities" that also did art work. The odd thing about these tv and radio "celebs" they all were either really tall or some where really round...and of course none of them looked like they did on tv...I do think you have to be 6' to be a news anchor on tv anymore!

A general shot of the left of the church...it was at The Church of the Holy Comforter which was consecrated about four years ago.


The left side going out the door...Wayne was setting up his wonderful jewelry...and of course I was too tired by then to think of taking pics of it!! It sells quite well..semiprecious stones set in gold wire. The tent in the back corner is the silent auction which goes to a student art scholarship.

Hard to see but Meredith McPherson's wonderful Chinese brushwork pictures...or is it calligraphy on wonderful handmade papers?? Anyway her work is wonderful not that you can see it in the glare from the windows in this picture. Check out her website and be sure to mark you calendars for Art After Dark next November! See YOU THERE!

Judy and the Alpacas

Judy and one of her babies. Judy and her husband Mike hosted the Art Guild of Columbia County Tuesday nite. We all want an alpaca now...shoot i cant keep up with a dog let alone an alpaca but I could spin and knit their fleece couldnt i?

Judy sells the fleece from her alpacas and also felts and knits all kinds of things.


some of Judy's felting...she uses hot water, dawn and bubble wrap to squish the fiber together on ...

the newly shorn fleece

carding the fleece

Carded fleece

Spinning yarn...

Felting on silk

What to make from all that lovely alpaca yarn...natural yarn color and some is koolaid dyed...

I need one of these gizmos for hats...

One of the alpacas...they all have neat names like Gizmo and Nitro...but i cant remember which one of my kids is which on a good day...so no i dont remember which alpaca is which...

Rapt attention for their share of the feeding....

Emily feeding the alpacas...

Hey Dad wheres ours?

Finally Dad...I get some!

Judy's husband feeding the alpacas.

Sue is in LOVE with the alpacas...wonder if her kitties would like them:>

Emily feeding the alpacas

My Roadrunner Saturday

The amphitheater was surrounded by chalk drawings and vendors...did i take a pic of either...no...

So the last two days have been roadrunner days...Friday was field day...as in 18 first graders with no other adult help to speak of all day....doing all kinds of fun activities and running around like crazy....

Sat was the biannual quilt guild meeting with speaker and a luncheon over in North Augusta at St. Barts...

then back over here to The Columbia County Arts in the Park day...needless to say I was asleep on the sofa by ten....moving right along to the bed:> There was a chalk art contest...and no not a name was posted with their work anywhere...at$10 a spot it was cheap...and the chalks were gorgeous big yummy colors...but i dont have the names of the artists...i didnt crop the pics either...sorry about that...i am sure its all gone now...

hazards of sidewalk drawing...i have never seen more people coated with chalk dust....and it was all i could do not to run over and tell a couple of ladies drawing DONT blow the chalk dust...it went everywhere and am sure they inhaled a good lot of it

quilt pictures? only a few...most of them have the fabulous art bras of quilters of south carolina...they can be seen on thier site and will be auctioned off for Breast cancer on Ebay sooner or later...
I dont know if this one ever got done...there were groups for elementary schools, middle schools and high schools...and then the individual ones some of which follow....

lovely colors

the left side of Greenbriar elementary's chalk drawing...My friend margaret teaches art there and pitched in like the trooper she is to help them with this...did i say it was a HOT day...
the right side...i meant to stitch these BUT the pictures are at such a bad angle...

My favorite...second place winner....somewhere i have a signed one by him...done by BrendanTHZ...possible graffiti artist?!

first place winner-interesting melange of ideas and van gogh's starry night

A friend of mine's student at Greenbriar Elementar...lovely job on the sky....

the chalks....had a lovely velvety black background...they really worked hard on this one! am glad they did NOT blow all that chalk dust all around the lizard...

Painting on the rivah

A great crowd!

Yesterday the Art Guild of Columbia County came over to my house to paint...draw photo sketch whatever...here are some pics

Enjoying the 70 degree day...watch out for those ants!

Casey, Margaret W, a lady from Texas and Nancy C is hiding behind them all!

Jazz thinks everyone came to see her! Posing for photo ops!

Staci using fabric and paint to make a whip up a storm of painting...

more of this tomorrowWhoever knew there was a boat dock under my fav sycamores?? I take their pics all the time from the back deck but from the edge of the river ...a whole new perspective...

Sharon and Jack hold up under the sycamores painting the opposite trees...

Sharon painting the other sycamores