Tina went to New York and saw "A Catered Affair", for which I did the poster. Well, she also saw "South Pacific" and had a really great time at both while tearing up the town in between plays. She was amazed that my illustration was used in a surprising number of ways. She took these photos and sent them. I did one image and it got chopped up into many different applications, from theater posters,and the playbill, to in store promotional placards at all the Duane Reed pharmacies in Manhattan. Viva Photoshop and a smart Art Director.
As a result, we even watched the Tony awards to see Faith Prince and Tom Wopat get their Tony nominations. Go see the play as it is really good!

These are a few of the paintings, and not all. Chickens and truck sold, grapes (reworked, so when is a painting done? when it sells..) got bunches of attention (bad joke) but remained at the end of the day. I thought the onions would find a home, they didn't, yet...

Here are a couple views of my paintings from the Napa Valley Art Festival, which I was part of yesterday. 40% of the proceeds went to Napa Valley Open Space Fund, which has managed to sequester more acres for open space than there are acres of grapes in Napa County, according to Bob Pallas. That is amazing. Thanks to friends and ex students who came! Morning started off quite chilly under the tents, warming up in the afternoon to a decent point. Crowd was good, and I sold two images. COPIA, the food and wine museum was next door to us and I fear we siphoned away the crowd, despite the lack of food or wine. 40 or so hot shot painters who had all sorts of landscape work up in many different styles. I was lucky and happy to be in their midst.