Dragon Light at MoonRise Gallery

 


Last Saturday, June 1st, Melinda and I took a journey to Elkhorn, NE. We needed to bring our artwork to the MoonRise Gallery. We each had one piece that will be on display through the end of July. I am still not sure about this new title of artist. This is not something I had ever called myself before. But as of Thursday, June 6th I have a painting hanging on the wall of a gallery. At the opening reception I was given a name tag claiming that I was an artist. My artist bio was hanging on the wall and in the books that were placed around the room.

When Melinda and I took our art piece to the gallery, we made it a small adventure. This I am sure is not a surprise to anyone who knows us. We stopped in a few small towns between our home and Elkhorn. We found a couple of bookstores and tiny fun shops and spent the day exploring. We came home with some Eric Carle socks, a couple of books, and fun memories.

All four of us took time off of work and went up to the MoonRise gallery for the opening. There were so many people there. It was very interesting. We talked to several different artists. We shared our art with them. I even learned that one of them is also looking at publishing children's stories.  They did short video interviews with all of the artists. These will be posted sometime soon. It was interesting that there were two sets of mother / daughters and one father / daughter artists who had their art hanging in the gallery. Melinda's piece and my piece were hanging on the wall next to each other. I am super happy that Melinda and I were able to be in a gallery together.

Melinda's is the sun, moon, and stars. She made it so that the moon can turn around to be the sun, and the stars can be hidden up behind the clouds during the day. The stick that everything is hanging from is from our maple trees in our back yard. This year she had been working on lots of memories with her ceramics.

My painting is called Dragon Light. It is a watercolor painting. I was playing with just using black/grey in a couple of paintings I did this one and another painting of just the moon. I of course love dragons and have been working on my dragon novel series. I have also been working on a few monochrome paintings using coffee as my paint. It was fun to paint with coffee in my coffee shop.

We didn't just want to end our adventure there, we had decided that we were going to stay in Omaha and go to the zoo the next day. So towards the end of the night we headed off to find our hotel and watch a little HGTV. (our favorite thing to watch when we are at a hotel)

The next morning we headed over to the zoo to spend time with all of the animals. It was a pretty great adventure.

I think today, or maybe tomorrow, I should get out my paints and do a little more painting. It is time to try a few new things.