Here are a few photos from the 50-50 artist reception and 2nd Saturday reception. Both events were extremely well attended, almost too well. There were so many people in the gallery, it was difficult to walk around.

The front of the gallery teeming with people on Saturday evening.

There I am in front of my work. I was fortunate because they placed my paintings by the front entrance of the gallery.

Channel 3 came out and interviewed an artist. And I believe one of my paintings made it on the News. Unfortunately, I did not see the broadcast.

As I mentioned earlier, the gallery was absolutely packed with people.

All in all, the opening went well. I hope some of my artwork is selling. I would like to go back and check out the show one more time before it comes down. There are a lot of talented artists and I would like to go in when it isn’t so crowded so that I can actually enjoy the art and read some of the artist statements.

Hey there! On the 20th Street Art Gallery Blog there are a few pictures from the hanging of the show. I’m anxious to find out which wall my work will be on. Unfortunately, I did not spot my work among the photos they uploaded. But they do reveal an answer to something I’ve been wondering about: where are they going to hang 3500 pieces of art? Last year, they had 50 artists and the walls were covered with art, so I was real curious how they were going to hang approx 75 artists’ work. You can see on the photos that they set up panels that look almost like kiosks - and they are hanging artwork on its three sides. I assume they will have these kiosks placed throughout the gallery. Well, tomorrow is the big day - the artist reception and I’m very excited.

Now on a personal note. I got two adorable Shih Tzu puppies, Chewie & Gizmo. These little trouble-makers are so much fun - I’m very happy!

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Happy Friday!

One of the fellow artists participating in the 50-50, Francisco Castro, created a page on his website dedicated to 50-50 and he asked all the artists to send him their personal favorites from their own 50-50 series. Not everyone has responded to his request yet, but a good number of the artists have and you can view the web page here.

Those of you living the Sacramento Area, please come out 2nd Saturday (April 12) to the reception from 6pm-9pm. It’s at the 20th Street Art Gallery, 911 20th Street between J & I Streets. It should be a really fun exhibit with 3500 pieces of art hanging on the gallery walls.

And for those of you who cannot make it to the exhibit, I will post some photos after the artist reception next week.

I am all done with the paintings and I submitted them to the 20th Street Art Gallery yesterday afternoon. At the gallery I had the opportunity to pick up some postcards for the exhibit- see image below. I was excited to see one of my paintings made it on the postcard (circled in red). As it turns out the exhibit title has been shortened to “50-50″ because they accepted about 75 artists. You can see samples from many of the artists here.

The exhibit will be up April 9th - May 2nd, 2008.

Since I started the blog a little after I started painting, there are several paintings I have not posted yet and there are a couple that I replaced. So, here are the ones you have not seen yet and all 50 together in hanging order (click to enlarge):

I decided to go ahead and replace my least favorite one - the boy tying his shoe laces. I think the idea was good, but the execution was not. Actually I never truly finished it. You haven’t seen this painting yet unless you looked at the photo of the first 28 paintings very carefully - it’s on there. However - it will not make it in the final 50.  Instead, I am working on a painting of a little boy helping in decorating a Christmas tree. It should be a really cute one.

And here are the toys that I’ve been working on all weekend:

I am working on the final 2 paintings simultaneously because they go together (much like the treehouse and tree climbing paintings I did earlier in the series).  These two paintings represent toys - boy vs girl. I will post these two and possibly a photo of all 50 paintings tomorrow.

After those are done and if I feel up to it, I may paint another to replace my least favorite one.  I will also need to do some finishing touches to a couple of the paintings, put a protective coat on each, label them for the show and write up an artist statement.  And then I will deliver the paintings to the gallery on Tuesday.

I actually painted this a few days ago; I painted two that day.  The one I was working on tonight isn’t completely finished yet. But I promise it’s worth the wait - it’s a good one

Guess who this little rascal is? I’ve been thinking with all these trips down memory lane and not a single painting includes me. So here’s little Veronika with Grandpa about to push me on my red wagon.

Now that the painting is done, I have little dilemma: I don’t want this painting to sell. However, my contract with the 20th St Art Gallery for the upcoming 50-50-50 exhibition states that all 50 paintings must be for sale. My solution is, I will just have to buy it myself (or get someone else to buy it for me and I will pay them back). That’s right, as silly as that sounds, I’m going to buy a painting from myself. The gallery keeps 50% of the profits, so essentially I can get it for half off :). The reason I don’t want to risk this painting selling at the gallery is because I want to give it to my grandparents as a gift. I think they would really like it.

I also want to note on the painting I posted yesterday “Training Wheels” is actually my brother, Gabor on that bicycle - his legs anyway . And the two photos I referenced for these two paintings were taken on the same day, same location.

Unfortunately, my scanner cannot get the the red tones right and not even my photoshop magic could correct it perfectly. The reds in the original painting are more rich and crimson rather than the slightly orangy color in this picture.