Hello Peoples!

People are beginning to come to the studio on a regular basis now and I LOVE it!  I’ll be honest with you, for a few weeks I was having a bit of a pity party.  No one at the show, no one watching the videos, and no one coming to the studio.  I even considered putting it up for sale.  Then I remembered my purpose.  I’m freakin’ making MY art MY way and trying to encourage others to do the same thing.  About then, @wanderingwidget sends me an e-mail letting me know she intends to post to Radio Free Monday about me (Read that here).  That’s when I realized it’s working.  That’s enough to keep it going!  And now, I have people coming into the studio again.  :)

I finally got to clean up the audio on the interview with Virginia Savage from last week’s Midnight At Oasis.  I posted the video to You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlpmgHsFUOs

This time of year we are ALL severely limited on fundage so we may be building with used pallets.  If you would like to help with that, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.

If you have any announcements you would like made in the newsletter or tweeted about incessantly, drop me a line and I’ll toot your horn for ya.  ;)  There were no announcements this week.

I’m going to keep the same password for a while so the password is: arting

The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok

Drawing Class: The Day Job has got me in Houston this week so no new classes this week.

Painting Class: Painting class is on hold until the wife and I can come up with a solid lesson plan I can be proud of.  Look for it to return sometime in February.

The past classes are moving into the Pay-per-view side of ustream and on artisticbiker.com as well. $2 lets you view them online at Ustream, $5 lets you download them at artisticbiker.com, and a $10/month membership gets you unlimited downloads from the site.

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PACKING TAPE! OMG, packing tape can be used for SO many things in your journal and your art.  Beyond the obvious of adhering things to your work or for masking, you can use it for simple transfers and for resist areas when you’re painting.  I’ve been using it to lift pencil, pastel and watercolor off of some of my recent works.  THEN, I got a bunch of pastel dust on a light colored shirt.  What happens when you wipe that off? EXACTLY! You just rub it in.  So I reaches for me handily-dandily ol’ packing tape and sure enough: Lifted The Dust Off My Shirt!  Packing tape made it so that my wife didn’t kill me. :)