Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tulsa Lawyers Helping Artists!

Lawyers to aid artists, arts groups

By ALTHEA PETERSON, World Staff Writer
Published: 3/31/2009  2:24 AM
Last Modified: 3/31/2009  4:05 AM



Local leaders have announced "Tulsa Lawyers for the Arts," a new program that will provide legal assistance and educational programming to artists and arts organizations in Oklahoma for little to no cost.

What a great idea.  One for which I am very thankful..... Not that I need a lawyer right now but one never knows.  I think I can speak for the art community when I say we are grateful to Tulsa's fine lawyers for their gift to the art community ( and for buying our work :-)  Below is the news release from the Tulsa World.


 


According to a news release, the program draws inspiration from existing programs in other cities and also an effort to encourage local art and music.

Mayor Kathy Taylor said: "Art keeps a community vital and enhances the quality of life. It helps define our culture as a city."

Through the program, artists will be paired with participating attorneys to discuss legal issues and to resolve arts-related disputes outside traditional legal framework, including contracts, copyright and trademark issues, wills, trusts and estates, First Amendment issues, mediation and landlord-tenant issues.

For more information, call 584-5243 or go online to tulsaworld.com/tulsabar.
By ALTHEA PETERSON, World Staff Writer

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Dogwoods 11x14

I had the pleasure of attending a workshop this weekend given by Jo Anna Arnett as she was one of the featured artists at the Gilcrease Museum for their annual big show.  Over the weekend we had the opportunity to both paint outside in the beautiful grounds at the Gilcrease and painted still life sketches as well inside.  This is one of the sketches that I did this weekend.  I brought it home and did a bit more finishing details on it and here it is.  She uses a little bit different method for painting flowers which I enjoyed learning and will enjoy playing around with a bit.  I have this on auction on ebay this week or you can buy it now here for $125.



Friday, April 10, 2009

Osage Boys

Every now and then I take a break from the norm and play around with photoshop.  I took photos of my kids and then added one of my husband ( that is a little tricky to size right  )  and manipulated the phot using photoshop.  Then the next fun part.... Painting the photo onto canvas in oil.  I decided that i was having so much fun that I would offer to paint similar ones for the general population.  I charge only $200 for a 16x20 oil painting ( plus shipping if you are out of town )  contact me at artistswaygallery ( at ) yahoo.com  I am trying to avoid spiders so I put the word ( at ) in place of @... To contact me put the @ back in it's usual place... don't know if I am wasting my time w trying to trick the trackers but it is worth a try.  Anyways you would email me your photo and I will email back to you the manipulated image for your approval before I start to paint.  Hope someone takes me up on this as I am itching to do another one:-)  If you want to see more of my formal portraits and still lifes and landscapes you can check out my ebay site here