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Artist painting in progress

Here's a close up view of the painting I worked on recently. Enjoy

Life in General

Things here have been busy. I've been working on a few projects and have had several commissions come in. Tomorrow I'll spend the day in the studio working. I am wanting to have a paint-a-thon so I can do a special collectors sale in the next few days.

We have been enjoying the rain for the last 24 hours or so- it's been so hot and dry we needed it. I went and had a nice lunch with my Mom today, we really enjoyed the visit. Then I went snooping in the artsy area of town looking for studio space. It seems I am just getting more cramped in my present situation. Hopefully we will find a solution before long.

Have you seen Lady in the Water yet? It's a very interesting movie. I enjoyed it immensely but my family totally missed the point. The plot is a deep one..

Well got to get some rest so I'll be fresh for painting tomorrow.

New Orleans Photography Poster Prints Added to my site

I've added a whole new section of new orleans photography prints to my website today. You'll find Bourbon Street, French Quarter, Mardi Gras and Jazz photography prints available in color, and black and white. The prices are incredbile as well as the quality ! Go ahead and take a look around.
Www.neworleans-paintings.com
Just click on the scrolling marque announcing the prints on the front page and it will lead you to it.

I have been very busy with work, working on 2 commissions as well as making many more of my works available as poster prints.

More to come later.

The desperate pleas of a New Orleans artist

Hope you enjoy my first attempt at vlogging!

Quarter restaurant-updates and louisiana weather

Quarter restaurant of Las Vegas will be opening this weekend and I am excited to announce that 14 of my prints in a 18x24 size will be gracing the walls. This is a chain so I have been told that there are plans for opening at least a dozen this year. That means my art will be dispersed in several locations throughout the US. I look forward to working with the management and art director in the future. As usual with any new project, there were a few glitches but that is to be expected when working cross-country via various means of communication. Now I'll have to plan a trip out to Vegas to see it all myself. I should have photos soon to post.

I am working on having a series of new orleans posters made soon that should make my art prints in a price range that is easily affordable to everyone. I've been working steadily for the last week preparing art proofs and getting the preliminary print files together. The poster option will be hosted by the largest online art company and is really exciting for me..more on that soon. Hopefully I'll begin to have royalties coming in monthly from the sale of the posters. Residual income has been a goal I have been striving to meet with my art, but takes alot of planning and research to be successful.

I've just recently been learing about vblogging and video production as well--soon I'll have video clips from the studio so you can see how works progress over a period of time. The next series of paintings will be called the Faces of the JAZZ GREATS. I am looking forward to getting back to some extended painting time soon.

On a personal note, the dog days of summer are upon us and it is hot as a six shooter here. I wish we had a pool so I could relax a bit on down days..maybe that residual income will help go towards the pool kitty.

I'll post more later...I should be sleeping but this insomnia has been relentless since January..nite sleepyheads

oh if you haven't voted for me yet.. please do at www.myartspace.com
all you have to do is join and search AngelTurnerDyke (no spaces) and then you have 20 votes. You can give them all to me it you want.. I'd appreciate it~there is a little more than a week left..I really need a vacation!

Random act of kindness needed! weekend update

Things have been great here. I spent the weekend renovating the studio.After a quick run to Targ`et for storage stuff, we are on our way to a more organized studio existence. I will be launching out into my abstract works once again soon. I'll post more about them later. I love abstraction and have missed it so much! Also I need your help if you wouldn't mind giving me a vote for the myartspace.com contest. So far I have 53 votes and could use a bunch more. So your help would be appreciated, those random acts of kindness could actually help me to win the trip of my dreams. After dedicating myself to this career since the late 90's it would be cool to see the work pay off with something like that.. Here is the deal:


I have entered a competition and need votes to win. A little forward on my part, but one has to try and if I win I get to bring a friend (perhaps you?).

All voters must become members of www.myartspace.com. This is an easy JOIN process that does not require upload of any images and its free. Each member has up to 20 votes which may be used on one or as many Artists/Photographers as you wish.

To view and vote go to www.myartspace.com (you may need the latest version of Adobe Flash 8, this is a free download). Click on VIEW CONTESTANTS (at the bottom of the page, use the scroll bar to the far right!)

Enter my Login name (AngelTurnerDyke-with no spaces) in the box marked FIND BY HANDLER OR NAME. Click FIND. My gallery and my photo should appear in this list. Click on the large green ">" to see my work.
Below is a URL link that should take you directly to my gallery. In the event this does not work correctly for some reason, the search technique above will work fine.
http://www.myartspace.com/?dest=Y29udGVzdGFudHOkMzQ4NDRhMDJkODcxN2FhMqQ0MTA0NDlkZmQ2MTJiYmFmpDI0NTQ0YTAyZDg3MWU4MDQ=
Many thanks
Angel