ART and WINE FESTIVAL

A quiet time to take a few pictures on the last day of the 3 day Art and Wine festival in Cambria this past weekend. What alot of fun!  I was demonstrating the three days in the Chambers Gallery and have one of  the paintings posted here. I just had to paint a vineyard with a crow!
Pam Derby of Derby Wines in Paso Robles poured  her wines  filling Gayle's desk with the best wine selection on the Central Coast ( what a treat) and Vicki Greene ( our wonderful seascape artist) brought fabulous cheese she discovered while in France! Thanks for sharing Vicki!! Julie Whitmore ( potter extraordinaire) added a huge ,beautiful hand painted wine bottle for the occasion and our resident plein aire painter Linda Huggins brought her luscious scones!  I am now the proud owner of one of Linda's landscapes!
Pat Riley ( of Pat Riley's hand painted clothing) made lunch for us the last day and it was fabulous. Our thanks to Shannon McNamara for the beautifully created cheese presentations.  The  wine bottle painting on the back wall  sold along with our wonderful artists work in the excitement and there was a flurry of buying in the gallery! All the artists were there along with their beautiful works and here also is a picture of Gayle Sewell proprietress of the wonderful Chambers Gallery.
If you haven't been to Cambria for the wine festival you have a treat in store next year! All the shops participate and there are dinners and auctions and  artists painting all over town!! Don't miss it next year!!

Wine Bottles, festival paintings

These paintings represent not only the end of the festival but the end of the "wine bottles" for a while!!I have enjoyed painting them ( these were the demos for Friday and Saturday) but I'm bottled out!! On with something new!!

Wine Bottle painting for the Wine Festival

Yesterday we met at the Chambers Gallery to paint wine bottles for the Art and Wine Fesival next weekend on the 28th. Vicki,Gayle,Maggie and me! What fun!! We worked all day and I had painted 3! Good Grief! I had plans to paint more so I will be painting a few more this week. Vicki painted some lovely seascape ones but took them home so today when I photographed they weren't there. This last one is a fun one of Gayles, very abstract and Maggie's also in there, that tall abstract one they are beautiful. I love the colors in these. Mine are the crows and grapes. We will have them all around the gallery for sale the weekend of the festival! Something fun!
Lynn, we missed you!!!!

Chamber Party

Well, what fun!! the mixer at the Chamber of Commerce with all the shop owners and friends of the Chamber. The picture of the poster as it will be displayed through out Cambria to promote the very exciting Wine Festival.
A picture of the basket with our booty and Vicki Greene is holding the little wine glass with the date and announcement of the festival.
Vicki, painter of the seascape portion of our painting and Gayle owner of the Chambers Gallery  ( not affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce) toasting our big win.
It was so much fun to see old friends and meet new. The big party, celebration, wine tasting, dinner and poster signing will be January 28th, 29th and 30th, 2011. You have to come and share in all the fun!!!!

More pictures of the show

This was the last day of the show. What fun! We were sorry to see the weekend end but "all good things " as they say.

Bottom picture is Linda Huggins and Pat Reilly, next is everyone together, Shannon McNamara,Victoria Greene,Gayle Sewell,Pat Reilly and Linda Huggins. What a blast we had!!Top picture is me with my finished demo painting for today.

I miss you all already! XO

More Wine Festival

Two of the artists with Gayle. Victoria Greene (that's one of Vicki's paintings behind her)and Linda Huggins, a wonderful plein air artist in the gallery who paints scenes of Cambria and the surrounding area. I will post one of her beautiful paintings here tomorrow morning. The painting is my demo in progress that I will finish today,"good red" have a few things to add for balance.

We have one more day, today is the last day. It has been just the most fun! Lots of sales too , that's always nice!

Chambers Gallery and Wine Festival

We have had so much fun! These pictures were taken yesterday in a very bustling two days! Artists,patrons,new visitors, all were streaming through the gallery. I've been demonstrating (wine bottles of course) and visiting and I've posted some of the pictures this morning. I have a few more to post too.

From the top, my sister Julie Whitmore presenting a bottle of wine to Gayle Sewell, owner of Chambers Gallery. My finished wine bottle demo.Bird paintings and Paula Teplitz art displayed.One of the artist's, Victoria Greene and her husband Dick.Vicki's beautiful display of her oil paintings.

WINE FESTIVAL TODAY!

5"x7" oil on board The Wine Festival starts today! Wine tasting, pouring fabulous wine from all the local vineyard's in the area. Raffle,dinner,prizes and artists demonstrating painting all over town. I will be at the Chambers Gallery http://www.chambersgallerycambria.com/ demoing for the next 3 days so come down and see me if you are in the area! It's always a fun weekend! See you there!