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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Bring Us Your Best

I must say it has been an exhausting 2 weeks for me, with trying to get everything ready for the Bring Us Your Best art show but now it is over and I made a little video to bring the show to you!

Now I would love it if you would click on that little youtube button in the bottom right corner...see it?...yep, over there. If you do that it will take you to the video where you can do all sorts of lovely things. You can give the video a "thumbs up", and hey who doesn't like getting a gesture of approval? You can also leave all the artists a wonderful comment, which I am sure will make their day and well, it also helps with my youtube ratings! And lastly, but definitely not least, you can subscribe to my channel, and you never know what I might be airing...just saying, keep in touch!

Saturday, May 28, 2016

20th Anniversary of Chalk it Up! mural in downtown Hendersonville, NC

10 artists gathered EARLY ( OK, 7am may not be that early for some, but it is to me! ) to work on a chalk art mural for the 20th anniversary of Chalk it Up! in Hendersonville, NC We had a design gridded out so each one of us was responsible for one section.

The scaffolding( that you see at the top of the picture ) at the end holds a camera directly over us to take time lapse pictures of our progress ever 5 seconds. Video can be found HERE.

The weather cooperated with us very nicely but it did start to get hot about this point, muscles were hurting and everyone was getting tired. Believe it or not, it took us 3 hours to complete!

I did the bear and had the least available chalk as black was in short supply. I was allotted all the black chalk and had to use water to "melt" the chalk into the concrete surface of the sidewalks to try and extend the color. It worked pretty well too, although my fingernails and cuticles still have remnants of black chalk the next day that no amount of washing and using a nail brush seem to have any effect.

This is my portion of the sidewalk.

Here is the top ½ which features our mountains, courthouse and a portion of the town along with our historic clock.

And the bottom portion.

I hope I get a still photograph from the scaffolding above, but in the mean time, this is it. If you would like to read the newspaper article about the days event you can do so HERE!

And here is a picture that was printed in the newspaper.

Now off to take some more Alleeve, my knees are fine which everyone worries the most about but I have lots of sore muscles from stretching across the drawing and working, lol

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Not until October

And the last big event for me will be Oct. 24th, the same day they auction off Poppy Bear and it's all happening down at the same end of the street! Yay, for 2 events happening at the same location, lol

and yes, they spelled my name wrong....sighs
Now, how my name got from Sandy to Sandee.
It had to do with the TV show, "Flipper which portrays a 12-year-old boy (Sandy) living with his parents in the Florida Keys, who befriends an injured wild dolphin. The lad and his pet become inseparable, eventually overcoming the misgivings of his fisherman father." So I was only 6 or 7 when I learned that a boy's spelling of Sandy ended in a Y...from that point on I was bent on having a different name which in turn, drove my parents nuts. Eventually when I was 13 my mom "officially" changed it to Sandee. Thanks mom! ♥ My dad however, hated the change and still would write my name with a y...lol So I think I got my creative side from my mom and my stubborn streak from my dad!

back to the event...

I was curious as to which band I was going to paired up with, not that it reflects anything, but I do have to sit there and listen to it! Was hoping for some music and an age group I could relate to, lol I got both! I am not a BIG bluegrass fan, but I do like it. And it means it will be a slightly older crowd so I won't feel out of place.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

bearfootin' : noun

"Bearfootin' in Downtown Hendersonville, NC has been a highly popular public art display. The bears are sponsored by area businesses and are colorfully decorated in different themes by area artists. The bears reside on the sidewalks of Downtown, along with trees, planters of flowers, and benches in a beautiful park-like setting. This successful art exhibit has entertained people of all ages. A public auction of the bears will be held in October 22, 2012. Proceeds from the auctions goes to charities"

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I have actually seen one or 2 of these bears in people's yards too! lol They are actually quite sought after! You can spend a day searching for them, and they have brochures printed up about them so you can hunt them down. I just like looking at them, secretly, I want to paint one ;)