The Redbud Festival will be Saturday and Sunday, May 12-13 at the Lions Roping Arena in Three Rivers. Saturday is 10-5, Sunday is 10-4.
Redbud Festival is named after this flowering tree which grows wild in Three Rivers. It blooms in March, so the name of the Festival doesn’t correspond with nature. However, it does coincide with Mother’s Day, so here is something to do with your Mom this year.
My space looked like this 2 years ago. (I didn’t participate last year because all my work was in the Tulare Historical Museum for a solo show.) It will look different this year.
As I continue to read art marketing sites and blogs and to interact with other artists, I continue to make changes to the way I display my work.
The changes won’t be huge, but the hope is that my work will look better.
If my work looks better, you will stay in my booth longer. If you stay in my booth longer, you will study the work more. If you study the work more, you will get attached to something. If you get attached to something, you will want to buy it. If you want to buy it, I will sell it to you.
Oh great. Now you will be afraid to come see my booth at the Redbud Festival because you will get sold! No, I won’t sell to you unless you want me to. I don’t know how to “hard-sell” stuff, much less my own art. If I did, I’d, ummm. . . no, I love my life. It would be the same as it is now!
There will be a new painting of the Kaweah Post Office, 2 of fields of California poppies, a Sequoia painting in a new shape, and maybe, just maybe a new painting of the Kaweah River. And there will be oranges, of course. And some small paintings of California poppies that sit on easels on a table top.
See you at the Redbud Festival?
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Hi Jana!
‘Just wanted to share that our step-Mom, Juanita, loved the Post Office painting, remarking how you’ve improved over the years. She has several of your works, already. She’s one of the Pierce family, (now Tolle), and grew up in 3R. She has a cabin on North Fork, and shares parts of the original ranch with her cousins, notably the old ranch house and barn at the confluence.
LT
Good to hear from you, Larry! I’m so glad your Mom loved her painting. It is scary to think about my earlier work – if she needs me to touch up or redo anything, I’d be more than happy to comply. Your Redbud story will appear on my blog on Wednesday.
So nice meeting you Saturday. I love the little poppy we bought. (Kept thinking about it as we walked around the rest of the festival and had to come back and get it.) It’s currently circulating around the display shelves in our kitchen until we figure out where its home is.
Thank you, Bethany! So pleased that you returned . . . I’m thinking you are the ones who like to escape to 3R and just hang out at the river behind the motel where my neighbor works.
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