Ocean City Easter Arts and Crafts Fair

           

Easter weekend I had exhibited at my first arts and crafts fair! I had a lot of fun setting up my little booth and meeting other exhibitors. The kids were great and really seemed to love my fish, so I gave away coloring pages to them.

I made friends with a really nice girl who loves otters–so I made a quick sketch!

I realized this wasn’t exactly the best type of fair for me to sell my paintings, but I learned a lot and had fun!

Pancakes and Booze DC

Pancakes and Booze was an awesome and exhausting first show. For my first show, I’d say it was a success. I met a lot of new artist friends. It was really cool seeing the different styles and talents in the DC artist community.  I would definitely do this show again!

 

I even said goodbye to two of my favorite paintings:

Pufferfish acrylic on 5x7 canvas panel 2017         Pinktail Triggerfish 2 arcylic on 5x7 canvas panel 2016

 

 

30 paintings in 30 days challenge

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It’s September 16th and I’m halfway through the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge hosted by Leslie Saeta.  I’ve also been posting my daily updates on Instagram @jay_p_el and Facebook @eveningpainting.

Everything is posted to the Geometry of Puako Bay gallery and up for sale for $40 (framed or unframed) –unless marked Sold!

Geometry of Puako Bay features the fish and other critters that my family and I saw on our vacation in Hawaii. We snorkeled and scuba’d along the Kona coast of Hawaii for a week and captured some amazing Hawaiian reef fish on the GoPro!

 

art deco mandala 2

Art Deco II mandala acrylic on 11x14 canvas board 2015
Art Deco II mandala
acrylic on 11×14 canvas board
2015

I really love how the colors turned out in my newest painting! The metallic silver paint creates a great contrast to the matte colors and made it feel very art deco to me.

This was actually my first time painting on canvas board in a while, as I prefer the “bounce” (is that thing?) of a wrapped canvas. I primed it with several layers of sanded gesso to give it a smoother texture.

Check out my original design: colored in red, white, and blue (I drew it around July 4th).

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