Last week was a busy week for me at work, where I completed a large (about 2.5 feet by 4 feet) sign to hang over the "New Items" shelves. This sign was on thin plywood. I spray-painted a blue background on it, then added all the pictorial and text elements with opaque paint markers, which are acrylic-based. Since our store decoration theme this year is "Antique Style," I can use graphics from anywhere from the late 1800's to about the 1930's. The grain of the plywood added to the "antique" look of the sign. The visitors to the New Items shelves will now encounter not only wines, sweets, sauces, and other goodies, but this sign.

I am about to complete my next "New England" picture, though this one would be more M.I.T. than Rockport ocean. I have particle collisions and trails to add in, and then you will see this new one, catalog number 925. As for previous art efforts, I presented the painted gourds (see my entry for August 15) to their rightful owner in the Starbucks she manages. She, and the coffee-sipping onlookers, were duly delighted. And as of this last week, four prints of my fantasy cities (see the Pyracantha Website's Art Gallery for views) are hanging in the Starbucks closest to me, where I also do coffee signs. This display may be nixed by the upper-level management, because of Starbucks standardization, but I hope not. Such is the artist's life.

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