Salon Roundup 2012-W34

Not much new this week, as Summer winds down...  no big milestones to report, although we had our 100 and 50th visits from Russia and Germany, respectively.
Дa? Ja.  Three member-artists contributed independent-study works for the blog
this week; please enjoy them!


by Marge:

Graveyard III

by Steve:

Smokin'

by David:

So, Rilly, It Didn't All Stay In Vegas?

Salon Roundup 2012-W33

Two more milestones for our blog this week, as predicted.  We had our 3,500th blog viewing as well as, coincidentally, our 400th international viewing.  What must it be like for people who see the blog but don't speak English?  While you ponder that, it happens that although there was no Salon today, your blogmaster rounded up these two independent-study works made this week.  (If you can't place "that" face, she governs Arizona—but only through 2014.)  Enjoy!


by Steve:

Barred Window

by David:

Hag, Nag, Scag, or Slag?

Salon Showcase 2012-W32

If Salon kept a gratitude journal, we'd be busy filling it with entries this week.  We are chipping away slowly at the European Union, finally having our first international visit from the Netherlands.  Eindelijk!  In recognition thereof, a watercolor interpretation of their Princess Máxima's masterfully photographed 40th birthday portrait is in today's showcase.  A day after the Dutch viewing, we chalked up our 45th country with the first visit from Panamá...  ¡Madre de Dios, es increíble!  Plus we're poised to hit a couple other milestones, probably in the next few days.

Yet, most gratifying, today we hosted three fantastic guest artists from among the group of usual suspects at Truman College, our friends Vivian Klingensmith, Sara Drummond, and returning guest Susan Silvano.  Included in the topics discussed was the mental processes that surround selling your work.  Maybe that inched us one step closer to a Salon showing at a gallery some day?  Perhaps.  But until then, please enjoy these works from today!


by Vivien Klingensmith:

Detail from work in progress

by Sara Drummond:

Thank You Bill & Sue

by Susan Silvano

Graceland Redux

by Marge:

Detail from work in progress

by David:

HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands

Salon Roundup 2012-W31

Though we were planning a Salon today, a couple of late cancellations took us to the quorum borderline, and ultimately we elected not to meet.  Unfairly, the short notice didn't give much opportunity for the other members to contribute a Roundup work.  But your blogmaster—after sleeping in and despite the high relative humidity—made this technical study for a more polished future painting that may or may not happen.  (The smart money is betting on "not".)  Please enjoy it all the same.


by David:

Study of Camel Thorn Trees Fronting a Dune in the Namib