Studio Break

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I am going to leave you with a picture of a collage I did on a journal. It is countdown time and I have to have all of my art and cards ready by tomorrow night for Saturday's show.

I am surprisingly calm, and figure I have done all that I can do, and I look forward to seeing some people that I have not seen in a while. If nothing else it once again gets me out into the public eye.

Today a friend told me that she heard an ad on WKZE, which is a really wonderful station out of Red Hook, NY and Salisbury, CT, and it mentioned my name! I wish I had heard the ad, but I am excited that it is being advertised!

So do come down and meet me at BECKON on lower Broadway in Kingston if you are a local. Check out Maryann's wonderful store, have a snack/libation, and I am the strawberry blonde (is that what I am?).

Till tomorrow

Patti O Artist

Comments

Shades of Scorpio said…
I couldn't exactly tell you why, but I really like that collage!!!
10:46 PM
Shades of Scorpio said…
Eeek, that sounded horrible! I meant no particular part was my favorite...but each part made it exactly what it is and I liked each component!
10:47 PM
Unknown said…
i thought of you today as i crossed the hudson over the tappan zee, and then back over at newburgh. the colors of the trees and the mountains and the river and the sky are simply beyond my ability to describe them - i was almost grateful to the construction on the east bound side of the tappan zee for making me take the more northerly route. the woods where i live are beautiful but there is something quite majestically magical about the hudson...
2:09 AM
Patti Gibbons said…
Oh Annie! We do have to meet sometime. Do you go to Newburgh often? It is about 30-40 minutes from me.

The mountains are robed in glorious shades these days...not to last long. I hope that I can get out on Sunday, my only day off, to check out the leaves in the Catskills or Berkshires!

xpatti
7:00 AM
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