News from Our Studio
Theresa Brown & Stephen Filarsky
May is
one of those months where everyone celebrates two big events-Mother's
Day and Memorial Day! Around our studio, we also celebrate
the stunning transformation that happens to our yard when all the
wild and heirloom roses bloom at one time.
The abundance of roses around our studio started off with a semi- plan.
But as any artist can tell you, plans are more like guidelines
:-). When you dig up plants or flowers at abandoned homesites you
don't always get what you think you are getting. Before long our
unknown roses combined with our planned roses to make the month of May
a mass of red, pink and white blooms. The blooming of the old
roses are like the annual rite of strawberry picking-it only
happens once a year!
It's too bad that I can't pick all these roses and have them delivered
to my daughter Kelly's wedding next month in Mexico! Yep, The end of
June will find us all in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico celebrating her
marriage to a great guy, Brandon Boone. They'll head back to Los
Angeles after the wedding and we'll be getting back to normal!
Steve came
back from 2 weeks of shows in Aiken and later this month, he'll head
out again to shows in Devon, PA. The beautiful Upperville show in
Virginia is the first week of June and its one we missed last
year. With the activities going on in NC, I have to hold down the
fort here at our home studio and our gallery in Wake Forest. But I can
usually get away for a few days to the shows closer to home!
We're scheduling and holding our workshops in
various locations and that will also keep us busy. We're still in the
tweaking stage of the art camps so it's great that we're both in a
position to work the split activites!
We just had our Gallery Art Walk which is the second Friday of each
month. I was asked to participate at an outdoor concert with my
artwork. But rather than working on finsihing commissioned work, I just
pulled out the big sketch pad, a handful of charcoal and started
sketching the kids. They lined up...and up...and up....just how many
portraits sketches can one complete in 2 1/2 hours? A lot! But what fun
to see their expressions when their sketch was completed.
Steve's big art surprise! Steve is continuing to paint his popular mini-series and has some surprises coming up for all of his collectors! Watch for an email from him in a few days and see the special that he will offer his collectors to celebrate the one year anniversary of
As for me, I have just completed several large pastels and the ever popular gift sized cameos.
Now that
Mother's Day is over, the requests are for graduation and Father's
Day. My clients have always made Father's Day more popular than
Mother's Day when it came to the gift portraits. Apparently the moms
who don't get their portrait requests for their big day, decide to get
it anyway by surprising their husbands with the portrait on Father's
Day! Let no one doubt the caring ingenuity of a Mom!
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Meaning: Don't be ungrateful when you receive a free gift.
Origin: This is in the category of phrases called proverbs, short, expressive sayings, in common use, which convey a truism or useful advice. The phrase is often expressed as 'never look a gift horse in the mouth'. As horses age their teeth begin to project further forward each year and so their age can be estimated by checking how prominent the teeth are. The advice given in this proverb is: when given a present, be grateful for your good fortune and don't look for more by examining it to assess its value.
Laugh of the month
Click here for the: The mom video
We know Mother's Day is passed but who can resist this video at any
time?
Don't forget
to check out our blogs for recent paintings and news:
www.mtheresabrown.blogspot.com
Thomas Jefferson
Filarsky Brown Art Studio LLC
PO Box 337
Franklinton, NC 27525