Aaron Brothers is having $0.01 sale on frames. For every frame you buy for the full price you get another one for $0.01. The deal is the same on canvases (for you painting people).

Surprisingly, I didn’t receive an email about the sale, and I am on their mailing list; would miss it if a friend didn’t tell me yesterday. Got myself several black wooden Signature frames. I know what to do with two of them; the rest will stay in the closet for now.

What is even more surprising is that I found double mats for my cream watercolor paper there. No sale on the mats, but the price still beats the cost of custom matting or ordering just 2 mats online at Redimat.

The show seemed to be rather small this time, but the good part of it was that almost everybody was in the nice shade, including FALC. I didn’t stay for long after the setup, and at that time many artists haven’t hung their pieces yet. My plan was to walk around when I came back later, but it flipped because some started packing an hour before the end of the show. Not a good sign… No new finds to write about, although I imagine there were some, they just packed early.

I think this is the last time I participate in an outdoor show organized by Triton. It was nothing like last year’s AVArtFest. The best part of the show was talking to fellow artists and seeing what others are doing, but it would be just as much fun to come over and do the same without getting up at 6:30 in the morning and the hassles or taking it all down later in the day.

graphite pencil, 4″ x 6″

pen and ink, 6″ x 4″

charcoal, 4″ x 6″