Coffee Rush Monsoon

I was searching online to find good outdoor images of Coffee Rush in Chandler to show you the coffee house some of my prints are in, when I found these photos by Steven Noyes. When I came by to set up my artwork, there wasn't exactly a monsoon going on, but it was still pretty beautiful with the lake and outdoor patio. The whole setting reminds me of living in China. We lived in an apartment complex with a man made river that went through it, interspersed with fountains and singing bushes, and filled with hundreds of river fish. (They play music in the bushes along the walk. A couple times we heard the soundtrack from Final Fantasy).

It felt a little like home. I know that sounds strange, being that it reminded me of China, a foreign place on the other side of the globe where people speak a dozen different versions of the same language and eat chickens feet, but we lived there for over 2 years. In all my life I've never lived in one place longer than 3 years, so China became an official home. One of many, but a home just the same.

Most of our stomping grounds in China had outdoor patios like this, a few had man made rivers and lakes and the best part was going out to hang out at our favorite spot during a typhoon to watch the people skitter away from the lightning, wondering what the hell three guei los were doing out in the rain.

I liked Coffee Rush when I first came in to set up. I liked the outdoor patio where us ostricized smokers can smoke to our delight. I liked the coffee, which was damn good and damn affordable. I seriously dug the lake and the fact that I had something beautiful to look at beyond a few scattered trees and shrubs. After seeing these photos, though; I love it. Next monsoon season, I am coming back here with my camera, sitting down with a coffee and making the locals wonder what this white girl is doing out in the rain.

Oh right, the original point of this post: I have my art up in Coffee Rush, and it will be there for about a month. There's matted prints, ranging from 8.5 x 11's to 16 x 20, and there's even one canvas print of one of my favorites, "Falling To Pieces". I just got those black mats, and I think I'm in love. They really make the colors stand out. I think I will be doing more like those.

Coffee Rush - Chandler

Located in Chandler Arizona on the
South-East corner of Ray & Dobson.

1949 W. Ray Road, Ste 40 • Chandler, AZ • 85224

When there's no monsoon, people, and not just lightning haunt this place too.

January Shows

New Shows:

Saturday @ The Mighty Cup N Spoon

This weekend, I'll be at The Mighty Cup N Spoon in Glendale for their Jan 17th show. The yard will be full of artists and crafters, so stop on by to see me and some of Glendale's best. The show is from 10 am to 4pm. Damn good coffee and entertainment.

Saturday January 17th 10am - 4pm @ The Mighty Cup N Spoon 7021 N 57th Ave Downtown Historical Glendale, AZ 85301 (623) 915-5595

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COFFEE RUSH:

Wednesday, I'll be putting my artwork up at the Coffee Rush in Chandler at 1949 W. Ray Rd, suit 40, Chandler. I'll have my artwork up there for a month, featuring my Giclee prints, matted, unmatted and framed.


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MACFEST

I'll be haunting MacFest again the following Saturday (January 24th), so swing by Mesa and say hello.


If you mention this blog at any of the Art Walks, I will give you the discounted price (the one you get when you buy two or more of my prints) with any purchase.

I have a new piece I'm working on too, but Shhh... it's a secret. It will be my Valentines Day piece, full of passion and sensuality, and teetering on the edge of acceptable. That's a hard line to walk, but I think I did it.

That's all for now. For now on, I promise to try to be a better blogger.

The Latest Shows

It's been a busy year already and I've been a very bad blogger and forgot to tell you all about all the early month shows.


First Friday:
First Friday on Roosevelt row was crazy fun, though our generator died for a good hour. :(Thanks to everyone who came by to see me from earlier shows! First Friday was swamped as usual, and everyone at Art Consortium had a blast speaking to the waves of people who came through our booth. Next month, we'll have three booths set up with all our artists, and we promise we'll have lights all night long. :)

Dawn Mercato, John Good and Jerry Crow, making last minute touches.
Me packing some prints with a leaning tower of Canvas prints in front of me.
Maynard Breese and Tabulanis in the background, preparing out tent.


First Friday Art Walk. Notice the heater we have.
Yes....we have heat, come by and warm your hands. :)

First Wednesday:

First Wednesday in Chandler was fun as always. We were set up in front of Murphy's Law pub, which has it's own police car, which is just too cool for words. Notice the matted large prints I have now. :)

While I was there, I ran into this awesome chick, Michelle Geiss who works in recycled metals. Her work is stunning, strong and amazingly enough, affordably priced! She was my personal favorite from the walk. You can check her out at www.desertsol.com
I personally loved that there was nothing "chicky" about her. I'm not a very good "female" and neither is she. A fellow scorpio, her work betrays nothing of her gender.
Here, she is working on one of her dragons. I took home one of her small metal spiders with a marble back which sells for only $12 a piece! She had this awesome dragon that fixes to your wall, with it's claws, head and wings protruding from the wall that was just too cool for words. I've decided that when we get a new office, FrogFaith will be commissioning her to make us a frog statue to cling to our outer wall.



Ooh, I also met a Chinese family at First Wednesday and had a chance to practice my Mandarin! I was so excited to get a chance to talk with them that I completely forgot to talk to them about my art. Hen gao shin ren shi nimen!

MACFEST:

I also stopped by MacFest last Saturday for the first time. I didn't know they did this, but I got the Blue ribbon for "Festival Favorite"! They came by, took pictures of yours truly in front of my booth and told me they'll be sending me an interview about my work. I'll post a link once it's up. So that was exciting.

Next up; new shows. :)