4urWorld

This is the beginning of a series of paintings I intend to do for my new website, which is not up yet but will be as soon as I get some more paintings done.  The website is www.Route66Artist.com.

I wanted this picture to have a retro look about it, almost like a picture drawn in a comic book.  I may try to carry this style throughout the rest of my paintings in this series.

FYI, this is a building that is here in my hometown of Shamrock, Texas.  It is located on the crossroads of Route 66 and highway 83.  The building has been restored, and it has neon lights, and is beautiful at night.  It’s very unusual architecture has made it one of the most photographed buildings on Route 66.  It was featured in Disney’s Pixar Movie, “Cars”, as Ramone’s body shop.

Wish me Luck,

Tweet This Post  Plurk This Post  Buzz This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Ping This Post  Reddit This Post  Stumble This Post 

Yesterday I went with my daughter to the art school at Texas Tech, and listened to a speaker, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., a printer who specialized in Print Press Posters.  There was a documentary done about Mr. Kennedy, and the name of the documentary was “Proceed and be Bold”.

Listening to Mr. Kennedy, was so inspirational to me.  Mr. Kennedy has not always been a printer, he worked in the corporate world for several years.  He has been making prints for the past 7 years in a small town in Georgia.

One thing that really hit home to me, is he said you don’t have to be in a big city like New York to be a successful artist.  You can create your art where ever you are.  Since I am also from a very small town, this made me realize that the possibilities of being a successful artist isn’t out of my reach.

I have been wanting to get back into creating art,  The poster, and the documentary about Mr. Kennedy, has given the inspiration I need to “Proceed and be Bold”.

Not only did Mr. Kennedy inspire me, but he made me think a lot about life.  I really liked his philosophy about life.  When he spoke about thinking outside the box, he gave some examples of maybe thinking what your favorite song would look like as a poster.  Maybe not necessarily just putting the words on there totally, but making an art piece out of it.

I have always heard the statement “Think outside the box” but I never really knew how to do it.  Mr. Kennedy gave us several examples that made me realize what all can be done.

I just want to say :

“ǝɟı1 ʎɯ ǝbuɐɥɔ ǝɯ buıd1ǝɥ ǝ1qıssod puɐ sǝʎǝ ʎɯ buıuǝdo” ɹoɟ ʎpǝuuǝʞ .ɹɯ noʎ ʞuɐɥʇ

Tweet This Post  Plurk This Post  Buzz This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Ping This Post  Reddit This Post  Stumble This Post 

Have you ever searched for your home town on YouTube? You might be surprised what you find.

Okay so my kids have been asking me “Mom what have you been putting on YouTube?”, everyone in town is talking about it. OMG I mean I am trying to stay at home and mind my own business, and I still get talked about in small town America.

I have been involved with affiliate marketing, because it is something I can do from my home, on my computer, and not have to get involved in the small town BS. Okay, so I am helping Affiliate Summit with a new mentor program to help new attendees have a better experience at the Summit. I got up enough courage to actually video myself and talk about this program. Believe me it isn’t easy, I am not a very outgoing person anyway. I had also put a couple of slide shows on YouTube that I had submitted to Affiliate Summit for a contest.

Anyway I guess it was embarrasing to my kids to have their Mom on YouTube. Oh well, I am. So, now what? I started to see what else was out there about this fine small town. These are a few YouTube videos that I found that were about, Shamrock, Texas.

Looks like we have lawn mower races, tornadoes, songs about St. Patrick’s Day “Donagel Beard Contests”, Route 66 and the famous “U-Drop Inn” (featured in the Disney’s Pixar movie Cars, as Ramones Body Shop, and last but not least a video about my Parent’s campground and their long marriage.

Tweet This Post  Plurk This Post  Buzz This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Ping This Post  Reddit This Post  Stumble This Post 

I got home from Affiliate Summit today and went straight to see my Parents. My Mom was excited because she said a couple came in to camp who video taped them to put them on their website. www.thelonglonghoneymoon.com. 

made this very high quality video of my Parents.  My Parents have never really understood how a blog worked or how it could possibly help a business.  I hope this helps them understand, maybe now they will “Get Me”.

Tweet This Post  Plurk This Post  Buzz This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Ping This Post  Reddit This Post  Stumble This Post 

Tummy-Getter Hill 

Memories ! awwww wonderful memories.  I am so lucky to have had my Parents around when my kids were growing up.  My Parents made some really great memories for my kids, memories of love, fun, and laughter. 

My Parents own a campground, so they actually lived in the back of the office of the campground.  My Parent’s also own a farm.  Just east of my Parent’s campground is a hill, the hill has a lot of gypsum rock, and some actual caves.  It could be kind of scary to a small kid, to go near a large hole in the ground that leads to who knows where, especially in the imagination of a child.  My Dad would sometimes load up the grandkids (7 grandkids)  in his pickup truck, (no car seats or seat belts mind you, that is how us country folk do it !) and take them up on this hill, probably to get them out of the house and out of my Mom’s hair. 

After the journey up the hill, they started calling “Fraggle Rock Mountain”,  my Dad would then take them “Round and About on Buttercup Farm”.  I don’t know where that name came from, I remember it from my childhood, maybe there was a song with that in the lyrics, I’m not sure.   Well on with the journey….I don’t know how many of you have been down farm to market roads, country roads, or back roads, (whatever they are called) but they are usually just dirt roads.  Some are winding, some are hilly, some are both.  Here in Texas it is usually dry and when you drive down these roads the dirt flies up behind your vehicle, that is how you can tell is someone is comeing up the road, you see the dirt.  My Dad would take the kids from “Fraggle Rock Mountain”, then “Round and About On Buttercup Farm”.  Last but not least, the ultimate thrill, was going really fast on one of these hills on the backroads and when you came over the hill, it is kind of like a rollercoaster, it gets your tummy.  Hence the name “Tummy-Getter Hill”. 

Memories ! awwww wonderful memories.

Tweet This Post  Plurk This Post  Buzz This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Ping This Post  Reddit This Post  Stumble This Post