Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 05:33AM I was a part of this year's Fresh A.I.R. Gallery fundraiser at Columbus Museum of Art on 11-3-2017. Seven of us painters did a live painting demo on stage in the auditorium. Our model impersonated Andy Wahol and he was in the character all the while he was posing for us, holding a camera and talking about shoes and such... Here are a few snapshots from this event.
Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 04:55PM I participated in the fundraiser for Fresh A.I.R. Gallery for the seciond time. I decided to do a drawing this time because I had had a kind of frustrating experience last year for the lighting being so bad I couldn't even see the colors I was using. Ironically this year my gessoed board was receiving very steady spotlight. Funny how things work! Anyway, I finished a charcoal drawing. Here are some snapshots.
Here is John, working on his piece.
John and Chuck. Mike is behind them.
Angela taking a break. She had a nice painting.
Karen working on her painting with a big brush.
Sean talking to one of the guests. Kevin is seen in the back.
Pertain and her drawing.
Sean displaying his master strokes.
My work in progress.
My piece almost finished.
Auction display view. From left, Pertain, Kevin, Chuck, Sean and me.
Me, Karen, Angela, John.
Mike.
The names of the participating artists.
Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 12:03AM 
Tonight I participated in a fundraiser by Fresh A.I.R. Gallery. Fresh A.I.R. is located in downtown Columbus, and it works for and with artists with mental handicaps. I was invited to be part of this event through my painter friends I work with every Monday. It was for a worthy cause, sounded like fun, and I personally know the director of the gallery Kim, so of course I said, "yes". The event took place in a Hilton hotel downtown. We had 2 models set up for tonight. We started painting around 5pm. The party started at 5:30pm and continued on to 10pm although I left there around 9:30pm. It was in a room called George Bellows Ballroom and the place became very crowded by the time a live auction started. The lighting was dim, then later on it got even dimmer both on models and on my painting. So it was very difficult to see colors and my painting went a little too far in the purple direction for that. But, hey, people seemed to be having a ball, the food was good and it looked like the auction went well. So I couldn't complain. After finishing our paintings, we set them up on easels on the tables to be silent-auctioned during the event. I hope my painting collected some money for the gallery. Below are a few snapshots of the display. The pictures are not good. The focus is soft and painting got some glare. But these are all I got since I had to leave my painting at the event.
S.E. Steele happened to be at the event and took a photo of me and Sean working. Thanks Stephanie!
