Save the Studio/Customer Appreciation Day at the Studio

This Saturday, September 28th, at Nuttall Art Studio, is a Customer Appreciation Day. The 2 goals for this are: to show my customers my thanks and to raise money to keep the studio open so the local schools can continue to be offered free tours and lessons (while touring), so lessons are still available for all ages, and much more. Bring money. Tell your friends and family. IF YOU BELIEVE in this studio and/or my artwork, stop in. It goes from 12:30-5:30, with snacks and drinks. If you attend, you WILL NOT walk away empty-handed!! Please make sure you sign the sign-in sheet, or put your name on a slip of paper and put in the "attendance" box with your e-mail or mailing address. Also, I will have a donation box at the event to raise funds for a portrait for Nate Payne's family. A West Branch family has lost a member of their family, and the father is in critical condition in the hospital after the two were involved in a car accident. It has shaken the community quite a bit, as he was a popular kid. I want to help, but since I'm struggling to keep the studio (and my sanity), I can only give what I can offer, which is my ability to draw and paint. I will accept ANY amount donated and do a drawing or painting for the family of Nate Payne and his family. If I wasn't throwing this event to save the studio, I would do the artwork for free, and to frame it costs money. I wouldn't want to give them artwork that they have to frame. The family WILL get the drawing at no cost to them. Please spread the word.

Look what my STUDENT did!!!

This is my 10 1/2 yr old student Kylee with her charcoal portrait she did during her lessons at the studio. I instructed, she listened and drew. If you aren't sure who it is, it's Katy Perry. I think she did a great job!

NEW SPECIAL, making Fridays worthwhile!

I've decided to have "$50 Fridays", where if you visit the studio or call the studio number (989-701-7287)on Fridays, you can get a 16x20 drawing OR painting with up to 2 subjects for ONLY $50 (regular cost $160)!!! Money HAS to be in my hand on Friday, however. Each additional subject after 2 is $15. And, I do believe that TODAY is Friday....

VERY limited time only

SPECIAL!! $216 18x24 drawing for only $100! Deal ends Monday! Up to 3 subjects, every subject thereafter is $15 each. Any takers? Contact me ASAP here or call me or stop by the studio

Giving away SWAG!!!!! And selling swag, too!

Available at the Studio's Anniversary shin-dig, for example, for sale or raffle-

Slow news day

Barry Stutesman of Michigan Magazine Michigan Magazine visited the studio today and interviewed me and shot footage of the studio. I think it went pretty well. I'll keep you posted when it airs, where it airs and who knows, I might have a viewing party at the studio (there's plenty of food left over from my Customer Appreciation party, after all)

Home Sweet Home

The West Branch Artist Pool show at Kirtland is now over and the remainder of my work is back in the studio, as well as some of Melissa's ceramics, too. So the studio is full of work. My body of work is back. Come check it out.

Where I Work

For those of you who can't make it to my studio, here's a glimpse of it. There's more, but I don't wanna spoil it for those who CAN make it!

Harumph!

There's a filthy rumor going around that today is my birthday. Well, it is. To celebrate, I am not doing anything productive. I would prefer to work in the studio, but it's not an option, so I'm dragging my butt instead.Here's me with my traditional birthday Yorkshire Pudding.

I'm excited to get back into the studio! I have new reference material for more POPEYE portraits! I just wish there was more interest in my Popeye series. Not to sell, but just general interest. Positive interest, that is! Oh, well. The series really is just for myself and Popeye fans to view. That's what being an artist is about (in part), to create for the sake of creating and do what you love to do.

(I've Got) Dreams, Dreeeaaams to try to remember

Now that I have the studio, and most of my stuff is moved in, I don't know where to begin!! I have SO many projects I want to do, and some I HAVE to get done, but I've decided to finish the ones I've started before I begin my "wish list", but after the "have to" projects. However, I only have one table, one chair and 2 easels. I need shelves, another table (I can't figure out how to put together my old drawing table!), more seating, and thumbtacks and a mini fridge.


Ok, I can hold off on the mini-fridge.

I'm having an opening for the studio to invite friends and the public to see what I'm doing, where I'm doing it and what's in store. The opening is Saturday, May 8th from 4-6. It is alcohol-free. There will be snacks and drinks. The space is small for large groups, but there's a lobby area for meandering and what-not. The address is 105 N. 3rd St. West Branch, MI 48661.
I now have a place to offer lessons, so I'm strongly pushing that right now as well. This is a working studio, not a business. I don't have cash on site. It's a studio for me to do my work, offer lessons and for the public and interested parties to see what I do. If someone likes what they see and want to purchase, that's another story. As long as I'm there, Nuttall Art Studio is open to the public.

Nuttall Art Studio (first look)

Sack the Hacking

Ok, this is the third time I've been hacked. I am getting very aggravated. But I will not quit!
I am close to getting a studio space! My problem has been no money, as business died right after Christmas and some of the promising prospects that were supposed to move me positively into the new year seems to have folded up and disappeared, in spite of my best efforts. If I do get this studio space, I will use it to draw, paint, possibly photo shoots, meetings and lessons. It will also be used to display work. It would be an open studio, as in people can come in whenever I'm there and see what I do. I'm a very open artist. I'm used to creating with an audience. I also hope to have a kind of an open house/grand opening. Nothing big, some Doritos and punch. The disadvantage to the space is that it's an upstairs office space with no handicap access. I will keep everyone up to date. Until then, here's a piece that I have very nearly finished.