About a week ago I was looking through Craigslist as I normally do to either find people looking for an artist or fishing for idea's. I advertise often not only for myself, but for my fiancé's painting business as well, "Bertsch's Painting". Well, I found an add from the Tri-Cities Trader seeking information on local artists and the best part  was that the publication was offering this service for free. I made contact with Heather Kaas and she was fantastic to work with. I now have my first article in a local publication and I'm feeling pretty happy about it. To see the article just click this link;

http://www.newspaperclub.com/tctrader/k1q937v2-tri-cities-trader-june-2014-issue-1

The official print will be out in about a week. Things just keep moving forward and I'm very thankful for that! 

On May 3rd and May 10th, I set up a booth on each day to display and sell my artwork. Both days seemed to be a little slow on foot traffic, but even with that and weather issues I still was able to go home with a good amount in my pocket. The Seahawk pictures are still doing really well. And the greeting cards were doing very well also. I'm really looking forward to a weekend with good weather and lots of customers. I have lots of work and many suggestions from great people who visited me these last two Saturday's. Thank you everyone for all the support.

I did notice that children loved to stop by and look at my pictures, which helped me realize that maybe instead of doing art classes which I want to do here soon. I can help host painting parties for kids.

I would bring all the supplies for the children to the location of the party and just charge a per child fee. If you would be interested in doing this please send me a message and I'd love to get a party booked. The first customer to get a booking will get a great rate of $10.00 per child and this will be for a one hour session. After that first session the per child rate will go to $15.00 per child. This will include the paint, easel, 8 x 10 canvas, apron, brushes, drop cloths, and clean up. Again just send me a message if your interested.

The image below is of the Hot Air Balloon's just blowing up for the Balloon Stampede, but the wind and weather kept them from taking off.