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Just a quick note to say what's been happening around the studio and elsewhere!

Today is a big day! The commerical starts out in the Central Coast area of California! Thanks to the hard work of Jill at Charter Media and her taking initiative to answer an email, we were able to agree to a really good marketing plan for that area. As you know I love the Central Coast, especially Santa Barbara and San Luis. The stations the commerical will be seen on are six different channels, so it a bit different than where it's being shown here in Cincinnati. If you are in the Central Coast and you catch the commerical, drop me a line to let me know you are here!

The past two Essex shows have been fun and enlightening as well. I've met a number of very nice people and am looking forward to the next one. The dates are December 7th and 8th from 6:00 to 11:00 PM. There will be some new paintings displayed and I'm hopeful I can get the one I'm working on now done for the show.

I'm in the process of working with Alliance Printing to get greeting cards available for purchase at the Essex show and various places around Middletown. The cards will be selling 6 for $5.00 and I've already gotten a few orders in. The six paintings that will be featured on the cards are, the Sea Otter (Mother and Pup), the Middletown Farmer's Market, Chandon Winery (the waterfall with the tree stump), Caesar's Creek Lake, Muse Magic and the Golden Gate Bridge. You can get them in a variety pack or six of the same painting. These make great little Holiday gifts--stocking stuffers and such.

On November 24th, I'll be showing and selling art at the Barn Burner Benefit in Wyoming to benefit St. James of the Valley. This is an annual fundraiser and not only are they holding an art sale, but two winetastings as well. The benefit starts at 12 and runs to 6:00 pm. Looking forward to this event and meeting new folks there.

A workshop page has been added to the site and I've posted the workshop offerings for the first half of 2008. There are web design workshops, color theory and basic foundation workshops and plein air workshops. There is also a Plein Air Adventure workshop schedule for June 16-20th in Colorado. The adventure will take place in Red Rocks State Park and the Rocky Mountains National Park where we'll paint outdoors. Be sure to sign up early for the workshops. They are limited in size to make sure that every student gets ample instruction time.

I'll be updating the site soon with some recently finished paintings. I've schedule a lot of studio time in over the next few months! Some of what I'm going to paint won't be posted until after an upcoming, still unannounced show, but I will post some work I'll be doing here.

Here's hoping everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season...and that 2008 is even better and more fun than 2007!!
All the best to you and yours,
Linda