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DAVe Warnke

DAVe Warnke's Drawing

Todd Berman

Todd Berman's Drawing

Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes's Drawing

I had heard about the Hang Art gallery many times from friends and fellow artist and I've have walked by it while downtown shopping with the wife more times than I can remember. Most of the time I just look in the window, but today was going to be different.

Hang Art was holding and event of the kind I just love to go too, the kind where you get to watch and talk to the artist while they are working. It's almost like taking a free art class and the networking with other artist is always fun and educational.

Featured artist for the day where DAVe Warnke, Jylian Gustlin, Catherine Mackey, Liz Maxwell, Jose Arenas, Erik Jacobsen, Diane Rollins Feissel, Siddharth Parasnis, and others.

I got there early so not everyone was there yet but it gave me the chance to talk to a few of the artist before crowds of people would be milling about.

I spent some time chatting to DAVe about his very interesting marker drawings and a little about his gorilla style self promotion tactics. You may have seen some of his posters and stickers around town with his amusing surreal characters and the name "DAVe". Anyway DAVe had some of his drawing out on his table so people could color their very own DAVe art, which I thought was fun idea and a great way to have people get involved in his art. After chatting a little while DAVe was even nice enough to do a little art trade with me, which I thought was really nice as these days it's pretty rare to get free art.

Todd Berman was another interesting fellow that was doing quick sketches of random people at the gallery. His speed is really pretty amazing and I liked the drawing, so I exchanged a little coin of the realm with him for the sketch he did of me when I was just sitting around. Someday I might try to have him do one of Cyn for our little home gallery.

I was also watching several other artist working on charcoal drawings and acrylic paintings, but something about Josh Keyes drawing of our little world covered in street signs caught my imagination. I don't even know how to describe his drawings other than to call them Bio Spheres of a sort. It's much easier to understand them by just looking at them, so be sure to check out his site.

The Hang Art gallery itself is a inviting space to walk around with a very nice range of artwork and styles. Little did I know I would bump into Eric working there that I had met sometime before at a Jon "Bean" Hastings Drawing Class at the Cartoon Art Museum. A rather nice fellow that explained to me how the gallery works and the artist selection process and all that other gallery stuff that I know nothing about. He was kind enough to ask me to send in a CD when I'm ready of some works that I'm still pulling together.

So while I had to leave early in the day and didn't get to experience the whole event, I can say it was a good experience and one I would gladly go to again ... maybe next time I'll be a featured artist ... hey it could happen, don't laugh.