Spring Art Shows are COMING!!

I know it is only February BUT March seems closer than ever! I have Art shows lined up March 23, March 30, April 11, April 29, State VASE for my student's April 5-6 in Bryan College station. SO I have been producing pieces for these shows and planning our big summer trip to the Brazilian Pantanal -hopefully-anticipating Jaguars, Giant River Otters, Giant anteaters, Maned Wolves, Tyras, Storks, Caiman, Anacondas, Howler Monkeys, Ocelots, maybe even a Margay?!?! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I just finished the Mara Elephant ink piece, almost finished with Maggie Gray's professional Wildlife photograph of a Rhino and i added the baby Rhino, added the newly repainted Margay detail painting and finally i got a beautiful scan of my Arabian Oryx painting-which is very large!--And last week Famous Wood Sculptor Tree Artist JIM PHILLIPS visited my Art Classes and Demonstrated carving out a sea turtle ALL DAY LONG with chainsaws and other instruments of carving! He was a huge success for my students who garnered autographs on pieces of carved out wood! Thank you JIM!_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________One bad thing about Spring Art Season is that it is also SOCCER season! and those TWO EVENTS always Conflict with ME! With me playing Soccer games on weekends and having Art Events---Art has slowly been winning that war as each year I get Older! I look forward to sharing good news after all these art shows so I'll cross my fingers and rub a rabbit's foot for luck as these next few months come upon us!______________________THANK you FOR READING and SHARING my WORDS AND ART! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________D O U G H I S E R

Visual Art Event !

What a weekend! My school just experienced a successful Visual Art Scholastic Event, competing at Area UIL competition. 55 High Schools attended the event with over 1700 pieces of art. We had 20 entries from my school's students. The art is judged in 4 categories, Div 1, 2, 3, and 4. @ pieces from ALL of the Art from each categories are chosen for the State event sending a total of 8 pieces to STATE. My students did well, receiving 12 GOLD medals and 2 STATE MEDALS. of the 8 going to State- TWO are from our school, Houston Gateway Academy. I am super proud of my student's hard work and dedication to their own artwork.################################################################################################################################################ The SPring ART SEASON is just around the bend! I have Art shows and engagements lined up and will post more info as i get it on the blog. SO far I have League City Art and Wine Fest march 23,Houston Art Show March 30, Galveston Art Show April 29, April 11 Longhorn Museum Show, and also in March in Texas City is the Mainland Art Fest show. I have also been invited to several other shows but have not worked out the details yet for Old Town Spring and others...................................................................................................................................................AND so EXCITING to take two of my ART Students to Bryan college Station this Spring to the State Visual Arts Event!.........................my novels The Honey Bee Girl and Montana Mist continue to break new ground and the last two months were new best selling months for both books! My time for writing has been extremely limited and it looks bad for the near future for me to find time for working on the new novels until June or July.*************************************************************************************************************************************************More news later on the new large ink piece featuring a solitary elephant and an Acacia Tree in the Masai Mara- I have finished the planning sketch and layout and should start this week on inking in the first layers of technique. Until I find time for more news THANKS for TUNING IN! Doug Hiser