The first day of my ArtPrize adventure was full of painting hanging prep, including some basic supplies shopping, and rest. The evening was a fun jaunt to the artist's party where I got my swag bag and met other artists. The whole time I felt a bit fluttery with my anticipation of hanging 101 paintings on a brick wall the following two days.
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| A less glamorous perhaps a bit industrial little piece of Gran Rapids downtown where we parked before going to the Artist's party. I love the soft stillness that the early evening cool aqua sky brought to the world in that moment. |
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| It was good silly fun to get "red carpet" photo in front of the ArtPrize wall with my swag bag, artist's badge, and freshly made pipe cleaner bug. |
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| The chalkboard wall in the artist's clubhouse. Sadly, I never contributed, though it looked enticing. I was busy waiting in line for my swag bag. ;-) |
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| Another view of the artist's clubhouse. Do you see all those colorful squiggles on that divider? Those are pipe cleaners. The line for swag bags took quite awhile, and though chatting was happening it would have definitely dragged without those pipe cleaners. I made an imaginary bug with several different colors, and my Mom made a wand sprouting with magic. The other artist we were with was content to watch our progress. |
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| After all the hubbub over getting swag bags and chatting we had gotten very little food, so on the way back we stopped here. I'm sure this is quite an ordinary sight in this part of the country, but the vintage look of this fast food chain made it more appealing than other late night fast food options. A good munch was had and the day was ended on an expectant note. |
