Paradise City Arts Festival Founder, Linda H. Post with artist Vitek Kruta from Massachusetts.
Quilt artist, Carol Lee Heisler, Lorac Designs of East Norriton, PA. Paradise City Arts Festival.
Mark Jeremy Gleberzons acrylic paintings on canvas are real eye-grabbers; yeah, Mark
s Canadian. Paradise City Arts Festival. 
Album Cover Art recycled into handbags by Bethlehem PA’s AlbumCoverHandbags. Paradise City Arts Festival
DoN thinks the handbags recycled from old album covers are divine, especially the B52s; DoN reminded ACH that Frank Sinatra is dead.
High energy art by Don & Cheryl Olney of Louise’s Daughter of Rochester, NY. Paradise City Arts Festival.
DoN was drawn into Louise’s Daughter’s dreamy world of good karma, peace and joy; Don & Cheryl are a delightful couple, married 20 years and doing work they both enjoy – does it get better than that?
Dennis Guzenski of J.P. Design’s Lightweight Paper Sculpture. Paradise City Arts Festival.
Jeanne Petrosky of Pottstown, PA’s J.P. Designs creates wall art that looks like stone but is light as a feather; perfect for creating a dramatic interior design without the worry of wrecking your walls.
Natalie Blake develops tile multiples of ceramic which can be arranged and rearranged at your whim. Paradise City Arts Festival.
Natalie Blake’s art allows the collector to mix and match to their heart’s content and Natalie Blake Studio’s website is pretty cool, too. Natalie is from Brattleboro, VT – the town that passed an ordinance proclaiming they would arrest President Bush or Dick Cheney if they set foot in their town? DoN LoVes Brattleboro.
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Scott Ruesswick of Turned Wood Art from Canterbury, NH where beards are essential. Paradise City Arts Festival.
Scott E. Matyjaszek, photographer from Rochester NY @ Paradise City Arts Festival.
Scott Matyjaszek and DoN had a fascinating conversation about photography and the inherent idea of the unlimited potential of spreading art around the world. Scott prices his work very reasonably so they are accessible but we both agreed if you want to own a limited edition photograph expect it’s going to be in the four figure and up range. Matyjaszek creates photographic images with 3D techniques that are intriguing, inspiring and affordable.
Saturday DoN and about fifty others attended a lecture by Philadelphia’s finest artist, Paul DuSold at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art’s Cecelia Beaux exhibit. DuSold is a favorite teacher of many local painters and brought his depth of knowledge of painting to the work by the pioneering woman artist. Recognized by her peers as “the greatest woman painter that ever lived,” Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was a trailblazing artist who achieved international acclaim painting portraits of prominent figures of her day. 100 oil paintings, works on paper, decorative objects, and archival documents (PAFA website). Paul DuSold explained how warm and cool temperature tones, dark and light color choices, ambiguous edges compared to crisp line, even brush size choices helped make Beaux one of the most successful female artists of her time and a favorite portrait artist of many aristocrats. DuSold brought some lucidity to what may have seemed to be a conventional portrait exhibit. Paul DuSold is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery and teaches painting and drawing at Fleisher Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum.
Artist and teacher Paul DuSold @ PAFA’s Cecelia Beaux exhibit.