But now I've got some things to share.
First, I've opened a shop at CafePress.com, offering several of my paintings on gift items. I'm starting out small - just a few items, to see if there is any interest. You can check it out at: http://www.cafepress.com/darrsandberg
This little guy is now available on a coffee mug, a "hoodie" sweatjacket for kids, and t-shirts in sizes from toddler to kids large.
Just because someone is small, doesn't mean they are not formidable in their own way.
This portrait of a Fennec Fox, in addition to being available as a giclee print ($200 of which is a direct donation to the Living Desert), is now available on a generic white t-shirt, or a woman's scoop neck t-shirt, also in white.
And this painting of mine is now available on one of four dark colors of t-shirt - Navy blue, military green, brown and charcoal.
Not quite the opulent color palatte of a french chateau, but certainly in keeping with the spirit of the place.
Additionally, I've been asked to teach four art classes for The Living Desert as part of their Living Desert University program. LDU provides a wide-range of classes, on subjects from anthropology, botany and gardening to zoology. The arts program includes native handicraft classes, plein air workshops, and how-to courses. I'll be taking students on a plein air paint out to Pinyon Crest, and teaching three classes on art principles. And of course, there are many, many other worthwhile and fascinating classes offered as part of the LDU program, including some dangerously inspiration gardening classes - so I'll have a link here to the on-line class catalog as soon as it is available.
My portrait of the Arabian Sandcat is very close to finished, as is a small portrait of a cheetah kitten. Those should be done and posted both here and at my gallery site very soon. Every thing else is dawdling along in the summer heat.
