The weekend prior to the 4th of July was the first Saturday of the Month is when the local art galleries and shops remain open serving commerce and art (punch) while the local people and tourists (but who really comes to Humboldt Co. to see Eureka) move about and check stuff out; it’s called Art’s Alive! The last evening like this back in June was quite auspicious as my brother and mum had paintings that were featured in one of the local galleries. Since they have both been painting for a few years it was a nice chance for them to get to show their stuff. Then here about 2 weeks ago they ended up with a half page article that included two large full colored images of painting that they had done. This recently local fame coincided with my brother’s band the Never Too Betters wining round 1 of an online battle of the bands competition. Anywho capitalizing on these two events my family decided to open clean up a run down old Victorian house that my Dad bought a few years ago. All part of an eventual plan to transform the downstairs of this house into a full time art gallery featuring many artists they began by featuring some of the paintings of my brother and my mom. I was there for Art’s Alive and along with a friend we got some images of the festivities as the band played to promote their candidacy in the battle of the bands which you can link to and vote for the Never Too Betters Wednesday July 12th between 8:15 AM and 10:00 AM PDT. I don’t know if they will find artistic success or maybe they already have but this counts as a festive evening around these parts so I felt obligated to post about it to spread the word onto the net.
My Brother doing his Jimi Hendrix impression. Ironic since they both usually play/played guitar.
The Band had a pretty sweet set up on the backside of the old Victorian. Behind the drummer Kevin Blevin (I kid you not I’ve know him for like 17 years) you can see a piece of wood that is supporting the delapitating stairs. The guy in green showed up with his gal and was just there to check it out; I’m the guy in the gray looking on like an A and D rep. for some indie label.
The two kids came into the showand my mom showed them a few of her paintings.
Here are a few of my brother’s paintings, I like the 3 part one on the left. My dad made the frame for him custom and it’s pretty cool.
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