Artown is coming

Yes, the Reno Rodeo starts next week, but the next big event will be Artown. A month long celebration of the arts.

Sunflower Heaven

Another Sunflower

More Sunflowers

Sunflowers

The season for these wonderful specimens of nature is just around the corner

Reno Native Remy Glock…

…a Designer and Illustrator by trade and an up and coming Muralist from Chicago was busy applying her artistry to the normally drab gray utility box in front of the Pioneer Center… Adding those final touches to her masterpiece on the final day…

Giant Mural Day 2

Rainbow Crosswalk

The city has decided to paint the crosswalk running under the Reno Arch in rainbow colors, to celebrate Pride Month. This image was shot shortly after workers painted the colorful stripes. The traffic cones were still out to control both foot and car traffic. This is what it looks like 6 hours later…

The big mural continues…

I went back after dinner to see how far along they got with the 18,000 sq ft mural. And what I found was some serious, get down on hands and knees, precision measuring going on to get things juuuusssst right…

Murals big and small

A crew of painters were busy creating a giant mural on the downtown ReTRAC plaza. The 18,000 sq ft gray slab, covering the railroad track trench below, will be covered by a mural envisioned by artist Brad Carney, a Philadelphia based muralist. In the mean time, a few blocks south, a smaller mural was being

Photoshop Flowers

I don’t normally use Photoshop to process my images, but because it’s part of my subscription, I decided to go on a discovery mission and discovered a filter that enhances lines in images and gives them the perception of depth, like in an oil painting with brush strokes. It works so well with flowers, I

Watercolor Artist…

…relaxing on the riverbank, in the shade, creating one of his masterpieces.

One of the things I’ve missed…

…this past year are the art exhibits in the lobby of City Hall. Every month they showcase an artist’s work for an entire month for all to see. Now that the ground floor of City Hall is open again, the exhibits are back as well

Horse Sculpture

One of the sculptures made with spare metal parts displayed in Centennial Park, just down the river from Wingfield Park

Old style brick building

They don’t make brick structures like this anymore…