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Photo:  Priming boards for CSA

Photo: Sketching by Lake Superior

I am about 25% done with the CSA (Community Supported Art) paintings.  This has already been a great challenge at the same time a lot of fun to work on!  Thinking back to when I was part of a food CSA with Keewaydin farms , I have to laugh thinking about the surprise of opening each box of produce, some of the contents were exciting like bright bunches of kale, others a surprise like the one box that had morels in it!  The CSArt boxes will be the same way, which is part of why I love the idea of participating in this project.  I wonder who purchased shares this year?  I know that everyone has different tastes and that one painting could be the “morel” to on share holder and the “brussel sprout” to another.  Yet just like a brussel sprout in a food share you can always pass it along to a neighbor.  On that note I’d better get back to painting 36 more to go!

Leave a note if you are reading this and purchased a share this season!

Last of the Snow on the South Shore, acrylic on maple, 7 3/4″ x 5  3/4″ (this painting is not part of the CSA but similar to what I’m creating for the project)

Shares for Community Supported Art go on sale tomorrow Morning at 10am! Purchase at the link below,

http://www.springboardforthearts.org/AboutUs/AboutCSA.asp

Remember not to submit your reservation before 10 a.m. on Monday!

For the CSA I will be creating 50 unique paintings, 6″ x 8″ on maple board.  These paintings will depict the life, community and landscape around the the Western end of Lake Superior; from Duluth and the North Shore to the South Shore and the Apostle Islands.