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Mother’s Day weekend was pretty momentous. The Greenbelt Green Man Festival was held for the first time since 2019. (It was canceled for the last two years due to the Coronavirus pandemic.) Once again it was scheduled for Mother’s Day weekend but, with the weather being the way it was that weekend, maybe the organizers should’ve waited and scheduled it for Father’s Day on the following month (especially since the Green Man is traditionally a male deity).
The first day of the festival was very cold (the temperature didn’t even go above 50 degrees Fahrenheit) and it rained a lot. The awful weather was among the reasons why I chose to go to the indoor Free Comic Book Day event at the nearby Beltway Plaza mall instead of the first day of Green Man.
The day before the festival I submitted this fan art that I did to the Green Man Art Show that was also launched at The New Deal Cafe on the same weekend as the festival and it ran for several weeks afterwards.
In the Field of Sunflowers (Care Bears Fan Art)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, water-soluble wax crayons
8 inches x 10 inches
20 cm x 25 cm
You can learn more about the making of this piece right here.
As for Mother’s Day itself, it had stopped raining but the weather was very cool with temperatures being in the high 40’s. I initially went to the Farmers Market since it was the first day of the 2022 season. (The Greenbelt Farmers Market generally runs on Sundays from May-December.)
They had live entertainment at the Farmers Market featuring a singer and an accordion player.
I shot a short video of their performance, which I uploaded on to TikTok, Clapper, and YouTube.
The Farmers Market had a booth known as the Tea Fairy. One of my friends was staffing it (she was helping out the woman who portrayed the Tea Fairy), which was why I took a few shots of that booth.
The Tea Fairy had this deal where you could get a free balloon animal or flower in exchange for a $5 donation. I made the donation and chose a dog as my balloon piece.
Afterwards I walked over to the nearby Greenbelt Green Man Festival. It was sparse compared to previous years with fewer vendors, exhibits, and performers overall. Part of the reason was because it was being held for the first time in three years (since COVID-19 had prompted the cancellation of the last two years) and part of the reason was because the weather was so cold and wet. (The ground was still wet from the previous day’s rain.) The live acts were originally scheduled to perform on an outdoor stage but the performers were moved indoors to the nearby New Deal Cafe because the weather was so incredibly cold. But the empty stage became a play area for some energetic kids.
Other years I’ve seen people wear festive clothes like flower crowns and Renaissance-style clothes. I decided to wear a glitter Minnie Mouse headband that I bought at Walmart with a pair of fairy wings that I purchased from a Spirit of Halloween store a few years ago. I was one of the few people who actually dressed up for this festival because the weather was cold and rainy.
And here’s me with my new balloon dog that I got from the Tea Fairy booth at the nearby Greenbelt Farmers Market.
One of the festival volunteers was urging people to see the live acts in the New Deal Cafe.
Here are some various shots of the festival where you can see the few people milling around wearing heavy clothes due to the cold weather along with just a few of the handcrafted items that were on sale. (I noticed that there were fewer vendors than in previous years.)
The last few photos are of the things I purchased from the Farmers Market and Green Man Festival. They basically consisted of the balloon dog and five bars of handcrafted soaps that I purchased from two different vendors. (At least I won’t have any problems with keeping myself clean for the next few months. LOL!)
Here’s a shot of my balloon dog.
Two of the soap bars came from Mystic Water Soap, which is based in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
The other three bars came from another local vendor known as Root Down Cleansing.
Here’s a silly photo I shot of the balloon dog with my two Disney Nuimos, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
I’m currently participating in the Green Man Art Show that’s being held at the New Deal Cafe in Greenbelt, Maryland. Here is my work that is currently on display.
In the Field of Sunflowers (Care Bears Fan Art)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, water-soluble wax crayons
8 inches x 10 inches
20 cm x 25 cm
You can learn more about the making of this piece right here.
Both the art show and reception will be held at this location:
The New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway (located in Roosevelt Center)
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Directions can be found here.
This Sunday, June 5, 2022 there will be a reception for the Greenbelt Green Man Art Show that I’m currently participating in. This is the same art show that began to coincide with the Greenbelt Green Man Festival, which was held a few weeks ago. The reception will run from 2-4 p.m. and you can not only see my art in person but you’ll have the chance to meet me as well. My art is currently available for sale so it’s an opportunity for you to ask me any questions you may have about my work. Here is what I’m currently displaying in the show.
In the Field of Sunflowers (Care Bears Fan Art)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, water-soluble wax crayons
8 inches x 10 inches
20 cm x 25 cm
You can learn more about the making of this piece right here.
Both the art show and reception will be held at this location:
The New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway (located in Roosevelt Center)
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Directions can be found here.
I’m participating in an art show that’s being run in conjunction with this past weekend’s Greenbelt Green Man Festival. The festival itself is over but the art show will continue until next month. You can not only view my art in person but you’ll also have the opportunity to buy it as well. Here’s a preview:
In the Field of Sunflowers (Care Bears Fan Art)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, water-soluble wax crayons
8 inches x 10 inches
20 cm x 25 cm
You can learn more about the making of this piece right here.
Here is where you can view and even purchase my work:
The New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway (located in Roosevelt Center)
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Directions can be found here.
Starting this week you can have the chance to both see and purchase my most recent work in person. Here is my contribution to a special exhibit, which is a tie-in with this weekend’s Greenbelt Green Man Festival.
In the Field of Sunflowers (Care Bears Fan Art)
Watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, water-soluble wax crayons
8 inches x 10 inches
20 cm x 25 cm
You can learn more about the making of this piece right here. It is being displayed as part of a special exhibit that is being opened at the New Deal Cafe concurrently with this weekend’s Greenbelt Green Man Festival and will run through the months of May and June. Here is where you can view and even purchase my work:
The New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway (located in Roosevelt Center)
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Directions can be found here.
I recently announced that I’ve donated two of my paintings to be auctioned off in a special auction that will benefit the New Deal Cafe, which has taken a steep financial hit due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
I created a video ad for my auction, which I’ve uploaded to all of my social media accounts. Here it is in its entire one-minute glory.
You can find the auction listing for my paintings right here. To see the entire auction catalog, click here. This auction will run until September 26 so bid now!
I have donated two of my paintings to a charity auction that is going to support The New Deal Cafe, a non-profit cooperatively-owned coffee house that’s located in the heart of Greenbelt, Maryland. This place not only currently serves plant-based Italian food that’s vegan-friendly but its performing arts space has earned the cafe’s reputation as being among the best live performance spaces in the Washington, DC area. Like many small businesses and organizations, The New Deal Cafe has been financially hurting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic so the money raised from this auction will help keep the cafe financially afloat for a little bit longer until the in-person dining and live performances can safely resume. (As for the food, the cafe currently only offers takeout and outdoor dining options.)
Here are the two paintings I have donated to this auction.
Desire
Acrylic on canvas
9 inches x 12 inches
23 cm x 30 cm
My Little Pony
Acrylic on canvas
10 inches x 10 inches
25 cm x 25 cm
The auction will be held online at 32auctions. You can bid directly on my paintings right here. For the other items that are being auctioned, click here. There will be a special preview of what is available for sale from September 1-6, 2020. The actual auction itself will run from September 8-26, 2020.
So bid often and good luck!
This year I’m taking part in the 20th anniversary edition of Artomatic. Unlike previous Artomatics, this one will be a virtual event due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Trying to provide a direct link to my Artomatic exhibit is a challenge due to the way the website is designed, which I already griped about in this blog. I decided to write a separate post focusing on what I currently have on display just in case you don’t want to deal with the horrible interface of the official Artomatic website. I’ve included the size and price of each item. Purchasing information will be posted at the bottom of this post.
Desire
Acrylic on canvas
9 inches x 12 inches
23 cm x 30 cm
Price: $125
Robot in the Park
Mixed media (circuit board, rubber superball, tin, plastic 8-ball, string, glass beads, sticker, and acrylic paint on canvas)
5 inches x 5 inches
13 cm x 13 cm
Price: $50
My Little Pony
Acrylic on canvas
10 inches x 10 inches
25 cm x 25 cm
Price: $100
Souseiseki and Suiseiseki from the anime Rozen Maiden
Acrylic on canvas tote bag
15 inches x 10 inches x 5.5 inches
Price: $125
Fashion Show
LEGO Minifig and acrylic paint on canvas
4 inches x 4 inches
10 cm x 10 cm
Price: $10
Unfortunately the Artomatic website has a limit of just five art pieces, which is a far cry from the real-life shows where we were only limited by the amount of space we had in our area so we could fit as much art as the space could hold. I can change the graphics and descriptions so if I don’t get much response to what I have now, I’ll probably swap them in a couple of weeks for other art that I’ve done.
Artomatic will run until August 20, 2020. As for purchases, I am only accepting payments through PayPal. If you live within a five-mile radius of my home, I will provide free contactless delivery to your front door. For addresses further than five miles I will ship Priority Mail with the U.S. Post Office. To begin making a purchase, contact me via email at kimstark61 at gmail dot com.
UPDATE (August 9, 2020): I have received no notices from anyone regarding my work. In an effort to increase interest in my exhibition, I attempted to swap out what I currently have on display with more art only to discover that the Edit button that used to be there has been completely removed. So it looks like what you see in this entry will remain as my official Artomatic exhibition until the show officially closes on August 20, 2020.
UPDATE (August 20, 2020): Today is the last day of the virtual exhibit. I haven’t gotten any sales or attention from what I displayed. I’ll admit that I haven’t attended any of the virtual workshops or other virtual events at this Artomatic mainly because I was busy with other things going on in my life. This year’s virtual Artomatic was not quite the same as being there in person but I gave it my best shot so I’m not going to let it bother me at all. I’ll probably check out some of the prerecorded workshops that took place this year at a later date.
For today’s drawing I continued with Disney animator Michael Woodside’s Drawing With Woodsy YouTube series. I decided to draw Vanellope Von Schweetz from the Disney movie Wreck It Ralph.
I love both Wreck It Ralph movies because they deal with the video arcade culture that literally defined my entire youth from the time I was in middle school through high school, college, and the first few years as being a full functioning young adult newlywed. I’m old enough to remember when Pong was first released and it definitely stood out among the pinball machines that were common in shopping malls in those days. The fun part about both Wreck It Ralph movies is seeing the cameos of a number of video game characters from such classic arcade games as Pac-Man, Q*bert, Super Mario Bros., and many others.
I have a soft spot for Vanellope Von Schweetz because, on the surface, she may look like a girly girl but she definitely is a feisty, bold, and brash girl with a need for speed every time she gets in her race car. She was a bit more of a challenge to draw compared to Mickey or Donald but I thought the end result was okay. At least the average person who has seen Wreck It Ralph will recognize her (or so I hope).
If you want to take a crack at drawing Vanellope yourself, you can check out Michael Woodside’s free tutorial right here.
Last week I finally mailed off my entry in The Brooklyn Art Library’s ongoing Sketchbook Project. The origins of that one can be traced to my involvement in last year’s Inktober 2019 (where the object is to create one new ink drawing then share it on social media evert day from October 1-31). One of my Facebook friends who is also my neighbor saw some of my work that I posted on that social media site and she messaged me with this tantalizing proposition. A few months ago she had decided to take part in The Sketchbook Project and she even sent away for the sketchbook, which also included a few ink pens (one was a black fine line pen and the others were brush-like ink pens in black, brown, green, and red). Then she was distracted by other things in her life and she hadn’t started her sketchbook by the time October came. She asked me if I would take over her sketchbook for free. I said yes and she gave me the sketchbook, the included ink pens, and her log-in information for the website.
Since I had already planned and started work on the bulk of the sketches for Inktober, I couldn’t begin work on this new sketchbook immediately. I decided to continue with my current sketchbook for the rest of Inktober then immediately switch to the new sketchbook after the month of October ended.
I finally took a look at The Sketchbook Project in early November and I saw that it had a February 1 deadline, which meant that I only had three months to fill it in then mail it to New York City. I hit upon an idea where I would do The Twelve Drawings of Christmas for the second year in a row while using this sketchbook for the drawings. (Which means that longtime readers of this blog will recognize at least half of the drawings in this post.) While I focused exclusively on winter/Christmas themes for the 2018 edition, for the 2019 edition I decided to include fewer Christmas-themed drawings since I was using a sketchbook that would ultimately be sent elsewhere and it would be looked at by other people (some of whom may not even celebrate Christmas at all) at other times of the year besides the winter holiday season.
I began doing the first of the drawings in this new sketchbook using the included pens only to discover that the paper was a bit on the thin side so the ink would bleed through to the other side. I initially thought about switching to just pencils so I could use both sides of each page but I only had three months to fill in this sketchbook before it was time for me to mail it back in and I had other things going on in my life so I really couldn’t devote 40-60 hours a week on this project.
So I came up with the idea of pasting my own photographs on the other side of each bled-through page once I finished with each ink drawing. Using photographs definitely cut the amount of work on that sketchbook since printing and gluing the photo on a page is way quicker than drawing. This sketchbook would highlight my talents as an artist and photographer just like this blog.
For the photographs I decided on a theme. This year is the 10th anniversary of this blog so I decided to use only those photos that I had previously highlighted in this blog. Despite putting that limitation on myself, I still had a challenge of sifting through hundreds of photographs from the last 10 years in order to decide which ones I would actually use. For every photo I decided to use, there were probably hundreds of others that I could have also used. I also made an effort to have a variety of photographs so I wouldn’t get pegged by others as being only a photojournalist or only a portrait photographer or only a nature photographer, etc.
Once I finished my sketchbook the first thing I did before I sent it back to New York City was to make a YouTube video. If you like to listen to music while viewing my work, here is the video.
If you prefer to viewing still photos, I’ll list them here in the order that they were placed in the sketchbook. Every drawing and photograph have previously been mentioned in this blog so I’ll provide a link to the post in case you want to read about the story behind each visual. (The link will open in a new window.)
OUTSIDE FRONT COVER
INSIDE FRONT COVER
PAGE 1: THE JOKER AND ARTHUR FLECK
PAGE 2: MADONNA GIRL DALE
PAGE 3: A COSTUMED PERFORMER AT THE 2010 PIGTOWN FESTIVAL IN BALTIMORE
PAGE 4: HOWARD THE DUCK FAN ART
PAGE 5: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
PAGE 6: CLIMATE STRIKE PROTESTER WITH TRUMP BABY BALLOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
PAGE 7: BRUNI FROM FROZEN 2
PAGE 8: BLUE HERON IN PALMETTO, FLORIDA
PAGE 9: VOLKS DOLLFIE DREAM DOLL PEEKING FROM BEHIND CHERRY BLOSSOM TREE
PAGE 10: UNDER THE ZENTANGLE SEA
PAGE 11: BABY YODA IN MEAN CUTIES
PAGE 12: VOLKS DOLLFIE DREAM DOLL IN CHERRY BLOSSOM TREE
PAGE 13: FALL FOLIAGE AT CLARK’S ELIOAK FARM IN ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND
PAGE 14: HATSUNE MIKU AND THE CLAUSES
PAGE 15: A PENGUIN NATIVITY SCENE WITH LINUX
PAGE 16: 2014 COWBOY AND INDIAN ALLIANCE PROTEST AGAINST THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
PAGE 17: COPS IN RIOT GEAR AT THE INNER HARBOR IN BALTIMORE DURING THE BALTIMORE UPRISING PROTESTING THE MURDER OF FREDDIE GRAY BY THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE IN 2015
PAGE 18: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FLAMING CHALICE
PAGE 19: ROSCOE THE ROOSTER MEMORIAL IN TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND
PAGE 20: STATUE OUTSIDE OF ANN’S DARI-CREME IN GLEN BURNIE, MARYLAND
PAGE 21: BABY RAFAEL
PAGE 22: KRAMPUS TAKING DONALD TRUMP AWAY
PAGE 23: JOLENE SUGARBAKER
PAGE 24: COUNTER-PROTESTERS AT THE 2018 UNITE THE RIGHT 2 RALLY IN WASHINGTON, DC
PAGE 25: THE MAY DAY 2015 PROTEST AGAINST THE KILLING OF FREDDIE GRAY BY THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE AT THE INNER HARBOR IN BALTIMORE
PAGE 26: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE RAVEN
PAGE 27: UNDER THE ORANGE SKY
PAGE 28: OCCUPY DC (PART OF THE LARGER OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT), MCPHERSON SQUARE, WASHINGTON, DC, NOVEMBER 5, 2011
PAGE 29: BUTTERFLY ON A FLOWER AT BROOKSIDE GARDENS IN WHEATON, MARYLAND
PAGE 30: DONALD TRUMP AND HARLEY QUINN
PAGE 31: COBB ISLAND, MARYLAND
PAGE 32: RAINBOW OVER NORTH BEACH, MARYLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
INSIDE BACK COVER
OUTSIDE BACK COVER
I felt a really great achievement in finishing this. There was a part of me that felt sorry that I had to mail it to New York City but that’s the way it goes. In a way working on this project is like having a child. You nuture it and make your own imprint on it but ultimately you have to let it go out into the wider world on its own as a completely independent entity. I don’t know if I’ll ever see my sketchbook again in person (let alone actually hold it in my hands one more time) but it was time for me to let go of it. At least I shot enough pictures and video footage so I can at least look at it again if I ever begin to feel sad over no longer having that sketchbook in my possession.
Yesterday I received an email from The Sketchbook Project informing me that my sketchbook has been assigned a new call number:
383.10-4
So if anyone ever goes to the Brooklyn Art Library and wants to see my sketchbook in person, you now know how to look for it.
From time to time I’ll probably log into the official website to see if anyone has checked it out or if the Brooklyn Art Library has sent it out on a road trip of some sort. It would interesting to see in the future whatever happened to that sketchbook. But right now I’m going to move on from that project and focus on other things in my life that needs attending to.
Sagittarius Dolly 
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