Cottonwood Art Festival, Richardson, Tx. May 2,3, 2009. 

I hurried through a Ft Worth gun (yikes!) exhibit to race to the Cottonwood.  It was tent city there as usual, many new artists, as the artists display juried fine art, meticulously hung and displayed.  My job was to ask for artist's business card before the deluge struck in mid-afternoon.  All the artists gladly issued forth and to many I explained the nature of my business was to promote their art through this website.  This is Texas' only contemporary online artist registry and it needs constant updating.  Artists are popping up everywhere, but the good ones are always at the Cottonwood.  It's tragic to be rejected, but it happens alot.  The art is wonderful here. From the card I will enter data I received from artist's cards and from their websites to this site, and the artist will receive a username and password in their email to edit and enlarge the profile I hurriedly proposed.  I was not able to get through but 2 rows of exhibitors before the rain soaked my clothes, but not my spirit.  I'm an old duck hunter, I was about to look for my duck call.    I was not able to shake hands with one of my very favorite artists, Sally Maxwell, because she was napping at the time of my visit behind her tent, deservedly exhausted from weeks of creating last minute masterpieces and applying strokes of perfection, not to mention all the travel and set up at the Festival.  I bet the rain excited her up! To the artists I was not able to abscond  a business card, feel free to enter your own profile here on your own.  To those artists who looked at me in wonder why such a handsome rain-soaked art lover of my sort would want their card, I hope their inclusion on this site brings them honor and prosperity, as it brings me delight in getting know them better.  And folks I did observe the art and I was very pleased.   Many artists you will notice are not from Texas, so they exclaimed!  No bother, you come to this great state to show and sell your art, and you have Texas customers.  Welcome to TexasOnlineArt.com, you deserve honorable mention for all your efforts.  See you in the Fall. 

Email me with your thoughts. Eric Jensen, Administrator

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  For a quick look at who is listed on this TexasOnlineArt.com, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Artists already registered on this site can edit (Update) their profiles and upload images of their art, etc.  If you forgot your username and password and can't retrieve it from this site, email me: ericj@broadwayinternet.com, thanks.

Good News!  This website was advertised in the Southwest Art Magazine and many persons interested in promoting artists took advantage of the listings herein and in their own way are promoting our artists.  SO---GET LISTED!!!! 

This site needs Texas artists to populate it now. Sign up here  Tell your friends and associates about this website.   

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Again we implore Texas artists to sign up on this website.  This site could outlive you.  What will people know about your art unless you tell them.  It may help you get listed one day in a large art catalogue.

Free of charge Listing Service for Texas Artists. What do you not understand about the word "Free?"  

The Artist signup part of this website is easy to use.  Click on the Add/Update Artist Info at the right and then click on the blue Here button on that page.  This will take you to a form to fill out.  As an art lover and dealer I have noticed that artists believe they are very well known.  Most artists are not well known outside of their home town or region.  Artists are offended when you tell this because they think that just because they live in Austin and they sold a painting to someone who lives in Denver that the artist must be well known in Denver.  Could be if the painting hung in a Denver gallery and the artist was promoted by that gallery.  But what if the artist sold the painting at a Texas arts festival to someone visiting from Denver.  Artists sometimes (always) over estimate the extent of their fame.  No artist is ever well known enough and if they ever are, it is usually not until after they are dead.  It sometimes takes two lifetimes to get famous and we are blessed with only one.  There is also problem with other people's (your customers') fleeting memories.  You are famous one moment and forgotten the next. Famous to one generation, forgotten or never known by the next.  Tough thing putting up with short human memory span. In the meantime Artists need to make a living.  ANY list you can get onto, you should get onto. That includes this list.  Maybe some publisher will find this list and add its contents to their list and hopefully before you die one list leads to another and pretty soon people think your work is good and you get famous on your death bed.  Swallow the pride and take the time to fill out this form.  Do it now.  It will take only a few minutes. You can always go back and edit later to bring it up to date.  Tell us about yourself and your art.  Write a bio or an art philosophy.  I see artists sweating and shivering through art festivals and shows all week end long trying to get famous.  That's great, but this list will help, too.  

 

Would you and your art like to be featured on this website?  Add your profile, upload a sample image and email me of your desire.  We will correspond with you soon

The paintings you are about to view are painted by one of my delightful friends, and a friend to all who love art and to all artists because she epitomizes the greatest quality of art and that is truth.  She sweated and shivered for years at Salado, Texas and Cottonwood Richardson, Texas.  She has retired from shows, but her painting continues and her heart lives for all of us.  Her paintings are so explicit in detail, rich in color, correct in shading and perspective.  I own the two paintings of an antique store depicted here.  Notice the grain in the wood of the bank teller cage. Take a look at the whole painting and then the close up.  I know you will also love Kay Lamb Shannon.  Her affordable prints have been available at Walmart, Kmart and Ebay for years because the paintings show parts of America that don't appear anymore except on an artist's canvas.

Take a look at Frank Barnett of Tyler, Texas.  This gentleman is a stock broker, who between bottle feedings for his two infant sons, paints magnificently.  Look at his website at www.FrankBarnettArt.com for more images.  His site is hosted by www.BroadwayInternet.com who specializes in impressionism.  The color in the painting is wonderful.  The images does not do justice to this 24" x 18" Impressionist painting of a San Francisco landscape.

Here is a great Texas artist we represent at Broadway Art Gallery, Tyler, Texas, imported in the past few years from California.  George Sauer is my favorite wildlife artist.  He uses the dry-brush watercolor technique to attain the greatest of detail.  This process takes great pains and strides and of course lots of time.  Mistakes are not easily forgiven.  Take a look and see what you think of this 16" x 22" painting.  The images were taken with a digital camera inside with flourescent lighting through glass on the front of the frame.  Please excuse any shortcomings.  The original is beautiful.

Guess who these artists are:

 
 Do you recognize this Texas artist?  I have owned the watercolor on the right for 25 years.  It is part of the family.  He was a "well-known" watercolor artist living in San Antonio up until he died several years ago.  He has no internet presence!  Old school (I don't have a computer) means no academic immortality for students to study.  I have had difficulty finding info on this man on the internet.  I bet there's lots of info at the museums and in the finer homes in San Antonio (and Tyler) where his paintings hang proudly, but there should be an internet source of information for Texas Artists--that's why you have this website.  Register now and talk about yourself.  Your present and future admirers will love the info you share with them. If any of you have information about Warren Hunter or any other Texas artists who have passed on, please email me and I will include him or her in these pages.

Any one know who A.C Gentry is of Tyler, Texas?  A lifetime member of the Southwest Watercolor Society.  He is another famous watercolor artist whose watercolor art adorns many public building interiors and private offices and homes, particularly in East Texas.  People love his work because it replicates actual country landscape scenery and many of his pieces contain intricate lines in the cedar barns and in the wings of birds, because A.C. is an avid West Texas bird hunter.  Here are a couple of his works painted years ago. The first belongs to Eric D Jensen, Tyler, Texas and can be purchased for $800.00.  It is a 1959 vintage watercolor.  It is unusual because AC Gentry now and for many years past paints only Fall color landscapes because he personally believes that Fall is the best season of the year due to relief from the long hot Texas summer and it gives in to his long-time love for West Texas quail hunting and Panhandle and Kansas pheasant hunting.  These paintings are nice specimens of AC's accurate depiction of the landscapes he visits.  He draws them first in field then paints them later in his studio. AC is now in his 70s and still works out of his home. Email me if you want more info on AC Gentry.

T.W. Alston--Oil painter out of Ft. Worth area, died around 1985.  From his brochure: Has been interested in drawing since childhood.  He took painting lesson at age 10, but did little art work until about age 40.  Since then, he has been active in painting for more than 20 years---half that time professionally.  He has demonstrated portrait painting before sever art clubs.  As owner of an art center, he taught painting for about ten years.  He has probably instructed over a thousand students and completed more than 5000 paintings of landscape, still life and portraits in pastel, watercolor, but mostly color.  He was a student of Fred Darge, Clayton Staples, Charles Nelson, and Ray Froman.  Alston's style of painting may be summarized as realistic impressionism, and his artistic style and originality are admired by everyone viewing his work.

 

Email me if you have info on this artist.  He was a private art teacher for many years.  The info above was copied verbatim from his brochure.  He died an old painter.  He took long, calculated brush strokes, heavy laden with paint and did not work it over. 

Here are some of TW Alston's Basic Portrait Principles:  Coming soon!

 

            
Many of you artists expressed an interest in acquiring a website.  We can build a simple one page site for you or you can have your own  super-database driven e-commerce .com  site or somewhere in between.  Email me on this if you are interested.

              Artists Read This:  Click on the Add/Update Info box to the left.  Then read the login page.  Click on the 'Here' button and enter info.  If you do not want to give the info where it is required in red, then just type N/A.  This will override the requirement.   To go directly to the artist registration profile form, click here            

              This website brings together consumers of quality fine art and Texas artists.  Texas artists means artists who reside in Texas or call Texas their home.  The art must be original and must be produced solely by the artist.  All art is represented here. 

               Texas artists may add their information to our database FREE.  Texas artists may edit their information anytime, using their user name and password that the artist picks when he or she fills out the form..  

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