Hi All,
Next weekend,  Nov. 25 and 26 at the Holiday Festival of the Arts, Booth #406, I will be bringing 20 years of Oil Field Sketches to the Bozeman Fairgrounds.  This is a rare opportunity to thumb through and purchase "never before seen" small paintings done on location around the Gallatin Valley and other locations around the US.  I call it my "Studio Tour", even though I'll be at the Fairgrounds.  I've also been working on embroidered Christmas ornaments I call "Salvation Rocks" and Faux Metal gift boxes for that very special gift.  I will have a painting in the Silent Auction in Bldg. #4.  The auction will benefit the Help Center of Bozeman.  Meet a Muse at my booth and enjoy the fun!  

New Website

Hi All...so what was that all about?  New website, connecting to all my Social Pages, in theory sounds really great.....hmmmm....a long time ago I realized that artists rarely get paid for their time...good thing!
Please visit the new site and enjoy....let me know what you think


http://www.wix.com/mahanart11/web-2

Time and Persistence

Well, the Wix web-site is almost done....quite a learning curve there, but well worth it.  Should hopefully be all connected soon.

Getting started.....again

I had quite a surprise this summer.  My gallery owner called to say he couldn't find my web page anymore. He was trying to show a potential client more of my work.  After checking into it, I found that the host site must have gone belly up and took my pages with it.  Can you say disappearing web presence?  What timing.  In Bozeman... gearing up for tourist summer months, the busiest time of year and all my images just gone.  In 1996 a web design cost $500-$600 and hours and hours of resizing and sending images to the web guru.  The thing that really got my goat is that I also lost my domain name.  Ok, so what to do?  Well, I quickly learned that my web-site and domain name were pretty old school compared with all the cool social networking tools available.  But the problem is my brain is also pretty old school.  Now this old dog doesn't mind learning new tricks, but I still can't quite wrap my mind around the on-line directions of backgrounds, skins, templates, what's free and what's not, linkings and the rest.  But I'm trying.  I just may have to get my handsome grandson Jake to help me out.  So in the mean time, I am going to give it a try, linking my Face Book with a Wix webpage and this Blog.  It's all in the construction phase for now.  Hopefully I will be able to create a beautiful, harmonic representation of who I am as an artist and 20 years of transition.  Good luck to me!