Suitcase Full of Art

In exactly one week, at exactly this time, I will be doing my final bit of packing and boarding a plane to Houston for the stARTup Art Fair.
This bag is already full!

All the metal prints fit in here, but I'll be splitting them up between my two bags.  Just in case.

Did you know that Southwest allows two FREE checked bags if they're each under 50 pounds and under 62" height + width + depth? Southwest supports the arts!

Note: you may have arrived here from the QR code on the back of my old "On the Edge: US" postcard. 
If so, the most current EDGE posts are now subscription-based on my Patreon site. For only $1/month, you'll be able to read everything! Go! Click here and take that offramp!

Greetings from Hudspeth County, Texas

I have been working through my images captured five years ago on my circumnavigation of the contiguous US. Some I've been uploading to Saatchi Art, others I'm keeping private for my Patreon subscribers.

What became very apparent with the latest batch is how totally inspired I get on a forty mile stretch of I-10 in western Texas.

I-10, West Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art
©2019 Anne M Bray

Here is one in the original 53 Edge images (and it was the only "out the side window" view that rendered well in the 2014 version of Waterlogue:

West Texas, digital watercolor printed on aluminum, 4 x 6"

 ©2014 Anne M Bray

2019 version:

I-10, Western Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art
©2019 Anne M Bray

This image, (which I'm only posting here):

I-10, Mesa, West Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, ©2019 Anne M Bray

Is compositionally very similar to this chalk pastel from 1994:

I-20, West Texas, pastel on paper, 18 x 28" (unframed),

©1994 Anne M Bray

In 2014, I drove through at the perfect time, with the sun stating to set and the shadows growing long.

I-10, Western Texas Sunset, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art ©2019 Anne M Bray

New Funding Opportunity

Meet my newest funding idea: my Patreon subscription site!

I took some of the perks from my initial 2014 IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign and reconfigured them a bit:

[click on image to read text]

If you happened to contribute in 2014 for an artwork perk, and never chose your image [you know who you are], you may do so at any time! Operators are standing by to fulfill your request! Leave a comment and I'll get back to you.

What you can get for as low as $1 a month: 

• Exclusive peeks behind the scenes -- virtual studio visits, process videos perhaps
• Advance looks at new artwork before it becomes public -- work I start doing now won't be visible elsewhere until April
• Listing (with link) on my On the Edge blog 
• Thank you card snail mailed to your home

I want to give a shout-out to Tui Snider for inspiring me to make this a thing.
We met virtually during the first or second A-Z Blog Challenge.
I've been following her on Facebook and Instagram since then.
She has a really fun list of perks on her Patreon -- go check it out!

Backtrack to 3.27.2014 Los Angeles to Eloy, AZ

I was supposed to keep a journal during my 2014 circumnavigation around the US.
This did not happen.
I didn't prep the pages in a timely manner, and all sorts of other excuses.

I am FINALLY getting it done and here is my first day's "journal", "memoir", whatever you want to call it. Not reducing the photos so you can click on them to embiggen and read the text.
[2019 update: Want to read the text typed? Read it on my Edge Patreon for as low as $1/month]

Links:
Flickr Photo Album
Connie's blog post
My 2014 blog post here