Last Friday I opened a month-long show at Putah Creek Winery, with an artist’s reception (well, meet-and-greet) as part of the Downtown Davis 2nd Friday ArtAbout. I’ve done some of those before. This one was in the narrow tasting room on F Street, with my sketches hung at slightly different heights all along the wall. I have ten pieces in there, two from London and eight from Davis, covering buildings new and old (or in a few cases, gone). There was a decent turn-out, quite a few popping in to see my art and many more to taste the wine. I am not a particular wine buff myself, I know there is red, and white, and there’s rose, and green (in the green bottles), and sparkling and still, and dry, and wet, I guess, but other than that I’m a bit of a novice. I never tasted any of the wine at this winery. “Don’t mix the grape and the rain”, they always say, for it did finally rain last Friday quite a lot, which might have affected turnout, or perhaps everyone was out watching Pajamarino, the Aggie tradition being held at the same time just a block away. It’s where people dress up in pajamas – sorry, pyjamas, I forgot myself there – to welcome back the Aggies for their Homecoming Game. The Aggies is the college football team. Anyway. while chatting art, I did sketch the scene with all my drawings on the wall (above), and I also sketched the wine pourer Greg (right).

I had a few of my other bits and pieces on display, my two books, fliers for my sketchbook show and the sketchcrawl on October 16, as well as several mugs featuring my Davis sketches which were for sale. Sadly nobody bought the mugs. Not one, not a single bunny. Ah well. Here are some photos, including me in my lovely Sampdoria shirt.

Someone did buy a sketch though! The rest are on sale now until November 9th.