The Alliance Board Members.

[Debra Jones]

I started this harebrained scheme with a small portrait of John, the president of the Arizona Art Alliance. The group has all the best intentions and pretty much every artist in the state knows about it, but no buyers! They manage to wrangle all the disparate art groups in the city together twice a year to sit and look at each other.

Because I have been trying to explain they need to gear their outreach to people who do NOT paint, so they might purchase something, I sort of lured them into my clutches with a surprise set of paintings of all the board members I could get into one place. These are Al and Cathy.

I am not sure how many other members I need to do, but I did get a tentative feeler (as was my evil plan) to let them feature me in their materials and website. Perhaps free hanging in their juried shows for a while, but I am so used to not getting paid I am beginning to think I am the "Godfather" of art: "One day I will ask a favor of you....."

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[Debra Jones]

Here is the last of the four so far. The first, John, was posted yesterday in his own thread

[Julie Deane]

These are very nice, Debra!

[Debra Jones]

Thank you, Julie (and I have the note you sent. Thanks for that too!)

I have four more photos today!
Lucky thing I went down. The last list of members is different than the one I was sent.
here is our liaison for the group representatives.
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[Debra Jones]

One more. This is Chuck.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

They are great. I specially liked the last one you posted.