Dan Brazelton

Yesterday I went to the Center On Creative Arts 15 Annual 24 Hour Painting Marathon where my friend Amy Harris was a participating artist. The idea is that a bunch of artists are invited to work for 24 hours straight, at the end of which the paintings are auctioned off. It’s a cool event and a lot of fun.

To get the full feel, I visited a couple of times during the event (although I missed the middle of night skinny dipping).

Most of the artists were put in the same big room. They would focus in their own space, but would also wander around and see the other artists works.

It was a great collection of some amazing Seattle Talent.

I found a lot of work that I wanted to bid on. Even the artists walking around where lusting after each others work. Here Patricia Hagen works on another of her fantastic worlds inspired by diatoms.

This woman did some amazing work with thread and silk.

Here Amy Harris holds up her first piece that she had just finished when I visited her in the afternoon. I really liked it. In fact I thought it one of her best pieces. This is a new style for her, and I think a great direction.

We missed the silent auction, and unfotunatley missed out on some great pieces. Here Karen looks at some of the larger pieces that were to be in the live auction. It turns out I shouldn’t have come with Karen, because she started a bidding war on the piece that I wanted, but I got it in the end. Here it is in my room:

All in all it was a lot of fun. I bid on several pieces but restrained myself when they got to the $800 range. I feel good that I helped raise the prices for some of the art. And I am pretty happy about my Harris piece. It goes well with my other stuff.