Summer Coming Soon!

I am excited to open the summer art fair season on Saturday, June 2 at the Riverwalk Market Fair in Northfield, MN. The fair is open 9-2 pm Saturdays June-October. My painting "Cocorico" was chosen as the official marketing poster this year and I'll have the original on display in my art tent. I'm an going to be working on a series of farm-inspired pieces over the next couple of months.

I am busy working on my displays and the overall appeal of my art tent. I want it to look more like a boutique this year, and I'll have more cards and prints to sell, including new illustrated choices. I am also striving to be as eco-friendly as possible and I still have a lot of work to do. By using yarn in place of plastic packaging for the cards, I've reduced unnecessary waste. Besides, they look like perfectly wrapped presents when I tie the yarn into a bow at the end. I am also printing on FSC sustainably-sourced paper.

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#1. Welcome, Perks & the Future

Hello and welcome to my blog on the creative process. I hope you appreciate its creative title. Consider it a work in progress. Since blogs are the future, I figure I'd best board the time machine late rather than never.

My name is Alex Betzler and I am a painter and illustrator. I paint and draw from photographs, so I often pretend I am a professional photographer when I carry the camera around town. This helps me blend in with my camera so that I do not stand out so much as someone walking around taking pictures for no good reason.

There are some perks of carrying a camera around, so long as the camera is large and showy. For instance, when a parade goes by, as happens on May Day in my Powderhorn Park neighborhood, and you cannot see the festive costumes because the annoying crowd is just that - a crowd - and you are of average height but today average just isn't good enough, use your large and showy camera to squeeze through the crowd and pop into the front row. The crowd will understand. Someone must take their picture. I recommend using an elegant British accent as well, should anyone stop and question you.

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