Spring Obsession ART EVENT this weekend!

This is our big Spring Obsession Art Weekend!  With over 150 paintings gracing the walls of Ironstone, you will certainly find a painting that will set your heart on fire, light up your day or simply bring a smile to your face.


Joining us this weekend are over 25 of the more than 75 accepted artists.  They will be setting up wonderful displays of their work as well as painting, drawing and creating just for you. All this is free and open to the public, so please come by between 10 - 4 on Saturday and 10 - 3 on Sunday to meet and greet these talented people. Watch them paint, learn or just enjoy the show.  Many will be out and about the gardens of Ironstone with easels set up and painting away. See if you can find them!  And we are certain they will be out there. According to the weather "people", this lovely rain will clear up on Friday and give us a stunning weekend here in the Sierras. 


Don't forget the flower barrel program begins this weekend as well!  Over 600 half barrels have been planted with daffodils, tulips, iris and more.  Watch them as they bloom and color our world beautiful.  Only at Ironstone!  Bring your cameras!

2012 Open Division entries available for viewing

Please follow this link to our Picassa Album of the 2012 Open Division Entries.
Titles and detail info is pending as well as a lovely slide show as soon as Picassa and Blogger decide to be friends again...

https://picasaweb.google.com/108272069615982870252/SpringObsession2012Open#

Spring Art Show 2012 Honorable Judges

Ironstone Vineyard’s 15^th Annual Spring Obsession

Art Show Open Division has the honor of being judged by:

Melissa Marshall

Executive Vice President, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Melissa graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1976. She worked for the Academy’s Illustration Department under the tutelage of Barbara Bradley, the director. When Barbara retired, Melissa eventually headed the department and held that post until 1997. It was at that time that she accepted an offer from Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, CA to manage the staff and instructors who trained new animation hires in the proper drawing skills needed to help create the quality product for which Disney is well known. In 1999, she moved back to San Francisco and was invited by the Academy of Art University to become its Executive Vice President.   

 Charles Pyle

Director, School of Illustration,, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

 Craig Marshall

Drawing Instructor, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

After graduating from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1976, Craig spent several years as a freelance commercial illustrator before becoming a staff illustrator for a small medical publishing company. In 1986 he was invited to teach head drawing and illustration courses at the Academy of Art University where he stayed for 11 years while continuing his freelance work. In 1997 he moved to Burbank, CA and taught drawing classes for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Associates in Art, and Woodbury University. He returned to San Francisco in 1999 and was asked to head the Foundations Department at the Academy of Art University for a semester. He now teaches Head Drawing full time for the Academy’s School of Illustration.

Golden Flow Shines at Ironstone

Golden Flow by Artist Dan Mather are hand blown glass loaded with 23 k gold leaf in a glycerin environment allowing the gold to float lazily around the globes. 

These have to be the most relaxing globes I have seen yet!

Available at Ironstone's Heritage Museum, these beauties are a perfect mommento of the gold country.

Prices range from $35.00 to $55.00.