Houston Day 695 - an artistic expedition

The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival

This weekend just gone was my first weekend (almost) completely work-free since Company started in February.  So Lucas planned a fun and full weekend for the two of us, including going to an art festival in The Woodlands.  The Woodlands is a suburban outpost of Houston, which I've commented on before.

Rick Loudermilk was the featured artist,
and his art was on all the signage

The Art Festival was cool.  The Waterway was lined with hundreds of booths set up by various visual artists, representing so many different media and different styles - it was so much fun to look and see what great creatives can do! We bought a couple of pieces - one from a Texas artist who is entertainingly named Rick Loudermilk, and who was there with his wife (also a painter).  Her style shares some similarities to his, which was interesting to see.  The piece of his that we bought is a big, geometric, colorful picture of some flowers, in a similar style to the picture on the left.
The other painting we bought is called "The Sea Conquest".  Here is its description:

The chubby girl put a fish on her head and a sea anemone on top of the fish. She doesn’t need to, but she is balancing on her tricycle, conquering the sea

The artist, Tanya Doskova, is from Bulgaria, and apparently her children pick on her for her English-language skills, but I think the way she writes is gorgeous and I love it that she doesn't express her potent, complex ideas in everyday Joe words.  You can see the painting here, and it's well worth looking through the rest of her online gallery as well.  Make sure you click on the pictures to read the descriptions!
So we had a lovely day looking at different kinds of art, and brought home two paintings and some sunburn. A good day, all in all.