ON THE MOUNTAIN: a mountain of subject matter...

It took the fabulous feathermaye and I exactly two seconds of standing on this Mountain to realize that we were looking at ART WORLD:a place full of subject material right out of an artist's dream...

I mean, c'mon... this place is a time warp, what would you do if you found
all this around you?  Got paint?  Got a sketch book?  A camera?

This one, and a couple of others are set ups for a few pen & ink pieces

Classic walkways that disappear around

irresistible corners...

In reality this bump of sand was once

the playground of artists

The aged wood, shapes...tickle the sketcher's eye...

Old West meets our age...

all yours to capture

look up...

look down...

Art is waiting for you here...

This place has been home to painters, photographers, and World Class Sculptors.  Street performers and glass blowers with chainsaw art wielding husbands.  Musicians, dancers and (like your's truly) a few novelists.  This fertile mound is now ready for its next colony of artists to form.  They only need set foot here once...


If you've been a starving artist working shows and traveling from here to there, you need to add Canton, and The Mountain, to your plans.


If you have a closet full of paintings, or a garage full of furniture that you've reclaimed and turned into fantastic works of art, you just might find the place where it all comes together, here, were ART HAPPENS every 1st Monday of the Month "Market Days" here in Canton, Texas.


Shop Canton, Experience The MOUNTAIN!

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At the base of THE MOUNTAIN...
Buffalo Girls Hotel breathes authentic!

Finding a stage is never a problem...

Lots of stuff, carefully arranged, artistically
placed for you to find... 

and maybe talk about...

or even make an offer on...if you feel it talking to you...

Things will pop out at you, unexpectedly...

they will call for your attention, and hold it a while...

Found things...mean something here...

Like an empty stage, waiting for the visionary to sweep it and
have a little company drop by...

maybe you want to channel the
ghost of an old Blues Man...

or just stay in your own clubhouse...you choose who can play...

there's plenty of rooms with a view...

and dreams waiting to continue...

or even coming to life as we speak...

...Know this...THE MOUNTAIN is waiting.


S


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Calling ALL STARVING ARTISTS: Through a little premiere art by FEATHERMAYE

It matters not what your art is.  If you paint, prepare yourself for both subject matter, and sales, often on the piece you are standing there working on.  If you sculpt, you'll find excellent company to talk about your experiences, and pick the mind of some WORLD CLASS sculptors.

Maybe you sing, play the guitar, or the xylophone, there's a spot of MOUNTAIN up here for you too.  We don't care if you design dresses, hats or Windmills for your artistic expression.  We only know that you secretly dream of a place where folks like us can come, relax, find the rhythm of the place, its pulse, and let it throb up your frame as you let your art flow.

Street performers, Wild West re-enactments, shops with stuff folks have found with your name on it...c'mon all you pickers, this is your stuff and the folks up here are just holding on to it for you.

Gotta book you want to promote?  Me too, and some painting I want to do, and, and... THE MOUNTAIN sees its fare share of the estimated 500k that can come through the town of CANTON TEXAS during First Monday of the Month, when this sleepy little town turns into the largest swap-meet, flea market, trade station (as it was during the early days of TEXAS settlement).

The market days activity and commerce swings full all day Thursday through Saturday and half a day on Sunday.  At night, hundreds of thousands of travelers look toward THE MOUNTAIN, to continue shopping for those 'rare finds' or that art that they need for... or just to listen to some tunes, or laugh at the performers, maybe even cry with them too.

They eat in numerous venues and see more in an evening on this magical little spot of ground that has risen to legendary status.  You'll see buildings that look like the Lost Boys built them, or a entire village of kid's tree forts, or club houses, only they are Bed and Breakfasts, shops, galleries and a virtual DREAM WORLD for any good ole American Picker...

Influenced by 'Escher', Feathermaye
keeps her eye ready for the
unusual

I'll just shut up and let Feathermaye TELL you, in her own way, with her own eyes--tricky, eh?  Ladies and gentlemen, the ART of MY WIFE, THE FABULOUS FEATHERMAYE: compositions from the upper hill...

Ed "Pappy" Picket World Class Sculptor, see link in text above
The Memorial Statue still needs help with funding for
the cast.  Dig deep, everybody...this is a worthy effort.

We saw composition everywhere... "I'm Just Captivated by the juxtaposition of it all: The drab bordered by color, the old next door to the new." feathermaye

Folks, my neck was hurting from all the looking back and forth, as we crept along in Nanny Fru-Fru's 'mountain rigged' golf cart with "Who Dat" on the side.  

If you don't feel like a kid again as soon as you set foot here, turn around, go back, this is not for you.  But don't be surprised to feel this place as it puts an arm around you, points to a currently available little spot of MOUNTAIN, and starts tickling the kid in you again.  C'mon, you know you want to.  I'm currently working on getting my own Hippie Feet back in shape. 

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