“The Ozanam Manor Project”

Step-By-Step video showing how to mount a watercolor painting to a wood panel apply a UV coating and bees wax for a lustrous finish.

The example shown is Arizona Diamondbacks Aaron Hill Autographed Commemorative Home Plate, painted by RB Anderson. It’s available for bid at the D-Backs Give Back League’s Home Plate Project on-line auction. The on-line auction is a fundraiser that will benefit Ozanam Manor. To place your bid go to: Arizona Diamondbacks Give Back League’s Home Plate Project , it’s for a good cause.

by RB Anderson – Auctioned to help Ozanam Manor

Thanks to all that bid on the plates. The Diamondbacks Home Plate Project raised enough funds to renovate all of Ozanam Manor in an “Extreme Home Makeover” style.

Arizona Diamondbacks Aaron Hill Autographed Commemorative Home Plate by RB Anderson was auctioned at the D-Backs Give Back League’s Home Plate Project on-line auction. The on-line auction is a fundraiser that will benefit Ozanam Manor.

RBA is proud to support the Home Plate Project. Mr. Anderson’s donation is a Commemorative Plate celebrating Aaron Hill’s accomplishment as the fourth player in MLB history to hit for two cycles in the same season. This original painting, autographed by Aaron Hill and signed by RB Anderson, is certain to become a sports collectible.

If you are an organization working to help our society contact me and we’ll see about donating a painting or limited edition set of prints for your auction! Keep up the good work.

Art comes from a long line of famous Jackalope, his great great grandparents where the first Jackalope discovered in Douglas Wyoming by Douglas Herrick. Art’s mother was a gentle tenor that liked to sneak up on cowboys at night and sing along with the campfire cowboys. She was also an artist and taught Art how to paint with his ear–turns out he was left eared.

Art left home at an early age to explore the world, just after he learned about the magic of the Jackalope’s rabbit hole when he watched Alice in Wonderland at the Silver Dollar Drive-In in Albuquerque New Mexico. Art studied the Jackalope Rabbit Hole to uncover its magic and found that he can Pop-Up anywhere, anyplace in anything around the world. What a great adventure! Art, or Pop-UPArt, as he has become known, paints his self portrait every time he pops up in a different place sort of a travel journal.

This is the beginning of his popping around:

Pop-Up Art Visits Pop Art

Because of Art’s love of Paintings particularly the pop-art from the mid to late 1950’s he decided his first experiment would be to Pop-Up in a Pop Art painting, something bright, with simple colors so he wouldn’t get confused. This painting  “Pop-Up Art Visits Pop Art” is hanging at The Mesa Art Center from October 4th thru 10th and will be auctioned on the 10th for charity.

Pop-Up Art in Starry Night

That was so much fun Art wanted to try something more challenging. He was always fascinated by post-Impressionist painters and he always wanted to see New York’s Museum of Modern art so he Popped-Up in Starry Night.  Wow the feelings in that painting were enlightening and strange. This is what Art has painted so far.

Stay tuned for more Adventures of Pop-Up Art

You can always tell a person by their eyes.

Through the eyes a persons true spirit – their soul is reflected. I strive through my current artwork portraits to reveal glimpses of that persons spirit brought to life in paint.

When you see the luster of the pure colors returning the light from the surface of the once white canvas, my desire is that the viewer will feel something. Will be moved, and see the spirit told by that individual. My ambition is that each painting, as with a glance from every person, will give a glimpse of that unique story.

Thanks for visiting

RBA