Painting for the Saturday Market

McMinnville has a new market in town — The Saturday Market. Shannon Thorson has coordinated the ongoing event for the last 3 months. It features organic produce, entertainment, visual & literary art, wine, boutique goods & fine food and provisions. There are many vendors coming from various parts of the Willamette Valley, Salem and other surrounding counties. It's a fantastic mix of personalities and budding entrepreneurs selling their goods.

I have been participating since December and enjoy meeting, talking and hobnobbing with local citizens of McMinnville. I have been showcasing art from my Project 100, my I'Ching series and new pieces that I create weekly. It's been a great opportunity to have a weekly venue to showcase new work during the winter.

Here's my current new piece entitled, "Star-Gazer."



And more pictures from the Market.

Emerge Oregon

So last Friday, I participated with Emerge Oregon Art Series — http://www.emergeoregon.com/. Originally this was a First Friday show at the Coffee House Cafe in Salem, Oregon. Now they are expanding to 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. They showcase emerging artists and for $5 each participating artist can display up to 3 art pieces with no commission taken from sales. Jonathan Boys and Tim Wiener founded this great event and do so to provide a consistent place for emerging artists to showcase their artwork. The shows have averaged over 300 for their once-monthly-single-night event.

For this show, I showcased 3 new pieces inspired by Project 100's day 39 "Atop The Universe." Here is Namaste, Warrior and Way Show-er.

Project 100 in local paper

I and Project 100 had an incredible breakthrough this week. The McMinnville local newspaper, News Register, featured Project 100 on Wednesday's, December 23rd. The article entitled, One Hundred Days of Painting by Hannah Hoffman, was a great surprise for Christmas with two great pictures of me - one from my office studio and another from my barn studio. Thanks to Hannah Hoffman for coming out to interview me and Marcus Larson for the pictures. The write-up was more than I expected and a great blessing.

Here's the link to the article. Read and leave me a comment.

Project 100 in Barrels

Well, not quite. Project 100 has been invited to Winter's Hill Winery in Dundee, Oregon. I will be sharing the barrel room for this weekend and next week's Thanksgiving weekend. The Gladharts have extended their gracious hospitality and allowing me to display my art from Project 100. Here's your chance to see the paintings in person and pick yours out. Come visit from 11am — 5pm on the following days:

Saturday, November 21st
Sunday, November 22nd
Friday, November 27th
Saturday, November 28th
Sunday, November 29th

Visit the beautiful Dundee Hills and come taste the fabulous wine from Winter's Hill Winery. Great people and great wine! Visit their website for more info at www.wintershillwine.com. See the map below for directions.

Project 100 bloopers!!

Hello all — this is Sarah. I just wanted to give you all a little behind the scenes taste of project 100. Basically, Lester was very nervous about the video portion of his project 100- he was feeling a bit camera shy. So when day 1 finally came, I told him to do a round of practice runs that nobody would see- to get all the kinks out and get comfortable with the camera .... well, I found those video clips and put them together for a little Lester fun!!! I was laughing sooo hard- I hope you all get a little laugh today too! (Please note, as of today I have Lester's permission to post this- he has grown in many ways, huh!!)

Enjoy the day 1 bloopers!
Sarah




Visit the Project 100 Gallery online to see all 100 paintings from 100 days.

Day 100 Captain of Your Own Soul

Day 100 — WOW! What an incredibly exciting day! Thank you for supporting this project of 100 paintings in 100 days. I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing my paintings with you during these 100 days. I loved this journey!

For today's inspiration, I painted my friend's dream. In his dream, he was on a boat in the middle of a storm. Lightning struck and he reached out with his right hand, harnessing the lightning bolt. He experienced his body taking in the energy. After doing so, the horizon immediately was clearing from the storm. The approaching land
was illuminated by a beautiful sunrise. This dream was significant to him because at the time his health was not the best and after having the dream, his health recovered fully. He now currently has ALS and I hope that this painting reminds him of that dream to harness the energy within to full healthy recovery. This painting also is a great reminder for me to captain my soul and move towards each horizon. Truly a great inspiration for painting 100.

Enjoy "Captain of Your Own Soul."

Stay tuned for a wrap-up of Project 100. Thank you, again. I appreciate your support of this project.



If you want to purchase any of the paintings, email me or visit the Project 100 Gallery to purchase online.

Day 99 Sunny, Sunny Day

Day 99 — On the second to the last day and I decided to venture out a bit. I've been looking at Van Gogh paintings recently. I love his texturing and colorful depictions of movement. Today also happens to be another friend's birthday and she is from Greece. So I decided to combine both and create a Greek coastline scene depicting the windmills in Mykonos. The sunrise radiates from the sea to bring in the new day and asks "what destiny lies ahead for the viewer?"

Enjoy "Sunny, Sunny Day."



If you want to purchase any of the paintings, email me or visit the Project 100 Gallery to purchase online.