We start our craft show season this month with the fantastic “Canal Days Festival” at the Schuylkill Canal Park Lock 60. We will be stocking up on all of our current prints and postcards as well as have some new ones that will be available to purchase the first week in July here on the site but will be ready for Canal Fest patrons on June 30th.

I also just got back from a 300+ mile bike trip from Pittsburgh to near DC and have taken 568 photos. I am going to weed those down to my favorite and most creative shots and place them up here for you all to see, so be sure to keep coming back and checking out the blog and galleries to see those images.

On the comics front, a small burst of all new OH-NO Comics has appeared from mid April up to just last week. Be sure to check those out if you haven’t already. The comics are on summer vacation right now to give me time to make some more, as well as to give me a chance to focus on the summer season of Blueberry Arts and any craft shows and comics conventions that I will be attending.

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Thanks to everybody who came out and supported the arts at this past weekends Firebird Festival. I hope everyone had a fantastic time and enjoyed watching the bird burn again. I had a lot of new people swing by the Blueberry Arts booth and told me this was their first time at the Festival. The crowd was huge this year! I had an incredible time and I would like to share the photographs I took with you. I may have next years print picked out but I wanted to get the opinion of all of you, since you will be the ones inevitably buying the print and postcard at next years show. So be sure to comment and discuss which one was your favorite!

Be sure to share this on your favorite Social Media and if you belong to Flickr, check out the set on Flickr of the same images in the above gallery HERE. Thanks!

That’s right folks, it’s Firebird time again. No offense to the other awesome shows I do, but this one is my favorite and it’s looking to be bigger and better than ever this year. The festival runs from 4pm to whenever the bird has stopped burning, usually 11ish. I will be there as always to sell my art. I hope to see you all at the show too!

Like every show I do, I like to premier a new print. But this year, I have two new prints!

The first of these prints is MOUNTAIN CHAPEL an image I had in my gallery for a while now but stood out to me as an image that would make a good print. The subject is the Dahlgren Chapel in Turner’s Gap Maryland. I saw this chapel in the early morning while hiking with my brother along the Appalachian Trail. Am I the only crazy person who takes a full size SLR camera backpacking?

The second print is THE PHOENIX. This is a print of this yearsFirebird! This is the first time I will have a photograph of the current years bird available as a print at the show. Something else I did different this year is to have it as a black and white print. And another first is that it is my first digital black and white available as a print. Normally I do not do digital B&W, but this image looked best as a black and white so I am giving it a go.

I have had two 5×7′s and two 8×10′s printed on the same awesome metallic pearl paper I use for my color images. If there are leftovers of either image after the show, I will post them for sale here on Monday. If you can’t wait that long or are worried that it will sell out before you can grab one, you can always place a special order which I am accepting now. Any special order received before Monday will get to you in time for Christmas.

Also, lets not forget the print of last years bird, EMBERS GLOW, that I will also have on hand at the show. I have an order placed for postcards with my fingers crossed that they will get here by Friday.

So, remember to come out and see the coolest bonfire around as Phoenixville burns it’s ninth Firebird!

SHIPPING DEADLINES

Just remember that if you want your order to arrive by Christmas, you need to order it by 5PM EST on December 20th for Priority Mail and Express Mail (Friday is the last day I can ship before the USPS cut off dates.) Due to the extra time needed for Special Orders, you will only have until December 10th to be guaranteed delivery by Christmas.

Be back soon!

—Vince.