2012/365 - Day 173

HOT weather, errands and more Art Hunt prep

Wow -- it was another HOT day today...my car's thermometer was reading the air temperature as 91 degrees in the shade.

Today William and I continued preparations for his Miniature Art Hunt on Saturday during Northville's Arts & Acts festival.  We needed to come up with some artwork for the goody bags, we had to make the playing card for the art hunters, we had to run some other errands and then William hid Joan's letterbox boxes.  Tonight I am working on stuffing the goody bags and cutting up stickers and things while William and Carla spend some time in Detroit.

These are a few shots of William returning from hiding the letterbox boxes for Joan.  Cool clues...cool project... 

(This pose is a carry-over from last night's marathon Magic: the Gathering session...silly, silly stuff!)

William will have some framed prints of his very popular series "Bearded Bunnies" available for purchase at a special price, with part of the sales going to benefit the Northville Art House.  I bought these two:

The Wondrous William Hessian

His students call him Mr. Billy. His friends and family back home call him Billy. For work and business relationships he is called William. Friends in states other than Minnesota call him Will. This incredibly creative and energetic artist has as at least as many names as he has projects going at any one minute.

I first became aware of William Hessian through his "Bearded Bunny" series for Art-o-mat. Click here for a sort of intro/update about this series. And here, too.

Then I found his Bearded Bunny Blog. (Do yourself a favor -- subscribe/follow/bookmark this blog. You will not believe all of the imaginative and incredible projects William has created.)

Then I heard about his Miniature Art Hunts.


Then I found his Etsy store and was able to pick up a number of his delightful "Chubby Creatures"



and a few of his small ceramic sculptures.

Briefly, William Hessian is a visual artist, performance artist, writer, illustrator and teacher currently living in Maine. There is just SO much to say about Mr. Billy -- but I am sure that you would have a better time exploring the links and finding even more of his projects for yourself -- kind of like going on one of his art hunts.

I am not sure exactly what we are going to do, but I am thrilled to say that Billy and I will be doing a collaboration! Stay tuned to both of our blogs.