New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

You can see my artwork at Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans this week. May 1,2 3, and 4. Fairgrounds, tent G (near the Blues Tent).

"Letters From New Orleans. Swifts at Dauphine Street",
etching.

New Orleans Colors.

There are Mardi Gras colors all around the NO. The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold. These colors are said to have been chosen by Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch Romanoff of Russia during a visit to New Orleans in 1872. This doctrine was reaffirmed in 1892, when the Rex Parade theme "Symbolism of Colors" gave the colors their meanings: purple - justice, gold - power, green - faith.        Via Wikipedia

New Orleans Hugs.

"Way down yonder in New Orleans

In the land of dreamy scenes

There's a garden of Eden

That's what I mean,

Creole babies with flashing eyes

Softly whisper with tender sighs— Stop!

Oh! won't you give your lady fair a little smile, Stop!

You bet your life you'll linger there— a little while

There is heaven right here on earth

With those beautiful queens,

Way down yonder in New Orleans.

          They've got angels right here on earth

          Wearing little blue jeans,

          Way down yonder in New Orleans"

music by John Turner Layton, Jr. and lyrics by Henry Creamer

One Day in New Orleans.

Clockwise:
Frenchmen St.,
swan in Audubon Park,
book from bookstore on Royal  "How to Turn Your Ex-boyfriend Into a Toad" :)),
ducks & swan feather from Audubon Park,
salmon dinner at Martinique Bistro on Magazine,
jaw breakers at the French Market,
bycyclists on Chartres,
and music band on Bourbon (in the middle).

Jazz Fest Photos.

View from my booth.

The Decemberists on stage.

Food..



I tried all of these



New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

This weekend I am at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
in New Orleans, Louisiana
April 29st - May 1st

Look for me in tent K

 


New bookplate (for Pamela Hamilton), etching, trial proof.