ART JAM

Art Jam is our new arts education program offered through Culpeper County's Parks & Recreation Department. We started the year with Mr. Tony's Superhero Drawing, Kelly's Bold Color Painting, and Cole's Fish Prints classes for kids. 

In June, we're coordinating Kaleidoscope (formerly Windmore's Art in the Park) summer art camp and combining forces with local artists and educators to bring memorable art experiences to local kids.

In July, we're offering Art Jam for adults! Why should kids have all the camp fun? Drop in for a day or spend the week exploring the arts and celebrating your creativity.

For all of our classes and camps, pre-registration is required.To register, check out the county's web site.

Contest Time!

Win a copy of Tony's "This is the Enemy" poster! To enter, leave a comment on our Facebook page telling us where you would the poster. You get one entry for your comment and a potential bonus entry for a creative response. (Additional comments do not mean more entries! Maximum 2 entries per person.) 

Winner will be randomly selected on September 27, and announced in our e-newsletter on September 28.

Re-stored!

We are very excited to announce that we have relaunched K Boutique, an online store and creative outlet. The shop has been re-designed, re-imagined, and completely re-stored. Big thanks to our friends at BuzzCart for providing a powerful e-commerce solution.

Hardworking graphic designers need to unwind, but creative minds need to keep making stuff, and K Boutique is the result. Our graphic design training at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) began with a year of fine art foundations in drawing, painting, sculpting, and art history, and our creative process still rests on this base. It may say “graphic designer” on our business cards, but we’re still artists too.

Our other contributors to K Boutique are our kids, Cole and Joy, who genetically share our compulsion to make stuff. Collaborative projects are a fun way for us to play and learn together.

All of our products are made by us, and some are completely customized. Nothing is mass-produced or imported. If you are looking for a unique gift or a little something for yourself, check it out at www.k-boutique.com.


We hope you enjoy K Boutique and that it supplies a creative spark for you too!

We have a winner!

Tony was awarded an honorable mention in the latest Marvel-related t-shirt and poster design contest at welovefine.com.

Tony's design, "This is the Enemy" includes 25 Marvel villains and a nod to propaganda posters. It is now available for purchase as a t-shirt or poster print.

To celebrate, we are giving away a poster! To enter, "like" our Facebook page and post where you would hang the poster if you were to win.

Contest closes September 21st, and a winner will be selected randomly from the entries. You can only enter once; however, especially creative posts will be awarded a second entry at the judge's discretion.

Folly dolls

A Folly is a handmade felt doll and a child's drawing brought to life.

Kelly began making these dolls during the Green Bay Packers postseason run in 2011 as a way to entertain the kids while the games were on. Fun to make and even more fun to play with, Kelly is now taking orders.

Check out our Folly gallery on our Facebook page! For more information, click here.

Closed for the Holiday

We will be closed on Wednesday, July 4 to celebrate the red, white, and blue. Culpeper has a great downtown celebration including a parade, a car show, and of course, fireworks.
Recently, Tony designed a commemorative T-shirt for Culpeper Renaissance Inc. (CRI)'s Car & Bike show. This year's show features classic mustangs.

Assemble

 Tony recently won first place in the Marvel Avengers t-shirt design contest offered by WeLoveFine.com. His design is a top-seller and is available as a t-shirt (men's and women's styles) or a poster print.

In addition to the prize money, Tony's gotten some great press in comic book geek circles (you know who you are) and an interview published on WeLoveFine.com.

This is old news for those of you connected with us on Facebook. So if you haven't already, give us a like so you can keep up with current news, giveaways, and Kelly's new Photo of the Day series. And if you already like us, recommend us to friends. We promise to not embarrass you.