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Thank you to everyone who visited my booth at the American Legion Post 88 in Cazenovia, New York for the Cazenovia Art Trail.  I was there yesterday and Saturday for several hours each day chatting about art.  It was an amazing experience and I appreciate you!!!

This morning I installed my exhibition at the East Syracuse Free Library (4990 James Street, East Syracuse, New York 13057).  The artwork will be up through November 2024.

These are paintings in my Bungalow series created this year coupled with some Angel series pieces to fill in the gaps.

The Bungalows are little encaustic houses mounted on chalkboard and framed.  I have attached items to them that I found while metal detecting my backyard, a one-hundred-twenty-four-year-old bungalow.

The Angels were created in 2017.

The paintings are displayed on table easels.  These are not included in a purchase.  The paintings are for sale and will be available at the end of the exhibit.

There will be a reception on Thursday, October 17, 2024 from 4:45-6:45 PM.  The food and drinks will be in the party room at the back of the library.

encaustic, Karen Tashkovski, metal detecting, mixed media, painting

Bungalow

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I just completed twenty-four new paintings. Encaustic and mixed media. 6″ x 6″ clayboard on 9″ x 12″ chalkboard/chipboard incorporating items I recovered last year metal detecting my yard.

I still need to title them, add the framing hangers, decide on prices, etc. My house is a mess as I process this monumental achievement (plus I have twenty-four other in-progress paintings to finish).

OMG, I love them!

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Metal Detecting in Jordan

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I was invited to a metal detecting party in Jordan, New York. This is not the first time I’ve ventured out of my own backyard to snoop around for treasure. I have a permit to detect on the beach at Green Lakes State Park but I only really did that once.

So, this was really fun. I met many of the people who post on the Syracuse Metal Detectives Facebook page and that was amazing! I love this hobby and it was such a pleasure to meet like-minded hobbyists who find a lot more cool stuff than I do because they have more expensive equipment and they are just better at it.

I did find stuff! Three pull tabs from soda cans, which are henceforth referred to as dream squashers because they squash the dream of finding coin. They give off a similar reading on the machine and so, it gets your hopes up, up, up….Squashed!!!!! So funny.

Elaine Smothers Peterson is the Jordan Village Historian. She invited us. She also provided pizza for lunch.

There were quite a few coin finds and other valuables! Mercury dimes and a Barber quarter.

This spot is part of the Erie Canal – a defunct part because it has been filled in and is now a grassy knoll/park area that still packs a punch of history. I’d never been there before. It is a beautiful town.

Thank you, Elaine! It was a wonderful experience!