Color-filled Art Weekend!

The weekend before Thanksgiving was jam-packed with lots of fun stuff around Houston so I thought I'd share it with you! Jonathan and I went to three art events throughout the weekend. Who knew that Houston had such a big art community? On Friday we went to the Winter Holiday Art Market or the WHAM! We had a friend, Stephanie Clark, who had a table and was selling some of her pieces. Her twin sister, Allison, works with Jonathan. Stephanie had really cool pieces. She does photography but it's really unique. She uses paper to create different environments and photographs them in different ways. I know you have no idea what I'm talking about so you can check out her work here! She did amazing and sold all her pieces! We had a lot of fun walking around the market. They had free drinks and food, although there was mostly only dessert left when we got there. Not that we minded! There were so many amazing artists and beautiful pieces. There were definitely some pieces that we loved but of course they were not in our price range. We did find a photography piece that we bought. It's a picture of downtown Houston taken from a pretty bridge. We're probably one of the few that really like Houston so we're glad to have a nice picture of downtown for our home.

Saturday, there was an art crawl all around downtown. We didn't get there until after dinner so some things had started closing down but we did find Mother Dog Studios. It's the oldest and largest artists studio warehouse in Houston. It was pretty massive. Each studio belonged to a different artist so we got to see all sorts of pieces. We even saw John Runnels' studio who did the metal sculptures along the bayou.

Amazingly, we found a piece that we both loved and could afford! The artist was Wendy Wight and you can see all of her pieces here. She was really nice and we really loved all her pieces. This is the piece that we bought:

When we looked it up on the website we found out that it's a part of her creation collection which is even cooler! Although she named it "Animals" and I don't really see it in the painting lol. I wish I'd known so we could have asked for her interpretation of the painting. Maybe we'll visit her studio again and get the chance. We're really excited to hang this baby up in our living room!

Finally, on Sunday we went to an event called Via Colori. Via Colori is a street chalk competition that benefits the Center for Hearing and Speech. Participants had all Saturday and Sunday to make their piece using only chalk! We were blown away by all of their artwork and took too many pictures to post them all. Of course I'll show you  our favorites!



This one was 3D!



They even had an area where kids could purchase chalk and draw their own art on a little square. I definitely wanted to participate! Next time I'll have to borrow someone's kid. Any offers?

So you'd think that'd be enough for me to call it a color-filled weekend...that wasn't even the colorful part! On Saturday, Colleen and I participated in the Color Fun Fest Run! It was a 5k run around Reliant Stadium where we were pelted with powder of color. Take a look:

There were 5 stops along the run, each with a different color. Afterwards we all got our own color packets and got to throw color on ourselves and each other! It was so much fun! Hence, all the pictures lol!

So as you can see, I wasn't kidding when I said that it was a jam-packed weekend. We had a blast! Feel free to leave a comment with your favorite thing to do in Houston!

-Chelsey