Meet the Artists this Labor Day Weekend!

This life offers some odd interactions.

I am painting this morning, on the side of Route 44 in Canton (pronounced the Ohio way, not the China way), when a red truck pulls up.

The door opens, and out steps an old guy wearing a T-shirt and a sort of strange hat. He looks to be in his 80s.

He comes over to me, and peers around the easel.

He stares at the painting for a moment, then turns to me.

"Do you ever paint regular?" he asks.

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This weekend, I'll be showing and selling my art at Olde Mystick Village, in Mystic, CT, in the Meet the Artists show.

It's a gem of a show, including the fabulous and fun painter Ronet Noe, the oddly humorous Greg Stones, work by show promoter Denise Morris Curt - and many more.

Returning artists also include Jeff Sabol, who paints marine scenes; Bruce Dumas, who makes lovely acrylics of the New England coast; Wilm Stanchfield, with watercolors of Maine; and Fran Henderson, who paints murals of Nantucket, and beautiful floral pieces. 

There will be wood-carvers and potters, jewelers and scupltors, multi-media artists and more! 

It's a fun show, and it's free. It runs from Saturday through Monday, starting at 10 a.m. each day.