September 2008 I set up at The Creative Native Gallery. It features many native Florida and Florida style artists including my mom and sister. We set up outside the gallery and painted all day. See their work and also Pam Moody's art. A peek at The Creative Native Gallery, too. This gallery carries alot of my mermaids.

1. Show Time – The Creative Native Gallery Open House as Part of the Brandon Art Walk September 2008 RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

2. Me, my mom and sister set up outside The Creative Native Gallery in East Tampa. Brandon’s Center Place put on an art walk between some East Tampa. We were the show. We set up outside to paint while the main show was inside with The Creative Native Gallery’s many artists. This slide show is pics of the outside of the gallery, my mom/sister/me and inside of the gallery. Check out the dreads in the picture—nice right! That’s my painting style. Standing up. Outside. Sometimes holding the wood like a violin. This painting is a sign of my signs. I rather enjoy the irony. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

3. Me, my mom and sister set up outside The Creative Native Gallery in East Tampa. Brandon’s Center Place put on an art walk in East Tampa. We were the show. We set up outside to paint while the main show was inside with The Creative Native Gallery’s many artists. This slide show is pics of the outside of the gallery, my mom/sister/me and inside of the gallery. Check out the dreads in the picture—nice right! That’s my painting style. Standing up. Outside. Sometimes holding the wood like a violin. This painting is a sign of my signs. I rather enjoy the irony. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

4. I started painting the sign of signs a few months ago. I use a lot of finger painting. I do tall signs about inspirational signs, beer, island time, funny drinking signs, memory lane, fishing signs and more. My biggest one is at Star Fish Company with 14 signs. I get asked to re-paint that 3’x5’ sign, but it is really honestly one of a kind. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

5. My sister Sherrie St. James Bastien painting a mermaid. http://sherriestjames.com RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

6. My mom http://www.shirleysart.com and sister painting http://sherriestjames.com RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

7. My Mom Painting. http://www.shirleysart.com She began painting with me as dad got ill. When he died, she joined me doing shows. She likes meeting all the people. Every week she picks up something new to paint and do. She likes trying things out. This is a strawberry. She grew up mostly in Plant City—Home of the Strawberry Festival. She used to pick strawberries with her family to make their family’s money to survive. As a kid, she didn’t have electricity or an ice box. She had 4 brothers and sisters. A very different kind of life growing up on strawberries. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

8. My mom http://www.shirleysart.com and sister painting http://sherriestjames.com RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

9. Let me take you inside the Creative Native Gallery. http:// thecreativenativegallery.com / RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

10. Let me take you inside the Creative Native Gallery. This is from the front where we were set up painting. http:// thecreativenativegallery.com / RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

11. Let me take you inside the Creative Native Gallery. This is from the front where we were set up painting. http:// thecreativenativegallery.com / RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

12. These are some finished work we had set up outside. This is a combo of my and my mom’s work. Mine is the funny bait shop sign. http:// thecreativenativegallery.com / RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

13. Sherrie St. James-Bastien, my sister, has a mermaid yard art sculpture there on permanent display. My sister welds mermaids, turtle and other forms. Many are for sell at the Creative Native Gallery. http:// thecreativenativegallery.com / RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

14. Mostly RhondaK long boards. Good for bars, restaurants and the fun tiki bar owner. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http://thecreativenativegallery.com/

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19. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Margaret Conte … Art…Sculpture…Found Objects…Word Art http://www.margaretconte.com/ Sold at The Creative Native Gallery http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

20. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Pam Moody, gallery owner of the Creative Native is an amazing ceramic artist, painter and MORE. And a real native Floridian! Sold at The Creative Native Gallery http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

21. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Pam Moody, gallery owner of the Creative Native is an amazing ceramic artist, painter and MORE. And a real native Floridian! Sold at The Creative Native Gallery http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

22. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Pam Moody, gallery owner of the Creative Native is an amazing ceramic artist, painter and MORE. And a real native Floridian! Sold at The Creative Native Gallery http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

23. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Pam Moody’s Palm frond Fish http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

24. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Pam Moody’s Palm frond Fish http:// thecreativenativegallery.com /

25. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Sherrie St. James-Bastien http://www.sherriesstjames.com

26. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Sherrie St. James-Bastien http://www.sherriesstjames.com

27. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Sherrie St. James-Bastien http://www.sherriesstjames.com

28. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com Sherrie St. James-Bastien’s Mermaid & Pam Moody’s Ceramics at the Creative Native Gallery http://www.thecreativenative.com

29. These are the sign of my signs paintings I finished while people walked, parked, talked and generally checked me out while I was painting by the side of the road. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http:// www.thecreativenative.com

30. These are the sign of my signs paintings I finished while people walked, parked, talked and generally checked me out while I was painting by the side of the road. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http:// www.thecreativenative.com

31. These are the sign of my signs paintings I finished while people walked, parked, talked and generally checked me out while I was painting by the side of the road. RhondaK, Native Florida Folk Artist http://www.rhondakwrites.com http:// www.thecreativenative.com This ends my show. Sometimes being a tiki bar sign artist is being a clown standing on the side of the road. If you can’t paint while people talk to you, tell you what you should be doing, ask you questions and just stare at you….being a tiki bar sign painter is not for YOU! The things you do in between hurricanes…