Artists and their ArtGuitars:
Emerging fine artist, Laurie Maves, not only presents the world with diverse and quirky paintings, she is also quickly becoming one of Denver's premier live concert and event painters. For her ArtGuitar, she started out with numerous layers of poured paint, and after the 5th pour, the paint took on the feeling of icing on a cake. Hence the title, The Icing On the Cake. Maves’ work can be seen at Copper in Rockin' R Ranch.
 
Dunn, aka The Signtologist, is an artist from the mile high city of Denver. For the past six years the "streetsignartist" has blessed 150 artists, musicians, entertainers, and athletes with his unique paintings on street signs. Dunn's ArtGuitar is entitled Johnny Cash R.I.P. as a tribute to Johnny Cash, made out of black reflective sheeting scraps on an acoustic guitar. Check out Dunn’s ArtGuitar on view at Copper in Peak Sports.
 
Jennifer Mosquera's distinctive and energetic style attracts the eyes of private collectors from around the country and the world. Her ArtGuitar Serenade of the Blue Moon depicts a songbird playing a tune for the sleepy moon overhead. Mosquera’s work is on display at Copper in Metals Rock!
 
Joroko uses his art to create political and social awareness with the ever-growing abundance of wasted materials (found objects) - he seeks out the discarded to create the new in order to interpret the current. Joroko's ArtGuitar is provocatively titled Folk The System and will be on display at Copper in Surefoot.
 
Artist Eric Matelski has made his place in the art community by painting live, curating, coordinating art events, and donating his artwork to a number of charities and non-profits. As a “live artist,” he has painted musicians and performers at hundreds of concerts and events, completing paintings in minutes. Eric’s ArtGuitar Django is a tribute to the music of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and can be viewed in Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at Copper.
 
Scramble Campbell's ArtGuitar is of Red Rocks mid-concert, painted in the style of his live paintings all over the country. This Orlando-based painter has captured the live vibrations of music and the musician’s themselves on canvas. His body of work encompasses a who's who of musical legends and the emerging jam band legends of the future. Kokomo in the Taylor's Crossing building has this ArtGuitar on view.
 
Nemo's ArtGuitar displays his unique style of hand drawn circle designs. Nemo works in a dynamic spectrum of art pieces inspired by haute couture fashion, classic tattoos, furry friends and cute creepy-crawlies. Each piece of artwork incorporates an accent of colored pencil which serves to further enliven Nemo's already inspiring and masterful work. His ArtGuitar will be on display in Gravitee at Copper.
 
Jeff Erwine, born in Germany in the mid-60's, found enjoyment in disassembling anything and everything while growing up and still does. He usually works in steel and "rescued metal" and has titled his ArtGuitar Guitar Alchemy, which will be on exhibit at On the Edge at Copper.
 
Copper's own Dwight Eppinger has created Guitar in Reverse, which, instead of making music, displays the ambient sounds in and around it. His ArtGuitar will be in Metals Rock! in the Village at Copper.
 
For more information, visit www.CopperGuitarTown.com. (Source: Copper Mountain; Photo Credit: Kelly Eppinger)

Love them Labels - Featuring Vintners Circle & Nemo Art
Wine Whore Review:

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to create something amazing while having fun at the same time?

Although there's no doubt that we all clearly enjoy drinking wine, how many of us get the chance to create this magical juice on their own? Of course, you could go out and make a huge investment in a winery, a staff, and all of the equipment that is necessary to make a bottle of your very own wine. But then again, not all of us are as lucky as the Number 99, formally known as Wayne Gretzky or the always funny, Dan Aykroyd:

Well now there's a way to make wine without being rich and famous!

Vintner's Circle is a winemaking on-premise franchise. They teach wine lovers how to make their own wine in 4 easy steps over a 7 week period of time. Their goal is to enhance peoples’ enjoyment of the wine lifestyle and have a great time while doing it.

How cool!

As fellow Wine Whore Crew member, Liz Mitchell said in her Wine Talk post, 'What’s in a Label?', a wine label can mean so much and often a lot of thought goes into it. What if you could not only create your own bottle of wine, but also be able to wrap it in a label incorporating anything you want... whatever you can imagine!

All three of these labels were winners in WineMaker Magazine’s label contest last year. Each has special meaning to the winemaker. The Flying Pig label was created by a wine lover whose friends believed that she would make wine “when pigs fly”. The leaf label was created from a photograph one couple’s son had taken on their deck.

Nemo's freehand circles make awesome wine labels