Art Business Trip

This weekend we took a trip to deliver my oil painting to a client and to spend some time at his cabin in Wisconsin. A beautiful cozy place with a newly added Japanese style bath house (attached). His wife is a second generation Japanese-American, and they traveled to Japan a number of times. We decided to call their cabin a Mini Japan in out-of-nowhere Wisconsin. Their accommodation was a 5-star "ryokan." Here's Joe in his yukata, getting ready to take our Japanese "sento" style bath in the evening. Next morning, after breakfast, our hosts threw us both in the river upstream from their cabin and simply told us "See you back at the cabin in an hour and a half." So we went with the flow in our kayaks. It was beautiful and relaxing!!

Down we went in Yellow River...I took a bunch of photos, hoping to paint some images of the river. Our business trip turned out to be fun and very enjoyable. We managed to forget our empty cooler behind at the cabin... so we look forward to seeing our new friends sometime, somewhere, again!