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July 7-8, 2006, CalNeva Resort at Crystal Bay, CA
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Friday,
July 7, the day before event starts. Each artist's mural space is
marked on the pavement of the CalNeva Resort parking lot.
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Tropic
Hut stand is all loaded in and ready for the event to start!
That's Roxanne standing next to our tent. She was the only artist
who actually began work on her mural on the day before the event even
started. Photos of her mural are further down.
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Saturday,
July 8, first day of event. Tropic Hut is open for business!
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Within
hours on the starting day artists were transforming the pavement into a
gallery of murals.
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Sunday
afternoon, July 9, second day of event.
It just so happened that the mural directly in front of our stand won
first place in the large mural (12' X 12') category.
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The artist
who drew this winning mural is a real pro. This was the fourth
year in a row that he won first place in the difficult 12' X 12'
category. He didn't even start on this piece until around noon on
Sunday, just hours before the 4 PM judging deadline. When you're
this skilled you don't have to get started early!
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This
handsome tribute to firefighters won the Best In Show award.
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The next
few pictures are of murals that may not have won awards in the judging
but certainly deserve honorable mentions.
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Scroll back
up to the first picture and see how this parking lot has been
transformed is just two days.
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Parking lot
murals weren't the only things being painted. Squeaky the clown
also did face painting and...KNEE painting!
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Snow White and the Seven
Dwarves from sketch to full color drawing.
Since Roxanne's mural was right next to the Tropic Hut stand
we got to follow her progress from start to finish.
 
 
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It was
at the Tahoe Arts Festival that we first introduced our Tropic Silkie
blended fruit drink. You can imagine how pleased Jarvis was that
the drink was a huge success!
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Our new
Tropic Silkie is even clown approved! Doc-O gives it an
enthusiastic thumb up and...
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Squeaky
says the new Tropic Silkie is A-Okay!
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Thanks to Ruth Schnabel for putting it all together and thanks to all
the artists,
musicians and participants for a very fun and successful Tahoe Arts
Festival!
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lemon-lime drinks, strawberry smoothy, fruit silkie, fruit
smoothy, fruit smoothies |
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