we love to throw everyone a curve now and then, you know, keep things fresh, so we are excited to announce Leslie is going to be an official speaker at the official Harry Potter Convention, Portus 2008!
The way that went down is this: We love Mary GrandPre. We are gladly her minions, her #1 fans, her peeps, etc. Mary did the front covers for all the Harry Potter book covers for the US and many international releases of the HP series. We therefore sell the heck out of whatever represents that work that comes directly out of WB (through our friends at Clampett Studios, the official WB art representative) and actually had an international exclusive for the release of limited editions of the book covers, the first three of which were released in January. This was an honor and a pleasure. We love Potterfans, very polite and erudite-ish they are. They are so committed to books, how can we not love them!
So now it's my job to go and entertain/enlighten the fans/conventioneers about Mary, her work, and the HP art specifically...no pressure! (check out the convention site at www.portus2008.org) We hope to have Mary to the gallery later this year, we'll let you all know.
Also, we have Disney interpretive and 2006 official olympic poster artist Tim Rogerson coming to the opening weekend of his show "Tim Rogerson's World of Disney Color". Not sure honestly how many originals we'll be getting for the show as he just had a baby, but what we are getting is wonderful, and there'll be color concepts for his newest works which my clients get first dibs on, and the originals they are sending are really cool! He has a website of his Disney and non-Disney art, www.timrogerson.com. Let us know if you are interested in some of the art you see, and remember you can commission him when he's here!
The show starts on July 12th, and he'll be here 2-6 pm, along with Merrie Lasky, who has worked for Disney for many years and is now with Collectors Editions, who represents all Disney interpretive art. She will not only be helping out with orders for Tim, but will be onhand to explain the new Disney Fine Art Glass we just started carrying, that is gorgeous and very intricately designed and created.
We hope to see you at the show, come visit or call us anytime, and wish me luck at the HP convention, I'm in Ravenclaw, so i'd better sound smart!
Leslie
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