On the first Friday of each month, art galleries around the country open their doors for a community art show with music, drinks, and food galore. The longest-running and largest art walk in Denver happens on Santa Fe. This event features hundreds of artists from multiple mediums in galleries, studios, co-ops, upstairs, downstairs, and even in the alleys.
This month, Brand Iron is excited to host local artist Paul Thisted. Paul creates oil paintings that are inspired by western images of cowboys and scenery. After majoring in art at St. Olaf College, he joined the Air Force for 20 years and after serving his country, he retired and taught middle school math for 19 years now in Evergreen, Colorado.
His art is inspired by dramatic western scenes where there is action, movements, and energy all captured in vibrant colors. The beauty, stories, and colors of the American West can be seen throughout his art. He begins his artistic process outside in the natural beauty of Colorado while capturing images in his sketches and photographs. Paul then transforms them into the oil paintings we are excited to showcase on August 6.
At Brand Iron, we love our location and want to be more involved in promoting local artists for upcoming First Fridays. If you are an artist or know of another talented individual who would like to display their art at Brand Iron for the next First Friday event, then we want to meet you! Bring a digital sampling of your work to our office between 5pm-8pm on August 6. If you are not an artist, still come by and say hi! We will have interactive photo displays, community paint-by-numbers, music, and of course, Paul’s paintings.
We can’t wait to meet you all!
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Michael Doyle has been changing the face of Brand Marketing for over two decades. He built a tech-based advertising agency, DNA Advertising, into a multi-million dollar company. Michael sold the company as part of a national IPO in 2000. Michael founded Brand Iron in 2002 and has since lent his expertise to hundreds of other businesses in dozens of industries around the world.
